How to use Urlix

1. Create a free account and confirm your email.
2. In the dashboard, click Create Short Link, paste a long URL and create it. Your short link (e.g. www.urlix.be/H9F5M4L9) is ready to copy and share.
3. Everything lives in the sidebar: My Links, Analytics, QR Codes, Custom Domains, Link in Bio, API, Billing and Settings.

The plans at a glance

Upgrade anytime from Billing — see pricing.

Create links from Create Short Link, then manage them in My Links: copy, see stats, get the QR code, edit, mute notifications, turn a link off (it stops working until you turn it back on) or delete it.

Normally a short link sends visitors on, and the address bar changes to the destination. With cloaking on, the destination loads inside your short link — the address bar keeps showing your link.

1. When creating or editing a link, choose Cloaked.
2. We check the destination first. Many big sites (banks, social networks, big tech) block being shown inside another page — for those, the link automatically works as a normal redirect instead of showing a broken page.

Cloaking works best for landing pages, docs, portfolios and marketing sites.

Every link has a QR code — open QR Codes in the sidebar, or the QR icon on a link. Download it as PNG or SVG.

Logo tips: use a square image with a transparent background (PNG or SVG). The default size (25% of the code’s width) is the largest we found that scans reliably; if you go bigger, test-scan with a few phones before printing. Long links make denser codes — keep the logo smaller for those.

A logo is saved with the QR code, so it’s in every download and on your Link in Bio page’s QR too.

Open a link (or Analytics) to see clicks and unique visitors over time, top countries, devices, browsers and where visitors came from. We don’t store raw IP addresses.

A small website for your profile: your photo, name, buttons and more — perfect for an Instagram or TikTok bio.

1. Go to Link in Bio and create a page. Choose where it lives: a free name.urlix.be subdomain, a domain you’ve already connected, or a subdomain of a domain someone shared with you.
2. Profile tab: name, tagline, avatar and cover photo. Pages & buttons tab: featured buttons at the top, then blocks and extra pages. Click Save (any Save button saves the whole page).
3. Open your page’s address to see it, and share it or its QR code.

Blocks you can add

• Button — a link with an icon — Instagram, WhatsApp, phone, email, website… Mark up to 5 as featured to show them as icons at the top.
• Map — a Google Maps embed of your address.
• Video — a YouTube Short, Instagram Reel or TikTok.
• File — a PDF to download — a menu, résumé or catalog.
• Text — a paragraph or heading, left / center / right.
• Gallery — up to 20 photos people can swipe through.
• Opening hours — your week, closed days, and a live “Open now” badge in your time zone.
• Space — extra room between blocks.

Gallery photo size: landscape 4:3, e.g. 1600 × 1200 px (at least 1200 × 900), up to 4 MB each. Every photo shows whole in the same frame — other shapes get a soft blurred border.

Use your own domain for short links, like go.yourbrand.com/sale.

1. In Custom Domains, type the domain and click Add domain. Use a subdomain such as go.yourbrand.com or links.yourbrand.com.
2. Where you manage your DNS (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare…), add the two records shown on the domain’s card: a TXT record named _urlix-verify.go.yourbrand.com with the code shown, and a CNAME record for go.yourbrand.com pointing to www.urlix.be.
3. Click Verify. DNS can take a few minutes to a few hours — if it doesn’t pass yet, try again later.

Why not just yourbrand.com? DNS doesn’t allow a CNAME record on a bare domain, and pointing it at us would replace your website. If you want to hand out subdomains on yourbrand.com instead, tick Only use it to hand out subdomains when adding it (see Sharing).

Give other people their own subdomain of your domain — you on sara.yourbrand.com, someone else on links.yourbrand.com — each usable for short links or a bio page. You stay in control.

1. Add yourbrand.com in Custom Domains with Only use it to hand out subdomains ticked. Your website and email on it stay untouched.
2. Add the two DNS records shown: a TXT record _urlix-verify with the code, and a CNAME record named * pointing to www.urlix.be. Then click Verify.
3. Open the domain’s Sharing panel: create your own subdomains there, and invite other Max users by their urlix email.
4. They get a notification, click Accept in Custom Domains, and create their own subdomain — live straight away, no DNS on their side.

Create and manage links from your own code. Create a key in API — it’s shown once, so store it safely — and send it as a Bearer token.

curl -X POST https://www.urlix.be/api/v1/links \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"destinationUrl": "https://example.com/very/long/url"}'

• GET/api/v1/linksList your links (?page=1&pageSize=20, max 100)
• POST/api/v1/linksCreate a link
• GET/api/v1/links/{id}Get one link
• PATCH/api/v1/links/{id}Update a link
• DELETE/api/v1/links/{id}Delete a link
• GET/api/v1/links/{id}/analyticsA link’s click stats

Create fields: destinationUrl (required), alias, title, expiresAt (ISO date), password, cloakingEnabled, pathForwardingEnabled, domainId — each subject to your plan, like in the dashboard. Rate limit: 60/min on Plus, 600/min on Max.