Getting Started

Welcome Kachingler!

Here's a bullet-point guide how Kachingle works for Kachinglers and Site Owners. When you're ready for more in-depth detail, here's where you want to go:

Getting Started for Kachinglers
Getting Started for Site Owners

Being a Kachingler — the basics

[1] After joining Kachingle and paying your first monthly Pay-In, just surf the web as usual.

[2] When you see a Kachingle Medallion on a site you'd like to support, just mouse-over the Medallion, and click the link provided to "kachingle" that site. (In the example shown here, you'd be clicking "Kachingle The Daily News.") This turns Medallion coin from purple to green and start counting your visits.

[3] Whenever you return to a site you've kachingled, you'll continue to see a green Medallion coin, which indicates your visit has been counted.

[4] At the end of each month, your monthly deposit (called a "Pay-In") will be divvied up proportionally among those sites based on how many days you visited.

[5] You can track all your kachingling by visiting your Sites I Visit page.

[6] You can also build an online personna around your kachingling, sharing the sites you support with friends, family and other Kachinglers by linking to your Sites I Visit page in email and forum signatures. Soon you'll be able to share your kachingling automatically through Twitter feeds and Facebook widgets, too.

[7] And you can see other Kachinglers who support your favorite sites by clicking "See who's kachingling this site" on any Medallion — and in turn find out what other sites they support.

Want more info?

Visit Getting Started for Kachinglers — for more on kachingling, sharing, and tracking your favorite sites

Browse the Sites I Visit FAQ — to see answers to common questions from new Kachinglers

Ask a Question — in our Community Forum staffed by the Kachingle Team

Email Customer Care — if your question requires privacy or you don't want to join the Community

(Community Forums are hosted by GetSatisfaction.com and may require separate login)

Being a Site Owner — the basics

[1] After joining Kachingle, you can add a Medallion to your own site (or sites) in less than 5 minutes.

[2] All you need is your URL, a description of your site, a logo to upload, and a PayPal address for Pay-Outs.

[3] In creating a Medallion, you're provided a small javascript code to you place in your pages (and instructions on how to place it), which creates the Medallion on your site that...

[a] Allows Kachinglers to become permanent contributors to your site with a single click
[b] Recognizes your Kachinglers and counts their return visits, which then become contributions
[c] Encourages your readers to become Kachinglers and support your site
[d] Allows anyone to see who's kachingling your site, which begets more Kachinglers through social networking

[5] Payments from your Kachinglers then show up the Current Balance you can see next to each Medallion on your Sites I Own page.

[6] At the end of each month (based on the date your Medallion was created), if the balance is over $100, a Pay-Out is processed, transferring that balance to your PayPal account. (If the balance is below $100, it will roll to the next month until the threshold is reached.)

Before creating your first Medallion...

Please visit our in-depth tutorial on Getting Started for Site Owners, which includes sections on...

    How the Medallion works — What visitors will see when kachingling your site
    Creating a Medallion — Quick process for generating code to put on your pages
    Placement of the Medallion — How to display your Medallion for maximum visibility
    Launching & Marketing your Medallion — Encourage visitors to join Kachingle and support your site
    Getting Paid — How Kachingle pays Site Owners
    Using the Sites I Own tab — Managing Medallions, monitoring contributions, payments, and stats

Want more info?

Browse the Sites I Own FAQ — to see answers to common questions from new Site Owners

Browse the Payments FAQ — to learn more about Pay-Ins, Payments, and Pay-Outs

Ask a Question — in our Community Forum staffed by the Kachingle Team

Email Customer Care — if your question requires privacy or you don't want to join the Community

(Community Forums are hosted by GetSatisfaction.com and may require separate login)