Core concepts

Livetickr has five things worth knowing by name. Everything else in the dashboard is a detail of one of them.

Organization

Your company. The organization is the billing level: the plan, the invoices and the people belong here, not to any single site.

An organization holds one or more workspaces. How many depends on the plan.

Workspace

A publisher: one website or brand. The workspace is where the actual work lives: its tickers, its teams, its categories and labels, its branding, and the domain its feeds are allowed to appear on.

Two brands under one company means two workspaces under one organization, with one invoice. People are members of the organization, and you decide per member which workspaces they can reach.

Team

A group of people inside a workspace: a sports desk, a politics desk, a freelancer crew. A ticker can be assigned to a team, which is how a busy workspace stays sortable once it has more than a handful of feeds.

Teams are optional. A small workspace can ignore them entirely.

Ticker

One live feed: a match, an election night, a keynote, a breaking story. This is what you embed, and what readers see.

A ticker carries a title for your team and, optionally, a separate public title that readers see instead. It has a type (news, sports, event, other), an optional category, an optional description, and can belong to a team.

Every ticker is in exactly one of three statuses:

Status	Served to readers	Can be written to
Draft	no	yes
Live	yes	yes
Closed	yes	no

Draft is where a ticker starts, and where it goes if you take it back offline. The embed snippet already works at this point, but there is nothing to serve, so the embed stays empty on your site.

Live is a running feed. It is the only status a draft can move to. You publish, and it is live.

Closed is for when the event is over. The feed stays online and readable forever; it just stops accepting new updates. A closed ticker can be reopened by setting it live again.

Publishing is also what counts against your plan. Drafts are free, so you can prepare as many as you like, and moving a ticker back to draft frees its slot again.

Update

One entry in a ticker. An update is built from blocks, so a single update can mix a paragraph of text, an image, a pull quote and an embedded post from somewhere else.

Updates can be published straight away, saved as a draft, or scheduled for a time you choose. You can pin one to the top of the feed, and tag it with labels so readers can filter a long ticker down to what they care about.

How they nest

Organization          your company · plan · invoices · members
└── Workspace         one website or brand · branding · domain
    ├── Team          a desk or crew (optional)
    └── Ticker        one live feed · draft / live / closed
        └── Update    one entry · text, image, quote, embed