# Outpost Docs

> Documentation for Outpost, the membership management and monetization platform for Ghost-powered publishers.

- [Introduction to Outpost](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/introduction.md): Outpost handles the membership, conversion, retention, and growth side of a Ghost publication: everything beyond writing and sending the newsletter.
- [What You Can Do With Outpost](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/overview.md): A guided tour of Outpost's capabilities: find the right feature for what you're trying to accomplish.
- [Quickstart](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/quickstart.md): Get up and running with Outpost in minutes: the setup wizard walks you through everything.
- [Connecting Ghost](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/connecting-ghost.md): Link your Ghost site to Outpost to sync members, labels, and subscription data.
- [Connecting Stripe](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/connecting-stripe.md): Connect Outpost to the same Stripe account your Ghost site uses to access subscription data and power retention tools.
- [Theme Connect Wizard](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/theme-connect-wizard.md): Upload Ghost themes, switch between them, and integrate Outpost features like CTAs, gift subscriptions, tip jar, and events, with a managed GitHub repo for every theme you upload.
- [Plans & Pricing](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/pricing.md): Outpost plans, pricing by subscriber count, and how billing works as your publication grows.
- [Upgrading Your Plan](https://documentation.outpost.pub/getting-started/upgrading.md): How to upgrade from Space Station to Voyager or Luna, including the Theme Connect Wizard setup for Voyager and Luna.
- [Basic Autoresponder](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/basic-autoresponder.md): Pre-built automated email actions for onboarding, retention, renewals, cancellations, gifts, events, and more, designed to work with Ghost and Stripe.
- [Failed Payment Flow](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/failed-payment-flow.md): Automated email sequence to recover subscribers whose payment method fails at renewal time.
- [Email Templates](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/email-templates.md): Create reusable email content with merge field personalization, rich text editing, and offer links for use in autoresponder flows and campaigns.
- [Email Design Settings](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/email-design-settings.md): Configure from address, header image, colors, fonts, and custom HTML templates for all Outpost emails.
- [Custom HTML Email Template Guide](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/custom-html-email-template.md): A technical guide to building a Custom HTML email template in Outpost: how rendering works, merge tags, CSS inlining, conditional blocks, client quirks, and how to test.
- [Autoresponder Settings](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/autoresponder-settings.md): Leave certain paid and complimentary members out of welcome emails, autoresponder flows, failed payment emails, and campaigns, by Stripe price, Stripe product, or Ghost tier.
- [Advanced Autoresponder](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/advanced-autoresponder.md): Build custom multi-step email flows with flexible triggers, audience targeting, and stop conditions for scenarios the pre-built actions don't cover.
- [Email Campaigns](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/email-campaigns.md): Send targeted one-time emails to member segments with scheduling, offer tracking, and open/click analytics.
- [Auto Display Calls To Action (CTAs)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/ctas.md): Place CTAs across your Ghost site automatically based on slot, audience, and tag: no per-post embedding required.
- [CTA Slots & Targeting](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/cta-slots.md): Configure where Auto Display CTAs appear and which audiences and post tags they target.
- [CTA Library & Styling](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/cta-library.md): Browse and enable CTA templates, edit their content, and style them with default design or custom CSS.
- [Legacy vs. Scoped CTA CSS](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/cta-css-scoping.md): How Custom CSS scoping works on Auto Display CTAs, how to spot a legacy CTA, and how to upgrade it.
- [Manually Added Buttons](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/manually-added-buttons.md): Generate custom CTA buttons with embed code to place manually in Ghost posts, emails, and external pages.
- [Metered Paywalls & Registration Walls](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/paywalls.md): Meter how many posts readers can access before being prompted to subscribe or upgrade, with real-time conversion tracking.
- [Gated Downloads](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/gated-pdfs.md): Offer downloadable PDFs, ebooks, and files on your Ghost site that require a free signup or paid subscription to access.
- [Tip Jar](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/tip-jar.md): Accept one-time donations from readers via Stripe and PayPal, with preset amounts, custom branding, and automated thank-yous and labeling.
- [CTA Dashboard](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/cta-dashboard.md): Track CTA views, signups, conversions, and top-performing posts with preset date filters and CSV export.
- [Members](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/members.md): View, search, filter, and manage all subscribers across your publication from a single dashboard.
- [Labels](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/labels.md): Tag members with labels for segmentation, automation triggers, and targeted campaigns.
- [Traffic Source Tracking](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/traffic-source-attribution.md): Capture UTM and referral parameters as member labels to attribute signups to campaigns and channels.
- [System Label Reference](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/label-reference.md): A complete reference of all labels Outpost applies to members automatically, organized by category.
- [Auto-Subscribe Rules](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/auto-subscribe-rules.md): Automatically grant complimentary or paid-tier access to new free members based on email pattern matching: how institutional subscriptions work.
- [Inactive Member Clean Up](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/member-cleanup.md): Remove free members who have unsubscribed from your newsletters to reduce hosting costs and keep your member list accurate.
- [Member Spam Filter](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/spam-filtering.md): Block spam signups automatically using email, domain, or keyword rules, removing matches the moment they register.
- [Rules Engine](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/rules-engine.md): Create condition-based automation rules that subscribe or unsubscribe members from newsletters when labels change.
- [Tiers & Pricing](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/tiers-and-pricing.md): Subscription tiers are defined in Ghost, created in Stripe, and used by Outpost for segmentation, offers, access rules, and automation.
- [Offers & Discounts](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/offers-and-discounts.md): Create promotional pricing, trial offers, and coupon codes to acquire and retain subscribers.
- [Promotions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/promotions.md): Outpost's own offer system: works for existing paid subscribers, supports trial periods and subscription schedules, and checks out on an Outpost-hosted page instead of Ghost Portal.
- [Upgrading Existing Subscribers](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/upgrading-existing-subscribers.md): How to offer existing paid subscribers an upgrade to a different tier or billing cycle: how the checkout works, and which confirmation email to turn on.
- [Default Plans](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/default-plans.md): Set the default monthly and annual subscription plans used across your site.
- [Gift Subscriptions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/gift-subscriptions.md): Let members give paid subscriptions to others as gifts, with dedicated purchase and delivery flows.
- [Group Subscriptions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/group-subscriptions.md): Seat-based subscriptions for teams, organizations, or families: one payer, multiple members.
- [Complimentary Subscriptions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/complimentary-subscriptions.md): Grant paid access to members without charging them: for staff, partners, or special cases.
- [One-Person Subscriptions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/one-person-subscriptions.md): Send personalized subscription links or invoices to specific individuals or groups, locked to the recipient's email address.
- [Institutional Subscriptions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/institutional-subscriptions.md): Automatically upgrade members to paid access based on their email domain: for schools, organizations, and corporate partnerships.
- [Subscription Schedules](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/subscription-schedules.md): Two-phase pricing that starts on one billing interval and automatically transitions to another, like 3 months at an intro rate, then annual renewal.
- [Analytics & Reporting](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/analytics.md): Track member growth, site traffic, CTA conversions, and publication activity from dedicated dashboards and reports.
- [Outpost Dashboard](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/dashboard.md): Track member growth and donations for your publication's membership side, with time-period and member-type filters.
- [Daily & Weekly Report Emails](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/report-emails.md): Daily and weekly emails covering member growth, autoresponder performance, conversions, donations, and retention.
- [Plausible Dashboard](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/plausible-dashboard.md): View privacy-friendly site traffic analytics powered by your Plausible integration, embedded directly in Outpost.
- [Activity Log](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/activity-log.md): A searchable, chronological feed of every member and system event across your publication.
- [Trending Posts](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/trending-posts.md): Automatically tag your most popular posts in Ghost based on traffic data from Contextly, so you can feature them on your homepage or sidebar.
- [Integrations Overview](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/overview.md): Connect Outpost to 25+ external services for payments, email, CRM, podcasting, analytics, search, and more.
- [Ghost Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/ghost.md): Bidirectional member sync, label management, tier mapping, and real-time automation between Outpost and your Ghost CMS site.
- [Stripe Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/stripe.md): Subscription billing, payment processing, dunning automation, and automated member lifecycle management via Stripe.
- [Mailgun Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/mailgun.md): How Outpost delivers your transactional and bulk emails: engagement tracking, bounce handling, and reply routing all handled for you.
- [PayPal Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/paypal.md): Accept one-time donations via PayPal through the Tip Jar. PayPal is not used for subscriptions.
- [HubSpot Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/hubspot.md): Sync Outpost members into HubSpot contacts so your CRM reflects subscriber lifecycle events.
- [Shopify Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/shopify.md): Bring Shopify customers into Outpost as members based on subscription tag activity. Currently scoped to a specific subscription-tag flow; broader purchase-to-Ghost subscriber linking is on the roadmap.
- [Angler AI Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/angler-ai.md): Sync member and subscription data to Angler AI for audience growth and conversion optimization.
- [Engaging Networks Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/engaging-networks.md): Manual newsletter subscription sync between Engaging Networks and Outpost. Currently in Labs.
- [ConvertFlow Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/convertflow.md): Capture ConvertFlow form submissions as Outpost members.
- [Webflow Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/webflow.md): Capture Webflow form submissions as Outpost members so your marketing site grows your subscriber list directly.
- [Transistor.fm Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/transistorfm.md): Two-way Transistor.fm integration, granting paid subscribers access to private podcast feeds and auto-publishing new episodes as Ghost posts.
- [Megaphone Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/megaphone.md): Auto-publish Megaphone podcast episodes as Ghost posts and import your existing episode library. Available on the Voyager plan and above.
- [PodBean Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/podbean.md): Auto-publish PodBean podcast episodes as Ghost posts and import your existing episode library. Available on the Voyager plan and above.
- [OmnyFM Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/omnyfm.md): Auto-publish OmnyFM podcast episodes as Ghost posts and import your existing episode library. Available on the Voyager plan and above.
- [Supercast Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/supercast.md): Provide paying subscribers with private podcast feed URLs via Supercast. Available on the Voyager plan and above.
- [Dovetail (PRX) Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/dovetail.md): Automatically create podcast episode pages from your Dovetail podcasts hosted on PRX.
- [FeedPress Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/feedpress.md): Generate per-member private RSS feed URLs for paid subscribers via FeedPress, so each paying member gets their own personal feed.
- [YouTube Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/youtube.md): Automatically publish YouTube videos as Ghost posts with embedded players, configurable metadata, tags, and publish settings.
- [Contextly Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/contextly.md): Smart, configurable content recommendations and trending post tagging for your Ghost site via Contextly.
- [Cove Comments Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/cove-comments.md): Store your Cove login email and jump to the Cove dashboard from Outpost, for the comment system that reads members from your Ghost site.
- [Typesense Integration (Outpost Hosted)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/typesense.md): Fast, typo-tolerant search for your Ghost posts on a Typesense instance hosted and managed by Outpost.
- [Algolia Integration (Deprecated)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/algolia.md): Full-text search index of your Ghost posts, powered by Algolia. This integration is deprecated. New publications should use Typesense.
- [Plausible Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/plausible.md): Privacy-friendly web analytics for your Ghost publication, hosted by Outpost on a shared Plausible account.
- [BigQuery Integration (Invite Only)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/bigquery.md): Export Outpost and Ghost data to Google BigQuery for advanced analytics and reporting, available by invitation only.
- [ZeroBounce Integration (Invite Only)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/zerobounce.md): Email address validation to protect your sender reputation and reduce bounces, available by invitation only.
- [PBS Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/pbs-integration.md): Connect PBS member accounts with your Outpost site to enable single sign-on and sync PBS Passport membership status.
- [Custom Integrations (Invite Only)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/integrations/custom.md): Build your own integration with Outpost using the Integration API, available by invitation only.
- [Ad Campaigns](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/ad-campaigns.md): Schedule targeted ad placements on your Ghost post pages, filtered by audience segment and post tags.
- [In-Post Ad Inserter](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/ad-tool.md): Always-on placement of In-Post Box CTAs into your Ghost post content, with site-wide exclusions.
- [Sponsorship Boxes](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/sponsorship-boxes.md): Create branded sponsor blocks with configurable styles, then drop them into Ghost posts as a draft or via copy/paste.
- [Events](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/events.md): Create webinars, in-person events, and virtual events with member registration, attendee tracking, calendar links, and Ghost CMS integration.
- [Event Creator](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/event-creator.md): Create reusable event HTML widgets with date, time, location, and pricing details that you can embed in Ghost posts.
- [Homepage Curation](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/homepage-curation.md): Choose which posts fill your homepage's featured spots from inside Outpost, without hand-editing tags in Ghost.
- [Publication Details](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/publication-details.md): Configure your site's logo, URL, name, timezone, and date format, manage Ghost tiers, refresh data from Ghost, and view your Outpost subscription.
- [Reader Languages](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/reader-languages.md): Show your member-facing pages (checkout, billing, donations, and gift and group subscriptions) in your readers' language. Outpost's internationalization (i18n) localization for reader-facing surfaces.
- [Staff](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/staff.md): Manage admin users, invitations, and two-factor authentication for your Outpost account.
- [Autoresponder Sending Domain](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/autoresponder-sending-domain.md): Send Autoresponder emails from your own domain by adding DNS records that authenticate Outpost as a sender.
- [Notifications](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/notifications.md): Configure email alerts for member activity, donations, content publishing, and system events.
- [Report Recipients](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/report-recipients.md): Add email addresses to receive scheduled performance reports for your publication.
- [Data Export](https://documentation.outpost.pub/features/data-export.md): Export member data, gift subscriptions, group subscriptions, institutional subscriptions, and physical addresses as CSV files.
- [Ghost Theme Integration](https://documentation.outpost.pub/developers/theme-integration.md): How to manually update your Ghost theme to work with Outpost and optionally Contextly recommendations.
- [Inbox Links](https://documentation.outpost.pub/developers/inbox-links.md): Let your Ghost theme show an Open Gmail or Open Outlook button after a reader asks for a sign-in link, using the inbox provider lookup on your Outpost domain.
- [Styling the Search Popup](https://documentation.outpost.pub/developers/search-styling.md): Override the Outpost search popup's colors, fonts, and sizing from your Ghost theme using its CSS variables and class hooks.
- [Theme Data Formats](https://documentation.outpost.pub/themes/data-formats.md): Reference for the data formats Outpost injects into Ghost posts, including standard fields, custom fields, and event state values for theme developers.
- [Theme Manifest: Getting Started](https://documentation.outpost.pub/themes/manifest-getting-started.md): Learn how to create an outpost-manifest.yaml file to define event types, custom fields, and theme-specific configurations for your Ghost theme.
- [Theme Manifest Reference](https://documentation.outpost.pub/themes/manifest-reference.md): Complete reference for the outpost-manifest.yaml schema, including event types, field definitions, constraints, custom fields, and error handling.
- [What is Outpost?](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/what-is-outpost.md): Answers to common questions about what Outpost does and who it's for.
- [Outpost vs. Ghost (Native)](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/outpost-vs-ghost.md): How Outpost compares to Ghost's built-in membership and subscription features.
- [Outpost vs. Substack](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/outpost-vs-substack.md): How the Ghost + Outpost stack compares to Substack for independent publishers.
- [Pricing](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/pricing.md): How Outpost is priced, what each plan includes, and how to manage your billing.
- [Stripe Setup Questions](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/stripe-setup.md): Common questions about connecting and configuring Stripe with Outpost.
- [Payment Processing](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/payment-processing.md): Questions about how subscriptions, renewals, and payment failures are handled.
- [Ghost Compatibility](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/ghost-compatibility.md): Questions about Ghost CMS versions, hosting, and compatibility with Outpost.
- [Data Privacy & GDPR](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/data-privacy.md): How Outpost handles member data, GDPR compliance, and data deletion requests.
- [Traffic Numbers That Don't Match](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/analytics-discrepancies.md): Why Plausible, Ghost, and Google Analytics report different traffic for the same site, and what each one is good for.
- [Migrating to Outpost](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/migrating-to-outpost.md): How to move your existing publication and paid subscribers to Ghost + Outpost without losing subscriptions or double-charging.
- [Skipping Welcome Emails](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/skipping-welcome-emails.md): How to bring members into Outpost, in bulk or one at a time, without firing your standard welcome flow
- [Sending a Different Welcome Series](https://documentation.outpost.pub/faq/sending-a-different-welcome-series.md): How to send a targeted welcome email series to a specific group of members (like an acquired list or signups from a partner site) instead of your standard welcome flow.