Get the complete guide
The whole guide — every section, every step, every screenshot — is available as a single PDF called onflow-ads-guide.pdf, which you can keep, search and read offline.
There is no stored "PDF version" going quietly out of date. The file is built from this guide's own pages at the moment you ask for it, so the copy you get matches the site the day you get it.
The email and the download hand over identical bytes. Use the download on a desktop, and the email on a phone or when you want the file waiting in an inbox you can search later.
Before you start
- No account is needed. Any working email address can receive the guide, and the download link is public.
- Have an inbox you can reach. The email arrives as an attachment where the file is small enough, and as a link where it is not.
- Expect a real download. The guide carries every screenshot in it, re-encoded for print rather than for a retina screen — smaller than the site, but not small.
Have it emailed to you
Rather than pull the file down over mobile data, you can have it sent straight to an inbox and open it when you are on a better connection.
- Type the address you want it sent to.
- Press Email me the guide. The button changes to Sending… while the request is in flight and cannot be pressed twice.
- Wait for the confirmation. On success the form is replaced by On its way. followed by Sent to your address, and the reminder to check the spam folder if nothing arrives in a few minutes.
- Open the message. Where the generated file is 20 MB or smaller it is attached outright; where it is larger the email carries a link to the same file instead, so the message always gets through.
The same address can be sent the guide three times an hour, and any single connection can ask five times an hour, whichever comes first. The limits exist because this posts a large file to an address the sender chose, not the recipient. Both reset on their own.
Or download it now
Prefer to grab it directly? Download the guide (PDF)
The file opens in your browser's PDF viewer; save it from there to keep it. On desktop the same page is reachable from the Get the guide button in the top bar, and on any screen from Get the guide (PDF) in the Product column of the footer.
The download is stamped with a fingerprint of the pages it was built from. Ask for it again after the guide has changed and your browser is handed the new file rather than the copy it already had; ask for it again when nothing has changed and it is served from cache instantly.
What is inside
Everything in this guide except the changelog, in the same order as the sidebar.
| Part | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Welcome to Onflow Ads | What the platform does, which platforms are live, and where to start |
| Getting Started | Creating an account, every way to sign in, verification, two-factor, sessions, referrals, a dashboard tour |
| Channels & Dashboard | Adding and verifying channels, editing them, click tracking, notifications, your reliability score |
| Boost (Growth Services) | Browsing prices, quotes, orders, carts and mass orders, tracking, refills, cancellations, proof pages, the API |
| Cross-Promotion | Finding partners, creating and joining campaigns, schedules, creatives, delivery, results, fairness rules |
| Paid Promotion — Advertisers | The marketplace, channel pages, cart and checkout, escrow, auctions, links and results, proof, disputes |
| Paid Promotion — Channel Owners | Listing your channel, identity verification, pricing, availability, bookings, posting, proof, payouts |
| Subscriber Exchange | Earning and spending credits, hosting ads, reviewing or refusing them, targeting, delivery boosts, fair play |
| Wallet & Payments | Top-ups by UPI and crypto, deposit fees and bonuses, held funds, invoices, refunds, withdrawals |
| Plans & Premium Tiers | What each of the six tiers costs and unlocks, buying, renewing, upgrading, lapsing, where limits apply |
| AI features | Every AI button and where it lives, what it costs against your allowance, the content rules |
| Telegram Bot | Connecting Telegram, the notifications it sends, the posts it publishes, the checks it runs |
| Help & Support | Instant answers, the support widget and tickets, the contact form, status, maintenance |
| Policies & Trust | Terms, privacy and refund summaries, reliability, account standing, fraud protection, appeals |
What is left out, and why
The PDF is generated from the guide's Markdown sources rather than from the rendered website, which keeps it honest but means three things do not survive the trip.
| Left out | Why |
|---|---|
| The changelog | It renders release notes fetched live from Onflow Ads. On paper it would print as an empty box, and a frozen copy of it would be out of date within the week. Read it online. |
| Navigation card grids | The card lists at the top of each section are a way of clicking onward. In a book with a contents page and page numbers they mean nothing. |
| This page's email box | It is a form. A form in a PDF does nothing. |
Italic text is set in a heavier weight rather than a slanted one, because the bundled typefaces ship without an italic face. Emphasis is still visible; it just does not lean.
The file's identity is a content hash of every page under the guide, plus every screenshot. Change one word on one page and the next request builds a new PDF; change nothing and the existing bytes are handed straight back. There is no build step for anyone to forget, and no committed artefact to go stale.
If something goes wrong
| What you see | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Enter a valid email address so we know where to send it. | The box was empty, or the address was not a valid one. | Type a full address. |
| Too many requests. Please try again later. | Your connection has asked for the guide five times in the past hour. | Wait for the hour to roll over, or use Download the guide (PDF) instead — the download does not count against the sending limits. |
| We've already sent that address the guide a few times. | That address has been sent the guide three times in the past hour, or six times in the past day. | Check the inbox and the spam folder — it has almost certainly already arrived. |
| Email isn't set up right now — use the download link instead. | Outgoing email is unavailable on the platform at this moment. | Use Download the guide (PDF). Nothing is wrong with your address. |
| We couldn't send that just now. Please try again in a moment. | The message failed on the way out. | Try once more; if it keeps failing, download it instead and check the status page. |
| That took too long. Please try again. | The request ran past twenty seconds and your browser stopped waiting. It does not mean the send failed — building the file can take a moment on a cold server. | Check the inbox first. Only retry if nothing arrives, because a request that did go through still counts towards the limits above. |
| We couldn't reach the server. | Your browser could not reach Onflow Ads at all. | Check your connection, an ad or script blocker, and then retry. |
| The guide PDF could not be generated just now. | The download route could not build the file and had no earlier copy to fall back on. | Read the guide online; the download recovers on its own once the build succeeds. |
| The email arrives with a link but no attachment | The generated file came out larger than 20 MB, so it was sent as a link rather than an attachment. | Open the link — it serves exactly the file that would have been attached. |
A PDF on your disk is a snapshot. Fees, limits, plan benefits and marketplace rules change, and the changelog records when. Before you rely on a figure from a file you downloaded a while ago, confirm it against this site — or download the guide again, which takes seconds.
Related
- What's New — the live feed the PDF deliberately leaves out.
- Welcome to Onflow Ads — the guide's own front page, and the first page of the PDF.
- Help & Support — if the guide has not answered the question.
- The system status page — when neither the email nor the download responds.