Building Your Site with Uscreen
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With Uscreen, we do all the heavy lifting for hosting your content This includes an automatically generated public storefront where your users can browse your catalog, purchase content, buy gift cards, and signup for subscriptions.

You'll also be able to install a home page theme that is optimized to convert visitors into paying users.

Important Terminology

Before you dive in, here is some really important terminology to understand:

Storefront - You'll sometimes see this being used as a synonym term for your site, but your storefront includes all the pages of your site; home page, checkout pages, signup page, subscription pages, and any others you add with our built-in CMS.

Home Page - This is a special page included in the installation of one of our optimized themes. It only appears for signed out users.

Checkout Pages - This term spans several views, which can include the Join page (which exclusively lists public subscriptions), the catalog's Get Access Now workflow, (which displays public subscriptions, one-time purchases, rentals, and bundles), and gift card pages.

During the checkout process, users are prompted to create an account and enter their payment information to complete the checkout.

Catalog Page - This is where your users browse videos and collections.

Content Page - This is where your customers watch videos.

After you've created some content and set up a payment provider, the basics of getting started with your storefront are as follows:

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