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Tier overview (Free / Studio / Publisher / Label)
Tier overview WritingRoom has four tiers. Free is the default; the paid tiers add room to work at scale. Free — $0/mo
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Upgrading or downgrading
Upgrading or downgrading Tier changes happen in Settings → Account. The CURRENT PLAN card has a Change plan button. Upgrading
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Cancelling your subscription
Cancelling your subscription Open Settings → Account. The CURRENT PLAN card has a Cancel subscription button next to Change plan. What cancellation does
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Payment methods
Payment methods WritingRoom uses Stripe for all subscription payments. The card you sign up with is the card we charge. Where to manage it
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Recent invoices
Recent invoices Every subscription charge generates an invoice. WritingRoom keeps them in the Stripe-hosted billing portal, not inline in our app — Stripe is the source of truth for billing history. How to get to them
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Deleting your account permanently
Deleting your account permanently Account deletion is irreversible. Read this before you start. How to delete
Camps
What is a writing camp?
What is a writing camp? A writing camp is a multi-writer session for a specific song — or a set of songs — under one banner. One organizer, a few co-writers, a schedule, a video call link, and a clear deliverable at the end. If you've been to a publisher camp, this is the digital version. If you haven't: think of it as a structured group co-write where everyone shows up at the same time, works in the same songs, and walks out with finished or near-finished work.
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Creating your first camp
Creating your first camp Open Writing Camps and pick + New Camp. WritingRoom offers two paths: a one-screen quick-create form (name + description, done) or the full 7-step setup wizard. The wizard is what we'll walk through here. Step 1 — Camp identity
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Inviting co-writers by email
Inviting co-writers by email Open the camp from your Writing Camps list. Click the Roster tab. Click the amber + Add Writer button. A small form asks for:
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Bringing songs you already wrote
Bringing songs you already wrote Most writers arrive with a folder. Word documents, text files, a few PDFs, some of it going back years. This is how it comes in. Where to start
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Roster CSV import
Roster CSV import Adding writers one at a time works for small camps. For a publisher running a 40-writer camp, CSV import is the only sane path. CSV import is a Publisher-tier feature. Studio and Free users see the button but it's disabled with a tooltip explaining the gate.
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The Share camp link button
The Share camp link button Every camp has a public link. The 🔗 Share camp link button on the camp dashboard copies that link to your clipboard and surfaces a few sharing options. What the link does
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Applicants Inbox
Applicants Inbox The Applicants Inbox is where writer applications to your public camps queue up for review. It lives at the bottom of the Host Dashboard (/host). What counts as an applicant
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Setting a video call link
Setting a video call link A camp needs a way for writers to actually meet on the day. WritingRoom doesn't host the video itself — it links out to whatever service you already use. Three options:
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Camp scheduling and timezones
Camp scheduling and timezones The Schedule tab inside a camp is where every session block lives. WritingRoom calls each block a slot. Adding slots
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Observer mode
Observer mode Observer mode controls who sees writer activity in real time and what they can do with it. Coaches, A&R people, and producers often want to watch a session without interrupting — observer mode is how that happens cleanly. Three settings, set per camp in Settings → Observer mode:
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Camp roles explained
Camp roles explained A camp has a small role set. Knowing who can do what avoids surprise later. Admin Team roles
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Cross-camp Writers Database
Cross-camp Writers Database The Writers Database is a Publisher-tier surface that aggregates every writer you've ever rostered across every camp you've run. One table, one set of filters, one place to find someone you worked with eighteen months ago. It lives at /writers-database.
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Recurring camp series
Recurring camp series Some camps happen once. A publisher invites eight writers for a weekend in Nashville, the songs ship, done. Other camps are a routine — every Tuesday night, the same five writers, for ten weeks. The recurring series toggle is for the second kind. Where to set it
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The Stripe Payment Link field — collecting reservations
The Stripe Payment Link field — collecting reservations WritingRoom doesn't process payments. We don't take a cut. We don't hold money. What we do is give you a single field on every camp where you can paste your own Stripe Payment Link — and we surface that link to writers at the right moments. How it works
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Camp templates — cloning a camp
Camp templates — cloning a camp If you run camps with similar structure — same number of sessions, same observer mode, same defaults — cloning saves a lot of re-clicking. Every camp dashboard offers a Clone as template action. How to clone
Finding Writers
Browsing the Writers Directory
Browsing the Writers Directory The Writers Directory at /writers is the public-facing list of working songwriters on WritingRoom. Anyone can browse it, including people without an account — it's part directory, part shop window. What you see
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Filtering by skill, genre, and availability
Filtering by skill, genre, and availability The Writers Directory has three primary filters above the writer cards. Use them in any order; they stack. All skills
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Searching by location
Searching by location Two ways to filter the Writers Directory geographically — by city, or by your current location. Near city or address
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The radius slider
The radius slider Once you've entered a city or used your current location in the Writers Directory, a radius slider appears beneath the location field. It controls how wide a geographic net the directory casts. What the slider does
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Willing to travel — making yourself findable
Willing to travel — making yourself findable The Writers Directory filters by city by default — but plenty of working writers regularly travel for sessions. The Willing to travel setting tells the directory to surface you for searches outside your home city too. How to turn it on
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Featured writers — what they are
Featured writers — what they are When you open the Writers Directory at /writers, a small band above the main grid shows Featured writers — three to six writers WritingRoom staff have hand-picked for the week. They rotate. How writers get featured
Getting Started
Welcome to WritingRoom
Welcome to WritingRoom WritingRoom is a private studio for songwriters. You can use it three ways: Solo. Open a fresh song, write your verses and choruses, store voice memos, and walk away with clean exports — a lyric sheet, a chord chart, a submission package, whatever you need.
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Claiming your writer profile
Claiming your writer profile Your profile is the public version of you on WritingRoom — the page co-writers land on when they search the directory or click your name inside a camp. It also doubles as a portfolio you can hand to anyone outside the platform: writingroom.io/writer/your-handle. Open Settings → Profile. The first thing you'll see is a Live preview card showing exactly what visitors will see. As you fill out the fields below, the preview updates in place — no need to refresh.
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Uploading a profile photo and choosing a frame
Uploading a profile photo and choosing a frame Your profile photo shows up next to your name everywhere on WritingRoom — the dashboard, the directory, your public profile, and inside any camp you join. Open Settings → Profile and click the photo. Pick a square image at least 400×400 pixels; bigger is fine, WritingRoom will scale it down. The first photo you upload gets a quick automated safety check before it goes live. After that, swaps are instant.
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Setting up your custom URL
Setting up your custom URL Free profiles live at writingroom.io/writer/{long-id-string}. Studio and Publisher profiles get a clean vanity URL — writingroom.io/writer/yourname — that you pick once and own as long as your subscription is active. How to claim your handle
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Adding a cover banner
Adding a cover banner The wide image across the top of your public profile is the cover banner. It's the first thing visitors see, and Studio-tier writers can set their own. How to add it
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Filling out your bio, skills, and genres
Filling out your bio, skills, and genres These three fields are how other writers decide whether to reach out to you for a co-write. Spend ten minutes on them. They earn their keep. Bio
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Adding your PRO and IPI for splits
Adding your PRO and IPI for splits A PRO is a performing-rights organization — BMI, ASCAP, SESAC in the US, plus the international equivalents. Your IPI is a worldwide identifier that follows you across PROs and publishers. WritingRoom uses these values for one reason: when a song is finished and split with co-writers, the export contains a real split sheet that names you correctly. ASCAP and BMI will both reject a registration if a writer's legal name or IPI is off, so it pays to enter them once and forget about them.
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Connecting Google Calendar
Connecting Google Calendar Once Google Calendar is connected, every camp you create or get invited to lands on your calendar automatically — with the date, time, attendees, and (if you've set one) the video call link. Open Settings → Integrations. Click Connect on the Google Calendar card. Google's standard sign-in screen pops up — pick the Google account you want to use for WritingRoom events, then grant calendar access.
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Using Academy lessons
Using Academy lessons WritingRoom Academy lives at /academy. Short, plain-English lessons on how songs work — the hook, verse construction, the pre-chorus, the bridge, melody to lyric fit, prosody, rhyme scheme depth. Each lesson is 4-6 minutes to read. What's there
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Using Sandbox Mode
Using Sandbox Mode Sandbox Mode is the safe room. Every change you make in it is fake and disappears when you exit. Try the wizard, sign a split, send a broadcast, build a camp — none of it leaves the browser, none of it touches your real songs or other writers. Use it when you want to learn the app without consequences, or when you're showing WritingRoom to someone and don't want to expose real work.
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Replaying the welcome tour
Replaying the welcome tour The Walkthrough is a short guided spotlight tour that highlights the main parts of WritingRoom — the dashboard, the menu, the song editor, and where to find help. It runs the first time you sign in, and you can replay it any time. How to replay it
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Creating your first song
Creating your first song Click Start Writing on the dashboard, or open All Songs and pick New Song. WritingRoom asks for a title, a key, a BPM, and a genre. You can change any of these later — start with what you have, even if it's just a working title. What's in front of you
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Lyrics editor basics — sections, marks, references
Lyrics editor basics The lyrics editor is the middle column of every song. It thinks in sections, lines, marks, and references — small pieces, in that order. Sections
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Voice memos — recording and playback
Voice memos Every section in the lyrics editor has a voice memo player at the bottom. The whole point: catch melody ideas the moment they show up, attached to the lyric they belong to. Recording
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Chord notation
Chord notation WritingRoom doesn't pick chords for you — it makes typing them fast and shows them three ways at once so you can read what you wrote in whatever shorthand makes sense. Typing a chord
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The No Judgment Zone
The No Judgment Zone Alongside the lyrics editor sits the No Judgment Zone — the NJZ pad. It's where the bad ideas go before they decide whether they're good ideas. What it's for
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Riff — the lyric analyzer
Riff — the lyric analyzer Riff is the lyric analyzer that powers WritingRoom's Why does this song work? page at /analyze. You paste lyrics, and Riff breaks them down — section structure, rhyme scheme, syllable count, and the craft moves that make it land. When to reach for it
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Marking a song complete
Marking a song complete A song stays in writing-mode for as long as it needs to. When you're done, marking it complete is a quiet ceremony — not a publish, not a release, just a moment to acknowledge the writing is over. How to do it
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The completion ceremony
The completion ceremony When you mark a song complete, WritingRoom plays a short modal — a curtain — to acknowledge the moment. It's deliberately small. Songwriting is a long road, and finishing one is worth pausing for. How to trigger it
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Song status options
Song status options Every song has a status. It's a single pill on the song editor's Status card, and it's also the column the All Songs list groups by. Six options, in roughly the order a song moves through them: Idea. A title, a hook, a melody fragment, a couple of lines. Not yet a song. New songs default here unless you start with substantial lyrics.
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Exporting your song
Exporting your song WritingRoom exports songs as clean PDFs (and a couple of other formats for specific uses). Six presets cover most of what you'd need to hand someone. Open the song. The export entry point is the song editor's Export package button. Click it; the export modal opens with the preset dropdown.
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Pinning a song with Spotify or Apple Music
Pinning a song with Spotify or Apple Music A pinned song shows up at the top of your public profile as a playable embed — the first thing a visitor hears when they land on your page. How to pin
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Song history and revisions
Song history and revisions Every change in the song editor is captured. The History button (with a small count chip showing how many revisions exist) opens the revision log. What's tracked
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Recording view
Recording view The song editor's normal three-column layout is great for writing, but bad for recording a vocal take where you need to read the lyric from across the room. Recording view solves that. How to enter it
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Paste lyrics — quick import
Paste lyrics — quick import If you've been writing a song in a notes app, Google Doc, or back-of-napkin, pasting it into WritingRoom is faster than retyping. The 📋 Paste lyrics button at the top of the song editor opens a modal that handles the messy bits. How it works
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Your year in WritingRoom — the year-end Recap
Your year in WritingRoom — the year-end Recap The Recap lives at /recap. It's a single page that summarizes a year's worth of writing — your songs, your patterns, the moments you came back to. What's on it
Splits + Credits
Understanding the Split Sheet
Understanding the Split Sheet The Split Sheet is the tab at the top of every song editor that tracks who wrote how much of the song and who needs to be paid for it. ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC all want this document — or one like it — before they register the song. What's on the sheet
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Signing your splits
Signing your splits A split sheet isn't binding until every writer signs it. WritingRoom uses a simple typed-signature flow — a single click, a name, a timestamp. Before you sign
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Bulk-signing across multiple songs
Bulk-signing across multiple songs If you're a frequent co-writer with several songs sitting in waiting on your signature state, signing each one individually is a slow click-fest. The bulk signing surface lets you sign everything at once. Where to find it
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Past Credits section on your profile
Past Credits section on your profile Past Credits is the section near the bottom of your public profile that lists released songs you've contributed to. Each credit can include a Spotify or Apple Music embed so visitors can hear the song without leaving your profile. Adding a credit
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Exporting splits for ASCAP/BMI registration
Exporting splits for ASCAP/BMI registration When you register a song with a PRO, they want a split sheet. WritingRoom's Split Sheet export is built to satisfy that. Open the export
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Verifying your writers (Publisher tier)
Verifying your writers (Publisher tier) A Publisher-tier publisher can vouch for the writers in their roster — confirming their identity and that the credits on their profile are real. The result is a green ✓ Verified pill on the writer's public profile and on their Past Credits cards. For the writer's perspective on the badge, see Verified writer badge.
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Profile picture safety guidelines
Profile picture safety guidelines WritingRoom runs an automated safety check on every profile photo the first time you upload one. Subsequent swaps after the first approval are instant. What's allowed
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Verified writer badge
Verified writer badge The blue ✓ next to a writer's name on their public profile means the writer's identity and at least one of their credits has been independently confirmed. What verification confirms
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Reporting a user
Reporting a user If you encounter a profile that violates our community guidelines, a writer who's behaving badly in a camp, or any content that needs WritingRoom's attention, report it. How to report a profile
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Our IP policy — we never train AI on your songs
Our IP policy Your songs are yours. WritingRoom doesn't claim any ownership in them, doesn't license them to anyone, and doesn't train AI models on them. The short version
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The Help Center and Riff search
The Help Center and Riff search WritingRoom's help lives in two places — the full Help Center at /help, and Riff, a smart help search you can open from any page. The Help Center — /help
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Smart Catalog Import
Smart Catalog Import is how you move an existing catalog into WritingRoom in one move — no row-by-row data entry. Drop in whatever you have: spreadsheets of song titles and writers, ZIP files containing audio bundles, PDFs of legacy split sheets. WritingRoom tidies it all up, flags problems, and presents the result as a review table. What it accepts
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Smart Roster Import
Smart Roster Import is the writer-side companion to Smart Catalog Import. Drop in a file with your existing roster — any format — and WritingRoom turns it into tidy entries ready for your review. What it reads We look for these fields:
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Release Bundle
A Release Bundle is the export format you use when you're handing songs to someone else — a label, a sync agent, a PRO, a distributor. Each song's packet inside the bundle includes: The lyrics as a clean PDF
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Managing Publishers
A publisher is the company that administers a writer's compositional share — separate from the PRO (which collects performance royalties). For Publisher-tier accounts, publisher data is editable per roster member and flows into every split sheet automatically. What's tracked Publisher name
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Exporting Your Catalog
The Export CSV button in Catalog produces a flat CSV of every song currently visible on the page — meaning your current filters apply. Columns included Title
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Catalog Overview
Catalog is the page where every song you've created lives, regardless of where it came from. A solo song you wrote at 2am, a song from a Camp session, a song imported via Smart Catalog Import — they all show up here. The columns Title (clickable to open the song)
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Camp Announcements
Announcements are how you reach the writers in a Camp without sending an email. Where to start Open the Camp's dashboard. The Announce button sits near the top. Click it to draft a message.
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Connecting Spotify
Connecting Spotify lets you pin released tracks on your public profile (the one at /writer/your-handle) and gives every pinned track audio preview + cover art automatically. How to connect Settings → Integrations → Connect Spotify. You'll be redirected to Spotify's OAuth flow. Approve the read permissions. You return to Settings showing your linked account name.
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Dashboard Overview
The Dashboard at writingroom.io/dashboard is your home base every time you log in. What you see Welcome row — Since you were last here notifications (someone updated a song, a writer accepted an invite, a camp got a new applicant)
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Publisher Dashboard Overview
Publisher Dashboard is the home base specifically for Publisher-tier accounts. It assumes you're managing a roster + catalog at scale rather than writing as a solo artist. At-a-glance metrics Roster — writers signed
