Tutorial for Publisher

What is “Grow!” ?

What can you do with Grow!, the Social Tipping Platform?

Grow! enables you to gain financial support from your fans, and to share your content with the world. By embedding a Grow! Button onto your website fans will be able to tip your content!

Add a Grow! Button and let your fans support you!

How to add a Grow! Button to your website

Get the HTML source code for your site

You can find an HTML source code for the Grow! Button from the “Get a Grow! Button” page.
Then just follow these simple steps:
1. Enter the URL of the site you want to add a button to and register it.
2. Click “Get”.
3. Select the shape/style of the button.
4. Copy-and-paste the generated HTML code into the source code of your web site*.

*You cannot use the same HTML code for two different web sites.

Get Open Graph Tags (Optional)

If you want to add more than one Button to a page, you will need to slightly modify the code, as explained below.

1. Add “&insert=false” to the tail end of “apikey” in the code.

e.g.)
<script src=”http://growbutton.com/javascripts/button.js?apikey=xxxxxx&insert=false” type=”text/javascript”>

2. Embed the above code.
3. Then embed the code, that can be found below, where the Grow! button should be.

 <span itemscope="" itemref="[Shape]" itemtype="http://growbutton.com/ns#button">
   <span itemprop="url">[URL]</span>
   <span itemprop="title">[Title]</span>
   <span itemprop="image">[Image]</span>
   <span itemprop="apikey">[ApiKey]</span>
 </span>

[Shape] : square or rectangle, Shape of the Grow! button
[URL]   : URL of the content page
[Title] : Title of the content page
[Image] : Image of the content page (Option)
[ApiKey]: ApiKey of the this site domain (Option)

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Exchanging points

・For Users located outside of Japan:
At the moment, you’re not allowed to withdraw your revenue from Grow! but you should be able to by April, 2012. We apologize for this inconvenience. We are currently working hard to make your funds available to you and will notify you via our blog as soon as it’s made possible. So subscribe to our RSS feed to receive these important details.

・For Users located inside of Japan:
You can exchange Grow! points that you have received for an Amazon Gift Card by going to “Settings > Exchanging points.”

The exchange rate is:
10G! for a 600JPYen Amazon Gift Card
30G! for a 1800JPYen Amazon Gift Card
50G! for a 3000 JPYen Amazon Gift Card
100G! for a 6000 JPYen Amazon Gift Card