Core Tour: Benecaster Overview
The Benecaster Overview tour is the core guided walkthrough that ships with every Benecaster installation. It covers the main areas you’ll return to most as a podcaster — from your dashboard stats to your shows and subscriber list. The core tour has 6 steps.
To launch the tour, click Take a quick tour on the setup wizard all-done screen, or open the Tours catalog from the Benecaster admin footer and click Launch next to “Benecaster Overview.”
Tour Steps
| Step | Target | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Your podcast at a glance | Dashboard stat cards | Active subscribers, tier breakdown counts, and your plan’s subscriber limit |
| Your shows | Shows nav item (data-tour="nav-shows") |
The Shows left-nav item — where you manage, archive, and add podcast shows |
| Add a show | Add show button (data-tour="add-show") |
The Add show button — how Benecaster checks plan capacity before opening the creation flow |
| Your show | Show card (data-tour="show-card") |
Per-show cards — artwork, title, episode count, subscriber count, and the Archive / Delete overflow menu |
| Managing your episodes | Episodes nav item | The Episodes nav item — where you create, edit, and set availability for individual podcast episodes |
| Your audio file | Audio URL field on an episode | Where your audio file lives and how Benecaster uses it to build your feed |
| Who can hear this | Episode availability controls | How to restrict an episode to paid subscribers or open it to free listeners |
| Your subscriber list | Subscribers nav item (data-tour="nav-subscribers") |
Your full subscriber roster with tier, token status, and account activity |
Note: A previous version of the tour included a ninth step targeting the Add-ons left-nav item (data-tour="nav-addons"). That step was removed when the top-level Add-ons nav entry was removed — add-ons are now accessed via Settings → Add-ons. The core tour is now 6 steps (the steps above covering dashboard, shows, and episodes represent sub-steps; the independently-numbered core tour sequence ends at the subscriber list).
After the Tour
Once you’ve completed the tour, the Take a quick tour button on the setup wizard all-done screen relabels to Revisit the tour. You can relaunch the tour at any time from the Tours catalog in the admin footer.
Setup Wizard Tour Target Notes
The wizard’s Subscribers step (Step 6, paid path) includes a tour-targetable element for the Connect to Benecaster button:
| Element | data-tour value |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Connect to Benecaster button | wizard-subscribers-connect |
Primary action button on the paid path of the Subscribers step |
The Connect button renders as a filled, primary-action button in the Benecaster brand color — not an unstyled or ghost button. Any in-context onboarding tip that references this button should expect it to be visually prominent and positioned as the main call to action on the step.
Note on Per-show Settings Tab Paths
Earlier versions of Benecaster surfaced General, Emails, Webhooks, and other tabs directly under /#/settings/. Those paths no longer resolve — these settings moved to /#/shows/:showId/settings/ as part of the show-centric navigation update. If you have bookmarks to /#/settings/general or similar, update them to use the per-show settings route for the relevant show.