User Guide

Effective June 2021

Welcome to Yap Café™

A Brief Overview 

Yap Café™ is a Platform that publishes user-generated content where readers find entertaining, educative, and dynamic viewpoints from expert and undiscovered voices who share their writing on various aspects. 

Writers get paid for writing Yap Cafe™ get paid for articles published and read by a dozen unique readers.  

Readers have free access to all the content on Yap Cafe™, barring the premium content, which can be accessed by subscribers only. Kindly refer to our subscription policy. 

Navigation 

Yap Cafe™ is an open platform. Open it in your browser, Andriod or IOS app without gate passes, logins or registration; you can access all the free content/articles. 

To access Premium content, visibly identifiable with our owl logo on the bottom right of the Article Image. It can be previewed by registered and paid subscribers Only. 

Subscription process 

The process is initiated by first creating your login, which consists of your valid email ID, password set up and captcha validation.

The process is completed once you validate yourself via an email we send you on the email provided by you during login.

 Now click on the Subscribe or Renew icon, choose one of the available three plans, and make a remittance.

You now have access to both Premium and free content on the Platform.

Writers Registration 

This process is also initiated by first creating your login unless you already have created a login ID.

To submit an article, click on the typewriter Icon, and for the first timers; it'd request some of your preferences and details like 

  • Profile Pic ( Choose a Catchy One for your fans to identify your new articles easily.)
  • Name 
  • Pen Name (The name you choose to have your articles published under )
  • Email (Auto populated from your login)
  • Address
  • Country 
  • State 
  • Pin code 
  • Bank details ( for us to send you your payouts for published and read articles)
  • Bio ( Public profile 

You have now been registered as a writer on Yap Cafe™, so go to the Typewriter Icon.

The editor opens and allows you to either directly type in your thoughts or paste them in a pre-created digital format.

The sequential structure of submitting a story is 

  • Heading 
  • Brief Description 
  • Your Story  (You have a choice to embed images in the story content section as well, should you so desire)
  • Save to Draft in case you wish to proofread it before you publish it or are currently short of time and shall which to come back to finish your writing. 
  • Publish
  • Select an Image for your story  ( Important Please enter image source and caption)
  • Category or Gnere Selection from a pre-populated list. 
  • Canonicals/URL - the web address/ URL where the currently being submitted article was initially published. In case you are resubmitting a report for further reach or monetization. 
  • Ultimately the Keywords that will help your story rank higher on Google.
  • The last step is to hit the submit button.
  • You shall get an on-screen confirmation and an email confirmation of your submission. 

An article's submission is not guaranteed to be published unless it meets the content selection and other selection criteria.  

Yap Cafe™ reserves the right to publish or reject an article, and its decision to do so is final and binding on all.  

 

Navigation Tips

Member Profile 

To access, click the Profile Icon or the edit profile listed in the burger menu; editable fields can be easily identified. 

 

Yap Café™ logo

Whenever you wish to return to the home page, click the Yap Café™logo on the top. 

Premium Content Icon 

 The miniature Yap Café™ logo over an article image annotates that it's "Premium Content".

 

Account Sign-in - 

Subscriber log in or register.

 

Article Search

Looking for an article, type in the name or keywords and find the article you are looking for. 

 

Burger Menu 

A Home for most of the information on the Yap Café™, such as features, policies, social media links, and more. 

 

Bookmark

Like the name of an article, or midway reading an article but don't have the time to read it now or being interrupted. Bookmark it so that you can consume it as and when you wish.

  

Activate Subscription or Renew 

Subscribers get instant access to the plan page to pay and activate their Subscription. IOS users shall have to activate and renew their Subscription in a web browser. 

 

Categories / Genre  

Readers s can find Articles with similar genres bucketed in one place. 

 

Premium Article Archive  

All premium articles for subscribers in one place 

 

Submit an Article 

Writers can access the article submission page on the Yap Café™Platform. 

 

In case you need further assistance, please write to us at write@yapcafe.com

Happy Reading and Writing 

— Yap Cafe™

 

Yap Cafe : Read | Write & Earn
Yap Cafe : Read | Write & Earn