> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.runrally.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Set up your first program

> Create a creator program in Rally from your website, a template, or with a coding agent, then publish it and invite creators.

A program is the set of terms creators join: what you ask them to make, how you review it, and how they earn. Most workspaces start with one.

## Start from the Setup page

Open **Setup** in the sidebar. It lists what's left before you can launch, and offers two quick starts:

* **From your website**: paste your site's address. Rally proposes your brand identity, product knowledge and program details, and you review each before it's saved.
* **With a coding agent**: connect Claude Code, Codex or Cursor over [MCP](https://docs.runrally.io/mcp/quickstart.md). The agent works through the checklist and asks you only where a person is needed.

## Or start from a template

Open **Templates** to copy the structure of a program you know, such as a revenue-share or per-post program modeled on a public one. Rally tailors the template to your brand, and you review every field before it becomes a draft program.

## Fill in the program

Each program has tabs for the parts creators see and the rules behind them:

**1. Terms and review**

Write the terms, choose the content formats and platforms you want, and set the [review policy](https://docs.runrally.io/help/programs/reviewing-content.md).

**2. Rewards**

Add one or more [reward rules](https://docs.runrally.io/help/programs/rewards.md): what a creator earns for a post, a view milestone, a signup or a sale.

**3. Payouts**

Set the hold period, payout minimum and schedule. See [Schedules, holds and refunds](https://docs.runrally.io/help/payouts/schedules-and-holds.md).

**4. Page and form**

Customize the public program page and the application form creators fill in.

## Publish and invite

Publishing a program makes its page and application form live. From then on:

* Creators can apply from the program page. See [Recruit creators](https://docs.runrally.io/help/programs/recruiting-creators.md).
* You can invite creators by email from **All creators**.
* Changes to terms, rewards or payout settings create a new version, so creators always know which terms they joined under.

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> To track signups and sales from creators' links, install the tracking snippet. See [Tracking and attribution](https://docs.runrally.io/developers/tracking.md).


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