Pitch and publish
Build sell sheets, track pitches with publishers, show your portfolio publicly, and keep notes on your contacts.
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- Analytics, custom code and SEOAdd a Google Analytics 4 or Meta pixel ID, write custom CSS and JavaScript for your catalog, and see what Boardssey does for SEO.
- Design your catalog: logo, colors, fonts and layoutUpload a logo, write the sidebar intro, pick colors and Google fonts, set the game grid and choose what each game card shows.
- Receive messages from your catalogLet visitors write to you from a catalog page, then read, reply to and file their messages in the Messages tab.
- Your catalog: settings at a glancePublish your public catalog, find your way around its seven settings tabs, and learn who on your team can change what.
- Lay out a catalog page with blocksBuild a catalog page from blocks (hero, columns, images, video, FAQ, games) in the page designer, then save and preview it.
- Add pages and menu links to your catalogAdd About us, Contact and Submissions pages to your catalog, link to your shop or email, and turn on a contact form.
- The press kit downloadWhat the Press kit button on a catalog game page bundles into one ZIP, which files qualify, and how to control what goes in.
- Choose and order the games in a catalogPick which games a catalog shows, mark new releases, set the order and a per-catalog price, and get your link.
- See how visitors use your catalogRead the Stats tab, with visits, game views, page views, downloads and messages per catalog over 7, 30 or 90 days, with no cookies.
- Translate a catalogSet a catalog language, translate each game name, description, hooks and components, and show files in the right language.
- Contacts overviewWhat the Contacts page is for, who can use it, how contacts get in (by hand, business card, catalog message) and what it does not do.
- For publishers: viewing a Boardssey catalogA short guide for publishers, retailers, reviewers and other guests landing on a designer's Boardssey catalog. No account needed.
- Manage your contactsAdd contacts by hand or from a business card photo, pick categories, edit, search, filter, invite them to the team, and delete.
- Meetings at fairs and conventionsBook the team's meetings at SPIEL, GEN CON or Nuremberg on the venue's clock, send booking links, see everyone's schedule in one place, and sync it with Google Calendar.
- Run several catalogs (markets, languages, audiences)Create up to 10 catalogs per team on Oracle, each with its own address, games, prices, language, design and pages.
- Outreach remindersSet a follow-up reminder on an outreach row, understand how its date is computed, and know where the reminder shows up.
- Track outreach on a gameLog every publisher pitch, reviewer request or manufacturer conversation on a game's Outreach tab, with a type and a status for each.
- Publisher Atlas: find publishers to pitch (beta)Browse board game publishers on a globe or a list, see how each one takes pitches and what it publishes, and score them against one of your games.
- Sell sheet editor walkthroughFind your way around the Sell Sheet Designer: panels, game data keys, text and images, QR codes, saving, and PDF or PNG downloads.
- Sell sheetsStart a sell sheet from a template on the Sell Sheets page or a game's Sell Sheets tab, then manage its name, status and files.