Documentation

Everything you need to install Orbit, make it yours and put it online.

• Getting started

  Install Orbit and have a working app with data on screen in about five minutes.

• Configuration

  Every environment variable, what it does, and which ones you need in production.

• Customize

  Change the brand, colours, text, languages, plans and content without touching the logic.

• Tracking snippet

  Add Orbit analytics to any website with one script tag, and record signups and purchases.

• Public API

  Read customers and analytics, and record events, with scoped API keys.

• Billing and Stripe

  Demo billing out of the box, and how to switch on real payments with Stripe.

• AI assistant

  How Ask Orbit works, what data it sees, and how to use it with or without an API key.

• Deploy to production

  Put Orbit on Vercel with a Neon database, step by step, with a launch checklist.

• Security

  How accounts, sessions, rate limits and data separation work, and what to do before you launch.

• Testing

  The automated tests that come with Orbit and how to run them.