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Turn on Managed Transfers and brand it
Turn it on
Managed Transfers is on or off per account.
- A transferring sign-up has it on from the start, with Demoify as the destination.
- An integrating account has it off. Contact us to turn it on.
While it is off, the transfer pages stay hidden in the dashboard, the hosted flow refuses to start, and the transfer APIs answer 403.
Set the destination
Open Transfer Branding in the account menu. The Transfer destination is the service every transfer moves into. The hosted flow cannot start without one.
- Set up the integration of your service under Integrations first, with your developer app (see Set up each service).
- Pick it as the Transfer destination.
Until then, Demoify stays the destination of a transferring sign-up, so you can test the whole flow on the first day.
Choose the content
Each integration has an Entity types offered to users setting: playlists, followed playlists, liked tracks, albums, artists. The wizard offers only the types you turn on, and only the types that the source service can read.
Brand the pages
The Theme tokens of the Transfer Branding page skin every hosted page. Every token is optional.
| Token | What it sets |
|---|---|
| Mode | Light or dark |
| Accent colour | Buttons, links, progress |
| Background colour | The page |
| Surface colour | Cards and panels |
| Button radius | A pixel length, for example 8px |
| Heading font | The font family of the headings. Load the font yourself in the custom CSS. |
| Custom CSS | Added to every hosted page. Markup is refused, so no tag can be opened there. |
The Live preview shows your changes before you press Publish theme. Your logo and business name come from the account settings.
Custom domain
Run the flow on your own host, for example transfer.example.com.
- Save the domain
Enter it as the Custom domain on the Transfer Branding page. The status shows "pending setup on our side".
- Contact us
Our servers accept traffic only through Cloudflare, so we add your domain to our configuration and tell you the DNS record to create. Contact us.
- Link to the full path
The page still lives under your slug:
https://transfer.example.com/{slug}/transfer. The root of the domain is not a transfer entry point.
Your custom domain counts as an accepted return URL by itself, for exactly that host over https. Once we verified the domain, the launchUrl of a pre-authorized session uses it too.
Transfer emails
We do not email your users about their transfers. This setting is off by default for every account.
When you turn it on, we send one email when a transfer ends, to the address that the source service gave us. The email has the MusicAPI brand, not yours. It shows the results and links to the results page.
To turn it on, open API & webhooks in the dashboard and switch on Email my users when a transfer ends (MusicAPI-branded).
Set it up with an AI agent
The MusicAPI MCP server has update_managed_transfers_settings: the theme, the custom domain, the destination and the transfer emails, in one call from Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT.