Series

Published October 7, 2026Updated October 11, 2026

A series is the work a reader follows: it has a title, a synopsis, a cover, a label, and its Authors, and it holds the episodes readers open. Series, in the sidebar's Catalog group, lists the tenant's series, newest first, twenty to a page. Serialization status and Age rating above the list narrow it.

Each row opens the series with Edit, or View for an Auditor, and its episodes with Episodes. A row's Status is Published once the series' Publication date and time has passed, Scheduled while that time is still ahead, and Draft without one. A series not shown on both the site and the app carries Web only or App only beside its title.

Creating a series

Choose Create series. The form is the same one the series is edited with later, and every field on it can be changed afterwards. Choose Create series at the bottom to save it, which opens its edit page.

What readers see first

• Title: up to 255 characters.
• Synopsis: the description on the series page, up to 10,000 characters.
• Authors: the people credited on the series, each in a role, as Authors and Author roles describes. The percentage beside each is their share of the sales of the series' episodes, which Reports and royalties explains. These credits are copied onto each episode when it is created: changing them later leaves the existing episodes as they are.
• Label: the imprint the series is published under. A series must have one, so create a label first, as Labels describes.
• Genres: any number of the tenant's genres, shown in the order set under Genres.
• Tags: up to 20 free words, each up to 50 characters, that readers can browse by. A tag that matches one already in use, ignoring case, is filed under it.
• Cover image: a JPEG, PNG, or WebP image of at most 10 MB and at least 2400 × 3200 pixels. It is offered on this form only when creating the series; afterwards it is changed on the Cover image tab, as The cover image describes.

Publication date and time

Publication date and time is what makes a series public. It is read in the tenant's time zone, which the field names.

• Empty: the series is hidden. Its page answers as if it did not exist, and none of its episodes can be read, whatever their own state.
• A time that has passed, or the current time: the series is public as soon as it is saved.
• A time in the future: the series stays hidden until then. publira worker looks for series whose time has passed once a minute and refreshes the site's cached pages, so its lists and its top page include it within about a minute of that time.

Clearing the field later takes a public series off the site again, with its episodes. This is the only way to withdraw a series, since a series cannot be deleted.

When a hidden series becomes public, for the first time or again, the episodes published while it was hidden are announced to the readers following them, the series, or an Author credited on them, and are dated from the moment the series became public. An episode announced while the series was public before keeps its date and is not announced again. Episodes describes who is told.

Shown on and Sold on

Shown on decides where readers can find the series: Web and app, Web only, or App only. A new series starts on Web and app. On a surface it is not shown on, the series and its episodes do not exist for the reader, and an episode can narrow this setting but never widen it.

Sold on decides where its paid episodes can be bought. It starts on Follow the tenant setting, which follows Where episodes are sold under Integrations › Payments, including after that changes. Selling episodes covers both settings and why a tenant with an app might keep a series on the site alone.

Serialization status and update schedule

Serialization status is Ongoing, Completed, or On hiatus. Readers see it on the series page and can filter the series list by it. It changes nothing else: a Completed series can still be given episodes.

Update schedule marks the weekdays a new episode is expected on. The series page then reads "Updates on" followed by those days, and the series is listed under each of them in Browse by weekday on the site's top page. With no day checked, the series page says nothing about a schedule, and the series is under no day. Nothing publishes an episode on those days: that is still each episode's own Publication date and time.

Age rating

Age rating is All ages, R15, or R18. A series rated R15 or R18 carries the rating on the site, and its pages ask the reader to confirm their age before they open. Until a reader has confirmed it, rated series are also left out of the top page and of search results.

Whether confirming is enough, or the reader must also be signed in with a date of birth that proves their age, is decided for the whole tenant by Ratings that need a proven age, as Settings describes. A series cannot set this for itself.

Comments

Comments decides how readers' comments on the series' episodes are published: Do not accept comments, Publish straight away, or Publish after approval. It starts on Follow the tenant setting, which follows How comments are published under Settings, including after that changes, as Settings describes. Approving and moderating the comments is covered in Comments.

A choice made here applies to the series whatever the tenant setting is, so a series set to Publish straight away takes comments even while the tenant does not accept them.

Reading direction and spreads

Reading direction is the way the series' pages are turned: Right to left, the way Japanese manga reads and the default, or Left to right. It sets the direction of a page turn, the order of the two pages in a spread, the progress bar, and which side the previous and next episode are on.

Spreads start at page decides where pages begin to be shown in pairs, on a screen wide enough for two. Pages before it are shown alone. 2, the default, keeps the first page, usually the cover, on its own; 1 pairs from the first page. An episode with fewer pages than this is shown one page at a time.

An episode can set its own of either, as Page layout describes. One that does not follows the series, including after it changes.

Reading period

Reading period, in hours, is where the Reading period of each new episode in the series starts. A purchase keeps an episode open for the episode's own period, not the series': an episode can be given a different one when it is created or changed later, and changing the series' period later leaves the episodes already created as they are. A new series starts at 0, which keeps a purchase open with no end. Selling episodes describes how the period is used.

The cover image

The Cover image tab of a series replaces or removes the image chosen when the series was created. Under Cover image, select a new image and choose Update cover image, or choose Delete the current cover image to leave the series without one. A new image must be a JPEG, PNG, or WebP image of at most 10 MB and at least 2400 × 3200 pixels.

The site does not show the image as uploaded. Saving it cuts four images of fixed shapes out of it, which Aspect ratio images below shows. Each slot is headed by the shape's name, with a line under it saying where that shape is used:

Each shape is cropped from the centre of the image. To frame one differently, choose Adjust the frame on its slot, or upload a separate image for that shape alone with Replace, which leaves the other three as they are. Uploading a new cover image above replaces all four.

Labels and genres have the same tab, with the same sizes. Where each shape is used differs for them, and the line under each slot says where for the record being edited: a label's square image is its tile in the app and the small picture beside it in the site's lists, and its portrait image is not shown anywhere yet, for example.

Free if you wait

Free if you wait, below the series form on the Basic information tab, lets signed-in readers open the series' paid episodes free, one at a time, with a ticket that comes back after a wait:

• Offer free tickets on this series turns it on. Turning it off keeps the numbers below for the next time, and an episode a reader already opened with a ticket stays open until its time is up.
• Hours until the next ticket: how long after using a ticket a reader gets the next one, from 1 to 8760. It starts at 23. A change applies from each reader's next use.
• Hours an episode stays open: how long an episode opened with a ticket stays readable, from 1 to 8760. It starts at 72.
• Newest episodes a ticket cannot open: how many of the latest published episodes, counted back from the last one in the series' order, are kept for buyers. 0 lets a ticket open any paid episode.

Choose Save free-if-you-wait settings to save. A reader holds one ticket per series, and tickets do not pile up while unused. A ticket cannot open an episode that is already free to everyone, one the reader can already open, or one their age does not allow. The series page tells readers how the tickets work, and marks the episodes a ticket cannot open with No free ticket.

Selling episodes describes how tickets sit beside prices and free reading periods.