# Cracked help

Help for creators on Cracked, and for shop owners who got an ad from one, in plain words. Each article reads its numbers from Cracked's published terms, so they're current.
Read the one that matches the question; follow its Related links for more.

- [Your first ad](https://cracked.app/help/first-ad.md): How your AI writes an ad, Cracked makes it, and a person checks it. Related: your-ai, credits, levels, shops, words.
- [Credits](https://cracked.app/help/credits.md): What credits are, what costs them, and where they come from. Related: first-ad, levels, challenge, your-ai.
- [Levels](https://cracked.app/help/levels.md): What each level keeps, and what moves you up. Related: earning, shops, credits, clipping, affiliate.
- [How you earn: a shop buys your ad](https://cracked.app/help/earning.md): What you get when a shop buys your ad (a “keep”). Related: payouts, levels, shops, clipping, affiliate.
- [Your account and payouts](https://cracked.app/help/payouts.md): How cleared money reaches you, and how to sign out, change your email or leave. Related: earning, levels, trust, words.
- [Finding, claiming and messaging shops](https://cracked.app/help/shops.md): How you find a shop, hold it, and send its owner your ad. Related: challenge, first-ad, earning, levels, words.
- [Connecting your AI](https://cracked.app/help/your-ai.md): How Claude, ChatGPT or another AI works with Cracked for you. Related: first-ad, credits, words.
- [Fast Track](https://cracked.app/help/challenge.md): What Fast Track costs, what it buys, and what it doesn't. Related: shops, levels, credits, clipping.
- [Clipping: paid for views](https://cracked.app/help/clipping.md): Getting paid for views: posting Cracked's own ads, or a shop's campaign. Related: earning, levels, payouts, first-ad.
- [Affiliate links](https://cracked.app/help/affiliate.md): Sharing a shop's link and code. Practice only for now. Related: earning, levels.
- [Is Cracked real? Safety, age and your account](https://cracked.app/help/trust.md): Who runs Cracked, what it never asks for, your age, your data, and a person to write to. Related: payouts, shop-owners, first-ad, words.
- [For shop owners: an ad made for your shop](https://cracked.app/help/shop-owners.md): Someone made an ad for your shop: what it is, what it costs, and how to say no. Related: trust, first-ad.
- [Cracked words](https://cracked.app/help/words.md): The words Cracked uses, each in one line. Related: first-ad, shops, earning, levels, credits, challenge, clipping, affiliate, payouts, your-ai, trust.

Questions these don't answer: hello@cracked.app.