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Set up your syndicate after skipping onboarding

The welcome screen’s Skip onboarding: launch demo button doesn’t set your syndicate up. It drops you into a ready-made demo syndicate, filled with a sample aircraft, bookings, and members, so you can look around before committing. Nothing in the demo is real, and nothing you do there affects a syndicate you create later.

When you’re ready to run your own group, you build it yourself from the admin screens. This tutorial does that end to end, and leaves you where the setup wizard would have: a syndicate with one aircraft, a rate, and an invitation out to your first member.

Because the demo counts as a syndicate on your account, the setup wizard won’t reappear (it only shows when you have none). That’s expected. From here you add your real syndicate directly, using the same handful of screens the wizard wraps.

Before you begin, it helps to have a few things to hand:

  • A name for your syndicate.
  • Your aircraft’s tail number and today’s reading on the meter you bill by.
  • The rate a member pays per flying hour, plus your home airfield’s ICAO code if you charge landing fees.
  • The email address of your first member.

Anything you’re missing can be filled in afterwards.

Step 1: Create your real syndicate

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Go to the Home tab. Your demo syndicate sits in the list; below it is a dashed Create Another Group card. Tap it.

On the Create Syndicate screen:

  • Name: what your group is called.
  • Description (optional): a line for your members.

Tap Create Syndicate. Syndik8 confirms it and opens your new syndicate.

As in the wizard, you become the new syndicate’s first admin, and it starts with a single rate band called Standard Member.

Step 2: Add your first aircraft

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Open your new syndicate and go to the Assets tab. It’s empty, so tap Add aircraft (the + button).

On the Add Aircraft screen:

  • Name: the tail number, such as G-ABCD.
  • Registration (optional): the full registration.
  • Opening hours (brought forward): today’s meter reading. Syndik8 uses it as the baseline for usage-based maintenance.
  • Description and photo (optional): anything useful to your members.

Tap the button to add it.

You won’t see a Home Airfield field for this first aircraft. A syndicate’s first aircraft uses the syndicate’s own home airfield, which you set with your rates in the next step. That field only appears once you add a second aircraft that might want a different base.

Once the aircraft is saved it appears under the Assets tab, and the tab label reads Asset (singular) because you have exactly one.

Step 3: Set your rates

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Rates live on the Admin tab. Open Admin and tap Asset rates.

Because you have a single aircraft, the first section is headed Billing (it becomes Default Billing once a second aircraft joins). Enter:

  • Usage rate: the amount a member pays per flying hour.
  • Shortfall rate: an optional, usually lower, rate charged on unflown hours when a member misses a minimum. Match it to the usage rate if you’re not sure yet.

Under Minimum Usage, leave the minimums at 0 to start; 0 turns the shortfall off.

To charge landing or touch-and-go fees, set your Home airfield (its ICAO code) and the fee amounts below it. Those fees apply to flights that arrive back at that airfield; flights ending elsewhere aren’t charged them.

You won’t see a Per-Scheme Rates table yet. It only appears once you add a second rate band; with the single Standard Member band there’s nothing to vary. Tap Save and your rate applies from now on.

What you record on each flight is set separately, under Admin, then Usage capture. The default records the meter you bill by, which is enough to get started.

Step 4: Invite your first member

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Back on the Admin tab, open Members, then tap the invite button (the person-add + in the corner). The Invite Member screen opens.

  • Email (optional): the invitee’s address. Leave it blank to create a link you share yourself.
  • Role: Admin, Member, or Viewer.
  • Equity member: tick this if they hold a share of the aircraft, then enter their Number of shares. Syndik8 shows the percentage that works out to. Leave it unticked for a non-owning member.
  • Billing Scheme: the rate band they pay on. The default option, Syndicate default, applies the Standard Member band you set rates for in Step 3.
  • Expires In: how long the invitation stays valid.

Tap Generate Invitation. A dialog offers the join link with Copy and Share buttons; send it to your member whichever way suits.

The new invitation shows in the Members list as pending until it’s accepted. This screen offers more than the wizard’s quick invite: the equity share count, the billing scheme, and an expiry are all here.

Step 5 (optional): Payments and subscription

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If your group is a registered company and wants to collect money through Syndik8, that lives under Admin, then Payments. Your Syndik8 subscription sits under Admin, then Subscription. Both are optional to get going and can wait until the flying, and the billing, is real.

What you just did

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  • Created your own syndicate alongside the demo and became its first admin.
  • Added your first aircraft with its opening meter reading.
  • Set the rate members pay, and (optionally) your home airfield and its fees.
  • Sent your first member an invitation.

Where to go next

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