Sharing & Client Review

ScriptCut is built around the back-and-forth with a client. You share a link, they read the selection, leave notes, and approve, all in their browser, with nothing to install and no account to create.

Creating a share link

On the Review page, click Share. Copy the link and send it. You can protect it with a password, and under Advanced settings you control exactly what clients of this project can do: export, rename speakers, or use AI. Each one is on until you switch it off, in Settings > Client view for every project or here for this project. In Settings > Client view the Use AI switch only appears on plans with AI, and a client's AI use is paid from your AI credits.

Presentation links and multi-stage sign-off

Two extras live in the share link settings. Presentation link shows your client only the polished Review page, nothing else, and two account-wide rules in Settings > Client view apply to that kind of link alone: whether the person can Approve, and whether they can leave notes. A review link is unaffected by both. Multi-stage sign-off (under Advanced settings) turns one approval into a chain: Producer, then Client, then Legal/Comms, each approving in order, with a separate named sign-off link created for Legal/Comms. The client's approval locks the project right away, so the selection cannot change; Legal/Comms then signs on the locked version. The client welcome window: the first time a client opens a review link and types their name, a short welcome window headed Quick Guide shows how it works in four parts, Select, Arrange, Notes and Favorite, with a short animated demo of each that play one after the other: a cursor clicks and drags rows for Select and Arrange, and points at the notes icon and the favorite icon on a row. Take Product Tour starts the guided tour (when the Guided tour switch in the link settings is on) and Get Started closes the window. It shows once per link in that browser, never on a presentation link, and never for a studio on the whitelabel plan. A brand-new account sees the same Quick Guide window trimmed to what each page teaches: once the first time it opens the Select page (Select, Notes and Favorite) and once the first time it opens the Arrange page (Arrange, and Groups: a lasso round the rows, the Group button, then naming the group). Take Product Tour there starts the guided tour on the dashboard; in a Social project the window shows on Select without the tour button and not on Arrange.

Chat with your client

Every project has its own chat, in the bubble at the bottom right. It connects you, your team, and your client in one thread, and the whole conversation can be downloaded as a text file.

Managing all your links

The Shared Links icon in the main sidebar lists every review link across every project in one place; open it from inside a project and it filters to just that project. Each row shows who the link is for, how many times it has been opened, and when it was last viewed. Use the row menu to rename, password-protect, or revoke a link at any time. Delete always asks first: a row’s menu, the Delete button on the selection bar (one link or many) and Delete link in a link’s settings all open the same window, which lists the links by name and waits for Yes, Delete (Keep it leaves everything as it was). Anyone who has a deleted link can no longer open it; to keep a link but close it, switch it off instead. Social’s own Links page works the same way for client download links. You can also send any of them from inside ScriptCut rather than copying the address into your own mail app: press Send on a link and it goes to the people on the kit's email list, one message each rather than everybody on one To: line, with an optional line of your own, and it wears the client's own logo when they have sent you one. A one-off link with no kit above it takes an address you type for that send. The kit also carries a Link Access switch: turning it off closes every link under that kit at once, including the folders inside it. It only closes, so each link keeps its own settings and turning it back on puts them all back exactly as you left them. Beside it is a Link Password: one password for every link under that kit which has no password of its own, so you set it once rather than on every link. A link you gave its own password keeps it, so your client only ever types one. Setting it also protects links you have already sent that had no password, and clearing it puts them back.

What your client sees

When a client opens the link, ScriptCut asks for their name (and optionally a company and email) so you can track whose feedback is whose. Then they land in a clean, branded version of your project.

The client view mirrors your own, minus anything you have not permitted. They can read the Select and Arrange pages and the polished Review, play the audio (and the video too, when your account is on a paid plan and the video has a playback copy), and leave notes on individual lines.

Approving

When the client is happy, they Approve the selection. Approval locks the project so it cannot be changed by accident, and notifies you straight away in the Activity feed and by email. If you need to make a change afterward, you can unlock it.

Notes, support, and tutorials

Clients get their own slim sidebar: tutorials to help them review, a theme toggle, and a Support button that reaches your team. Any note they leave on a line shows up in your Activity feed and travels into your exports.