From Short.io

Short.io’s strength is per-domain configuration — links, pixels, and white-label all live under a domain. Elido moves those to the workspace level and lets you opt links into specific behaviours individually. EU residency, native SCIM, and a transparent click cap round out the trade.

Before you start

Short.io’s export columns: OriginalURL, Path, Title, Tags, CreatedAt. The Path field is the slug; everything else maps directly.

Bulk import

// scripts/import-shortio.mjs
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { parse } from "csv-parse/sync";
 
const WS = 1;
const TOKEN = process.env.ELIDO_TOKEN;
const rows = parse(readFileSync("shortio-export.csv"), { columns: true });
 
const batches = [];
for (let i = 0; i < rows.length; i += 100) batches.push(rows.slice(i, i + 100));
 
for (const batch of batches) {
  const links = batch.map((r) => ({
    destination_url: r.OriginalURL,
    slug: r.Path,
    title: r.Title,
    tags: r.Tags,
  }));
 
  const res = await fetch(
    `https://api.elido.app/v1/workspaces/${WS}/links/bulk`,
    {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${TOKEN}`,
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({ links }),
    }
  );
  console.log(await res.json());
}

Things that don’t have a 1:1 mapping:

• Password protection — Short.io’s per-link password gate has no equivalent yet. If you used it for geo / device routing, port the rules to smart links. Pure password gates: use a smart-link rule that points at an interstitial you host.
• Cloaked links / iframe wrap — Elido does not iframe-cloak destinations. The destination URL is what the user lands on.
• Expiration date — port to targeting_rules with a time window and a fallback destination_url.

Custom domain cutover

Short.io routes via CNAME → cname.short.io; Elido routes via CNAME → edge.elido.me. Run them in parallel:

# 1. Register the domain in Elido
POST /v1/workspaces/1/domains
{ "hostname": "go.example.com" }

# 2. Verification TXT (Short.io still serving)
_elido-verify.go.example.com.  TXT  "verify=<token>"

# 3. After verified, flip
go.example.com.  CNAME  edge.elido.me.   # was cname.short.io.

Wildcard subdomains are an Enterprise add-on at Short.io and a Business-tier feature at Elido. Register the wildcard:

curl -X POST \
  https://api.elido.app/v1/workspaces/1/domains \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ELIDO_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "hostname": "*.example.com", "is_wildcard": true }'

The TXT record sits at the parent (_elido-verify.example.com) and the CNAME is *.example.com → edge.elido.me..

API mapping

Short.io scopes most operations to a domain ID; Elido scopes to a workspace.

The biggest shape change: Short.io’s domain ID disappears. In Elido, a link doesn’t belong to a domain — the workspace owns domains, and any link in the workspace can serve from any verified hostname.

Pixels and tracking

Short.io configures pixels per-domain; Elido configures them per-workspace and turns the splash interstitial on per-link via show_splash. Migrate:

curl -X PUT \
  https://api.elido.app/v1/workspaces/1/pixels \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ELIDO_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "meta_pixel_id": "1234567890",
    "google_id": "AW-1234567890",
    "tiktok_id": "C4ABCDEF...",
    "linkedin_id": "1234567"
  }'

Then flip the splash on the links you want pixels to fire on:

curl -X PATCH \
  https://api.elido.app/v1/workspaces/1/links/42 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ELIDO_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "show_splash": true }'

Full reference: Retargeting pixels. For order-level conversion attribution from Stripe / Shopify, see Conversion tracking.

Pricing parity

Short.io meters by clicks-per-domain; Elido meters per workspace across all domains. For multi-domain setups, the math usually works out cheaper on Elido at the same throughput.

After cutover

• Update SDK base URLs (api.short.io → api.elido.app).
• Re-issue webhook secrets — Short.io signs with X-Sign, Elido with X-Webhook-Signature: v1=... (HMAC-SHA256 of ts.body).
• Migrate Smart Targets — Short.io’s per-link country / device rules become targeting_rules on the Elido link. The condition vocabulary is broader (timezone, day-of-week, language) — see Smart links.
• Archive the Short.io account at the end of the billing cycle.