What is the NIZU URL Shortener?

The NIZU URL Shortener is an App for NIZU Cloud WorkSpace that turns any long web address into a short link on your own workspace domain, then counts every click on it. A short link looks like https://yourcompany.nizu.cloud/aB3x9Kd — your domain, a seven-character code, nothing else.

What it does

• Shortens any http or https address into a short, shareable link.
• Counts clicks: total clicks, unique visitors, when the last click happened, and a breakdown by device, browser, system, country and referring site.
• Tags campaigns with UTM parameters through a built-in builder, so your analytics tool can tell an email click apart from a Facebook click without anyone hand-editing a query string.
• Lets you change the destination later. The code never changes, so a link already printed, emailed or posted keeps working when the target moves.
• Gives every link a QR code you can download as a PNG or an SVG and put on an invoice, a flyer, a van door or a shop window. Because the destination can be changed later, you never have to reprint.
• Runs on your own short domain. Add a domain such as go.mycompany.com, download two small files, upload them to that domain's web hosting, and your short links work from there.
• Sends every click to another system if you want it to: your CRM, a spreadsheet, or an automation tool such as n8n or Zapier.
• Pauses a link without deleting it. A paused code says the link is no longer available; it never quietly points somewhere else.

Who it is for

Small and medium companies that send quotes, invoices, newsletters and social posts, and want to know which of those actually got opened — without handing their link data to an external shortening service.

Why run a shortener inside your own workspace

• Your domain, your trust. Recipients see your company's address, not a third-party shortener that spam filters and cautious customers distrust.
• Your data. Click history lives in your own workspace database. Each NIZU workspace has its own database, so nothing is shared with another company.
• No dependency. If an external shortener shuts down or changes its pricing, every link you ever printed dies with it. These links live where your business lives.
• Privacy by default. No visitor IP address is stored unless an administrator deliberately turns it on; a one-way salted hash is used to count unique visitors instead.

Key terms

Short code

The characters after your domain. Seven characters drawn from digits, uppercase and lowercase letters — about 3.5 trillion combinations. Codes are case-sensitive: aB3x9Kd and Ab3X9kD are two different links.

Destination

The address you typed. It can be changed at any time without changing the code.

Final URL

The destination with your campaign tags merged in. This is what the visitor actually lands on.

Unique click

A visitor seen on that link for the first time, identified by a salted hash rather than a stored IP address.