So one of the things I had to set up was persistent mode. I also had to send in onchain transaction to get some outbound. For some reason i was struggling to send it out (couldnt find route). I had to then send in more sats separately (not sure why in worked but out didnt) after allowing their LND provider to automatically open channels for me... it opened another channel with both inbound and outbound liquidity (mostly just outbound)