## Signing up gives you a working account

Registering creates your **organisation**, a first **workspace** inside
it, and makes you the organisation's admin. That happens as you sign
up, before you see anything else — so the account works whatever you do
next.

## The five steps

You land in a short wizard of five steps, and it refines what you already
have.

1. **You** — your **Full name**, **Your time zone**, and your **Account
   email**, which is shown here and cannot be changed on this screen.
2. **Organisation** — its **Organisation name**, a **Description** if you want
   one, the name of your **First workspace**, the **Content language** and the
   **Time zone** the organisation runs in.
3. **First experience** — a name, and Panova opens it for you at the end.
   **Skip — I'll create one later** is a real answer, not a way of putting it
   off.
4. **Security** — a second factor, and whether your email address is
   confirmed. Both are below.
5. **Launch** — what you are about to save, and the button that saves it.

Nothing is saved until you press the button at the end, and **you can
leave at any point**. Abandoning it half-way costs you the typing, not
the account — everything it asks about can be set later from
**Organisation → Settings** and **Members**.

What you have typed is kept for as long as the tab is open. That is what
makes the Security step work at all: setting up a factor leaves this page
and comes back, and without it you would return to step one with the
organisation name you had typed wiped.

## Confirming your email

The wizard shows whether your address is confirmed, with a **Resend**
button beside it when it is not, and does not stop you if it is not.
Everything past setup does, so confirm it when the email arrives — but a
slow inbox should not cost you a wizard's worth of typing. Open the link
in this browser and you come straight back to where you were.

## Two-factor authentication

You are an organisation admin from your first minute, and admin accounts
need a second factor, so the wizard asks for one. There are three to
choose from — a **passkey**, an **authenticator app**, or a code sent to your
email address. A passkey is offered first because it is the one you can turn
on without reaching for a second device. Set one up there and you will not be
asked again on your way in.

## If you were invited

You do not see this wizard. An invitation admits you to somebody else's
organisation, so registering builds you none of your own, and sign-up hands
you to **Notifications**, where the offer is waiting. Sign-up also locks the
address to the one that was invited — an account made at any other address
could never accept what is sitting in that inbox.

## The tour

A short walkthrough of the app opens the first time you reach the
dashboard. Dismiss it and it stays dismissed; if you want it back, it is
on the dashboard and in the **?** help panel in the header.