Getting started

Setting up a project is a short, guided sequence. You present your project, we review it and suggest a plan and hosting, then you confirm each piece — plan, hosting, region, modules, domain, payment and the terms. Once everything is in place, we commission your project and it comes online. The Getting started page tracks where you are and lists your environments as they're provisioned.

Before you start — You need an account and a project, and you can revisit any step before launch. A couple of steps — your plan and your hosting — open once we've reviewed your brief and pre-filled our recommendation.

Present your project

Tell us what you want to build — we use this to recommend your plan, hosting and modules.

  1. Open Present your project.
  2. Fill in your project goal (required) — what the product is for.
  3. Say whether the project is international (Not sure, Yes or No) and, if so, which markets.
  4. Describe your target audience and its size, list the features you have in mind, and add any reference sites and notes.
  5. Submit the brief.

Your brief is saved and we review it. You don't choose your plan or hosting here — we suggest them from your brief, and you confirm them in the next steps.

Tip — Use Cancel to leave without saving. The more detail you give, the better the recommendation fits.

Confirm your plan

Once we've reviewed your brief, the plan step opens with our suggestion pre-selected.

  1. Open the plan step.
  2. Review each plan card — its description, how many features it includes, and its pricing: Setup, Monthly subscription, Additional feature and the API option. The one we suggest is marked Recommended.
  3. Select the plan you want.
  4. Click Validate.

Your plan is recorded. It sets the minimum hosting tier for the next step.

Note — The plan isn't locked — it can still change later.

Confirm your hosting

Pick the production hosting tier. Your test environments are set up automatically.

  1. Open the infrastructure step.
  2. Compare the tiers — Standard and Advanced — each showing its cores and RAM, its network, the per-service breakdown and the monthly total. The minimum allowed by your plan is marked Minimum.
  3. Select a tier.
  4. Click Validate.

Your hosting choice is saved.

Note — You can upgrade above the minimum but not below it. Production is never shared; your DEV and STAGE environments stay on shared infrastructure automatically.

Set your region

Set your main country and where your infrastructure runs.

  1. Open the localization step.
  2. Choose your principal country from the list and click Validate the country.
  3. Choose where your infrastructure should run — pick a country card under its region (Europe, North America…).
  4. Click Confirm location.

Your region and hosting location are saved.

Tip — Use Change to go back and pick a different principal country. You can add more countries later, at no extra cost.

Confirm your modules

Review the modules we prepared from your brief, adjust the list, then validate it.

  1. Open the modules step. If your plan includes a set number of modules, the count is shown.
  2. For each module card, edit its name and description and click Save; use Delete to remove one.
  3. To add one, fill in a name and description and click Add a module.
  4. When the list is right, click Validate the modules.

The set is validated.

Note — Editing, adding or deleting a module clears the validation — click Validate the modules again when you're done. You refine modules in depth later in Modules.

Connect your domain

Enter your domain and prove you own it with a DNS record.

  1. Open the domain step.
  2. Type your domain (e.g. example.com) and click Continue.
  3. In your DNS provider, add a TXT record with the value shown — it looks like owoxo-verification=<token> (use Copy to copy it).
  4. Back on the page, click Verify.

When the record is found, the page confirms your domain is verified.

Note — DNS can take a while to propagate; if Verify doesn't find the record yet, wait and try again. Use Change to enter a different domain.

Pay the startup fee

The startup fee is 10% of the installation cost. Enter your billing details, then pay.

  1. Open the payment step.
  2. Enter your billing identity — Company (optional), Address, Postal code and City (the Country comes from your project).
  3. Click Continue.
  4. On the recap, check the amount and your details (use Edit to fix them), then click Pay.

The fee is recorded as paid.

Note — Use Later to skip for now. The full installation fee and your monthly subscription start when you go to production; DEV and STAGE are billed by the hour and pause when you stop them.

Accept the terms

Read and accept the terms to finish.

  1. Open the terms step.
  2. Read the terms in the panel.
  3. Tick I accept the terms and conditions (this enables the button).
  4. Click Accept.

Your set-up is complete — we review everything and commission your project.

Track your project

  1. Open Getting started. The Project card shows your project's name, its status, its Domain and the Current step of the build.
  2. The Environments card lists each environment and its status as it comes online — until then it shows No environment provisioned yet.