This page walks through creating an account, picking a region, and verifying your email. It takes about a minute. For the developer flow that follows sign-up, see the Quickstart.
Pick a region
Section titled “Pick a region”Your data lives in the region you sign up under. The platform does not replicate customer data across regions, so the choice is sticky — pick the one that matches where your customers live.
If you operate in both jurisdictions you create two separate organizations, one in each region. API keys, webhook endpoints, workflow templates, and applicant verifications belong to one region and cannot be queried from the other. For the full residency posture, see Where is my data hosted?.
Sign up
Section titled “Sign up”Open the console URL for your region and pick Sign up. You can sign up with email + password or with a corporate Google account.
The first user in a new organization becomes the owner. Owner is the only role that can manage billing and invite other owners — see Pick the right role.
Verify your email
Section titled “Verify your email”Email + password sign-ups receive a verification message. Click the link to finish creating the account. The link expires; if it does, request a new one from the sign-in page. Google sign-ups skip this step because Google has already verified the email.
Accept the service agreement
Section titled “Accept the service agreement”On first sign-in you accept the service agreement and the data processing addendum. The acceptance is recorded on the organization with the actor, the timestamp, and the document version. You can find it later under Settings -> Compliance.
What ships with a new account
Section titled “What ships with a new account”A new organization gets:
- A $10 trial credit in your wallet, valid for 14 days from sign-up. The trial covers an end-to-end run of the verification flow with no card required — spend it on real checks at their per-check price.
- Both modes enabled:
testmode for development,livemode for production traffic. Resources created in one mode are invisible to the other. - A single wallet, in US dollars, holding the trial balance. You can run verifications whenever the wallet has a positive balance — add funds with a one-time top-up before the trial expires, and subscribe to a tier (Basic, Pro, or Max) when you want a monthly grant and premium features.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”- Invite your team so other people can pick up where you left off.
- Create your first verification to walk through the applicant flow end to end.
- Quickstart for the developer onboarding.
- Glossary for the terms used across the console and the API.