Create your account

Signing up here is typing your email and the code we send back, which gets you an account, an organization and a free trial with no password.

Signing up and signing in are the same action here. You type your email address, we email you a code, you type the code back, and the account exists. There is no password to choose, now or later.

Doing that once gets you three things. The first is an account, which is you. The second is an organization, which is where your catalog, your team and your invoices are kept. The third is a free trial of whichever product you open first. After today, signing in is only the first two steps of this page.

Everything starts at account.readyforcommerce.com. While you are signed out, that address takes you to the sign-in screen at auth.readyforcommerce.com. It brings you back the moment you are in, so it does not matter which of the two you bookmark. Every button on the marketing site sends you to the same place.

Before you start

One decision comes before everything else on this page, and getting it wrong is the most common setup mistake there is.

If someone at your company already uses Ready for Commerce, do not sign up here. Ask them to invite you from the Team page in their account settings instead. Accepting their invitation puts you into the organization they already built, with its catalog, its connections and its data.

Signing up on your own does not fail and does not warn you. It builds a second, empty organization beside theirs, with its own subscription, and the two never merge. Organizations has the fix if that has already happened.

How to create your account

1. 1

   Open the sign-in screen

   Go to account.readyforcommerce.com. Signed out, it sends you to the sign-in screen. Type your address into the Email address field and click the Continue button under it.

   To use Google instead, click the Continue with Google button above the field. That skips the next step, because there is no code to type.

2. 2

   Type the code we email you

   The screen turns into 8 empty boxes. Open the email we just sent, type its 8 digits into the boxes, and click the Verify button underneath them.

3. 3

   Name your organization

   You get a screen headed Name your organization. Type a name into the Organization name field, usually your business name, and click the Create organization button below it.

4. 4

   Open your first product

   You get your account home page, which shows one card per product: the Repricer first, then the PIM. Click the Start free trial button on the right of the card you want.

That is the whole flow. You end up inside the product you picked, with a 30-day trial running, and no one asked you for a payment method.

Everything below goes through those four screens one at a time. You do not need any of it to get in.

Every option in detail

You see four screens, in this order: the sign-in screen, the code screen, Name your organization, and your account home page. The sections below follow that order, and the first screen gets two sections because it gives you two ways in.

Step 1: Sign in with an emailed code

The sign-in screen has one Email address field with a Continue button under it. Type your address and click Continue. The button stays gray until what you typed looks like an address, so if it will not light up, check for a typo.

The same screen creates an account and signs an existing one back in. An address we have never seen becomes a new account the moment you click Continue, and there is no separate sign-up form anywhere.

The screen then turns into 8 single-character boxes with a Verify button under them. The email arrives while you are looking at it, with the subject Verify your email - Ready for Commerce.

Use whichever suits where you are reading the email. The button is the faster one on a phone, and the code is the one to use when you started on a laptop and read your mail elsewhere.

The Verify button stays gray until all 8 boxes are full. Two more controls appear under it once an attempt has failed. Resend code sends you a fresh one. Use a different email takes you back to the first screen, so you can correct the address.

You may also be asked to prove you are not a robot. That check is invisible most of the time and only shows itself when it needs to.

Every message this screen can show, and what each one means, is on signing in and security.

Step 1: Sign in with Google

Continue with Google is at the top of the sign-in screen, above the Email address field. Clicking it sends you to Google, and Google sends you back signed in. There is no code, so the code screen never appears.

Google may also put up a prompt of its own while the sign-in screen is still loading, if that browser is already signed in to Google. Clicking that prompt does the same thing as the button.

Which one should you use. Use Google if the address you want is a Google address. Google gives us your first and last name, and the emailed code does not, so a code signup starts with a guessed name you fix later. Use the emailed code for any other address. Nothing is locked in either way, because the account is the email address, so both routes end up in the same account.

Step 2: Name your organization

Signing in for the first time opens Name your organization, and there is no way past it. The organization is the thing that owns your work. Your catalog, your connected stores, your team and your subscription are all inside it, and you are simply the first person in it. That is why this screen comes before anything else you can do, and organizations is the full picture.

The screen has one Organization name field and one Create organization button under it. Type your business name and click the button. Three things about that field matter before you type:

• The button stays gray until the field has something in it.
• The field stops taking characters at 100.
• Anything is allowed in it, including digits, an ampersand, a period and a number sign.

Your team sees this name, and it is the name that goes on your invoices, so type the real one. You can change it later on the General page under Organization in your account settings.

Step 3: Open your first product

Creating the organization opens your account home page. It greets you by first name, names your organization in the line underneath, and lists one card per product: the Repricer first, then the PIM. That order is fixed and says nothing about which one you want.

Each card has the product name, a status line under the name, and one control on the right.

Clicking Start free trial starts a 30-day trial and takes you into the product without a second click. It takes a few seconds, because your organization has to be set up in that product before you go into it, and the button keeps spinning until it does. You also get an email, subject Your {product} trial has started, naming the date the trial ends.

Start the other product’s trial whenever you like. The two are separate and run on their own clocks. Turn the PIM on today and the Repricer on next month, and you get 30 days of each. Plans and billing covers what happens when one of them ends.

Joining an organization someone already created

If you were invited, only the first screen of this page applies to you. The email you received has an Accept invitation button, and it opens a page. That page shows the organization name, who invited you, and the address the invitation went to. Under those is a Your access list naming the exact roles you are about to get, and nothing happens until you click Accept invitation on that page.

Two conditions decide whether it works, and both are yours to get right:

• Sign in with the exact address the invitation was sent to. A different one is rejected, and never let through.
• Accept within 7 days. After that the invitation stops working and someone has to send you a new one.

The invitation email is written in English whatever language you use, and it is the only email that behaves that way. Everything you see after accepting follows your own language. Team, roles and permissions covers what each role gets you.

Limits

What you cannot do here

What creating your account set up

Three of these were set when you first signed in and the rest when you named the organization, and every one of them is a guess you can change.

Two of those rows are worth acting on today.

Your name is a guess unless you used Google. A code signup reads your first name off the address, from the part in front of the at sign. Your last name becomes Member, so angel@example.com becomes Angel Member. Correcting it on the Profile page fixes the greeting, the invitations you send and the emails your team gets from you.

The currency is a guess too. Changing it once you have a catalog re-converts every price in the PIM. The full cost of that is in organizations. Set the currency on the General page under Organization while your catalog is still empty, and the change costs you nothing.

When something goes wrong

If the code does not arrive

Check the spam folder first, then check the address you typed. Use a different email, under the Verify button on the code screen, takes you back to correct it. Resend code appears beside it once an attempt has failed and sends a fresh one, and you wait 60 seconds before you can send another. A code lasts 15 minutes and works once, so asking for a new one is always the fix.

Everything else about the emailed code, including every message the sign-in screen can show, is on signing in and security.

Messages you might see on the way in

Where to go next

Connect at least one integration before you load real data. Almost everything in both products depends on it.