vantage-docs/docs/hq/accounts-and-signup.md

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Vantage HQ is where you manage the account, your team, your instances, their licences and billing.

An account is a team, not a person

One account holds many people and many instances. Everyone in it has an account role:

Role	Can
owner	Everything, including billing
admin	Invite people, create instances, grant instance access
member	Read what the account holds

Reading is open to any signed-in member. Every mutation except changing your own password requires owner or admin. Billing is owner-only.

These are the same three words your instances use, but they are separate things. Your account role controls what you can do in the portal. Your role inside an instance controls what you can do there.

Signing up

Signup is account-first. Creating an account creates the account and you; it does not create a Vantage instance. Nothing exists in any control plane until you later create or link one.

1. Go to the signup form.
2. Enter your name, email and a password.
3. Check your email and click the verification link.

Verification links are valid for 24 hours.

Signing in

Sign in at Vantage HQ with the email and password from the signup form.

HQ and your Vantage instances have separate sessions: signing in to HQ does not sign you in to an instance, and signing in to an instance does not sign you in to HQ.

What comes next

You want	Go to
A Vantage instance we run	Cloud instances
To licence an install you run	Self-hosted instances
To add colleagues	People and roles
To understand tiers and limits	Licensing and entitlements

The portal layout

Three destinations: Overview, People, Billing.

• Overview lists your instances.
• People shows all the account members and their roles.
• Billing shows your current subscriptions and lets you manage them.