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Create your account

Sign up as an individual or as a company. One form creates your account and your workspace, and whoever signs up becomes the Admin.

Any role

Before you start

You need an email address you can open and a phone number. Your company's registered name is useful but not essential, because you can sign up as an individual and add it later.

If a colleague already uses PortzApp, ask them to add you instead of signing up. Signing up again creates a second, separate company.

Key takeaways

  • One form creates your account and your workspace together.

  • You can sign up as an individual or as a company. Both give you the same thing.

  • Your work types decide what PortzApp shows you, so add every one that applies.

  • You start on the Standard free plan and can look around straight away.

  • Acting on anything, like sending a request or quoting, comes after setup.

The complete PortzApp sign-up form, with name, email, phone and password at the top, and account type tiles and work types below
The whole form on one page. Your details at the top, your company underneath.

How it works

It is one form, in three parts.

  1. Step 01

    Your details

    Name, email, phone and password.

  2. Step 02

    Individual, or company or team

    Whether you name your company now or later.

  3. Step 03

    What your company does

    Pick your work types.

Step 1. Your details

Go to app.portzapp.com/sign-up, or press Get Started Free on the PortzApp website.

The top of the form is about you:

  • First name and last name
  • Email. This becomes your sign-in, so use a company address if you have one.
  • Phone number. Required. It is how a counterparty reaches you when something is urgent at the berth.
  • Password

You do not pick a username. PortzApp makes one from your email.

PortzApp sign-up form showing first name, last name, email, phone number and password fields
The top of the sign-up form. Every field here is required.

Step 2. Individual, or company or team

Next you choose between two tiles. This trips people up, so it is worth a moment.

It is not two kinds of account. You get the same workspace either way, with the same powers. The only difference is whether you type your company's name on this form, or add it later.

Which one should you pick?

Individual

No company name to type. The quickest way in

Company or team

You type your company's registered name

Individual

Your workspace is named after you for now, for example "John Doe's Workspace"

Company or team

Your workspace carries your company name from the start

Individual

You name the company when you build your profile or verify it

Company or team

The name is already in place, and you can still change it

Individual

Pick this if you are having a look first, or the registered name is not to hand

Company or team

Pick this if you are setting your company up properly today

Individual and Company or team tiles side by side, with Company or team selected and a company name field below
The two tiles. Choosing Company or team reveals the company name field.

Either tile lets you look around straight away. Neither lets you send a request or quote on one until your company is verified, and that needs your registered company name and legal document.

Step 3. What your company does

Search the list and add everything that applies. You need at least one, and there is no limit.

This decides what PortzApp shows you. Companies that buy services get Requests, Jobs, Port Calls and Vessels. Companies that sell them also get a Requests Inbox, Open RFQs and My Services. If you do both, tick both.

You can change this later. A missing menu item is almost always a missing work type.

Then press Create account.

Work types search list with several roles ticked and a Create account button below
Add as many as apply, then create the account.

You are in

You are signed in and taken to the Maritime Directory, on the free Standard plan. Your account, your workspace and your Admin role all exist now.

What you can do right away. Browse the Directory, search and filter companies, read their pages, look around the rest of the platform, and save drafts.

What comes next. Anything another company would see is held back until you finish setting up: sending a request, quoting on one, publishing your profile. That means verifying your email and then your company, which is where you give your company its registered name if you signed up as an individual.

If something goes wrong

  • That email is already in use

    You or a colleague signed up before. Log in, or use the forgotten password link

  • My workspace is named after me

    You signed up as an individual. Add your company name when you build your profile or verify your company. An Admin can also change it at Settings > Organization

  • A menu item is missing

    Your work types decide what appears. Update them on your company profile

Next step

Complete your initial setup.

Verify your email, verify your company, and build your profile. That is what turns a look around into an account you can trade with.

Finish your setup

What you'll have

An account, a workspace you administer on the free Standard plan, and the Maritime Directory open in front of you.

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