# Quickstart

Get from sign-up to your first cost chart in under ten minutes.

## Step 1: Create your account

1. Go to [**finora.services**](https://finora.services) and click **Sign up**.
2. Use your work email + a password, or sign in with Microsoft or Google.
3. Verify your email if you used the password option.

You'll land on the **Overview** page with a sample-data banner at the top — Finora shows you realistic example data so you can explore every screen before connecting a real provider.

## Step 2: Connect your first provider

1. Click **Settings** in the left sidebar.
2. Open the **API Keys** tab.
3. Pick a provider from the dropdown.
4. Follow the matching guide:
   * [OpenAI](/billing-integrations/ai-providers/connect-to-openai.md)
   * [Anthropic](/billing-integrations/ai-providers/connect-to-anthropic.md)
   * [AWS Bedrock](/billing-integrations/ai-providers/connect-to-aws-bedrock.md)
   * [Azure AI Foundry](/billing-integrations/ai-providers/connect-to-azure.md)
   * [Google Cloud](/billing-integrations/ai-providers/connect-to-gcp.md)
   * [Cursor](/billing-integrations/ai-providers/connect-to-cursor.md)

Your provider keys are kept securely encrypted. They're never shown in the browser after you save them, and Finora can never use them to make API calls — only to read your billing data.

## Step 3: Wait for your first refresh

After you save credentials, Finora pulls your historical data on the next scheduled refresh:

| Your plan      | First data appears | Then refreshes   |
| -------------- | ------------------ | ---------------- |
| Trial / Growth | within 24 hours    | every 24 hours   |
| Scale          | within 1 hour      | every hour       |
| Enterprise     | within 15 minutes  | every 15 minutes |

The sample-data banner disappears once your real data arrives.

## Step 4: Tag your spend

Tags let you group costs by team, project, customer, environment, or anything else.

1. Open **Tags** in the sidebar.
2. Browse the 31 ready-made tags across 6 categories.
3. From the Overview page, click any cost row and add tags directly. Or, on the Enterprise plan, set up rules that tag costs automatically.

## Step 5: Set up your first alert

1. Open **Alerts** in the sidebar.
2. Click **+ New budget rule**.
3. Pick a provider, a threshold (e.g. **$1,000 / month**), and where to send notifications.
4. Make sure your email or Slack channel is configured under [Notifications](/notifications/email-and-slack.md).

You'll get an alert when you hit **80%** of the threshold and again at **100%**.

## Step 6: Build your first dashboard

> Custom dashboards require the **Scale** plan or higher.

1. Open **Dashboards** in the sidebar.
2. Click **+ New dashboard**.
3. Drag in widgets — spend trends, top providers, top tags, KPI tiles, anomalies, and more.
4. Save. The layout sticks across your devices.

## What's next?

* [Forecast next month's spend](/core-features/forecast.md)
* [Track your flat-rate AI subscriptions](/core-features/ai-subscriptions.md)
* [Export to your BI tool](/exports/focus-csv.md)
* [Define a custom KPI](/core-features/kpis.md)


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