The onboarding walkthrough

The very first time you sign in, TLDTrack runs a short guided setup. It walks you through adding a website and switching on the features you want, so you land on something useful rather than a blank screen.

The steps, in order

The guided setup moves through a handful of quick steps. Each is short, and the whole thing is usually done in a few minutes:

• Who are you? First it asks what kind of user you are. This choice tailors the rest of setup, in particular which features it recommends switching on.
• Your first website. You enter one domain to get started, the same address you would type when adding a website normally.
• A health snapshot. TLDTrack looks the site up and shows you what it found: registration and expiry, SSL, DNS and more. Behind the scenes it also saves those details onto the site and switches on the core monitoring, so the site is genuinely being watched from this point, not just previewed.
• Choose your modules. It offers a recommended set of features based on the kind of user you said you were, and you tick the ones you want on. You are not choosing from a blank slate, just confirming or adjusting a sensible starting point.
• A guided view of your site. Finally it drops you onto your first site's own page with a short guide pointing out what is there, so you see everything in context rather than on an empty home screen.

Why the recommendations differ

The features suggested at the modules step depend on the kind of user you picked at the start. In broad terms, someone looking after their own brand or site is nudged towards content, SEO and email features, while an agency looking after many client sites is nudged towards uptime, security scans and content checks. These are only starting suggestions: you can tick and untick freely, and nothing here is permanent.

What you will see

Each step is a single, focused screen with a clear prompt, so you are never faced with a wall of options. You type in your website, watch the snapshot appear as TLDTrack looks the site up, then tick the features you want. When you finish, you are not dropped onto an empty home screen: you land on your first site's own page with a short getting-started checklist pointing out the next couple of useful things to do, such as confirming monitoring is on, adding a key contact, and running a first scan. From that point the checks you turned on are already running in the background while you look around, and you can dismiss the checklist whenever you like.

Changing your choices later

Want to turn a feature on or off after the fact? The features you switched on are controlled by modules, which an admin can change whenever they like, and you can add more websites at any point. So a snap decision during setup never boxes you in.

Good to know

• Onboarding runs once, on your first sign-in, and only while your account has no websites yet.
• The website you add during setup is a real, monitored site, not a demo. The core checks are switched on for it as part of the health-snapshot step.
• You can skip the flow at any point and set everything up by hand instead.
• The modules you chose are reversible in Settings afterwards. The kind of user you picked only shapes the recommendations and the suggested next steps.
• The getting-started checklist on your first site's page can be dismissed once you have found your feet.

What's next

• Add more sites from add your first website.
• Invite your team and set their access with user roles.
• Fine-tune which features your team sees with modules.

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