# Quick Start

New to Suger? This is the shortest path from signing up to seeing your first offer in the console. The
hands-on work adds up to roughly **30 minutes**, but two things are outside your control: Suger has to
approve your organization before anything else can start, and publishing a *new* marketplace listing adds
weeks of cloud-provider review. Follow the checklist top to bottom; each step links to the full guide.

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## Hands-on time vs. waiting

**Hands-on** is work you do in the console. **Waiting** is out of your hands — start the gated steps early
and run the rest in parallel.

| # | Step | Who does it | Hands-on | Then you wait |
|---|------|-------------|----------|---------------|
| 1–2 | Create your account and organization, then get it approved | You, then Suger Support | ~10 min | Usually within 1 business day, up to 2 |
| 3 | Connect your first cloud marketplace | You, with a cloud admin | ~20 min | — |
| 4 | Add your first product | You | ~1–2 hrs to build a new listing; minutes to import an existing one | **New listing:** ~2 weeks (AWS, Azure) or ~3 weeks (GCP) of provider review. **Importing an existing listing:** ~5 days to update fulfillment URLs |
| 5 | Create your first offer | You | Minutes | Publishing takes up to 15 minutes; GCP SaaS offers also need a manual approval unless you have enabled automatic offer approval |
| 6 | Track it in the console | You | — | — |

:::info
Step 4 is the only one where "30 minutes" of hands-on work stops applying, and only if you are publishing a
brand new listing. If you are already live on a marketplace and importing that listing, the whole path
really is about half an hour of work plus the waits. Step 5 always adds a short publishing wait — and a
manual approval on GCP SaaS offers — but no extra hands-on time. For full per-cloud numbers see
[Integration Timeline](/get-started/integration-timeline/).
:::

## The path from signup to your first offer

```d2
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grid-gap: 70
classes: { step: { width: 225; style.border-radius: 8 } }
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  style.border-radius: 14
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  b: "2 · Get your organization\napproved" { class: step }
  a -> b
}
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  style.border-radius: 14
  c: "3 · Connect your first\ncloud marketplace" { class: step }
  d: "4 · Add your first\nproduct" { class: step }
  e: "5 · Create your first\noffer" { class: step }
  c -> d -> e
}
golive: "Go live" {
  style.border-radius: 14
  f: "6 · Track it in\nthe console" { class: step }
}
setup -> sell -> golive
```

### 1. Create your account and organization

Sign up, turn on multi-factor authentication, and create your organization. Everyone on your team works
inside one organization.
→ [Account](/get-started/account/)

### 2. Get your organization approved

:::warning
A brand-new organization stays **inactive** until Suger approves it. Email
[support@suger.io](mailto:support@suger.io) — or post in your shared Slack channel if you have one — to
request activation. You won't be able to connect a marketplace or create offers until this is done.
Approval usually lands **within 1 business day**, and can take up to 2. Request it before you do anything
else, and follow up if you haven't heard back by then.
:::

### 3. Connect your first cloud marketplace

Link the cloud marketplace you sell through (AWS, Azure, GCP, and more). This is the real first setup task,
and it unlocks products, offers, and billing.
→ [Connect your first cloud marketplace](/get-started/connect-your-marketplace/)

### 4. Add your first product

A **product** is your marketplace listing. Importing a listing you have already published takes minutes.
Building and submitting a **new** listing takes about 1–2 hours of your time, and then the cloud provider
reviews it — roughly 2 weeks on AWS and Azure, 3 weeks on GCP. Don't tie a deal date to that review.
→ [Products](/get-started/products/) · [Integration Timeline](/get-started/integration-timeline/)

### 5. Create your first offer

An **offer** is how a buyer purchases your product — a self-serve public offer or a negotiated **private
offer**. Create a private offer to make your first deal.
→ [Private Offers](/get-started/private-offers/) · [Direct Sales with Suger](/get-started/direct-sales/)

### 6. Track it in the console

Watch the deal, revenue, and time-sensitive tasks from the Home dashboard, and learn where everything lives.
→ [Home Dashboard](/get-started/home-dashboard/) · [Navigate the Suger Console](/get-started/navigate-console/)

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## New to the terms?

If words like **offer**, **entitlement**, **private offer**, or **metering** are new, skim the
[Key Terms glossary](/get-started/glossary/) first — it defines the vocabulary the rest of the docs use.

## Not sure Suger is a fit yet?

Start with the concepts: [What Is Suger](/get-started/what-is-suger/) and
[What Is a Cloud Marketplace](/get-started/what-is-cloud-marketplace/).