# Set up your company

> Create your company in the Proxus portal, have it verified, invite your colleagues and share licences with them.

Source: https://proxus.io/docs/portal/set-up-company

At the end of this guide, your company is in the Proxus portal, your colleagues are in it, and it can receive
commercial licences.

## Before you start

- An account in the [Proxus portal](https://portal.proxus.io) with a confirmed email address.
- If the Proxus team has already added your company, you get an invitation email instead. Open its link, sign in
  with the invited address and accept. You can skip to [Invite your colleagues](#invite-your-colleagues).

## Create the company

1. In the portal, select **Create a company** at the bottom of the menu, or in the workspace menu at the top left.
2. Fill in **Company name** and **Country**. **Website** and **Tax number** help the Proxus team verify you quickly.
3. Select **Create company**. You become its **Owner**.

The Proxus team verifies the company, usually within one working day, and you get an email. Until then you can
invite colleagues; commercial licences come after verification.

## Invite your colleagues

*Screenshot: The Team page with the invitation form, the company's people and their roles, and what each role can do*

1. Choose your company in the workspace menu at the top left and select **Team**.
2. Enter a colleague's email, choose a role and select **Send invitation**. The invitation is valid for 14 days.

| Role | What it can do |
| --- | --- |
| **Owner** | Everything, including changing roles and handing over the company. |
| **Admin** | Invites people, binds licences to installations and moves them. |
| **Member** | Sees the licences and their keys and downloads them. |

## Share a trial with the company

Trials are personal at first. To let your team see a trial and its key, open the trial's page in your personal
workspace and select **Move to company**. Everyone in the company then sees it.

## Get a commercial licence

*Screenshot: The company's Licences page with a commercial licence, a shared trial and the Ask for a licence or a quote button*

Choose your company and select **Licences**, then **Ask for a licence or a quote**. Say how many gateways and which
capacity you need. An engineer answers by email, usually within one working day. When the Proxus team defines the
licence, it appears under **Licences** and the company's owners and admins get an email. Bind it to your
installation as in [Manage company licences in the portal](https://proxus.io/docs/administer/license#manage-company-licences-in-the-proxus-portal).

## What's next

- [Open a support request](https://proxus.io/docs/portal/support-requests)
- [Get a trial licence](https://proxus.io/docs/portal/get-a-trial)