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title: Getting started
description: Sign up, set up your organization, create your first show, and go live.
order: 1
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OnAirFlow runs entirely in the browser at app.onairflow.com. You sign up, build a rundown for today's show, invite your team, and press start when you go on air. Everything your team does — moving stories, editing notes, starting the clock — syncs to everyone else in real time over a live connection, so the whole crew is always looking at the same rundown.

## Sign up

Go to app.onairflow.com/signup. Every new account starts with a 7-day free trial, and no credit card is required. Onboarding has four steps:

1. **Account** — enter your name, email, and password, plus your organization's name. OnAirFlow suggests a workspace URL from the name; you can edit it. Accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then continue.
2. **Setup** — pick your timezone, the days of the week your show runs, and a show title format (for example, `Live Show - {date}`). OnAirFlow uses these to create a fresh show automatically on your show days. You can change all of this later in Settings, or skip this step.
3. **Team** — invite up to 20 teammates by name and email, each with a role: **Host**, **Producer**, or **Admin**. You can skip this and invite people later.
4. **Plan** — pick Creator ($19, 1 seat), Studio ($59, up to 5 seats), or Newsroom ($149), or click **Continue with free trial** to decide later.

## Create your first show

After onboarding you land on the rundown board, which loads today's show. To create a show for another date, open the show options menu (the three-dot button in the board header) and click **New Show**. Pick a date and title, and optionally copy stories from a recent show — all of them, only selected columns, or none. See [The rundown board](/docs/guide/rundown-board) for a full tour.

## Add stories to columns

Click the **Story** button in the board header to open the story editor. Give the story a title, pick a type and a column, set a planned duration, assign a host, and add notes. Click save and the card appears on the board. Drag cards between columns by their grip handle as stories move through your workflow — every move is visible to your whole team instantly.

## Invite your team

Go to **Settings**, then under **Team & Access** open **User Management** to invite and manage team members (admin only). Each person gets a role — host, producer, or admin — and you can customize exactly what each role is allowed to do under **Permissions**.

## Go live

When it's showtime, use the master clock in the board header:

- Click **Start** to begin. The status badge switches from READY to LIVE and the show timer starts counting.
- Click **Set Live** on a story card to put that story on air. It gets a red LIVE badge, and the [host view](/docs/guide/host-view-teleprompter) and teleprompter follow it automatically.
- Use **Add to Queue** on cards to line up what comes next, then advance with the **Next Story** button.
- **Pause** and **Resume** control the clock mid-show; **End** wraps the show. Both pause and end have an undo button if you hit them by accident.

During the show, producers typically run things from the [producer view](/docs/guide/producer-view), hosts read from the [host view and teleprompter](/docs/guide/host-view-teleprompter), and anyone who needs to get a message on someone's screen fast uses [flash messages](/docs/guide/flash-messages).