01 — Getting Started

• What is Nord Forge?
• Account Registration
• Customer Quick Start

What is Nord Forge?

Nord Forge

Nord Forge is Nord Lab's platform for resource distribution, licensing, developer workspaces, releases, customer access, support, documentation and integrations.

The platform is built around two main experiences:

• Customer Portal — buy or receive products, manage your global Forge Key, register FiveM servers and download authorized releases.
• Developer Workspaces — create products, publish releases, manage licenses, collaborate with a team, configure Tebex, Discord, documentation and public pages.

Main capabilities

Nord Forge includes:

• Global Forge Keys for customers
• Manual FiveM server registration
• Product licenses linked to the customer's Forge Key
• Marketplace and public stores
• Free, manual and Tebex purchase flows
• Product and release management
• Protected customer builds for script products
• Clean developer downloads
• Workspace roles and permissions
• Documentation management
• Website Builder
• Discord Forge Bot integration
• Support and purchase conversations
• Audit logs, API keys and infrastructure records
• Platform administration and backups

Access is authorization-based. Creating a Nord Forge account does not automatically grant access to every product.

Account Registration

Account Registration

New users register with an email address, username and password.

The password must contain at least 8 characters.

Forge Key

When an account is created, Nord Forge automatically generates a unique global Forge Key for that user.

Example:

FG-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

This Forge Key is the customer's global Nord Forge license identity.

Products are assigned to this key through the licensing system.

First platform account

On a fresh Nord Forge installation, the first registered user automatically receives the global role:

network_admin

All later accounts are created as normal users.

Customer-first onboarding

A new account starts as a customer by default.

A developer workspace is only created when the user explicitly activates the developer flow or creates a workspace.

Customer Quick Start

Customer Quick Start

For a protected FiveM resource, use this workflow:

1. Create or sign in to your Nord Forge account.
2. Buy, claim or receive access to a product.
3. Open My Products and confirm the product is active.
4. Copy your global Forge Key.
5. Open Servers in the customer area.
6. Register your FiveM sv_licenseKey / Keymaster.
7. Add the required license convars to server.cfg.
8. Download the latest authorized release.
9. Install and start the resource.

Recommended server.cfg configuration:

setr nord_license "FG-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"
setr nord_keymaster "cfxk_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
sv_licenseKey "cfxk_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

Server registration is mandatory in the production configuration. A valid Forge Key alone is not enough to run protected resources.