# 01 — Getting Started

What Nord Forge is, how accounts work, and the basic customer workflow.

# 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:

```text
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:

```text
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:

```cfg
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.