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:
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:
Create or sign in to your Nord Forge account.
Buy, claim or receive access to a product.
Open My Products and confirm the product is active.
Copy your global Forge Key.
Open Servers in the customer area.
Register your FiveM 
sv_licenseKey / Keymaster.
Add the required license convars to 
server.cfg.
Download the latest authorized release.
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.