Welcome to Tent! This guide will help you get your community up and running in minutes.

It doesn't cover everything you can do, so we recommend you have a look our other guides and docs once you've got started.

You'll need to register for a Tent organisation using our registration link. This gives you a 14 day free trial and no payment information is required.

With Tent you can customise everything from the name of the platform to the logo and colour scheme. Your customisation will apply across the platform and even in the emails users are sent, allowing you to provide a completely branded experience for your users.

To starting making Tent your own, click on Platform setup on the main menu and go to the Appearance tab.

You can start by changing what various things are called on the platform.

Next set your logo and brand colour.

Groups are how you organise your Tent platform and users. You can create as many groups as you need and each user can be a member of multiple groups. You can use groups to:

Add your first group by going to Manage users > Groups and pressing Create new group.

We generally recommend having one group that all users are part of by default (e.g. an 'All Volunteers' group), so this could be a good place to start. You can then additional more targeted groups.

Next, add a user with the Invite new user button under Manage users > Users.

Make this user a Member (not an Administrator) so that you can see what the platform looks like from their perspective. Use a different email address that you have access to or ask a colleague to help.

Once you press Invite they will receive an email - branded, of course - containing a link where they will set a name and password for the platform before gaining immediate access.

What you do next depends on how you want your platform to develop.

You could: