# Create your academy

> Sign up at paatya.net and confirm your email.

Source: https://paatya.net/docs/get-started/create-your-academy

Creating an academy takes a couple of minutes. You fill in one form, confirm your email with a code, and your academy is live straight away. There is no approval step and nothing to install.

## Before you start

- An email address you can open right now. You will need to read a code from it.
- Your mobile number.
- A name for your academy, such as "Bright Minds Academy".

> **Note:** One email address can own one academy. If you already have an academy, sign in to it instead.

## Fill in the form

1. Go to [paatya.net/signup](https://paatya.net/signup), or click **Start Your Academy** on the Paatya website.
2. In **Academy name**, type your academy's name.
3. Check **Your academy's address**. Paatya fills it in from the name, for example `bright-minds.paatya.net`. You can change it. Use 3 to 63 lower-case letters, digits and dashes.
   - If you see "`bright-minds` is available", you're fine.
   - If the address is taken, click one of the suggestions next to **Try:**, or type a different one.
4. Enter **Your name**, **Work email** and **Mobile**, and choose your **Country**.
5. Choose a **Password**. It needs 8 or more characters, an uppercase letter, a number and a special character. Each rule ticks green as you meet it. It also can't be built on a very common password or word, such as `Welcome@2026` or your academy's name: Paatya says "That password is too easy to guess". A few unrelated words, or a phrase only you would think of, works well.
6. Tick **I agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy**.
7. Complete the security check above the button, if one is shown. Usually it ticks itself; sometimes it asks you to click a box.
8. Click **Create my academy**.

![The sign-up form, with the academy address showing as available](https://paatya.net/docs/img/get-started-create-your-academy-1.png)

> **Tip:** Choose the address carefully. It appears in every link you send your students, and you cannot change it yourself later.

## Confirm your email

1. Open your email. Look for a message from Paatya with a 6-digit code. If that email address already has an academy, you get an email saying so, with a link to sign in to it, instead of a code.
2. Type the code into the **Code** box.
3. Click **Verify and create academy**.

![The Check your email screen, where you enter the 6-digit code](https://paatya.net/docs/img/get-started-create-your-academy-2.png)

The code works for 10 minutes. If it doesn't arrive, wait for the timer, then click **Resend code**. To fix a typo in your details, click **Change details**.

## What you'll see

"Your academy is ready", and then Paatya takes you to your academy, already signed in. First, Paatya asks you to set up [two-step sign-in](https://paatya.net/docs/account/two-step-sign-in), which every admin needs: click **Set it up**, type the 6-digit code Paatya emails you, and save your backup codes. The [setup wizard](https://paatya.net/docs/get-started/setup-wizard) then opens so you can describe your academy and add your logo.

> **Note:** If the Paatya team created your academy for you, you get an email instead, with a link to set your password. Open it, choose a password, accept the Terms and click **Activate Account**. The link works for 7 days. If it has expired, go to your academy's sign-in page and click **Forgot password?** for a new one.

You also get a welcome email with your academy's address. Keep it: that address, followed by `/login`, is where you sign in from now on.

## If something goes wrong

- **"That address is already taken".** Somebody else has it. Pick a suggestion, or add a word such as your city.
- **"That looks like a temporary email address".** Use an address you will still read in a month, such as your work or Gmail address.
- **You got "You already have an academy" instead of a code.** That email address already owns an academy. Use the link in the email to [sign in](https://paatya.net/docs/account/sign-in) to it. The sign-up page doesn't say this on screen, so it never tells anyone else who has an academy.
- **"An academy is already registered with this mobile number" after you entered the code.** Each mobile number can belong to one academy. If it's yours, sign in to that academy. If not, click **Change details** and use a different number.
- **"Please confirm you are not a robot".** The security check wasn't completed, or it expired. Tick it again, then click **Create my academy**.
- **"That password is too easy to guess".** It's built on a very common password or word. Choose something less predictable.
- **The code didn't arrive.** Check your spam folder. Wait for the timer, then click **Resend code**.
- **"The code has expired".** Click **Resend code** and use the new code.
- **"Too many wrong codes".** Click **Start again** and fill in the form once more.
- **"Signups are paused".** New sign-ups are switched off for now. Use the **Request a demo** form on the Paatya website and we will set you up.

## Next step

[Complete the setup wizard](https://paatya.net/docs/get-started/setup-wizard)