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Setting up takes three things: creating an account, confirming your email address, and answering a few questions about your organization. Ten minutes, and you don’t need a card unless you choose a paid plan.
Minto currently supports placement agents — agencies that place interns at host firms. Sending organizations, host firms and interns appear as options when you sign up, but are marked “Coming soon” and can’t complete setup yet.

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Create the account

1

Open the sign-up page

Select Sign up from the sign-in page.
2

Enter your details

Enter your work Email and choose a Password, then confirm it.The password needs at least 8 characters, including an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter and a digit. The form itself will let a shorter one through and the server then rejects it, so use eight or more from the start.
3

Agree to the terms

Select I agree with the Terms of Service. You can’t continue without it.
4

Submit

Select Create account. Minto emails you a confirmation link.
The Minto sign-up page with email, password and confirm password fields, a Terms of Service checkbox, and a Create account button.

The sign-up form. The password rules aren't shown, so use eight or more characters from the start.

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Confirm your email

Open the link in the email. You can’t sign in until you do — an unconfirmed account is rejected at the sign-in page rather than being let in with a warning. If it hasn’t arrived, check your spam folder.

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Set up your organization

The first time you sign in, Minto walks you through a short wizard. Nothing here is permanent — everything can be changed later under Settings.
1

What brings you to Minto?

Choose Placement agent.The other three options are marked Coming soon. Picking one tells you Minto isn’t ready for that yet rather than letting you continue.
2

About you

Your First name, Last name, and optionally a Phone number.
3

Your business

Your Business name, Country, and Address. Pick the country first — the address search needs it before it can offer suggestions.
4

Pick a plan

Choose the free plan with Get started, or a paid one with Start a trial — the button names the trial length the plan offers.A paid plan sends you to Stripe to enter card details. See below for what happens if you change your mind there.
5

Invite your team

Add colleagues by email address, or skip and do it later from Settings > Employees.
You land on your dashboard, with an empty organization ready to use.

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What you get, and what happens if you abandon payment

Your organization is created with a free subscription before you ever reach Stripe. That’s deliberate: if you pick a paid plan and then close the Stripe page, you land on your dashboard with a working free account rather than a half-created organization. Upgrade later from Settings > Billing. The free plan covers the whole workflow — internships, interns, host firms, placements and calls. Paid plans add share links, higher intern limits, API access and custom branding. See Roles and permissions for which capabilities depend on the plan.

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If a colleague invited you

You don’t create an organization — you join theirs. Sign up with the address the invitation was sent to. When you first sign in, Minto notices the pending invitation and offers it to you before the setup wizard, so accept it there. You’ll land in your colleague’s organization with whatever roles they gave you. Signing up with a different address means Minto can’t match the invitation, and you’ll be walked through creating a separate organization instead. If that happens, ask them to re-send the invitation to the address you actually used.

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Troubleshooting

You can’t sign in after signing up. The email isn’t confirmed yet. Open the link in the confirmation email first. The password is rejected even though the form accepted it. It needs at least 8 characters with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter and a digit. You picked the wrong type of organization. Only placement agent completes setup today, so if you chose another you’ll have been stopped rather than set up wrongly. Go back and choose Placement agent. You were invited but ended up with your own empty organization. You signed up with a different address than the invitation went to. Ask your colleague to cancel the old invitation and send a new one to the address you used.