Sign up with Google or Microsoft
Start your organisation on Agoo with your work Google or Microsoft account, what that means for your account, and the steps after.
Agoo is in early access. This page describes the feature as it ships to early-access organisations; screens are illustrative.
When sign-up is open, you can start your organisation on Agoo from app.agoo.ardent.africa/sign-up in two ways: with your email, or with Continue with Google or Continue with Microsoft and your work account. Both reach the same place: our team reviews every request before your organisation opens. During early access, you can also ask us to set it up with you.
Signing up with Google or Microsoft skips confirming your email by a link, because Google or Microsoft has already confirmed it's yours. It's free, on every plan.
What signing up with Google or Microsoft means
The sign-up page shows this before you choose, and again on the steps after:
| What | In practice |
|---|---|
| Your name and email | Agoo uses the name and the email address Google or Microsoft confirms. That email becomes your Agoo email. |
| What Agoo receives | Only your name, your email and the confirmation that it's yours. Never your mail, files or calendar, unless you connect a calendar yourself later. |
| Which accounts | A work account: Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. With a personal Gmail or Outlook.com address, sign up with your email instead. |
| Your password and two steps | As your organisation's Owner, you still set a password and turn on two-step verification, so your organisation is never locked out if Google or Microsoft is down. |
| Signing in afterwards | Either way: with Google or Microsoft, or with your email and password. |
| Your team | Your teammates join by invitation, and can use Google or Microsoft too. |
| Changing it later | Account → Security → Sign-in methods shows how you sign in. Add or remove Google or Microsoft there. |
Agoo emails you as soon as your account is made, with the same points, so you'd know if it wasn't you.
Sign up
Choose Continue with Google or Continue with Microsoft
On the sign-up page, read what it means, then choose your provider and sign in with your work account there. You come back to Agoo signed in.
Tell us about your organisation
Its name, your sector and how many sites you have, and anything else we should know. It goes straight to our team.
Set your password
Every Owner keeps a password: it's your way in if Google or Microsoft is ever down. Choose one with at least 12 characters, upper and lower case letters, a number and a symbol. The eye in the field shows what you've typed.
Turn on two-step verification
Add Agoo to an authenticator app on your phone and enter its code. From then on, Agoo asks for a code each time you sign in, whichever way you sign in. See Two-step verification.
Wait for our email
When our team approves your organisation, we email you the link to open it as its Owner. Open it and choose Join. Then the setup wizard takes you through the rest: see Set up in 30 minutes.
You can stop between steps and come back: sign in with Google or Microsoft, and Agoo shows the step you're on. Home shows where your request stands.
When it doesn't make an account
- Your email already has an Agoo account. Agoo never makes a second one. You're signed in to the account you have, and Google or Microsoft is added to it (Agoo emails you that it was). To start another organisation from it, choose New organisation in the organisation menu, or Start an organisation on Home if you're not in one yet.
- Google or Microsoft didn't confirm the email is yours, or it's a personal account: sign up with your email instead.
- Sign-up isn't open: the page offers early access instead.
Joining a team that already uses Agoo?
You don't sign up: ask its Owner or an Admin to invite you, then open the link in their email. If you choose Continue with Google or Continue with Microsoft on the sign-in page before you're invited, Agoo tells you there's no account for your email yet.