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Creating an Account

Sign up​

Sign up with an email address and password. There's only one signup form — Ohmventory doesn't ask upfront whether you're an individual or a company, because both cases are handled by the same Organization model under the hood.

:::info Screenshot placeholder The signup form: email, password, and a submit button. :::

Choosing how you'll use it​

Right after signing up, you'll be asked to choose:

  • "Just for me" — activates your personal, single-member Organization. This is the right choice if you're tracking your own home, garage, or personal workshop.
  • "Set up an organization for your team" — prompts for an organization name and creates a new, shared Organization with you as its owner. Choose this if you're setting up shared inventory for a team, club, or business from the start. You (or another owner/admin) can invite teammates in afterward — see Collaboration.

Either path leads to the same app; the only difference is whether you're the sole member of your Organization or planning to add others.

:::info Screenshot placeholder The onboarding choice screen: "Just for me" vs. "Set up an organization for your team" cards. :::

Starting your catalog​

Next, you'll see a grid of starter category tiles — Electronics, Hardware, Tools, General, and more — pulled from Ohmventory's built-in Item Type library. A few broad, commonly-useful categories come preselected; you can add or remove any of them, or select none at all. Whatever you pick gets imported into your Organization's catalog immediately, giving you a working set of Item Types and Fields to start adding items against right away, instead of having to define every type by hand before you can create your first Item.

This step is optional — skipping it just means you'll add Item Types manually later (or import from the library at any time from Settings), starting from the single built-in "Uncategorized" type.

:::info Screenshot placeholder The starter-category picker: a grid of tiles (Electronics, Hardware, Tools, General, ...) each with an icon, name, and short description, some preselected. :::

You're in​

After that, you land in the app — at your Spaces list, which starts empty. Continue to Your First Space to set up somewhere to actually put things.

Logging back in​

Existing users log in with the same email/password on the login page. A "forgot password" flow is available if needed. If you were invited to join an existing team Organization, see Collaboration for how accepting an invite or a join link works.