# Accounts & signing in

### Creating an account (`/signup`)

The signup page (**"Create your account"** / "Get started with Albatross") asks for:

- **Name**
- **Email**
- **Password**
- **Confirm password**

Click **"Create account"**. If the two passwords don't match, the user sees "Passwords do
not match." Depending on configuration, the user may need to **verify their email** — they'll
see a prompt to check their inbox and click the verification link before continuing.

Below the form, if the firm has them configured, the user may also see:

- **"Continue with Google"**
- **"Continue with Microsoft"**
- **"SSO"** (single sign-on — only enabled when a firm has SSO set up for the user's email domain)

After the account exists, users who don't yet belong to a firm go through **workspace setup**
(see [Section 3](https://albatross.legal/docs/workspaces-invitations-joining-a-firm)).

### Signing in (`/login`)

The login page asks for **Email** and **Password**; the button reads **"Sign in"**. The same
Google / Microsoft / SSO options appear if configured.

After signing in:

- If the user has an active firm, they land in the app.
- If they don't belong to any firm yet, they're taken to workspace setup.
- If they arrived from an invitation link, they're taken back to that invitation to accept it.

### Signing out

The sign-out link appears in workspace-setup screens ("Signed in as *email* · Sign out") and
in the account area of the app.

### Deleting an account

Personal **Settings → Profile** has a **"Delete account"** action in a danger zone. This
permanently removes the account and its associated data.