Creating your account

A Haubot account is the personal identity behind everything you do on the platform — listings, bids, messages, inquiries, reviews, notifications. The account itself is free, takes a minute or two to create and doesn't require a business profile until you actually want to transact.

Sign up

Go to /auth/register and fill in:

• Work email. This is your login and the destination for verification + transactional emails. Use the address you actually read — anything time-sensitive lands here.
• Password. At least 8 characters. The platform also supports passkeys (WebAuthn) for password-less sign-in; you can add one straight after first login.
• First and last name. Visible on your reviews and on your business profile if you create one.

After submitting you'll receive a verification email. Click the link to confirm the address. Until you do, you can browse the marketplace but you can't message sellers, post inquiries or place bids.

Add a passkey (recommended)

After your first login, open Dashboard → Settings → Security and register a passkey. Passkeys are stored by your device (Touch ID, Face ID, Windows Hello, a hardware key, or a password manager that supports them) and replace the password entirely on supported browsers. You can keep both methods active — a passkey for daily use, password as fallback. See Sign-in and sessions for the full security picture.

Verify your email

The link in the verification email is single-use and expires after a few hours. If you didn't get it:

• Check the spam folder.
• Make sure the address you typed at sign-up was correct.
• From the sign-in page, request a new verification email.

If the email is wrong, the easiest fix is to sign up again with the correct address and let the original account expire — accounts that never verify are cleaned up automatically.

What's enabled at this stage

With a verified account but no business profile, you can:

• Browse the marketplace, search, save listings and saved searches.
• View public listings and download public documents.
• Read articles in this Knowledge Base.
• Customise notification channels (Discord, Telegram, email) in Notifications.

To actually buy, sell, bid, post an inquiry or respond to one, you'll need a business profile — that's the next step.

Next: business profile

Head to Setting up your business profile to set up the legal entity that owns your activity on Haubot.