Your Vercel account
This is where your site is hosted and where the hosting bill lands. Under your account, the site keeps running even if you stop working with us — that difference is the difference between hosting and a favour.
READ THIS FIRST · THE MISTAKES THAT COST THE MOST
Where this goes wrong
- If you end up with two Vercel accounts — one made with an email, one made with GitHub — the projects and the invoices split in two, and six months later nobody can tell which one is real. Pick one and stay in it.
- Do not connect a repository from the import screen. It makes a copy of your code that Vercel then owns; we deploy from your repository instead.
- If it asks you to accept a plan, stop. The plan is a purchase decision, and we will have told you before it came up.
Before you start
If one of these is missing, get it sorted first. It is faster than stalling halfway through.
- The same email address you used for GitHub. Using one address for all of it is what makes handover painless.
- Your GitHub username and password, because you will authorise Vercel to see your repositories.
Do it in this order
Go to vercel.com/signup and choose the option to continue with GitHub, then authorise Vercel. That authorisation is how Vercel fetches the code and deploys it — it is not us being given access to anything.
Confirm whatever Vercel asks for next. If you signed up with a plain email address instead of GitHub, you will be asked to re-confirm on every single login, which is why the GitHub route is the better one.
When Vercel offers to set up your first project, skip it. It shows you your GitHub repositories and a shelf of templates. Neither is the right thing here, and picking one starts a project you do not want.
Click your avatar in the top right, then Settings, then General, and check the email on the account is the same one you used for GitHub.
Send us the username Vercel gave you. The project itself is created from our side, connected to your repository.