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Account & Tenant Setup

Your pricing engine is a tenant: its own data, users, API keys and settings, isolated from every other tenant. This page takes you from no account to an API key for your tenant.

1. Create an account​

Go to account.quantaprice.com and enter your email address. You get a sign-in link by email; there is no password. The first time you sign in, you accept the terms of service.

2. Request a pricing engine​

In the account portal, choose Request Tenant and fill in:

  • Name: 3–32 lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, for example acme. It becomes your addresses, and it cannot be changed later:
    • https://acme.quantaprice.com: the console, where you and your team work with prices.
    • https://acme.quantaprice.com/api: the pricing API.
  • Plan: how much data the engine holds and how many requests it serves. The smallest plan is enough to integrate and test against, and you can move to a larger one later without downtime. See Plan and Limits.
  • Region: where your data lives. Pick the one closest to the systems that call the API; it cannot be changed later.

We review the request and email you when it is approved. The engine is then set up automatically; you can follow each step on the tenant's page in the account portal. A second email with the console link arrives when the engine is up.

You are the tenant's owner: you can invite your team and decide how they sign in. See Users and Sign-in.

3. Create an API key​

Your systems call the API with an API key.

  1. Open the console at https://YOUR_TENANT.quantaprice.com.
  2. Go to Settings → API Keys and choose Create API key.
  3. Name the key after what will use it, for example "ERP sync".
  4. Copy the secret: it is shown only once.

The key's Client ID and secret are exchanged for a short-lived access token on every integration's first call; see Authentication. Keep the secret out of source control.

What a new tenant contains​

A new tenant has no articles, pricelists or prices yet. It already has:

  • EUR and every currency the European Central Bank publishes a daily exchange rate for, about 30, with those rates; see Currencies;
  • 31 European tax areas (the EU countries, Great Britain, Norway, Switzerland and Iceland), with VAT classes and each country's VAT rates; see VAT.

Next step​

Your First Prices: load a few prices and query them.