# Creating your shop

> Sign up, confirm your email and mobile, create your shop, then check the currency, timezone and booking link.

Checked 10 November 2026 · https://docs.seascape.bz/getting-started/create-your-shop

Sign up with **Continue with Google**, or with your first name, last name (optional), email and a password, then press **Create account**. Google's sign-in screen names app.seascape.bz, which is Seascape. A quick check that you are a person runs as you sign up or sign in: usually you see nothing, and now and then it asks you to tick a box.

Next you confirm it is you, so nobody can open a shop in your name:
- Your email. We email you a 6-digit code: type it in and press **Confirm email**, or tap the button in the email. The code works for 15 minutes, and **Send a new code** sends another after a minute. If you signed up with Google, this step is already done.
- Your mobile. Enter your own mobile (Belize, the United States or Canada) and press **Text me a code**, then type the code and press **Confirm number**. No text? Press **Call me with the code** and we ring you with it. Ticking the alerts box on the same screen turns on text alerts too, with no second code.

Then choose your **Business name** and **Your free address**, like palm-reef-divers.myseascape.site, and we check it is free as you type. Pick what you run if you like, check the **Shop phone** (we fill in your mobile), and press **Create my shop**. Every new shop gets a free 14-day trial. If the sign-up then shows a fifth step, **Start your free trial**, it asks for a card before the trial starts: pick monthly or yearly, tick the box, and press **Continue to Belize Bank**. Belize Bank checks the card for BZ$0 and nothing is charged. On the bank's page, switch on "Save card and client data", or the card is checked but not kept and you are asked to try again. Your 14 days start when the card is saved. When there is no fifth step, no card is asked for. Your street address, district and opening hours can wait: they are in **Settings** whenever you are ready.

If you stop half-way, sign in again and you pick up at the step you left. Too many codes in an hour locks the mobile step for an hour; your account is saved.

One mobile can own up to 3 shops, locations included. For more, ask Seascape support.

Two things the form does not ask, and you should check:
- **Currency**. A new shop starts in Belize dollars (BZD). If you price in US dollars, change it in **Settings** → **General** → **Currency** before you add prices.
- Timezone. It starts as America/Belize. It is under **Settings** → **Locations** → **Timezone**, not in General.

If the name you want is taken, we suggest ones that are free. You can rename your address once, in your Domains settings; old links and QR codes keep working.

An account made before November 2026 sees **Confirm your mobile** at the top of the dashboard. It is optional, and you can dismiss it.

If you run more than one shop from the same login, the shop switcher at the top of the sidebar moves between them.