Start here: Get set up in Amplitude and start generating insights today

This article will help you:

• Navigate the Start Here category of the Amplitude Help Center and get up and running quickly

If you’re reading this, you’re probably brand-new to Amplitude. Welcome!

Our Help Center has all kinds of valuable information for you as your usage of Amplitude grows. But for now, at the start of your Amplitude journey, this section will help you get Amplitude set up quickly, so you can be up and running as quickly as possible.

Start by learning about organizations and projects in Amplitude (your analyses live in projects, and all your projects live in your organization): 

• Create your organization
• Instrumentation pre-work
• Create a project in Amplitude

Next, find out how to get your product data into Amplitude (you can’t do any analyses without data!), the specific events and properties you should consider tracking, and answers to some common implementation questions:

• Get data into Amplitude
• What events will you need?
• How will you identify your users?
• Questions your engineers may ask you

• Cross-platform instrumentation vs. separate platform instrumentation

• Track your progress as you instrument Amplitude

From there, learn how to create and share charts:

• The Amplitude Home page
• Create a chart
• Spaces
• Start from a template

Finally, we’ve put together some guidance on how you can generate some quick wins right now, so your company’s investment in Amplitude can begin paying off today:

• Understand your users’ activity
• Analyze your acquisition channels
• Analyze feature adoption 
• Understand conversion rate of an important flow

NOTE: If you or your engineers have questions about instrumentation, see this article in the Amplitude Developer Center.

Still need to create your Amplitude account? Just follow these steps to get started.

1. Create an Amplitude Account. If you haven't already, just click here to sign up for an Amplitude account. You will be directed to explore the demo environment, where we've set up dashboards and charts that allow you to see some of what Amplitude can do for you. 
2. Verify your email. You will receive an email from Amplitude, asking you to verify your email address. Click the link it contains to set a password and finish creating your account. Once completed, you will be redirected back to the demo environment, where you can click Set up on the Free Plan at the top of the page to set up your own Amplitude implementation.