# Creating your account

Mavenseed was built with Stripe in mind. Stripe is the merchant processor used to accept and process card payments from your customers. [Create a Stripe account here](http://stripe.com). When you first create your Mavenseed account, you'll be asked to connect your Stripe account.

If Stripe is new to you then we recommend [exploring our Stripe Documentation](https://docs.mavenseed.com/getting-started-with-mavenseed/initial-setup/connect-to-stripe).

> Mavenseed currently offers a PayPal Braintree integration, though intends to sunset this in favor of a native PayPal integration in the future. If this is of interest to you [please let us know.](mailto:support@cgcookie.com)

Our intentions with Mavenseed, are not to make money unless you do, with no imposed timeline for you to begin selling. Creating a Mavenseed account is free, but does require an invite. [Request one here.](https://form.typeform.com/to/Zk33I5gQ?typeform-source=mavenseed.com)

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Visit <https://mavenseed.com/register-free> and enter your information, along with your invite code. Enter your preferred URL for your site, but don't fret you can change this later, even point a custom domain to your MS site.&#x20;

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<div><figure><img src="https://2508417753-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LZ_LzUrkOiRAdHS8Ti2%2Fuploads%2FKFYMGRY0HzEIuJj1dqW5%2F02.jpg?alt=media&#x26;token=172e7afe-cbae-4eda-beca-09ec4a3dc0e5" alt=""><figcaption><p>Connect Stripe, or do this later</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="https://2508417753-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-LZ_LzUrkOiRAdHS8Ti2%2Fuploads%2FYi9iM2Fg8yXwtDLQGxIq%2F03.jpg?alt=media&#x26;token=e7ca6ee1-a008-4d1b-b4f1-8719e16025d4" alt=""><figcaption><p>Once Stripe is connected, let's ceate a product.</p></figcaption></figure></div>

### Next steps

* [Create a download, ](https://docs.mavenseed.com/creating-content/downloads)
* [Creating a streaming course](https://docs.mavenseed.com/creating-content/courses)
* [Build an Instagram link page, ](https://mavenseed.com/articles/creating-your-instagram-link-page-for-free-with-mavenseed)