How to Create an Account
Create your DonorDesk account step by step.
Creating an account also creates your organisation's workspace. You become its Admin. Every workspace starts on the free Starter plan.
Sign up
- Go to donordesk.online and click Sign up (or choose a plan on the Pricing page).
- Fill in Create your workspace:
- Your name, Email and Password (at least 8 characters)
- Organization name and Organization type (local NGO, national NGO, international NGO, UN implementing partner, consulting firm, government programme unit or other)
- Country and Primary sector
- Data residency – restricts where your organisation's data may be written (platform default, EU, US, Africa, Asia)
- Plan – Starter, or Team / Growth if you want to subscribe straight away (you are taken to secure checkout after signup)
- AI-assisted tagging and report drafting – on by default. You can change it later in Settings; manual reporting is never blocked.
- Click Create workspace.
You can also sign up or sign in with Google on the sign-in page.
After signup
You land on Set up your workspace, the onboarding checklist:
- Connect Google Drive – where evidence lives (guide)
- Organization profile (optional)
- Default reporting profile (optional) – default language, tone and rules for new projects
- Invite your team (optional)
- Accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (required)
Then create your first project. The Academy tour shows the whole workflow on a demo project.
Joining an existing workspace instead
If a colleague invited you, do not sign up again. Use the invitation link they sent. See How to log in.