2. Sign up for a Verae / zappier account

You need an API key before you can connect Zapier.

1. Open the customer portal (/portal on the zappier host your operator gave you).
2. Choose Create an account.
3. Enter name, email, and a password of at least 8 characters.
4. You start on the Free plan and receive an API key immediately.
5. Copy the key. It is sent as x-api-key on every Zapier request.
6. Signup also registers you on Verae central and stores a stable veraeUserId on your account. That id rides every internal hop (billing, authz, job watch) so CS/sales and the chain can see the same person. You never paste the Verae JWT into Zapier — that token stays on the server (tokenRef on NATS).

If your company already created an account (you received a key by email), sign up with the same email. The existing plan and key are kept; your password is attached to that account.

After signup

• Dashboard — usage this month, included credit, billable overage, prepaid balance.
• API & pricing — live rate card (free / fixed / variable per operation, including batch).
• Invoices — draft / issued / paid.
• Billing — reload $1–$10,000; prepaid is drawn down automatically. Customer-service can add goodwill credits; sales can set a per-customer multiplier; accounting can export invoices to QuickBooks (IIF/CSV).
• Security — optional 2FA.

Regenerating the API key invalidates the old one immediately. Update the Zapier authentication field or every Zap step will 401.

Simulator: action Sign up (zappier portal) then Connect Zapier app.