From this page to a first council

Creating an account, confirming the address, signing in and creating a council are ordinary form posts on the clerk application. They work with JavaScript off.

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The path

  1. This site

    A clerk reads what Clerkly records. The clerk application is a different host.

  2. Create an account

    Name, email address and a password, on the clerk application’s sign-up page. If that address can be registered, a confirmation link is sent to it.

  3. Confirm the address

    The link is valid for 24 hours. If it has not arrived, the sign-up page can send another without saying whether the address can still be confirmed. Sign-in is available after the address is confirmed.

  4. Sign in

    The same email address and password open the clerk application.

  5. Create the council

    Name as it appears on its notices, type (parish, town or community), country (England or Wales), and turnover band. Those facts decide which statutory regime and which audit route the product will state. Creating the council makes the visitor its clerk.

  6. Setup

    The product opens on setup: meeting bodies, members, what the law already requires of this council from country and band, the documents the council must have, and a first meeting. Every step can be skipped as a recorded decision. The rest of the product is reachable throughout. Leaving setup unfinished leaves a working account.

Joining an existing council

  • A person invited to an existing council does not create one.
  • The invitation is on the members screen. When mail is configured, a set-password link is emailed to the invited person. Without mail, the clerk is shown the link once on screen.