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title: "Sign in"
description: "Continue with Google, choose your org, land in the dashboard."
---

simple-plm uses Google as its identity provider. There's no separate password to remember and no email-confirmation loop.

## Steps

1. **Visit** [https://simple-plm.com](https://simple-plm.com) and click **Continue with Google**.
2. **Choose your Google account.** If you're signed into multiple Google accounts in the same browser, pick the one your team uses. The first sign-in for an unrecognized email creates a fresh user record only if you have an outstanding [invitation](/docs/accounts/invitations/); otherwise you'll see "No account found".
3. **Pick your org.** If you're a member of more than one organization, simple-plm shows an org picker. Pick the one you want to work in; you'll land in its dashboard.

   ![Dashboard after sign-in](/docs/screenshots/light/dashboard.png)

4. **Land in the dashboard.** Your org is now active. Use the org switcher in the top-left navigation to change orgs without signing out.

## "No account found"

If Google authenticates you but simple-plm has no record matching your email, you'll see a friendly error explaining you need an invitation. Forward your sign-in email to your org owner and ask them to send one — the steps are in [Invitations](/docs/accounts/invitations/).

## Sessions

A successful sign-in writes a signed session cookie (`plm.sid`) scoped to `simple-plm.com`. Sessions last 30 days of inactivity; the cookie is `HttpOnly`, `Secure`, and `SameSite=Lax`. Sign out clears the cookie immediately and revokes the server-side session row.