--- title: Getting Started on the Web App description: >- After web signup, SwiftReporter seeds a Getting Started template, comments, and a Practice Inspection with a skippable walkthrough you can replay from Help. canonical: 'https://www.swiftreporter.com/docs/getting-started-on-web' pathname: /docs/getting-started-on-web category: introduction date: '2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z' helpDocsSource: introduction/getting-started-on-web.md --- # Getting Started on the Web App After you sign up on **app.swiftreporter.com**, SwiftReporter sets up a working example so you can complete a report before you build a template. This walkthrough is **web only**. The mobile app does not seed a Practice Inspection or run this tour. ## Before you begin - Sign up on the **web** app. Email verification is not required to finish signup. The session stays signed in. The next password login of an unverified account shows **Verify Your Email**. An already-open session is not sent to that screen. See [Signing Up](/docs/signup) and [Logging In](/docs/login). - Signup creates: - A **Getting Started - Example Template** - Comment-library notes and defects for every section of that template - A **Practice Inspection** - You land on **Complete Report** for the Practice Inspection. ## Welcome modal A **Welcome to SwiftReporter** modal opens first. It is not a help-tour step. It explains that you are on **Complete Report** and that a practice inspection was created. **What you will do** lists: - Answer a couple of practice questions - Add a note from your comment library - Add an observation - See the inspection hub and how to preview or download a PDF Choose **Start walkthrough** or **Skip for now**. **Skip for now** dismisses the walkthrough. You can start it later from Help. ## Walkthrough steps The walkthrough is action-gated: **Next** waits until you finish the current step. **Skip** is always available. After **Skip**, the walkthrough stays dismissed until you replay it. The Practice Inspection already includes an example note and an example observation. Answers are not pre-filled. The step that asks you to answer questions only advances when you change answers **after** that step is active. 1. **This is a practice inspection** — You are on **Complete Report** for an example job, not a real property. The heading is the page you work in. The table of contents on the left lists every section. Click a section to jump to it. 2. **Answer at least two practice questions** — Fill in two questions in the first section, then press **Next**. Property Information includes checkbox, dropdown, and free-text questions. 3. **What is a note?** — A note is reusable wording from your comment library. It prints as information (a disclaimer, a standard remark, or a tip). A note is not a finding and does not include photos or a recommendation. 4. **Add a note from your library** — Open **Add Note** on the section and pick one of the example comments. 5. **Add an observation** — An observation is a finding on this inspection. Open **Add Observation** on the section and save one. After you save it, the walkthrough continues on the inspection hub. 6. **This is the inspection hub** — The hub is home for the job: observations, progress, **Complete Report**, and sharing a PDF. 7. **Observations, progress, and Complete Report** — Review what you added and use **Complete Report** to keep filling in the template. 8. **AI Assist** (only when that feature is on) — Optional. These steps are omitted when AI Assist is off. 9. **Preview or Download PDF** — Shown after at least one observation and some answered questions. Generating a PDF is optional. 10. **You're ready to inspect** — Replay the walkthrough anytime from Help. The walkthrough does not spotlight the **Add Note** or **Add Observation** modals. ## Practice Inspection The **Practice Inspection** is a normal inspection with a **Practice** badge. It is not a separate inspection type and does not use a separate archive or lifecycle. It does not block **Create Inspection**. You can start a real job at any time. ## Replay from Help 1. Open Help (the help control in the top bar). 2. Click **Replay getting started walkthrough**. Replay works even if you clicked **Skip** earlier. ## Templates welcome wizard (separate) The first time you open **Templates**, a different wizard titled **Welcome! Let’s create your first report** offers region-filtered **Pre-built templates**. Step 2 asks **Where do you work?** and uses **Country** and **State/Province**. That wizard is independent of this Practice Inspection walkthrough. See [Using Pre-built Templates](/docs/prebuilt-templates). ## What happens next - Use **Create Inspection** on the dashboard to start a real job. See [Creating a New Inspection](/docs/creating-new-inspection). - Open **Templates** to copy a **Pre-built templates** starter or edit **Getting Started - Example Template**. See [Selecting a Template](/docs/selecting-templates). - Quick Add Notes and observation search already have seeded comments. See [Comments System Overview](/docs/comment-overview). ## Related - [Signing Up for an Account](/docs/signup) - [Selecting a Template](/docs/selecting-templates) - [Using Pre-built Templates](/docs/prebuilt-templates) - [Template Management Overview](/docs/template-overview)