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Getting started: register and verify your site

Create your Sorraia account, add your website, and prove you own it using either a DNS TXT record or an HTML meta tag so your widgets can go live.

Create your account

Head to the sign-up page and create your Sorraia account. Sign-up and sign-in are handled for you, so you just enter your details and confirm your email — there's nothing to install.

Once you're in, you'll land on your dashboard. From there you can add the website (or websites) where you want your forms, calendars, and shop widgets to appear.

Add your site

Open your sites page and choose Add a site. A short two-step panel opens.

In Step 1, enter your site's bare hostname — no https://, no www., and no trailing path. For example, type acme.com. Then pick how you'd like to prove you own it: a DNS TXT record or a Meta tag. Click Next to continue to Step 2, where you'll see your unique verification value ready to copy.

  • DNS TXT record — add a record at your DNS provider. Works on any plan; takes about 2 minutes to propagate.
  • Meta tag — drop a <meta> tag into your homepage's <head>. Faster (about 30 seconds), but your homepage must be reachable over HTTPS.

Verify with a DNS TXT record

If you chose DNS TXT, sign in to your domain's DNS provider and add a new TXT record. Set the Type to TXT, the Host / Name to your domain (some dashboards use @ for the root — either works), and paste the Value exactly as shown, including the sorraia-verify= prefix.

Add the record at your domain's root, not on a subdomain like _sorraia.yourdomain.com or www.yourdomain.com — Sorraia checks the apex. DNS changes usually appear within a couple of minutes but can take longer. When it's live, click Verify now. If the record isn't found yet, wait a moment and try again.

Verify with an HTML meta tag

If you chose Meta tag, copy the tag shown — it looks like <meta name="sorraia-verify" content="..." /> — and paste it inside the <head> of your homepage, not the <body>. Publish or redeploy your site so the change goes live.

Sorraia fetches your homepage once over HTTPS and looks for that exact tag, so make sure the page is reachable over HTTPS and the content value matches character-for-character (watch out for a CMS swapping in smart quotes). Then click Verify now. If it isn't found, confirm the tag is in the <head> and that your site has finished redeploying, then retry.

Production and staging sites

Most sites you add are production sites — your live website. Each production site counts toward your plan's website limit.

You can also add a staging site, which is paired with an already-verified production site so you can test on a separate deployment. You'll pick which verified production site it belongs to, and each production site allows one staging slot. Verify the production site first, then add its staging.

What verification unlocks

Verifying is what proves you own the site, and it's required before you can attach anything to it. Until a production site is verified, you can't bind forms, calendars, or shop widgets to it.

Once a site shows as Verified, it becomes selectable when you build a widget, and the embed loader will serve those widgets on that domain. If you ever archive a site, its attached widgets stop serving on that domain, though the submissions and bookings you've already collected are kept.