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Quickstart

This guide takes you from a new account to a monitored token with working alerts. It takes about ten minutes.

1. Create your account​

  1. Go to tokentimer.ch/register and sign up with your email and a password.
  2. Open the verification email and confirm your address. Unverified accounts cannot receive alert deliveries.
  3. Sign in. TokenTimer creates your first workspace (a container that isolates tokens, members, and alert settings) automatically, along with a default contact group (a named list of alert recipients) pointing at your email.

2. Add your first token​

A token is anything with an expiration date: a certificate, an API key, a license, a contract.

  1. On the dashboard, click Add token.
  2. Give it a name (for example "Stripe live API key"), pick a category (Certificates, Keys & Secrets, Licenses, or General) and a type.
  3. Set the expiration date.
  4. Save. The token appears in the dashboard's Asset Inventory (the list of all your tokens) with a color-coded status pill showing time to expiry.
TokenTimer dashboard showing the asset inventory with color-coded expiration status pills The dashboard: status filters, category filters, sections, and per-token expiration status.

Prefer bulk setup? Import from a file, connect an integration, or monitor an HTTPS endpoint to auto-create SSL certificate tokens.

3. Check your alert settings​

Alerts work out of the box: the workspace has default thresholds and your email is in the default contact group.

  1. Open Workspace preferences → Alerts.
  2. Review the threshold days (for example 30, 14, 7, 1, 0). Each token sends one notification per threshold as its expiry approaches.
  3. Review the delivery window (default 07:00-18:00 UTC) and set your timezone so alerts arrive during your working hours.
Workspace preferences page with default thresholds, delivery window, contacts, and webhook channels Workspace preferences: thresholds, delivery window, contacts, and webhook channels.

To deliver alerts to Slack, Teams, Discord, PagerDuty, or WhatsApp, see Contact groups & channels.

4. Invite a teammate​

  1. Open Workspaces and select your workspace.
  2. Click Invite member, enter their email, and pick a role: Viewer (read-only), Workspace Manager (manage tokens and preferences), or Admin (full control).
  3. The invitee receives an email. If they do not have an account yet, the invitation stays pending until they sign up and accept.

Member counts are capped per plan; see Plan limits. Roles are described in Teams, workspaces & RBAC.

Next steps​