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  "slug": "getting-started-with-blue-collar-parts",
  "title": "Getting Started with Blue Collar Parts: Create an Account and Set Up Your First Customer",
  "description": "How to create a Blue Collar Parts account, confirm your email, and use the four-step setup to add your first customer and asset and see what your customer's record will look like.",
  "track": "product",
  "kind": "article",
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  "isRegulatoryAdjacent": false,
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-18",
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    "start-a-service-event",
    "what-is-blue-collar-parts"
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    "reviewed": "2026-10-18",
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    "reviewedText": "Reviewed 2026-10-18"
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  "url": "https://shopbluecollarparts.com/kb/getting-started-with-blue-collar-parts",
  "markdownUrl": "https://shopbluecollarparts.com/kb/getting-started-with-blue-collar-parts.md",
  "body": "**Blue Collar Parts turns each service you perform into a record your customer can open: what was found, what was fixed, and who did the work.** Getting started takes an account, one customer, and one piece of equipment. This page walks through the first session.\n\n## 1. Create your account\n\n1. Open [Create an account](/auth/signup). The page reads **Sign in or create an account**.\n2. Start with Google, or choose **Or use your email**, enter your **Email** and a **Password** that meets the rules shown under the field, and press **Create account**.\n3. Check your inbox and confirm your email. The **Confirm your email** screen has a **Resend confirmation email** button if the message does not arrive.\n\nYou can start adding customers and recording work right away. Sending a record to a customer, setting a next service date, and decoding a VIN wait until your email is confirmed.\n\nAlready have an account? [Sign in](/auth/signin). Forgot your password? Use **Forgot password?** on the sign-in form.\n\n## 2. Set up your first customer\n\nA brand-new account opens a short guided setup titled **Set up your first customer**. It has four steps, and you can skip any of them and come back later:\n\n1. **Add a customer**: the business or person you do the work for.\n2. **Add an asset**: the truck, trailer, generator, or marine engine you service.\n3. **See the record**: a preview of what your customer will receive.\n4. **Add to calendar**: put the visit on your own calendar.\n\nWhen you finish, **You're set up** offers **Start from a customer** or **Start from an asset**.\n\n## 3. Do the first job\n\nFrom there the work follows the same path every time: [start a service event](/kb/start-a-service-event), [record the service](/kb/record-a-pm-service), mark the work complete, and [send the record to your customer](/kb/send-a-record-to-your-customer).\n\nStarting and completing work is free. You pay only when you send a record, and the price is shown on the button before you pay.\n\n*Links into the app open your account. If you are not signed in, you will be asked to sign in first.*",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}