Follow the steps below to begin using Branch features.

1. Create and Configure Your Account

Complete the following steps to create and configure your Branch account:

1. Sign up for the Branch Growth Platform.
   Note: You must add a payment method to your account within 30 days of creating it.
   Learn more on our billing page.
2. Configure your account and your default link behaviors. Read the following guides to learn how to complete these tasks:
   • Add and manage users
   • Set your account's default time zone
   • Enable SSO
   • Add a test device
   • Configure default link behaviors

2. Select a Package

Some features are included in the Branch Growth Platform, while others require you to sign up for them.

Packages

Choose which package(s) you would like to add to your Branch account based on what features you want to incorporate into your marketing strategy.

• Engagement: Get further with your customers with linking and attribution for owned and organic marketing channels.
• Performance: Prove ROI so you can justify ad spend effectiveness while still managing evolving privacy regulations and gaps in performance data.

Add-ons

Choose which add-on(s) you would like to add to the package you chose.

• Advanced Compliance: Ensure safe and proper attribution when handling data related to protected health information (PHI).
• Advanced Data Feeds: Access our advanced APIs, use webhooks to export event data to your internal systems, and use our integrations to send your Branch data to other analytics tools.
• EU Data Center: Process and store your Branch data at our AWS-powered data center in Ireland.

Services

Choose which services you would like to add.

• Account Management: Access a dedicated team for personalized support and product recommendations.
• Professional Services: Access our industry experts for complex use cases, integrations, and platform configurations.
• Premium Support: Get quick response times to support requests. Response times are as fast as two hours, even on weekends.

Learn more on our packaging page.

After you have an idea of what you want to add to your account, contact our sales team.

3. Plan Your SDK Integration

Determine which of our SDKs you need to integrate into your app(s).

Use the following table to identify which SDKs are compatible with some of our most popular features:

Integrate Branch SDKs

We encourage development teams to follow all the steps, including the validation steps, in our SDK Basic Integration guides to ensure that the SDK is set up correctly.

Get started with these basic integration guides:

• iOS Basic Integration Guide
• Android Basic Integration Guide
• Web Basic Integration Guide

Learn more on our SDK overview page.

Next Steps

Once you’ve completed these steps, you should be able to access Branch’s powerful suite of features through the Branch Dashboard by using one of our SDKs or calling one of our APIs.