# How Build Prop Firm works

> Start here: from your account to a running prop firm website on your own domain, run from your own admin panel.

Canonical page: https://buildpropfirm.com/help/how-it-works  
Topic: Getting started  
Last updated: 2026-11-08

## 1. What you get

Build Prop Firm builds and hosts a complete prop firm website for your company, on your own domain and with your own brand. Your traders buy challenges on your site and trade on MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5 accounts at the broker you choose. You run the firm from your site's own admin panel; we keep the platform running.

Want to look around first? The [demo](https://buildpropfirm.com/demo) shows a working site, its admin panel and the templates.

## 2. The steps from order to launch

- **Create your account** with your work e-mail and verify it.
- **Order your site** on [Start](https://buildpropfirm.com/start): your firm's name, domain, company details, logo, colours, template, features and languages.
- **Pay the setup invoice** in cryptocurrency. It includes your first month.
- **We review your request.** You can still change it until we approve it.
- **Connect your domain** by adding the DNS records shown on your site's page.
- **We build your site.** When it is up, your site's first admin gets a link to set a password.
- **Tell us your broker** in a ticket, then open your site's admin and launch.

## 3. Follow everything under My sites

Each site you order has its own page under [My sites](https://buildpropfirm.com/account/sites): its status, what is still missing, the DNS records, the build progress, its invoices, its active trading accounts and its languages. The status tells you where it stands — see [Review, changes and the build](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/review-and-build).

## 4. How you are kept up to date

We e-mail you at every important moment, and the same message appears in your account's **Notifications**: when your site's status changes, when we ask you to update your request, when the build starts and when your site is ready, when an invoice is issued, paid, due soon or overdue, and when the service agreement changes.

## 5. What you pay

A one-time setup fee (shown before you pay, together with the first month and any extra languages), then your plan's monthly fee plus a price per active trading account. All payments are in cryptocurrency. See [Monthly billing](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/monthly-billing).

## Related guides

- [Create your account and verify your e-mail](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/create-account): The registration form, the work e-mail rule, verifying your address, fixing a typo and signing in with Google.
- [Order your prop firm site](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/order-your-site): The order form on Start, field by field: your firm, company and contacts, look, features, languages and the setup invoice.
- [Review, changes and the build](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/review-and-build): What each site status means, how to answer a change request, and how the build progresses until your site is up.
- [Monthly billing and active trading accounts](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/monthly-billing): What each monthly invoice bills, what counts as an active trading account, and how to see the next invoice in advance.