# Your console account

Your BuildBase console account - your profile, invitations and ownership offers you received, sign-in security and, if self-hosting, installations and plan.

Your account is you, across every organization you belong to. It lives under
your avatar, at the bottom of the rail, not under an organization's
**Settings**.

> **Note:**Signed in to the console.

## 1. Open your avatar menu

Press your avatar at the bottom of the rail. **Profile**, **Security** and **My
invitations** are yours; **Docs for this page** opens the guide for the screen
you are on.

![The avatar menu, with Profile, Security and My invitations highlighted as step 1](/images/console/account/menu.webp)

## 2. Your profile

[Open your profile in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/account/profile)

**Profile** shows **Your profile**: your name and email address. **Log out**
signs this browser out of the console.

![Profile, with the Profile item highlighted as step 2 and Log out as step 3](/images/console/account/profile.webp)

## 3. Your invitations

[Open My invitations in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/account/invitations)

**My invitations** lists the invitations you have received to join
organizations, and any offer to take one over. Accept or decline each there
([team and roles](/console/team-and-roles)).

![My invitations, with its item highlighted as step 4](/images/console/account/invitations.webp)

## 4. Your sign-in security

[Open Security in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/account/security)

**Security** is how you sign in, two-step sign-in with an authenticator app,
and every browser signed in with your account ([account
security](/console/account-security)).

Below your own cards, **Two-step sign-in for** and the organization's name
holds **Require two-step sign-in**. Only an owner or admin can change it, and
only once their own account has two-step sign-in, so it cannot lock them out.
Members without it are asked to set it up the next time they open the
organization; nobody is signed out.

![Two-step sign-in for Acme: the Require two-step sign-in switch, off and highlighted as step 5, with the note to turn on two-step sign-in for your own account first](/images/console/account/require-2fa.webp)

## 5. Installations and My billing

[Open Installations in the console](https://console.buildbase.app/account/installations)

If you may self-host BuildBase, the menu and the account sidebar also have
**Installations** and **My billing**.

- **Installations** lists your **Self-hosted installations**. Press **Create
  installation** to add one; each gets its own API key and serves one or more
  organizations ([self-hosted quick start](/self-hosted/quick-start)).
- **My billing** shows **Your plan**: your own plan, for the installations you
  run, billed to you and not to any organization. Paid plans open a Stripe
  checkout and bring you back.

![The account sidebar with My billing, highlighted as step 7, and Installations, highlighted as step 6, open on Self-hosted installations with the Create installation button highlighted](/images/console/account/installations.webp)

## Things to watch out for

- **Signed in with Google,** your password and email address are managed in your Google account, not here: **Security** links to it.
- **Installations** and **My billing** show only to people who may self-host.

## Next Steps

- [Account security](/console/account-security) - two-step sign-in and your sessions.
- [Team and roles](/console/team-and-roles) - accept an invitation and what your role lets you do.
- [Organization settings](/console/organization) - the organization's own settings.