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Vol. I · No. 130RahotoFrankfurt · EU-hosted

“The manual for the reporting runtime.”

Getting started

Your first report in ten minutes.

This walkthrough takes you from a fresh account to a report you can share — creating a document, finding your way around the editor, and inviting a teammate. No data connection required yet; you can wire in live sources once the layout feels right.

1 · Create your account

Rahoto is free to start — no credit card to sign up. Create an account with your email, or continue with Google or Microsoft.

  1. Open the sign-up page and choose email, Google, or Microsoft.
  2. Confirm your email if prompted, then sign in.
  3. You land in your dashboard — the home for every report you create. From here you build new reports and reopen existing ones.

For what each plan includes, see Plans & billing.

2 · Create your first report

From the dashboard, start a new report one of two ways:

  • Blank report — an empty document sized to your locale's default paper, ready for you to lay out from scratch.
  • From a template — begin with a pre-built layout and replace the content with your own. Templates give you a professional starting point instead of a blank page.

Either way you open into the editor, where the rest of this guide takes place.

3 · The editor at a glance

The editor is report-native: a real document made of pages, not a single endless canvas. These are the building blocks you will reach for most.

  • Pages — add, reorder, and resize pages; set margins, presets, and view modes. A report is a sequence of pages you can publish as one document.
  • Tables — structured, sortable, filterable tables you can style cell by cell and later bind to a live source.
  • Charts — editable charts where every mark, axis, and legend element is selectable, so you tune the visual, not just the data.
  • Text — real typography with proper type controls, so headings and body copy read the way your standard expects.
  • Images & shapes — drop in imagery, draw shapes, and arrange, group, and lock elements to keep a layout tidy.

You do not need every tool on day one. Add a heading, a chart, and a table, and you already have a report worth sharing.

4 · Saving your work

Your work is saved automatically as you edit — changes are written for you in the background, so there is no manual save button to remember. Close the tab and reopen the report later; your layout is where you left it.

Good to know

Autosave keeps your document persisted continuously. If your connection drops, Rahoto re-saves once it reconnects so your latest edits are not lost.

5 · Invite your team

Reports are better built together. Invite teammates and edit the same report at the same time — Rahoto supports real-time collaboration, so you see each other's changes as they happen rather than trading files back and forth.

  1. Open the report you want to share.
  2. Invite a teammate to the report or workspace.
  3. Edit together — updates sync live for everyone in the document.

Where to go next

You have a report and a team. The next two steps turn a one-off document into a runnable one that refreshes and delivers itself.

Ready to build?

Create a free account and open your first report. If anything trips you up along the way, we are one email away.