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.
- Open the sign-up page and choose email, Google, or Microsoft.
- Confirm your email if prompted, then sign in.
- 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.
- Open the report you want to share.
- Invite a teammate to the report or workspace.
- 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.
Connect your data
Bind tables, charts, and values to a live source so your report refreshes instead of going stale.
Read →Publish & schedule
Deliver on a schedule to PDF, PowerPoint, web, Slack, and email — with variants and access policies built in.
Read →Design reports
Go deeper on the editor — tables, charts, text, and a design system your whole team can share.
Read →AI assistance
Use the Context Lens, AutoReport, and chart explanations — all grounded in your own data.
Read →
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.