Set up Crewtavo on Railway

Crewtavo runs in your own account at Railway, a hosting company, so your business data stays yours. The guided setup at crewtavo.com/start signs you in to Railway (or creates your account), sets up Crewtavo there and opens it when it’s ready. It usually takes a few minutes, and there’s nothing to install.

Before you start

• An email address or a Google account for Railway.
• Nothing to pay yet. Railway’s free trial covers the first 30 days or $5 of usage, whichever comes first. To keep Crewtavo running after that, it needs Railway’s Hobby plan: $5 a month, including $5 of usage. See What Railway costs.

Set it up

1. Open Get started and choose Continue with Railway.
2. On Railway’s page, choose Log in using email, then choose Google or type your email. If you’re new to Railway, this creates your account.
3. Pick the workspace to put Crewtavo in, then choose Authorize.
4. Keep the Setting up your Crewtavo tab open. It ticks off each step: creating your Crewtavo in Railway, starting its database, sign-ins and file storage, then starting Crewtavo and preparing your database.
5. When it says Your Crewtavo is ready, bookmark the address it shows. It’s where you and your team sign in, and it looks like crewtavo-production-1a2b.up.railway.app.

Your Crewtavo then opens on its own, on the screen where you create your owner account.

What the setup keeps

Nothing. The setup uses your Railway sign-in only to deploy Crewtavo. That access lasts one hour, stays in an encrypted cookie in your browser, and is cleared as soon as your Crewtavo is ready. Your business data never passes through crewtavo.com.

What it creates

A Railway project called Crewtavo, with five services. Every password and key is generated for you, so there’s nothing to fill in.

Service	What it does
crewtavo	The app itself, its background tasks (reminders, automations, recurring visits), and the only part the internet can reach
db	Your database (Postgres)
auth	Sign-in, invitations and password resets
rest	The data API the app reads and writes through
storage	Photos, receipts and documents

Already use Railway?

You can skip the guided setup and deploy the Crewtavo template from Railway’s own page: press Deploy, wait a few minutes, then open the address shown on the crewtavo service.

If something goes wrong

• The setup stops with a message: see The guided setup didn’t finish.
• You closed the tab or lost the address: see Find your Crewtavo’s address.
• The address shows Crewtavo is starting up or Finish setting up Crewtavo: see Finish setting up Crewtavo.