# Getting started

Source: https://www.pingtower.com/docs/getting-started/




## In this section

- [Quickstart](https://www.pingtower.com/docs/getting-started/quickstart/index.md): From nothing to an alert on your phone in five steps. You need a terminal, and the iOS app if you want the phone to ring.
- [Concepts](https://www.pingtower.com/docs/getting-started/concepts/index.md): Seven nouns. Everything else in the docs is built out of these.
- [Credentials](https://www.pingtower.com/docs/getting-started/credentials/index.md): Three kinds of bearer token, each with a prefix that makes it impossible to hand one where another belongs.