# Outside accounts

URL: /systems/finance/outside-accounts · Id: `capability:outside-accounts`

> Outside accounts register the Company on platforms that verify businesses: app stores, ad networks, marketplaces and directories.

Outside accounts register the [Company](/business/nouns/company) on platforms that verify businesses: app stores, ad networks, marketplaces, directories and identifier registries.

## Contract
| Clause | Terms |
| --- | --- |
| Starts | A [Play](/business/nouns/play) or an [Interface](/business/nouns/interface) needs an account on an outside platform. |
| Verification | Identifiers and documents come from the Company record in [Corporate records](/systems/corporate-records). |
| Signs | A person with authority verifies their identity where the platform asks ([Identity checks](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/identity)). |
| Sign-in details | Held as [Secrets](/business/nouns/secret). No [Worker](/business/nouns/worker) reads them in plain text. |
| While held | Own. Each [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) holds its own accounts, registered to the Studio-held entity. |
| Promise | Every account is held by the Company, so it moves with the Startup at sale. |

## Verbs
| Verb | Object | Event |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Credential.create](/business/nouns/credential/create) | [Credential](/business/nouns/credential) | `Credential.created` |

## Interfaces
- [API](/code/api/reference)
- [SDK](/code/sdk/reference)
- [CLI](/code/cli/reference)
- [MCP](/code/mcp/reference)

## Example
A language-learning app needs developer accounts in both mobile app stores. Outside accounts files the identifier, completes both verifications in nine days, and records both handles on the Startup.