Product Guides & Reference

What built-in authentication gives your app, and a tour of the Authentication page in the Console.

Turn sign-in methods on or off, set password rules and session lifetimes, and decide whether email must be verified.

How confirmation emails and password resets work, and how to wire the links into your app.

Edit the subject, wording, sender name and button colour of sign-in, verification and reset emails, with a live preview.

Add and verify a sending domain so sign-in, verification and reset emails show your brand and address.

Register your app with a provider, paste its credentials into the Console, and let people sign in with an account they already have.

How your users can protect their accounts with an authenticator app, and how you test and reset it.

Collect a username, name, user type or custom details at sign-up, checked on the server and saved with the user's profile.

Use RLS policies and the signed-in user's identity so each person sees only their own rows.

How automatic daily backups work, how to set retention, time and snapshot count, and when they cost money.

Restore a snapshot or uploaded dump into a database, download .sql.gz exports and use command-line dumps.

Restore a whole project, all databases and stored files together, to an earlier point, and what happens to current data.

What the paid hourly backup option gives you, and what is and is not available for restoring to an exact moment.

Read the Usage & Billing page: month-to-date cost, storage and compute meters, project breakdown and usage history.

Top up your prepaid balance, turn on auto-reload and read the activity list.

USD is the default; where a local currency such as the Nigerian naira is offered you choose it before your first payment.

What credits are, how they are spent and expire, and the application page.

Edit invoice details, view statements and receipts, and see how monthly statements are settled.

The warning states, the grace period, what a pause does and how to resume.

Run a backend service, web app or worker in your project, with a public address and your database already connected.

Let idle containers sleep at no compute cost, wake on the next request, or keep one always online.

Configure your container with variables and project secrets, and read build and runtime logs to fix problems.

Point a subdomain at your container, check DNS, and get an HTTPS certificate automatically.

Add a PostgreSQL database to a project, choose its version and extensions, and manage several databases in one project.

Find your host, port and credentials, choose between the pooled, regular and direct connection, and test that they work.

Use the per-database address shown on the Connection page, what is faster about it, and how to rename it safely.

Run queries and scripts against your database from the Console, use templates and history, and understand the safety limits.

Bring a database over from another host, or upload a .sql or .sql.gz dump, from the Backups page.

See which PostgreSQL extensions are available for your database, enable or disable them and understand "needs approval".

Choose a version when you create a database and upgrade to a newer one from DB Settings, with a verified copy.

Restrict which IP addresses may call your database's endpoints, and what is enforced where.

Run a schema audit, analyze slow queries, apply suggested indexes and watch database metrics.

The limits your databases run with, what a pause means and how deleting a database works.

Read and write rows, run SQL and call actions with plain HTTP requests to your project address.

Install @pgb/sdk, create a client, run a first query, and find the calls for each service.

Install pgbhub, create a sync or async client, run a first query, and use auth, mail, storage and actions.

Install the Go and Rust clients and run a first call with each, then find auth, mail, storage and actions.

Let tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf inspect your schema and run your actions through the PGB MCP server.

Receive webhooks in a function, send them from event rules, cron jobs, jobs and actions, and verify signatures.

Publishable and secret project keys, account-level keys, how to create, scope, rotate and revoke them.

Write a function in the Console editor, choose a runtime and trigger, test it, and call it over HTTP.

Keep keys out of your code, protect a function with a signed webhook, and read or limit its execution logs.

Run a function, SQL, an action, an HTTP call or an email on a schedule, and read the run history.

Hand slow or unreliable work to a background job that retries on its own, and watch its status in the Console.

Define a named SQL transaction once, call it from your app, an AI agent or a schedule, and trigger emails, queues and more after it commits.

Send transactional email such as receipts and notifications with one API call, and check delivery in the Console.

Verify your domain with DNS records so your app's email comes from your brand and your own address.

Why sending needs a quick review, how to request access, and the limits and reputation checks that protect your sending.

Request Maps access, create a key, and use search, reverse geocoding, routing and map tiles from your app.

Create and revoke Maps keys, pick live or test, set rate limits, and see which endpoints are available.

How organizations (workspaces) and projects relate, how to switch between them and who pays for what.

Invite people to your organization from IAM, pick a role and project scope, change access later and cancel invitations.

What the Project Settings page shows, how to rename a project, where API keys and secrets live and how to delete a project safely.

How a project is moved to a different organization, what moves with it, and what the new owner should do straight afterwards.

Change your password, turn on two-step sign-in with recovery codes, sign out other sessions and revoke account API keys.

What you can check and do from the PGBHub app on your phone, and what stays on the web.

Push live updates to browsers and apps over named channels, and test them from the Console.

Create a queue, push messages, process them with workers, and use retries and the dead-letter queue.

Route events such as user.created to a queue, function, webhook or email, and test rules with a sample event.

Create a storage bucket, organise it with folders, upload files from the Console and copy their links.

Keep files private, share one file for a limited time with a signed link, and switch a bucket between public and private.

Use the SDK or the storage endpoints to upload, list, download and delete files from your own code.