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title: "Five-minute quickstart"
description: "Create, install, and verify your first CookieBeam consent banner in about five minutes."
url: "https://cookiebeam.com/docs/getting-started/quickstart"
lang: "en"
---

# Five-minute quickstart

Create, install, and verify your first CookieBeam consent banner in about five minutes.

This path takes you from a new account to a working consent banner. You need access to your site's HTML or tag manager.

## 1. Create a banner

Sign in to CookieBeam, open **Banners**, and create a banner for the website you want to protect. Complete the initial setup and save your changes.

## 2. Review the consent experience

Open the banner designer and confirm the categories, text, and buttons match your requirements. Use the preview to exercise accept, reject, and preference choices before publishing.

## 3. Publish the configuration

Publish the banner to production. CookieBeam assigns a public Banner ID and prepares the loader URL for that published configuration.

## 4. Install CookieBeam

Choose one installation path:

- [Add the script tag directly](https://cookiebeam.com/docs/install/script-tag) when you can edit the site's HTML.
- [Import the CookieBeam template into Google Tag Manager](https://cookiebeam.com/docs/install/google-tag-manager) when tags are managed in GTM.

## 5. Verify before announcing completion

Open the site in a private browsing window with storage cleared. Confirm that the banner appears, non-essential tags wait for consent, and changing preferences updates the site's behavior. Test both an accept path and a reject path.