> ## Documentation Index
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# User Signup Step One

> Handles the first step of user signup, including data validation and user creation.



## OpenAPI

````yaml post /admin/signup/step_one
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Gratona API
  description: >-
    REST API for the Gratona fundraising platform, including donor, donation,
    sponsorship, program, event, and integration workflows. Endpoints are
    organized by tag. Most endpoints require either a Passport bearer token or
    an issued API key — see the Security Schemes section.
  contact:
    name: Gratona Engineering
    url: https://gratona.com
    email: devs@gratona.com
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.gratona.com/v1
    description: Server Version 1.0.0
security: []
tags:
  - name: Auth
    description: >-
      Login, signup, logout, password reset, and email verification for admin
      users and donors.
  - name: Donors
    description: >-
      Donor records: CRUD, profile fields, household linkage, search, filters,
      merge, and duplicate detection.
  - name: Donations
    description: >-
      Individual donation records, recurring commitments, soft credits, refunds,
      designations, and exports.
  - name: Sponsorships
    description: >-
      Donor-to-entity sponsorship relationships, lifecycle transitions, and
      sponsorship-specific filters.
  - name: Entities
    description: >-
      Recipient records (children, families, projects, animals, etc.), their
      status, and entity-level fields.
  - name: Programs
    description: >-
      Program / campaign configuration: hierarchy, settings, and program-level
      metadata.
  - name: Forms
    description: >-
      Custom form builder (HysForm), form fields, standardized donor fields, and
      field migrations.
  - name: Trips
    description: >-
      Mission-trip management: trips, participants, budgets, tasks,
      e-signatures, fundraising milestones, and background checks.
  - name: Communications
    description: >-
      Email templates, SMS, newsletters, donor email manager, and per-donor
      notes.
  - name: Payments
    description: >-
      Payment-gateway management (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, QuickBooks).
      Excludes inbound webhooks — see the Webhooks tag.
  - name: Reports
    description: Dashboards, analytics, scheduled reports, and exports.
  - name: Admin
    description: >-
      Client-account administration: users, groups/permissions, settings,
      integrations, and account lifecycle.
  - name: Donor Portal
    description: >-
      Endpoints consumed by the donor-facing portal (donor login, dashboard,
      donation history, messages).
  - name: Recipient Portal
    description: Endpoints consumed by the recipient-facing portal.
  - name: Public
    description: >-
      Unauthenticated public endpoints: donor signup, public trip pages,
      peer-to-peer campaigns, public checkout.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: >-
      Inbound webhooks from third parties (Stripe, PayPal, Flutterwave, Checkr,
      DropboxSign). Annotated minimally for reference; payload shapes are owned
      by the upstream provider.
  - name: Client
    description: Client
  - name: Email Settings
    description: Email Settings
  - name: Admin Dashboard
    description: Admin Dashboard
  - name: Historical Archived Updates
    description: Historical Archived Updates
  - name: Team & access
    description: Team & access
  - name: Files
    description: Files
  - name: Wrapped
    description: Wrapped
  - name: Donor SignUp
    description: Donor SignUp
  - name: Frontend
    description: Frontend
  - name: User
    description: User
paths:
  /admin/signup/step_one:
    post:
      tags:
        - User
      summary: User Signup Step One
      description: >-
        Handles the first step of user signup, including data validation and
        user creation.
      operationId: postSignupOne
      requestBody:
        description: Data required for the first step of user signup
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              required:
                - email
                - password
                - firstName
                - lastName
              properties:
                email:
                  type: string
                  format: email
                password:
                  type: string
                  format: password
                firstName:
                  type: string
                lastName:
                  type: string
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: User signup step one successful
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: string
                  user_id:
                    type: integer
                    example: 123
                type: object
        '400':
          description: Validation error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
                    example: error
                  status:
                    type: string
                    example: error
                  errors:
                    type: object
                type: object

````

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