PowerApps >> Register A Free Account for Using Power Apps

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In this article, I will show you how to create a free trial account for using Power Apps from zero.

Create a free trial account

Firstly, let’s see the pricing plans of Power Apps.
There are two main plans: Subscription plans and Pay-as-you-go plan.
There are two plans in Subscription plans: Per app plan and Per user plan.
Let’s click the “Start free” link under the “Per user plan”.

Power Apps pricing
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/

A form for setting up the account will show up.
You need to enter your Email address and click “Set up account” button.

Next, enter your information.

And you need to select a verification option.
Click “Send Verification Code” button.

Enter the code you received and click “Verify” button.

Next, enter the business identity (sub domain of onmicrosoft.com)

Next, the first user (admin user) need to be created.
Click “Sign up” button when you finished filling the required information.

Finally, a completion message will show in the fourth step and an email will be sent to your Email address.

As you can see, your first 30 days are free up to 25 licenses.

Let’s use the new user (admin user, username@xxx.onmicrosoft.com) created on the above to sign in.

We will see the products page and one license has been used (admin user).

Add a user

Generally, we need add multiple users in our organization to our account.
Let’s click “Active users” on the left side of the page.
And click “Add a user”.

Fill the required information for another user.

Give the user “Power Apps per user plan” licence by checking it.

And make it a general user (not admin user)

Finally, the “Review and finish” page will show up. Click “Finish adding” if there is no problem.

A creation success page will be displayed. You should write down the user name and password that will be used later.

When return to the Active users page, the new created user will show in the user list.

On the Licenses page, you also see the new user in the list.

Sign into Power Apps portal

Let’s use the new user (not admin user) to sign into the Power Apps Portal.

Sign in Power Apps
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/

You should reset your password because the password is generated automatically.

Finally, you will see the Power Apps portal page.

Conclusion

In this article, we created a free account of Per user plan.
We add a general user and give it the Power Apps per user plan license.
We use the new user to sign into the Power Apps portal.