# Developer Portal

### What is the Developer Portal?

The [Developer Portal](https://coherence.io/dashboard/) is an online dashboard where the cloud services behind your **coherence**-based game can be managed. It can be found at <https://dev.coherence.io> or from the **Developer Portal** link above.

The Developer Portal includes:

* Organization and Project creation and management
* Resource configuration and management
* Enabling / disabling features
* Cost analysis
* Team management

Here are some examples of tasks to perform on the Developer Portal:

* Create your organization and project for your game
* Start/stop/restart your cloud-based **Replication Server** or **Simulator**
* Enable coherence features such as **player authentication, key-value store, persistence,** and **build sharing**
* Invite teammates to your project
* View your resource usage and billing forecasts

### Is the Developer Portal required for development?

While a local [**Replication Server**](https://docs.coherence.io/1.2/coherence-sdk-for-unity/replication-server) is available as part of the [Unity SDK](https://docs.coherence.io/1.2/coherence-sdk-for-unity), in order to host multiplayer services like the **Replication Server** in the [cloud](https://docs.coherence.io/1.2/get-started/coherence-cloud), your team must have a project in the Developer Portal. It is up to your project needs when to begin using the cloud services.

### Getting started

Please see the page [Create a free account](https://docs.coherence.io/1.2/get-started/coherence-cloud/create-an-account) in the Get Started section.

### Accessing Developer Portal features from Unity

Please see the article on [using the **coherence Cloud** in Unity](https://docs.coherence.io/1.2/coherence-cloud/using-coherence-cloud-in-unity).