# Creating a Project
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/create-project/index.md

## Overview {#overview}

### What You'll Learn: {#what-youll-learn}

* Create a new pre-digitization API project

## Log in or Sign up {#log-in-or-sign-up}

If you do not have a Mastercard Developers account yet, click Sign up and follow the instructions to create an account before logging in. You must create an account with a group email/distribution list. This will ensure that communications related to the project are sent to the group email/distribution list.

## Create a new API Project {#create-a-new-api-project}

1. To create a new project, in the upper-right corner of the screen, click **Create New Project**.

## Project details {#project-details}

1. Enter **Project name**.
2. Select **No** if this project being created by (issuer).
3. Select **Yes** if this project being created by processor or service provider. ![Project Details](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images/CreateNewProject.png)
4. If you are a processor or a service provider, please complete the details of the issuer for which the project is created. ![Service Provider](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images/EnterIssuerInfo.png)

## Select Service and Project Countries {#select-service-and-project-countries}

1. Select **MDES Pre-Digitization MTF** from the **Select Your API service** drop-down list.
2. Select the countries. Select All if this is a global project.
3. Click **proceed**.

![API Selection](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images/MTF_API_Selection.png)

## Project Credentials {#project-credentials}

These credentials will give you access to the service in this project.
Note: Please ignore OAuth information, MDES Pre-Digitization API service supports MTLS.

1. Provide **Key alias** and **keystore password** and click **Proceed** . ![Project Credentials](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images/ProjectCredentials.png)

## Download Sandbox Keys {#download-sandbox-keys}

1. To Download the key information, click **Download key file** . The downloaded key file contains the Sandbox key information. You can ignore it as this API does not use Sandbox. ![Creating Project](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images/creatingProject.png)
2. To see the project details, click **Open project** . ![Initial Project Details](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images/open_project_before_prod_request.png)