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

## Overview {#overview}

This tutorial guides you to:

* create a new project

## Sign up for a Mastercard Developers Account {#sign-up-for-a-mastercard-developers-account}

1. Create a [Mastercard Developers account](https://developer.mastercard.com/dashboard)
2. Activate your account by opening the link sent to your email address

## Creating a new API project {#creating-a-new-api-project}

1. To start, log in to your Mastercard Developers account and go to the [Projects](https://developer.mastercard.com/dashboard) page. Click the **Create new project** button in the top right corner.
2. Enter a relevant **Project name**.
3. If you are an issuer creating the project for your own CID, click **No**.
4. If you are a processor or a service provider creating this project for an issuer or a different CID, click **Yes** .
   1. Provide the **Client company name**.
   2. Provide the **Client legal business address** . ![Creating a new API project](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images1/CreateNewProject.png "Creating a new API project")

## Select API service {#select-api-service}

1. From the dropdown list, select **MDES Pre-digitization MTF**
2. Click **Proceed**

## Project Credentials {#project-credentials}

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

1. Provide **Key alias** and **Keystore password** . A key alias is a label for a specific key within a keystore. Ensure that you make a note of the key alias and the keystore password as you will need this information when you send the API request to Mastercard. ![Project Credentials](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images1/ProjectCredentials.png)

Note: If you are using a CSR to generate the project keys, click **Skip this step** , and continue with the project creation. Refer to [Adding Keys and CSR](https://developer.mastercard.com/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/addkey/index.md) for details.

1. Click **Create Project**.

## 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/images1/creatingProject.png)
2. To see the project details, click **Open project** . ![Creating Project](https://static.developer.mastercard.com/content/mdes-pre-digitization/documentation/tutorial-and-guides/images1/prod-access-prereqs.png)