An Onboarding is the phased plan you run with a single customer to get them from signed to live. Each one belongs to a Customer, carries a csm (the owner on your side), a target_launch_date, a current phase, and a state of active, paused, or done. A customer can have more than one onboarding open at a time, which is common when you’re rolling out separate products or regions.
The default phase sequence is Kickoff → Integration → UAT → Launch → Adoption. Phases are workspace-wide, so every onboarding moves through the same stages in the same order. You can rename, reorder, or add phases in Admin > Onboarding phases, and the change applies everywhere.
Inside a phase, work happens as Tasks. Each task has an assignee, a due_date, and a done flag. Tasks can have one level of subtasks, and any task can carry comments and attachments. Everything that happens on the onboarding lands in the audit log.
Email help@pivotal.app with a screenshot of where you got stuck and the customer or onboarding id from the URL.