# Start a project

Quilter organizes jobs of similar designs into collections called Projects. As you iterate on your board design by submitting, downloading, refining, and resubmitting jobs, Projects helps keep those jobs together. Projects are also the primary way that usage is metered for enterprise customers who are billed by the board project, not by the job.

### Create the Project

For now, all you need to do is name it!

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### Set up the first job in the Project

The first job you upload sets the baseline of the board project.

#### Job Similarity Requirement

Additional jobs added to the project must be within 10% variation of the pin count, component count, footprints, and component BOM of the first baseline job in a project. If you think a job is being incorrectly rejected for being too dissimilar, just ask us for help. You can iterate an unlimited number of times within a project.

#### Adding Jobs to an Existing Project

To add jobs to an existing project, open the project and click the new job button. You can also duplicate jobs within a project by selecting the action in the projects table.

### **Other things to know about Projects**

#### Project Visibility In Organizations

Enterprise customers who are part of an organization see a listing of all projects belonging to the organization in the project list. Users can create jobs in any project belonging to the organization.

#### How to Find Old Jobs Not Part of a Project

Going forward jobs must always be part of a project. To view jobs that were created in the past prior to the implementation of projects, you can click the "View All Jobs" button on the application home. This shows all jobs, both ones part of a project, and older jobs not associated with a project.

#### Project Expiration

Projects have an expiration date that depends on if you are a free or paid customer with us. Once a project expires, no new jobs can be created inside the project, though you will still be able to access the job (for how long again depends on your agreement with Quilter).


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