# Setup Your Credentials

Use **Vivox Developer Portal** or **Unity Gaming Services (UGS) Dashboard** and create a project to get access to credentials or link your project inside the Unity Editor to be able to access credentials. 

In your script that inherits from **EasyManager**, you must hardcode your credentials. This is used for development purposes. 

{% hint style="info" %}
**Vivox recommends** not hardcoding your credentials in your application. [Read more here](https://fullstackindie.gitbook.io/easy-code-for-vivox/intro/things-to-consider#vivox-access-tokens)
{% endhint %}

You can implement custom logic to retrieve your credentials at runtime from your game server. You can also use **Unity's Remote Config** or **Cloud Code** to get credentials at runtime if you don't have a dedicated game server using **Unity's Multiplay, AWS EC2 instance (or other cloud VM instances), or self-hosted home server**

Your credentials should be assigned to the variables located inside of the static class **EasySession**

```csharp
public class VivoxManager: EasyManager
[SerializeField] string apiEndpoint;
[SerializeField] string domain;
[SerializeField] string issuer;
[SerializeField] string secretKey;

private void Awake()
{
    EasySession.APIEndpoint = new Uri(apiEndpoint);
    EasySession.Domain = domain;
    EasySession.Issuer = issuer;
    EasySession.SecretKey = secretKey;
}
```

If you are not inheriting from **EasyManager** and just referencing it using <mark style="color:blue;">`GetComponent<EasyManager>();`</mark> you still must hardcode your credentials&#x20;

```csharp
using EasyCodeForVivox;
using System;
using UnityEngine;

public class VivoxManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] string apiEndpoint;
    [SerializeField] string domain;
    [SerializeField] string issuer;
    [SerializeField] string secretKey;

    private void Awake()
    {
        EasySession.APIEndpoint = new Uri(apiEndpoint);
        EasySession.Domain = domain;
        EasySession.Issuer = issuer;
        EasySession.SecretKey = secretKey;
    }
}
```