#Plugins

Plugins are your site's superpowers — off until you want them. Each one adds a capability the AI Builder can then use: visitor accounts, sending email, taking card payments, AI assistants that talk to your visitors, connections to outside services. Turn one on and the AI immediately knows how to build with it.

#The five

(You'll also find Web access in the same row on the dashboard — it's a switch for the AI Builder rather than a site capability, covered in Building your site.)

#Turning a plugin on

On your project's page in the dashboard, click the plugin's card. Its configuration page offers the modes that exist for it:

• Off — the default.
• Built-in — works immediately with startupjs.ai's shared services, nothing to configure. This is the right choice to start; you can switch later without losing anything.
• Custom — the same features running under your own name: your Google app for sign-in, your email domain, your Stripe account. Each plugin's page here walks through its custom setup.

Pick a mode, follow the short form if it needs anything, Save — the project restarts with the plugin active (a few seconds). Then just ask the AI Builder for what you actually want ("add a login page…") — that part's the same in every mode.

#Two things worth knowing

• Credentials are write-only. Keys you enter (Stripe, Mailgun, Google) are stored encrypted, injected only into your running site, and never shown back — not in the dashboard, not to the AI, not in chat.
• The AI adapts to what's on. With a plugin off, the AI won't pretend it can use it — it'll tell you which card to enable. With it on, related features light up automatically (for example, accounts + emails together give you email verification and "forgot password" without asking).