> ## Documentation Index
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# Creating a Collection

> The one-step creation fork — one destination or several, or a starter template — plus the auto-generated name and where the page template comes from

Creating a Collection is a single click. There is no multi-field setup form: you answer one
question about what scanning an Item should do, the Collection is created immediately, and
everything else is editable afterward from its settings.

Open the Collections list and choose **Create**, or use the **+** button beside the Collections
list in the sidebar.

## The two choices on the creation screen

Both cards create the Collection straight away and drop you into its (empty) Item grid.

| Choice                          | What it sets up                                                                                                                                                        |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Connects to one destination** | Each Item's Link goes straight through to a single Destination — Direct Mode. Pages stay off, and the Collection gets a **Default destination** setting for new Items. |
| **Connects to several**         | Each Item's Link opens a page listing several Destinations — Page Mode. This turns pages on for the Collection and reveals the page tab in its settings.               |

Under the cards, the same screen offers a short strip of starter templates plus **Browse all**.
Picking a template replaces this choice — the template carries its own scan behavior, field
schema and page design. See [Starter Templates](/collections/starter-templates).

Neither choice is permanent. You can flip a Collection between the two later from its settings;
see [Scan Behavior for New Items](/collections/scan-behavior-default).

## The name you get

The new Collection is named sequentially — one past the highest numbered default the team
already has, so deleting one in the middle never produces a name collision (Collection 1, 2, 3 →
delete 2 → the next one is 4).

One wrinkle worth knowing: Collections were renamed from "Tubs", and the name *generator* still
uses the old word, so the name you actually see is `Tub4`, not `Collection4`. Rename it inline
from the grid header or from **Settings → General** — nothing is derived from the name, so
renaming is free at any time.

## What a fresh Collection starts with

* **Four fields** — name, Item ID, description and tags. Everything else you add yourself.
* **Random link generation** — a fresh `qrtub.com/r/x5fgd`-style Link is minted and attached
  automatically each time you add an Item. Change this in **Settings → Link generation**.
* **No page template of its own.** A Collection created from one of the two cards has no stored
  page design. Until you build one in the Page Editor, Items in Page Mode render a built-in
  default page — the Item's name, image, status and tags, plus the Collection's own name,
  description and image. Collections created from a starter template *do* get a real page
  template, generated from that template's fields.
* **No sample Items.** Only starter templates seed example data.

Collections that predate the link-generation setting behave differently: their default is to
mint no Link at all. Only Collections created through the current flow start on random.

## If you only want to print codes

If you have nothing to catalog yet and just need codes on physical items, you do not need a
Collection first. The creation screen has a **Start with physical codes** link that takes you to
Links instead, where you can generate and print Links now and attach them to Items whenever the
Items exist. A Link can live on a QR code, an NFC tag or a plain short URL.

## Related

* [Starter Templates](/collections/starter-templates)
* [Collection Details](/collections/collection-details)
* [Link Generation for New Items](/collections/link-generation-modes)
* [Scan Behavior for New Items](/collections/scan-behavior-default)