diff --git a/docs/deposit/explanations/deposit.rst b/docs/deposit/explanations/deposit.rst
index 051f7aedf8ac3dee0c73a4e9df9278e38feaae9c..f48cfba6ca89098c851e6e1d6a39781824cf191f 100644
--- a/docs/deposit/explanations/deposit.rst
+++ b/docs/deposit/explanations/deposit.rst
@@ -1,56 +1,63 @@
 What's a deposit?
 =================
 
-Most of the software source code artifacts present in the SWH Archive are gathered by
-the mean of `loader`_ workers run by the SWH project from source code origins identified
-by `lister`_ workers. This is a pull mechanism: it's the responsibility of the SWH
-project to gather and collect source code artifacts that way.
+Most of the software source code artifacts present in the Software Heritage Archive are
+gathered by tools run by the SWH project, this is a pull mechanism: it's the
+responsibility of the SWH project to gather and collect source code artifacts that way.
 
-Alternatively, SWH allows its partners to push source code artifacts and metadata
-directly into the Archive with a push-based mechanism. By using this possibility
-different actors, holding software artifacts or metadata, can preserve their assets
-without having to pass through an intermediate collaborative development platform, which
-is already harvested by SWH (e.g GitHub, GitLab, etc.).
+Alternatively, SWH allows its trusted partners to send source code artifacts and/or
+metadata directly into the Archive with a push-based mechanism. By using this
+possibility different actors, holding software artifacts or metadata, can preserve
+their assets without having to pass through an intermediate collaborative development
+platform, which is already harvested by SWH (e.g GitHub, GitLab, etc.).
 
-**This mechanism is the code deposit.**
+**This mechanism is the deposit.**
 
-The main idea is the deposit is an authenticated access to an API allowing the user to
-provide source code artifacts -- with metadata -- to be ingested in the SWH Archive. The
-result of that is a `SWHID`_ that can be used to uniquely and persistently identify that
-very piece of source code.
+The result of this action is a `SWHID`_ that can be used to uniquely and persistently
+identify that very piece of source code.
 
-This unique identifier can then be used to `reference the source code
-<https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02446202>`_ (e.g. in a `scientific paper
-<https://www.softwareheritage.org/2020/05/26/citing-software-with-style/>`_) and
-retrieve it using the `vault`_ feature of the SWH Archive platform.
+This unique identifier can then be used to reference the source code (e.g. in a
+scientific paper) and retrieve it using the features of the SWH Archive platform.
 
-The differences between a piece of code uploaded using the deposit rather than simply
-asking SWH to archive a repository using the `save code now`_ feature are:
+The differences between a deposit and simply asking SWH to archive a repository using the pull features of the Archive are:
 
 - a deposited artifact is provided from one of the SWH partners which is regarded as a
   trusted authority,
 - a deposited artifact requires metadata properties describing the source code artifact,
-- a deposited artifact has a CodeMeta_ metadata entry attached to it,
-- a deposited artifact has the same visibility on the SWH Archive than a collected
-  repository,
 - a deposited artifact can be searched with its provided url property on the SWH
-  Archive,
-- the deposit API uses the `SWORD v2`_ API, thus requires some tooling to send deposits
-  to SWH. These tools are provided with this repository.
+  Archive
+- it is possible to make a metadata only deposit only about an artefact already
+  present in the Software Heritage archive.
 
-A partner may wish to deposit only metadata about an origin or object already present in the Software Heritage archive.
+Metadata?
+---------
 
-The **metadata-only deposit** is a special deposit where no content is provided and the data transferred to Software Heritage is only the metadata about an object in the archive.
+The metadata of a software artefact is the real added value of the deposit service, it
+allows a partner to provide extra information on a source code (details about the
+author and its affiliation, external ids, mention in a scientific publication, etc.)
+which are usually not present in the code itself.
+
+Metadata is indexed by our search engine and provide new ways of finding content in the
+archive.
+
+To understand why metadata is so important to us read
+:ref:`Why do we need metadata? <deposit-why-metadata>`.
 
 Is it useful for me?
 --------------------
 
-Source code is fragile; it can disappear. It is important to note that software source code has an essential role in research and should be archived properly, alongside data and publications. Software that was built for research as part of the open science ecosystem should be archived, referenced, described and cited.
+Source code is fragile; it can disappear.
+
+If you are a repository for research software, you know software source code has an
+essential role in research and should be archived properly, alongside data and
+publications. Software that was built for research as part of the open science
+ecosystem should be archived, referenced, described and cited.
 
 When depositing in Software Heritage you can describe a software artifact properly with specific metadata properties and it will be safely saved in the universal software archive.
 
-Also, as a metadata producer you can attach to an existing entry in the archive all the
-TODO
+As a metadata producer or aggregator TODO...
 
-To understand why metadata is so important to us read
-:ref:`Why do we need metadata? <deposit-why-metadata>`.
\ No newline at end of file
+Ready to use our deposit services?
+----------------------------------
+
+Start by :ref:`requesting a user account <deposit-account>`.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/deposit/howto/account.rst b/docs/deposit/howto/account.rst
index 5d5c91f37e685ae24cdd7c0cbf2275fdcb3c4dff..78def109f8d284c1168bf23628cd36d45025deb8 100644
--- a/docs/deposit/howto/account.rst
+++ b/docs/deposit/howto/account.rst
@@ -3,15 +3,21 @@
 Request an account
 ==================
 
-Becoming a deposit client is very easy, just write to deposit@softwareheritage.org
-to setup the deposit partner agreement. With the agreement signed you can follow the
-steps below.
+.. admonition:: Deposit partner agreement
+   :class: warning
 
-For this, as a client, you need to register an account on the swh keycloak
-`production <https://archive.softwareheritage.org/oidc/login/>`_
-or `staging <https://webapp.staging.swh.network/oidc/login/>`_ instance.
+   Access to the deposit services is restricted to organizations who signed the deposit
+   partner agreement. To learn more about this agreement please write to
+   deposit@softwareheritage.org
 
-Once you have an account, you should get a set of access credentials as a login, a password and a collection name (identified as <username>, <pass> and <collection> in the remaining of this documentation).
+With the agreement signed you will be able to register an account on our
+`production <https://archive.softwareheritage.org/oidc/login/>`_ and
+`staging <https://webapp.staging.swh.network/oidc/login/>`_ instances.
+
+Once you have an account, you will get a set of access credentials as a login, a
+password and a collection name (identified as <username>, <pass> and <collection> in
+the remaining of this documentation).
 
 A deposit account also comes with a “provider URL” which is used by SWH to build the Origin URL of deposits created using this account and confirm its ownership.
 
+You are now ready to :ref:`prepare your artefacts and metadata <deposit-prepare>`.
diff --git a/docs/deposit/howto/first-deposit.rst b/docs/deposit/howto/first-deposit.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..759b54f98e47ebede9daa9fe1428b2001720dc3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/deposit/howto/first-deposit.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+.. _deposit-first:
+
+
+Make a first code & metadata deposit
+====================================
+
+Checklist
+---------
+
+- You have access to your :ref:`account credentials <deposit-account>`
+- You have a software artefact at hand and its associated metadata (if not you need to
+  :ref:`prepare your artefacts and metadata <deposit-prepare>`.)
+- This is the first time you're depositing for this origin (if you already made
+  deposits for this origin you want to
+  :ref:`make a new deposit for an existing origin <deposit-version>`)
+- The software artefact is not larger than 100Mo (if not you need to
+  :ref:`make a multi-step deposit <deposit-partial>`)
+- You have either the CLI installed or a tool to make API calls, we will use curl
+  here, but commands could be easily adapted to another application
+
+Send the artefact and the metadata
+----------------------------------
+
+.. admonition:: Deposit instance URL
+   :class: warning
+
+   In the examples below the staging deposit url https://deposit.staging.swh.network
+   is used to avoid experimenting on the production instance of the deposit server.
+   Make sure you switch to https://deposit.softwareheritage.org when you are ready.
+
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+  .. tab-item:: API
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+      # 1) Note the 'In-Progress: false' header
+      # 2) Make sure the mimetype matches your file, here <softwareartefact> is a zip
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
+           -F "file=@<softwareartefact>;type=application/zip;filename=payload" \
+           -F "atom=@<metadatafile>;type=application/atom+xml;charset=UTF-8" \
+           -H 'In-Progress: false' \
+           -XPOST https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/
+
+  .. tab-item:: CLI
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+      # 1) Note the 'no-partial' flag
+      swh deposit upload \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
+        --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
+        --create-origin <origin> \
+        --archive <softwareartefact> \
+        --metadata <metadatafile> \
+        --no-partial \
+        --format json
+
+Will return the following response:
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+  .. tab-item:: API
+
+    .. code-block:: http
+
+      <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
+            xmlns:sword="http://purl.org/net/sword/"
+            xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
+            xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit"
+            >
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_id><deposit_id></swhdeposit:deposit_id>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_date>Jan. 1, 2025, 09:00 a.m.</swhdeposit:deposit_date>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_archive>None</swhdeposit:deposit_archive>
+          <!-- Note the 'deposited' status -->
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_status>deposited</swhdeposit:deposit_status>
+
+          <!-- Edit-IRI -->
+          <link rel="edit" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/metadata/" />
+          <!-- EM-IRI -->
+          <link rel="edit-media" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/media/"/>
+          <!-- SE-IRI -->
+          <link rel="http://purl.org/net/sword/terms/add" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/metadata/" />
+          <!-- State-IRI -->
+          <link rel="alternate" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/"/>
+
+          <sword:packaging>http://purl.org/net/sword/package/SimpleZip</sword:packaging>
+      </entry>
+
+  .. tab-item:: CLI
+
+    .. code-block:: json
+
+      {
+        # Note the 'deposited' status
+        'deposit_status': 'deposited',
+        'deposit_id': '<deposit_id>',
+        'deposit_date': 'Jan. 1, 2025, 09:00 a.m.',
+        'deposit_status_detail': None
+      }
+
+A `deposited` status means the deposit is complete but still needs to be checked to
+ensure data consistency. You can check your deposit status to follow the process.
+
+Check a deposit status
+----------------------
+
+Your deposit will go :doc:`through multiple steps </references/workflow>` before appearing in the archive, you can check the status of your deposit and get its SWHID:
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+  .. tab-item:: API
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
+           -XGET https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/
+
+  .. tab-item:: CLI
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+      swh deposit status \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
+        --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
+        --deposit-id <deposit_id> \
+        --format json
+
+Will return the following response:
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+  .. tab-item:: API
+
+    .. code-block:: http
+
+      HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+      Vary: Accept, Cookie
+      Allow: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
+      Location: /1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/
+      Content-Type: application/xml
+
+      <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
+            xmlns:sword="http://purl.org/net/sword/"
+            xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
+            xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit"
+            >
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_id><deposit_id></swhdeposit:deposit_id>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_status>done</swhdeposit:deposit_status>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_status_detail>The deposit has been successfully loaded into the Software Heritage archive</swhdeposit:deposit_status_detail>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id>swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9</swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id_context>swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9;origin=<origin>;visit=swh:1:snp:68c0d26104d47e278dd6be07ed61fafb561d0d20;anchor=swh:1:rev:e76ea49c9ffbb7f73611087ba6e999b19e5d71eb;path=/</swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id>
+      </entry>
+
+  .. tab-item:: CLI
+
+    .. code-block:: json
+
+      {
+        "deposit_id": <deposit_id>,
+        "deposit_status": "done",
+        "deposit_swh_id": "swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9",
+        "deposit_swh_id_context": "swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9;origin=<origin>;visit=swh:1:snp:68c0d26104d47e278dd6be07ed61fafb561d0d20;anchor=swh:1:rev:e76ea49c9ffbb7f73611087ba6e999b19e5d71eb;path=/",
+        "deposit_status_detail": "The deposit has been successfully loaded into the Software Heritage archive"
+      }
diff --git a/docs/deposit/howto/index.rst b/docs/deposit/howto/index.rst
index 2963865663dc459e7a2097e4dd458c48cb737b5b..22315ff77a29e6d26fddfec75d533ded6e2f8606 100644
--- a/docs/deposit/howto/index.rst
+++ b/docs/deposit/howto/index.rst
@@ -6,8 +6,9 @@ How to guides
 
    account.rst
    prepare.rst
-   deposit-code.rst
-   deposit-metadata.rst
+   first-deposit.rst
+   multistep-deposit.rst
+   metadata-deposit.rst
    versions.rst
    integrations.rst
    participate.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/deposit/howto/deposit-metadata.rst b/docs/deposit/howto/metadata-deposit.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from docs/deposit/howto/deposit-metadata.rst
rename to docs/deposit/howto/metadata-deposit.rst
diff --git a/docs/deposit/howto/deposit-code.rst b/docs/deposit/howto/multistep-deposit.rst
similarity index 68%
rename from docs/deposit/howto/deposit-code.rst
rename to docs/deposit/howto/multistep-deposit.rst
index 61e492a871de217b17ea69dccdbae42e4dcf5020..b01691cbbe45f798112380edf15e625f12485e84 100644
--- a/docs/deposit/howto/deposit-code.rst
+++ b/docs/deposit/howto/multistep-deposit.rst
@@ -1,131 +1,35 @@
-.. _deposit-code-metadata:
+.. _deposit-partial:
 
 
-Make a code & metadata deposit
-==============================
+Make a multi-step code & metadata deposit
+=========================================
 
-You have a software artefact and its associated metadata you want to archive on
-Software Heritage: you want to make code & metadata deposit.
+.. admonition:: Partial deposits
+   :class: Note
 
-If you only have metadata to add to an existing entry in the Software Heritage archive
-you want to make a `metadata-only deposit <deposit-metadata-only>`
+   This method of depositing artefacts to the archive is a bit more complicated than
+   the :ref:`regular one`, if your artefacts are not larger than 100Mo we would
+   recommend sticking to the simpler (one shot) method.
 
-Requisites
-----------
-
-1. Access to :ref:`account credentials <deposit-account>`
-2. Have the origin url and prepared artefacts at hand, we will refer to it as
-   ``<origin>``, ``<softwareartefact>`` ``<metadatafile>`` hereafter
-3. Either the CLI installed or a tool to make API calls, we will use curl here, but
-   commands could be easily adapted to another application.
-
-.. admonition:: Deposit instance URL
-   :class: warning
-
-   In the examples below the staging deposit url https://deposit.staging.swh.network
-   is used to avoid experimenting on the production instance of the deposit server.
-   Make sure you switch to https://deposit.softwareheritage.org when you are ready.
-
-
-Make the deposit in one shot
-----------------------------
-
-If you have all the code artefacts ready in a single archive (and your metadata it is
-easy to deposit both in a single command:
-
-.. tab-set::
-
-  .. tab-item:: API
-
-    .. code-block:: console
-
-      # 1) Note the 'In-Progress: false' header
-      # 2) Make sure the mimetype matches your file, here <softwareartefact> is a zip
-      curl -i -u <username>:<pass> \
-           -F "file=@<softwareartefact>;type=application/zip;filename=payload" \
-           -F "atom=@<metadatafile>;type=application/atom+xml;charset=UTF-8" \
-           -H 'In-Progress: false' \
-           -XPOST https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/
-
-  .. tab-item:: CLI
-
-    .. code-block:: console
-
-      # 1) Note the 'no-partial' flag
-      swh deposit upload \
-        --username <username> --password <pass> \
-        --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
-        --create-origin <origin> \
-        --archive <softwareartefact> \
-        --metadata <metadatafile> \
-        --no-partial \
-        --format json
-
-Will return the following response:
-
-.. tab-set::
-
-  .. tab-item:: API
-
-    .. code-block:: http
-
-      HTTP/1.1 201 Created
-      Vary: Accept, Cookie
-      Allow: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
-      Location: /1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/metadata/
-      Content-Type: application/xml
-
-      <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
-            xmlns:sword="http://purl.org/net/sword/"
-            xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
-            xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit"
-            >
-          <swhdeposit:deposit_id><deposit_id></swhdeposit:deposit_id>
-          <swhdeposit:deposit_date>Jan. 1, 2025, 09:00 a.m.</swhdeposit:deposit_date>
-          <swhdeposit:deposit_archive>None</swhdeposit:deposit_archive>
-          <!-- Note the 'deposited' status -->
-          <swhdeposit:deposit_status>deposited</swhdeposit:deposit_status>
-
-          <!-- Edit-IRI -->
-          <link rel="edit" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/metadata/" />
-          <!-- EM-IRI -->
-          <link rel="edit-media" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/media/"/>
-          <!-- SE-IRI -->
-          <link rel="http://purl.org/net/sword/terms/add" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/metadata/" />
-          <!-- State-IRI -->
-          <link rel="alternate" href="/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/"/>
-
-          <sword:packaging>http://purl.org/net/sword/package/SimpleZip</sword:packaging>
-      </entry>
-
-  .. tab-item:: CLI
-
-    .. code-block:: json
+If you have multiple code artefacts or if you need to make your deposit in two or
+more times, you can make use of the partial deposit functionality.
 
-      {
-        # Note the 'deposited' status
-        'deposit_status': 'deposited',
-        'deposit_id': '<deposit_id>',
-        'deposit_date': 'Jan. 1, 2025, 09:00 a.m.',
-        'deposit_status_detail': None
-      }
+Checklist
+---------
 
-A `deposited` status means the deposit is complete but still needs to be checked to ensure data consistency. See :ref:`Check a deposit status` to follow your deposit process.
+- You have access to your :ref:`account credentials <deposit-account>`
+- You have a software artefact at hand and its associated metadata (if not you need to
+  :ref:`prepare your artefacts and metadata <deposit-prepare>`.)
+- This is the first time you're depositing for this origin (if you already made
+  deposits for this origin you want to
+  :ref:`make a new deposit for an existing origin <deposit-version>`)
+- You have either the CLI installed or a tool to make API calls, we will use curl
+  here, but commands could be easily adapted to another application
 
-And if you got an error message instead please check
-:doc:`our troubleshooting reference </references/errors>` to sort it out.
 
 Make the deposit in multiple steps
 ----------------------------------
 
-If you have multiple code artefacts or if you need to make your deposit in two or
-more times, you can make use of the partial deposit functionality. Use cases:
-
-- the code artefact is larger than 100Mo (maximum file size allowed by our server), you
-  could split it in smaller archives and send it in multiple calls
-- different services of your infrastructure will call our API
-- etc.
-
 In the example below we will make a first deposit with a code artefact then a second
 one and finally a third one with the metadata.
 
@@ -139,7 +43,7 @@ First partial deposit
     .. code-block:: console
 
       # Note the 'In-Progress: true' header
-      curl -i -u <username>:<pass> \
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
            -F "file=@<softwareartefact1>;type=application/zip;filename=payload" \
            -H 'In-Progress: true' \
            -XPOST https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/
@@ -151,7 +55,7 @@ First partial deposit
       # 1) Note the '--partial' flag
       # 2) Note the `--create-origin` flag
       swh deposit upload \
-        --username <username> --password <pass> \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
         --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
         --create-origin <origin> \
         --archive <softwareartefact1> \
@@ -226,7 +130,7 @@ last one.
       # 1) Note the 'In-Progress: true' header
       # 2) Note the '<deposit_id>' in the URL
       # 3) Note the '/media/' in the URL (we're appending a new software artefact)
-      curl -i -u <username>:<pass> \
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
            -F "file=@<softwareartefact2>;type=application/zip;filename=payload" \
            -H 'In-Progress: true' \
            -XPOST https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/media/
@@ -239,7 +143,7 @@ last one.
       # 2) Note the `--deposit-id` argument
       # 3) Note the '--archive' argument as we're sending a new software artefact
       swh deposit upload \
-        --username <username> --password <pass> \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
         --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
         --archive <softwareartefact2> \
         --deposit-id <deposit_id> \
@@ -263,7 +167,7 @@ will send include "not partial anymore" parameter in our call.
       # 1) Note the 'In-Progress: false' header
       # 2) Note the '<deposit_id>' in the URL
       # 3) Note the '/metadata/' in the URL (we're appending metadata not code)
-      curl -i -u <username>:<pass> \
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
            -F "atom=@<metadatafile>;type=application/atom+xml;charset=UTF-8" \
            -H 'In-Progress: false' \
            -XPOST https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/metadata/
@@ -276,7 +180,7 @@ will send include "not partial anymore" parameter in our call.
       # 2) Note the `--deposit-id` argument
       # 3) Note the '--metadata' argument, as we're pushing metadata
       swh deposit upload \
-        --username <username> --password <pass> \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
         --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
         --metadata <metadatafile> \
         --deposit-id <deposit_id> \
@@ -295,7 +199,72 @@ Your deposit will go :doc:`through multiple steps </references/workflow>` before
 
     .. code-block:: console
 
-      curl -i -u <username>:<pass> \
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
+           -XGET https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/
+
+  .. tab-item:: CLI
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+      swh deposit status \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
+        --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
+        --deposit-id <deposit_id> \
+        --format json
+
+Will return the following response:
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+  .. tab-item:: API
+
+    .. code-block:: http
+
+      HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+      Vary: Accept, Cookie
+      Allow: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
+      Location: /1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/
+      Content-Type: application/xml
+
+      <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
+            xmlns:sword="http://purl.org/net/sword/"
+            xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
+            xmlns:swhdeposit="https://www.softwareheritage.org/schema/2018/deposit"
+            >
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_id><deposit_id></swhdeposit:deposit_id>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_status>done</swhdeposit:deposit_status>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_status_detail>The deposit has been successfully loaded into the Software Heritage archive</swhdeposit:deposit_status_detail>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id>swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9</swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id>
+          <swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id_context>swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9;origin=<origin>;visit=swh:1:snp:68c0d26104d47e278dd6be07ed61fafb561d0d20;anchor=swh:1:rev:e76ea49c9ffbb7f73611087ba6e999b19e5d71eb;path=/</swhdeposit:deposit_swh_id>
+      </entry>
+
+  .. tab-item:: CLI
+
+    .. code-block:: json
+
+      {
+        "deposit_id": <deposit_id>,
+        "deposit_status": "done",
+        "deposit_swh_id": "swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9",
+        "deposit_swh_id_context": "swh:1:dir:d83b7dda887dc790f7207608474650d4344b8df9;origin=<origin>;visit=swh:1:snp:68c0d26104d47e278dd6be07ed61fafb561d0d20;anchor=swh:1:rev:e76ea49c9ffbb7f73611087ba6e999b19e5d71eb;path=/",
+        "deposit_status_detail": "The deposit has been successfully loaded into the Software Heritage archive"
+      }
+
+A `deposited` status means the deposit is complete but still needs to be checked to
+ensure data consistency. You can check your deposit status to follow the process.
+
+Check a deposit status
+----------------------
+
+Your deposit will go :doc:`through multiple steps </references/workflow>` before appearing in the archive, you can check the status of your deposit and get its SWHID:
+
+.. tab-set::
+
+  .. tab-item:: API
+
+    .. code-block:: console
+
+      curl -i -u <username>:<password> \
            -XGET https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1/<collection>/<deposit_id>/status/
 
   .. tab-item:: CLI
@@ -303,7 +272,7 @@ Your deposit will go :doc:`through multiple steps </references/workflow>` before
     .. code-block:: console
 
       swh deposit status \
-        --username <username> --password <pass> \
+        --username <username> --password <password> \
         --url https://deposit.staging.swh.network/1 \
         --deposit-id <deposit_id> \
         --format json
diff --git a/docs/deposit/howto/prepare.rst b/docs/deposit/howto/prepare.rst
index dffa1465c20e21efe4afe01e1681b69bd632ab3f..79140f7878308b894aafd7693beffd6f33be6403 100644
--- a/docs/deposit/howto/prepare.rst
+++ b/docs/deposit/howto/prepare.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+.. _deposit-prepare:
+
+
 Prepare your metadata and artifacts
 ===================================
 
diff --git a/docs/deposit/index.rst b/docs/deposit/index.rst
index 70bc92647ba0f465b19c82bf8eee57585305b4d7..9e9190214b31c6bbcf224ea4ddb74f4dbad07026 100644
--- a/docs/deposit/index.rst
+++ b/docs/deposit/index.rst
@@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ Deposit
 
 .. thumbnail:: images/software_life_cycle_en-1024x810.png
 
-The deposit service allows a client (a repository, e.g. HAL) to submit software source archives and its associated metadata to the Software Heritage archive.
+(we need a better picture)
 
-Metadata can be also submitted referencing a repository url (origin) or a
+The deposit service allows a partner to submit software source archives and their
+associated metadata to the Software Heritage archive.
+
+Metadata can be also submitted referencing a an existing repository url (origin) or a
 :ref:`SWHIDs <persistent-identifiers>`.
 
 Explanations
@@ -41,8 +44,9 @@ To assist informed users with their deposits.
 
    howto/account.rst
    howto/prepare.rst
-   howto/deposit-code.rst
-   howto/deposit-metadata.rst
+   howto/first-deposit.rst
+   howto/multistep-deposit.rst
+   howto/metadata-deposit.rst
    howto/versions.rst
    howto/integrations.rst
    howto/participate.rst