Getting set up

How do I know I am ready to go live?

Run Setup → Go-live Check. It makes the checks an accountant would make on a new set of books — company details, time zone, books in balance, opening balances, items without a category, roles that see no items, negative stock — and tells you where to fix each one.

Steps

  1. Enter your opening balances first: customers, suppliers, stock and bank.
  2. Open Setup → Go-live Check and work down the marked lines.
  3. Click the link under each line to fix it, then Check again. When every line is ticked, you are ready.

The full guide

Am I ready to go live? The go-live check

Before you start trading, Setup → Go-live Check runs the checks an accountant would make on a new set of books. Each line is either ticked or tells you what is wrong and where to fix it. Run it when…

Related questions

Try it in a practice company first

Start a free trial and follow along with sample data before you touch your own books.