Run 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 you have finished Getting started, and again whenever you like.

When you enter what a customer owed you on the day you started, BusinessSensor records it the way most accounting systems do: as a sale to that customer, so the debt is real and can be paid off. The other side of that sale lands in Uncategorized Income, which makes this period's profit look bigger than it is. Supplier opening balances do the opposite through Uncategorized Expenses.

Move to Opening Balance Equity records a journal entry that moves those amounts to Opening Balance Equity, where opening figures belong: