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Get ABSS running in under an hour

The same eight steps as your real Getting Started checklist, condensed into one page — from creating your account to your first bill. Nothing here is locked to this order except activating your free trial first.

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Step 1: Create Your Account

~5 min

Sign-up is four steps, not one — and it doesn't log you in automatically. Do this at accounts.abss.ai.

  • Register with your name, email, and a password
  • Verify the OTP sent to your email
  • Create your company — only the company name is required here, everything else is optional
  • Log in with the email and password from step 1

Tip: Verifying the OTP confirms your email, but your account only becomes fully active once you create your company in step 3.

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Step 2: Activate Your Free Trial

~1 min

This one action is what actually sets your organisation up to work — before it runs, nothing in Books is usable yet.

  • After logging in, activate your free trial
  • This creates document numbering for every module
  • It creates a default Division, Branch, and Warehouse
  • It builds your full Chart of Accounts automatically

Tip: Every real action — adding an item, inviting a teammate, creating an invoice — requires this step to have run first.

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Step 3: Add Your Organisation Details

~5 min

Company name is all that was required at sign-up. This is where you fill in the rest — the details every document actually needs.

  • Go to Settings → Profile
  • Add your GSTIN and PAN
  • Add your registered address
  • Confirm your base currency and fiscal year

Tip: This is the first item on your Getting Started checklist, and it's tracked automatically — the app checks whether these fields are filled in, you don't check it off by hand.

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Step 4: Add Your First Item and Customer

~10 min

Two of the eight steps on your real Getting Started checklist — in any order, nothing is locked.

  • Go to All Master → Item and add your first product or service
  • Go to Sales → Customers and add your first customer
  • Both can be added one at a time or in bulk from the same screen

Tip: The Getting Started checklist on your Home dashboard tracks both of these automatically from your real data.

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Step 5: Set Up Banking

~5 min

Add the bank or cash account your payments actually move through.

  • Go to Banking → Banks → Add
  • Enter the account name, bank name, and account number
  • Mark one account as Primary if you have more than one

Tip: A bank/cash account is really a Chart-of-Accounts entry — it shows up in your ledger like everything else.

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Step 6: Invite Your Team

~5 min

Available as soon as your free trial is active — no other setup required first.

  • Go to Settings → Users → Invite
  • Enter their email address
  • Assign them a role under Settings → Roles — permissions are custom per module (Create / View / Edit / Delete), not a fixed list of named roles

Tip: You must be a company admin to invite anyone, and your free trial must already be active.

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Step 7: Create Your First Invoice

~3 min

The real checklist has this before adding a vendor or creating a bill — you don't need either first.

  • Go to Sales → Invoices → Add
  • Select your customer and add line items from your item master
  • Save as Draft, or Sent to move it into your live receivable balance

Tip: Your customer's credit limit and any overdue-invoice restriction are checked on save.

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Step 8: Add a Vendor and Your First Bill

~10 min

The last two steps on your Getting Started checklist.

  • Go to Purchase → Vendors and add your first vendor
  • Go to Purchase → Bills → Add to record what you owe them

Tip: Vendors and customers are the same underlying record type, just viewed through a different screen — a party can be both at once.

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~10 min
Account and trial
Steps 1–2 — everything else needs this done first
~30 min
Ready to invoice
Steps 1–5 — organisation details, an item, a customer, banking
~45 min
Full checklist
All 8 steps, including your team and your first bill

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