You finish setting up in three passes. The welcome screens collect the basics, four setup stages fill in the rest, and two dashboard checklists take you to your first quote and your first booking. Only one stage, Your business, holds you in setup, and everything else can wait.
Steps
- On the welcome screen, click Let's set it up right. To answer the same questions in a chat with SageAI, click Have SageAI do it with me. Seats that can't change settings see that button grayed out and use the form.
- On the Foundations screen, say what you serve, where your business is and roughly how many events you run a year. Businesses that serve alcohol also answer a licensing question. Upload your price sheet (a typed PDF, an Excel file, a CSV or a photo, up to 25 MB) or click Start with the starter setup, then click Continue.
- On "What do you need from us today?", click Do it properly to set up costs and pricing now, or Take me to quoting to send a quote first and add costs later.
- Check what the app set up for you under "Here's what we found", then click the button at the bottom to move on.
- On your dashboard, click Continue setup on the Finish setting up card. The first stage, Your business, has two rows. Business settings needs a state or province, and Business identity needs a logo or a primary brand color. Click Set up on each row. Fill in your business details covers both.
- Open the other stages from the row of stage names at the top, if you want them now. What you sell, How you present it and How work reaches you never hold you in setup. Click Go to your dashboard when you're ready to leave.
- Work the Ready to quote checklist on your dashboard. It covers installing a bundle, setting your service area, confirming staff pay, answering the sales tax questions and sending your first quote. Click Set up on a line, then Draft a quote for the first one. The first quote send waits for the sales tax answers, so start with Set your sales tax rate.
- Work the Get booked checklist. It covers connecting Stripe so clients can pay by card, adding your logo and brand color, confirming your payment schedule and publishing a booking form. Connect Stripe to take card payments covers the first line.
What ends setup
Your business is done when both rows are done. The Finish setting up card and the Finish setup sidebar link then go away, and a banner on the setup pages says "You have done what setup requires. Everything below is optional, whenever you are ready." Click the X on a checklist to dismiss it.
Something look off?
Work through each check in order. Most fixes take under a minute.
You don't see the Finish setting up card
- 1 · Check whether Your business is already done. The card and the sidebar link go away as soon as it is.
- 2 · Look for the Ready to quote or Get booked checklist on your dashboard instead.
- 3 · Accounts that did not start on the welcome screen never show the card. Open Getting started in the sidebar to work through each area in order.
Continue setup doesn't finish the stage
- 1 · Open the row that still shows Set up and save what it asks for.
- 2 · For Business settings, check that a state or province is selected.
- 3 · For Business identity, upload a logo or set the Primary brand color.