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Getting Started

This page gives the shortest path through work that is available in the current BooksPlus desktop. For the detailed Guided Setup sequence, blockers, and recovery actions, use Company Setup.

Before opening BooksPlus

  • Decide who prepares accounting, who reviews it, and who is responsible for company security and backup.
  • Gather the company name, reporting currency, accounting time zone, fiscal year end, and intended first posting date.
  • Decide whether the company can use the BooksPlus starter chart.
  • Gather support for the first manual entry you intend to post.

See Getting Organized for a broader preparation checklist.

Current desktop path

  1. Continue with the detected desktop identity.
  2. Select an available company, or create a startup company and confirm its initial production administrator when prompted.
  3. In Setup, enter the company details and work through the available readiness actions. The current setup surface supports calendar activation, opening the first posting period, starter-chart installation and collision review, setup acknowledgements, reviewed opening-balance posting, or an evidence-backed not-required disposition.
  4. When Setup reports completion, review its summary and choose Enter Current Period. Setup remains available for later review and will show any later invalidation.
  5. Use Current Period to review the open period, readiness, exceptions, source-document and posted-entry registers, and any existing Summary batch.
  6. In Manual Entry, enter and validate a balanced journal entry with a clear explanation and the required support, then post it through the protected Accounting path.
  7. Open Ledger to confirm the posted entry and its debit and credit lines. Use Details for supporting source and audit information. See Ledger Review.
  8. Use Fiscal Calendar to run the live trial balance for the required date range.

Use Return to Company Selection when you need to leave the current company. BooksPlus warns before discarding unfinished values shown in the workspace; it does not delete saved company data.

Current limitations

The desktop does not yet expose supported entry points for accounting-file intake, the four domain-specific Summary workflows, Corrections, canonical CloseRun processing, full Reporting, or QBO controlled cutover. Do not use the legacy fiscal-calendar close buttons as a substitute for the canonical Period Close workflow.

See Workflows and Availability for the complete boundary.