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Getting started

Your first hour on WeSelling — from signing up to taking a real order.

WeSelling gives a business a till, a stockroom, a public shop and a set of books, all reading from the same data. This page is the shortest path from a new account to a first real order.

What you get

Your business lives on its own web address — yourname.weselling.store — and everything at that address is yours. Your catalogue, your prices, your policies, your customers. Other businesses on the platform cannot see any of it, and your customers never see WeSelling branding.

The first hour

  1. Create the business

    Sign up and pick your web address. Choose carefully — it goes on receipts, QR codes and shop signage, and changing it later orphans every link that was already printed.

  2. Set up your profile

    Go to Settings and fill in your trading name, currency and timezone. The currency shapes every price in the app, so set it before you add stock.

  3. Add your branches

    Settings → Branches. Even a single-location business has one — headquarters. Stock, sales and staff all belong to a branch.

  4. Turn on what you need

    Settings → Features. Services, reservations, table ordering, events and taxes are all off by default. Turn on only what you sell — an unused module is a menu item that confuses your staff.

  5. Add your stock

    Inventory. Add products with a cost price, a selling price and a quantity. Mark the ones you want customers to see as storefront-visible.

  6. Set up your shop

    Settings → Storefront. Choose a storefront pack, upload a header image, write your tagline, set your brand colour.

  7. Take money

    Settings → Integrations for card payments, or Settings → Bank accounts for transfers. You can also sell entirely on cash and record it at the till.

  8. Add your staff

    Staff. Give each person a role. Roles decide what they can see and do — see Staff & permissions.

The order things have to happen in

Most of the setup can be done in any order. Three things cannot, because later steps depend on them:

  1. Currency before prices. Changing currency later does not convert anything already entered.
  2. Branches before staff. Every staff member belongs to a branch.
  3. Stock before the shop. A storefront with an empty catalogue is worse than no storefront, because it is indexable and it is yours.

Two ideas worth understanding early

Stock only moves through movements

You never edit a quantity directly. Adding, removing, selling and transferring stock all create a stock movement — an entry in a ledger that only ever grows. The quantity you see is the sum of that ledger.

This is why you can always answer "where did those twelve units go", and why two people counting the same shelf at the same time cannot corrupt the number.

Nothing is really deleted

Business records are soft-deleted: hidden from lists, kept in the database, still counted in the history they belong to. A sale from March is still in March's numbers after you remove it from view.

Note This is deliberate. A system where a mistake can erase a month's takings is a system nobody can be held to.

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