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How to send your first invoice in 10 minutes

SalesGuru Team1 min read

New to SalesGuru? Here's the whole journey from signing up to your customer receiving a professional invoice - realistically about ten minutes, tea break included.

Minute 0–2: create your free account

Go to os.getsalesguru.com/register, enter your business name, email and phone number. No card details, no plan selection - invoicing is free.

Minute 2–5: add a customer and an item

You don't need to set up your whole catalogue to send one invoice.

  1. Customers → Add customer. Name and phone number are enough to start.
  2. Items → Add item. What you sell, and the price. VAT settings are handled here once, and applied automatically forever after.

Have everything in a spreadsheet already? Import it instead - but for the first invoice, two entries by hand is faster.

Minute 5–8: create the invoice

Hit New invoice, pick your customer, add your item(s), adjust quantities. The subtotal, VAT and total calculate themselves. Add a note if you like ("Thank you! Payment within 14 days").

Minute 8–10: send it and watch the status

Press Send and the invoice goes to your customer by email, viewable on any device. From now on it has a life of its own on your dashboard:

  • Sent - delivered, awaiting payment
  • Paid - money in; the invoice files itself away
  • Overdue - past its due date, time for a friendly reminder

That status board - knowing exactly who owes you what - is where most businesses feel the difference in the first week.

What's next?

Nothing, until you want more. Keep invoicing for free forever, or add POS, inventory, accounting and payroll when the business asks for it - see what each module costs.

Every great business starts somewhere.

Start with free invoicing today. Grow into the software your business will still be using years from now.

No credit card required.