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Easy Setup
A quick and easy setup process means you can make the switch today. Our support teams are on
hand to help you start your journey toward positive business transformation. Unlike our competitors
(QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, etc.) we strive to make the small business accounting experience a more
personal one and are dedicated to helping you tap into your business potential.
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Registration Process
Upon searching up fastaccounts.pk in your browser (i.e. chrome, edge, firefox, etc.)
you will land on the homepage of our website. By pressing the “Free Trial” button,
you will be taken to the registration page, where by filling out some basic
information you will begin your journey towards business transformation with
FastAccounts:
After filling out the above information, you will be required to complete the
reCAPTCHA to ensure you aren’t a robot.
After completing these steps, press the “Create New Account” button and the
process of joining is that easy.
You should see a message indicating that your company has been added successfully
and that an email should be reaching your inbox within 5 minutes to set up your
password.
Once you have received the email, you will see a button labelled “Set Up Password”,
alternatively you can copy and paste the link below the button into a browser. Upon
pressing the button, you will be taken to the “Reset Password” page, where you can
create a password for your account, be sure that the password you make follows the
criteria highlighted on the page. Once you have created and confirmed your
password, press the “Reset Password” button and you should find the page has
refreshed and you have been taken to the login screen. Alongside this you will also
receive an email with a button labelled “Login” and a link below that should you
wish to paste it into a browser.
Now that you have created an account and password, anytime you search up
fastaccounts.pk and press the “Login” button, you will be able to use your new
details to log in to your account and access FastAccounts.
First Time Logging In
When you log in to FastAccounts for the first time, you are greeted by a notification
window with a help video. This help video provides you with a quick tour and setup
overview of FastAccounts, to get you up to speed quickly. We would strongly advise
taking a minute to watch the full video. Once you have completed watching the
video you can then move on to the initial changing of your settings to ensure
FastAccounts is working optimally for your business.
Business Information
The first setting that we’d advise you to adjust is your business information.
Pressing on the “Business Information” link in the settings menu will open a
new page with a form that enables you to fill out the following business
information so that FastAccounts can use this data later for system-
generated reports, documents, and more:
Smart Settings
Make use of smart settings to set configurations to FastAccounts based on
your business needs and style of operation. Pressing on the “Smart Settings”
link in the settings menu will open a new page with a form that enables you
to set these configurations as listed below:
You will find that underneath the “Year End Date” selector, there are a few
down-arrows for different tax options:
Tax Display Settings – Select what taxes you would like displayed on
documents for suppliers and customers respectively.
Sales Tax Rates – Select and adjust the sales tax and additional tax rates
for the regions in which you operate as well as the print label, region
code, and tax code.
WHT Rates – Select and adjust the WHT tax rates and tax codes for your
business, and assign each with a tax name.
Filters Management
Manage each smart filter for each of the modules and their respective
tables. Find their names and IDs with a choice of actions for each of the
filters in the action column of the list table. This can be accessed by pressing
the “Filters Management” link in the settings menu and then selecting the
filter using the select mode drop-down list.
Style – Choose from a set of styles for each template with the choice of
adjusting margins, page size, font size, and more.
Header/Footer – Select the information to be displayed and in what
order. You can also edit the footer text and the text alignment.
Invoice Header – Select the information to be displayed as the header of
the template and in what order.
Table Settings – Adjust a wide variety of settings for the table as well as
the information shown.
Invoice Footer -Select the information to be displayed as the footer of
the template and in what order. Make use of formatting options to
customise the template to your needs, for example, to adjust the format
of the footer signature of the invoice.
Alongside the above information, there is a column that will allow you a
choice of actions to take regarding the user chosen. These actions are
limited to editing or deleting the user.
Before you create a new user, you should first create roles to assign the new
users. You can do this by either pressing the “Manage Roles” button or by
returning to the settings menu and pressing the “Roles Management” link.
This will open a new page with a table of roles. This table will show you the
role ID, the name of the role, and the status of the role (active/inactive).
To add a new role, simply press the “Add New” button in the top right panel
of the screen and this will open up a form. To create a new role just fill out
the name, and use the tickboxes to select what rights to give that role access
to. You can choose from a variety of options that cover every aspect of the
software and of those options you can also select to what extent those
rights should exist. Depending on the right selected, you can choose from
the following:
Finish
Print
Print Cost
After having created a role, you can return to user management by either
pressing the “Manage Users” button or by pressing the “User Management”
link in the settings menu. Upon returning to this screen, press the “Add
New” button in the top right panel to open the add new user form. Here you
can fill out the earlier mentioned information for users, while also being able
to do the following:
If you choose to make the linked account (new user) an admin, then the
form is complete after that. However, if you choose to make the linked
account a user, then you have a few additional options for selecting access
rights:
Chart of Accounts
View a table of your nominal accounts using the “Chart of Accounts” link in
the settings menu. Pressing on the link will open up the chart of accounts
table where you can view all your nominal accounts, their respective codes,
and the actions you can take with each nominal account. These actions are
limited to editing and deleting the nominal account.
To add a new nominal account, press the “Add Nominal” button in the top
right panel of the screen. This will open a pop-up that will allow you to fill
out the following information to create a new nominal account:
Note that the right side of the pop-up displays any existing nominal accounts
and their codes once you’ve selected the category and section. This will help
you when choosing names and codes, while also avoiding any repetition of
nominals.
Sales Invoices
Sales Credit
Sales Orders
Purchase Orders
Pressing on the “Edit” button, found in the action column, will open the edit
template screen. Here you can edit the subject and message of the email as
well as pick a keyword for the email. Be sure to edit the template in the
correct format to ensure that data is correctly pulled from your records.
Lock Date
FastAccounts allows you to both lock and unlock user accounts linked to
your business. This is a particularly useful feature for ensuring that
businesses can lock the accounts of staff going on holiday or for staff that
are on temporary contracts that get periodically renewed. Pressing on the
“Lock Date” link in the settings menu will take you to a page with a table of
user accounts. This table will show for each of the entries: the lock date,
unlock days, auto-lock status, account creator, and account creation date.
Above the table, you can select a user account and set a fixed lock date or
set the number of unlock days. After choosing the lock date or unlock days,
you can then press the “Lock” button to set and save the account’s lock date
or unlock days.
Should you wish to unlock an account, just select the account entry in the
table using the tickbox column and press the “Unlock” button.
Furthermore, by pressing the “Lock Date History” button in the top right
panel of the screen, you will find a table of the history of any account locking
activities, the dates of any updates to these locks, and who made them.
Journals
Pressing on the “Journals” link in the settings menu will take you to a new
page with a table of journals. This table will list all the journals you have
added to your account, their IDs, the date associated with the journal, their
reference, and their total. You will also see that there is an action column
with the standard actions available to all entries in the table, these actions
include the following: view, edit, copy, and delete.
To add a new journal, press the “Add New” button in the top right panel of
the screen. This will open a form that you can use to create a new journal.
To create a new journal, fill out the following information in the form:
You also have the choice of importing journals using the green page icon in
the top right panel of the journals screen.