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Your First Month With NapkinLedger: A Walkthrough

Day 1 — Setup (5 minutes). Create your business, pick currency and fiscal year start. Add the cash accounts you actually use: main bank, wallet, payment processor.

First entry — Opening balances. Use the balance screen to declare where you stand today. This becomes your baseline; everything after measures change against it.

Month end — Close it. Post the big items you remember, then confirm real cash balances. Your first income statement appears: revenue, tagged expenses, general expenses, and a profit number that reconciles with reality.

From month two onward it's confirmations and reminders. Welcome to bookkeeping that ends.