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Getting started with Tiram: from sign-up to your first invoice
Quick answer
Signing up to Tiram takes two short steps — an account (email, WhatsApp OTP, or Google) and a business profile (name, GSTIN, industry, location, UPI ID) — and lands you straight on a Getting-started checklist that walks you to your first product, first customer, and first invoice. It's included on every Tiram plan, with no setup fee or consultant needed.
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Signing up
Create your account with email and password, WhatsApp OTP, or a one-click Google sign-in — whichever your organization has enabled — along with your name.
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Setting up your business profile
Next, enter your organization name (the only required field), and optionally your GSTIN, industry, country/state, and UPI ID. This takes under a minute and seeds sensible defaults so you're not starting from an empty screen.
The industry choice is the one worth making. Pick from 24 lines of business — kirana, supermarket, pharmacy, restaurant, apparel, footwear, electronics, hardware, stationery, jewellery, furniture, bakery on the retail side, and FMCG, grocery, textile, pharma, agri inputs, building materials, electrical, hardware, auto parts, plastics and packaging, paper, spices and dry fruits on the wholesale side — and Tiram creates that trade's usual top-level product categories for you. A kirana store starts with Groceries, Snacks & Beverages, Personal Care, Household and Dairy & Bakery already there. Choose Other, or skip the field, and you simply get a single Others category to file products under; nothing is forced on you, and you can rename or delete any of them.
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The getting-started checklist
Landing on your dashboard for the first time shows a Getting-started tab by default, with a progress bar and a six-step checklist. Four are required: add a vendor, add a product, add a customer, and make your first bill — the order the flow walks you through, because stock arrives from someone before it is sold to someone. Recording a payment and putting stock on hand are the two optional follow-ups.
The payment step often completes itself: a cash, UPI, card or bank sale now records a payment automatically when the bill is made, so it appears in your Payments ledger and your cash-in reports without a second entry. Only a credit sale leaves a balance for you to collect later.
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What happens once you're set up
Once the four required steps are done, the checklist automatically steps aside and your normal dashboard cockpit becomes the default view — it stays reachable afterward, just relabeled to show your core flow is ready, in case you want to revisit it.
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Which Tiram plan includes onboarding and the getting-started checklist?
Sign-up, business-profile setup, and the getting-started checklist are included on every Tiram plan — Silver, Gold, and Platinum — there's no trial restriction blocking any part of getting started, even before you've chosen a plan.
Quick answers
- How do I get started with Tiram billing software?
- Sign up (email, WhatsApp OTP, or Google), fill in your business profile, then follow the on-dashboard getting-started checklist to your first product, customer, and invoice.
- How long does it take to set up a business profile in Tiram?
- Under a minute — only your organization name is required; GSTIN, industry, location, and UPI ID are optional and can be added or edited later.
- Does Tiram guide me to my first invoice?
- Yes — a getting-started checklist on the dashboard walks new signups through adding a product, a customer, and their first bill.
- Is onboarding free, or does it require picking a plan first?
- Onboarding is included on every plan and isn't blocked by subscription status — you can sign up and start setting up before ever choosing a plan.
FAQs
- What information do I need to sign up for Tiram?
- Just an account (email/password, WhatsApp OTP, or Google) and your organization name — everything else in the business profile is optional at sign-up.
- What does the getting-started checklist track?
- Four required steps — add a vendor, add a product, add a customer, then make your first bill — and two optional ones (a payment recorded, stock put on hand). A cash or UPI sale records its payment automatically, so that optional step often ticks itself.
- Does the checklist disappear once I'm done?
- It steps out of the way once the four required steps are complete, though it remains reachable if you want to check back.
- Can I switch language during sign-up?
- Yes — the sign-in and onboarding screens carry the same EN/TA language toggle as the rest of the app.
- Which plan do I need to get started?
- None to start — sign-up and onboarding work on every plan, including before you've picked one.
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