> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/llms.txt).

# Getting Started

Sign up, set up your first company and bring your existing books over.

- [Welcome to ZeraBooks General Ledger](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/welcome-to-zerabooks): How ZeraBooks keeps your books. You upload bank and card statements, AI does the bookkeeping, and every month is proven against the bank before you report on it.
- [Start your free trial](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/start-your-free-trial): Create your ZeraBooks account, pick monthly or annual billing, and start a 7-day free trial. Here is what it costs and when your card is charged.
- [Product Guides](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/product-guides): Eight short clips, starting with Ask Zera doing a whole month from one message, then each part of ZeraBooks in the order a bookkeeper works through a month. Each runs about 30 seconds with captions and no sound.
- [Set up your first company](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/set-up-your-first-company): Name the business, then let Zera set it up from your statements, or go step by step. Every setup screen, from the business name to the first look at your books.
- [Choose a starting point](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/choose-a-starting-point): Start fresh, books are up to date, or books need catching up. Which one fits your business, and how to pick the first day ZeraBooks keeps the books.
- [Currency and region](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/currency-and-region): Each company keeps its books in US dollars, Canadian dollars or euros. How to choose the currency and number format, and when the currency locks.
- [Move your books to ZeraBooks](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/move-your-books-to-zerabooks): Bring your old books' closing balances, unpaid invoices and bills, and bank handoff into ZeraBooks, one stage at a time. You can save and come back at any stage.
- [Export closing reports from your old software](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/export-closing-reports): The exact clicks to export the trial balance and the unpaid invoices and bills reports from QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero and other software.
- [Match opening balances to categories](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/match-opening-balances): Every balance on your old trial balance needs a home in ZeraBooks. How the Categories stage matches them, and how to change a match before you continue.
- [Bank handoff and uncleared items](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/bank-handoff-and-uncleared-items): Hand each bank and card over to ZeraBooks with its last statement before the closing date, and list any checks or deposits that hadn't cleared so they aren't counted twice.
- [Review, import and undo opening books](https://www.zerabooks.com/help/getting-started/review-import-and-undo-opening-books): Check the opening totals, bring your books into ZeraBooks, and find the opening-book record afterwards. How to undo the import, and when you no longer can.