 zero accounting software 2023 set up bank feed test company file with 30-day free trial get ready to become an accountant hero with zero 2023 here we are at the zero accounting software website the URL being xer.com because I'm in the United States I have a forward slash us if you're located elsewhere then you should be able to follow along just fine with the practice problem because the concept of connecting the financial institutions the banks to the accounting software to zero as well as the double-entry accounting system itself used by the zero accounting software is basically universal the major things that will differ from location to location is number one of course the currency so you'll have to deal with me measuring things in the units of dollars while you might be measuring things in some other currency even though the accounting concepts will be the same and number two taxes so taxes will be specific to a particular location even there you can get the idea of what type of taxes being applied however of course the exact tax that's going to be applied will be dependent upon the laws and regulations of a particular location so what we would like to do now is be practicing with the connection to the bank feeds in order to do that there are two main tools that zero provides us for practice one is the demo file which is great and number two we possibly could get access to the 30-day free trial to be practicing with that's the strategy we want to use here because that way we could possibly get a file that has nothing in it in other words when we're looking at the two methods that we could use possibly to practice with the demo file is a great tool because it already has information in it and we can practice basically manipulating that information that allows us to deconstruct going from the end result back to the source documents but if we want to practice setting something up like setting up the bank feeds from scratch then from the beginning then it would be nice for us to have a blank file that we can connect to the bank or import information into and for that it would be nice if we can get a free 30-day trial to kind of test that process out so the way we could do that if you're logged into zero you can simply log in here if you haven't logged into zero if you don't have an account then you can click on the try the free 30-day trial basically what you're going to do here is enter your information into zero I don't believe you need a credit card at this time in order to log into zero so that you have an account once you have the account then you'll be going into zero's dashboard and the zero dashboard is where you can set up new company files possibly taking advantage of the 30-day trial and be using the demo company so once we're logged in we should have something that looks like this so this is our custom zero dashboard and so now we're gonna have the company files that we have created down below now if you don't have any company files created you're not gonna have anything down here and we can go in and add an organization like a company or business file or we can use the demo company down below now remember the demo company if I if I open the demo company the tool of it is that it already had the great thing about it is it already has information in it so I can I can go into my actual reports accounting drop down I can go into my balance sheet for example and it already is populated and so that now I can make changes to it and then I can go back into the balance sheet and see what happens so that's a great tool but what we would like to do is try to create something from the ground up and so so if you if you don't have access to a 30-day free trial or you'd rather just use the demo company