 Hero accounting software 30-day free trial and purchase options Get ready to become an office hero with zero Here we are in the zero website. That's x e r o dot com I'm currently in the US the United States We're gonna go through the trial version set up located here But before we support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course each course then organized in a Logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need than can be done on a YouTube page We also include added resources such as Excel practice problems PDF files and more Like QuickBooks backup files win applicable So once again click the link below for a free month Membership to our website and all the content on it do. Let's first take a look at the plans Scrolling down through the plans. We've got the three levels the three tiers like QuickBooks online Zero is an online based accounting software Therefore you would think the three plans would be basically the same Software the higher levels of the plan giving you more access to more features of it That could be good because it should be a fairly seamless process to go from a lower level and ratchet up to a higher level As needed so it's not like you're moving in other words to a completely different accounting software Which can kind of be a painful move you are really just kind of turning on more features You might think of it as and that should be fairly seamless It can be a little less seamless to go through the higher level Back to the lower level if you've gotten used to using some of the features on the higher level Clearly the middle level is probably the most popular. Let's just take a quick look at the features here So you got the early level notice this one has some pretty severe limitations Send quotes and invoices 20 invoices. That's a pretty severe limitation on your invoicing Five bills that's a pretty severe limitation on the bills and then so you got reconciled capture bills short-term cash flow and business Snapshot bulk what we do not have bulk reconciled transactions use multiple currencies track projects and claim Expenses and the middle one probably the most popular one. We've got send invoices and quotes no limitation Enter bills no limitation. That's great. These are on both plans What they do not still have is used multiple currencies So if you need that added feature then of course you'd have to go to the higher plan for that track projects Which might be in like a job cost type of system. You'd have to level up for that claim Expenses you'd have to level up. Of course those would be in the higher plan here. Also note Payroll like always pretty much you have the option when you're thinking about payroll Do you want to do that within the software you're using in this case? Zero and you have the payroll with gusto paying more for that or do you want to basically hire a third-party payroll professional? We'll talk about that more and dive into those options more when we get into kind of the payroll But that's always an added cost I mean pretty much all the time it's going to be an added cost with regards to how you're going to be dealing with Your payroll paying more for it within zero or going to a Third-party provider of payroll. Let's go ahead and try it for free then Let's snap on this and go through the setup process So it says start a 30-day free trial join over a 3.5 million Subscribers using zero to power their business no credit card required. That's great 24 7 online support cancel any time So we don't have to put the credit card in place So that is a it's kind of a great option So it doesn't like start to automatically bill you in that case We're going to put the basic information in here first name last name email phone location and Claiming that you're not a robot then I'm going to continue So now it's saying hi I confirm your email and start using zero so they sent me an email So I'm going to verify the email the next step verify your account Click on the link in the email to verify your account number to start using zero Login to zero and start exploring features After logging in you'll be taken to your personal zero home page where you can organize your company files I'm going to zoom in a bit to see it a little better holding down control Zooming in on the mouse wheel. I'm at 175 percent zoom in the next logical step If you were going to set up a new company file would be to add an organization However, before we do that note you want to think about using the demo file Also note that I have some company files down below already because I already had and a zero account set up before If this is the first time you've set up your zero account, you're not going to have any company files down here In the future if you work with multiple companies you can go in login here and log into the company file that you are working with However for practice the demo file is great because it already has data in it So if I hit the drop-down we could find the demo file here for the first half of the course We'll be using the demo file because it already has data in it It allows us therefore to deconstruct the end result the financial statements drilling back down To the data input into the forms that may also allow us not to utilize the 30-day free trial Until we actually want to practice With our own data adding a new account and with it with the building of a new account Which we will do in the second half of the course So the first half of the course we will deconstruct what's in a file already built the demo file The second half of the course will construct a new file from scratch a great tool Because then you get to deal with those foundational items now note just from a business standpoint For zero you would think that they would want to apply the 30-day free trial When you start to be using your own data when you start a new company file Because that's when you're going to be adding your own data and once you start building your system You're more likely to start paying for the software after that 30-day Time frame has ended so you might be able to practice in other words with zero with the demo And then practice a little more with the 30-day free trial either with your own data or with some practice data We will be using practice data in the second half of the course with the with the new Organization now if I click on this if you were to complete the process Then you would be adding your data here the business name the industry will talk more about this in the future the country Do you have employees verifying that you're not a robot? And then you could start the trial hopefully being able to get access to that free 30-day trial at that point again We will be doing that in the second half of the course and the first half of the course We'll be using the demo file will continue with that in future presentations