The hardest part of any new tool isn't learning it — it's starting. A blank workspace can feel like a mountain. So here's the good news: you don't need to set up everything on day one. You need just enough to run your very next real transaction, and you can build out the rest as you go.
Here's the fastest sensible path from empty workspace to your first invoice — about thirty minutes, no manual required.
Step 1 — Create your workspace (5 min)
Sign up and tell Lekhio a little about your business — its name, your currency, and the kind of work you do. Lekhio uses this to set sensible defaults so you're not staring at a blank page. Don't overthink it; everything here is editable later.
Step 2 — Add a few products and customers (10 min)
You don't need your entire catalogue. Add the handful of products you sell most and a few key customers. The fastest way in is the spreadsheet-style editor — paste rows straight from an existing sheet, or import a CSV, and you're done in one go.
Step 3 — Record your first sale and invoice (10 min)
Now do a real transaction. Create an order for a customer, add a product or two, and generate the invoice. This one loop teaches you more than any tutorial: you'll see stock deduct, the invoice number assign itself, and the receivable appear — the whole system working as one.
Step 4 — Invite your team (5 min)
Finally, bring in the people who'll use it with you and give each the right role, so everyone sees what they should and nothing they shouldn't. Now it's not just your workspace — it's how the business runs.
Then grow into it
That's live. From here you add products as you sell them, build the custom pages and automations you need when you need them, and let the system fill out around your actual work — instead of trying to configure everything up front.
Lekhio is designed to be useful in the first half hour: sensible defaults, a spreadsheet-style importer, and a guided setup so you're running real transactions on day one. Start free — no credit card required.
