Getting started
Up and running in minutes.
No implementation consultants. No multi-week onboarding. Set up your entire accounting system in one sitting.
Create your account
2 minutesSign up with a 14-day free trial. Start Essentials with no card; Growth and Enterprise collect a card at checkout. Choose your plan (you can upgrade anytime).
- — Enter your company name and industry
- — Select Essentials ($39/mo), Growth ($149/mo), or Enterprise ($499/mo)
- — Every plan includes a 14-day free trial — Essentials starts with no card required
Set up your entities
2 minutesAdd your legal entities. Quoining supports single-entity or multi-entity structures with parent-child relationships.
- — Name each entity (LLC, Corp, LP, Fund, etc.)
- — Set the functional currency for each
- — Define the org chart for multi-entity consolidation
Connect your banks
3 minutesLink bank accounts and credit cards via Plaid for automatic transaction import. Choose how far back to sync.
- — Connect to 12,000+ institutions via Plaid
- — Map each bank account to your chart of accounts
- — Set the sync start date (e.g., beginning of fiscal year)
- — Enable daily automatic sync
Configure your chart of accounts
3 minutesQuoining provides a GAAP-compliant starter template. Customize it for your business or import your existing COA.
- — Enable or disable modules (inventory, crypto, etc.)
- — Add departments for cost center tracking
- — Set up default GL accounts in Settings
- — Import your existing COA from CSV if migrating
Import historical data (optional)
15-30 minutesBring over your existing data. Quoining supports CSV import for all major record types.
- — Customers, vendors, and stakeholders
- — Invoices, bills, and payments
- — Journal entries and opening balances
- — Fixed assets, inventory items, and loans
- — Budgets, tax rates, and exchange rates
Close your first period
OngoingUse the 5-phase close checklist to close your first month. SmartGL handles the journal entries automatically.
- — Categorize and post bank transactions
- — Review and approve bills and invoices
- — Run bank reconciliation
- — Generate financial statements
- — AI close analysis detects anomalies and writes the narrative
Migrating
Coming from another system?
From QuickBooks
- — Export your Chart of Accounts as CSV
- — Export Customer and Vendor lists
- — Export open invoices and bills
- — Export journal entries for the current year
From Xero
- — Export Chart of Accounts from Settings
- — Export contacts (customers + vendors)
- — Export aged receivables and payables
- — Export bank transactions as CSV
From Spreadsheets
- — Organize your COA with account numbers, names, and types
- — List customers with contact info and payment terms
- — Prepare opening balances by GL account
- — Format dates as YYYY-MM-DD
See the full migration guides for QuickBooks, Xero, Sage Intacct, and NetSuite.
Ready to get started?
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