Getting started

Tekko Bench is built so a small shop can be productive on day one, not spend day one figuring out how to configure it. This is the fastest path from signing up to running real jobs.

Sign up

Signing up asks for the basics: your name, email, and password, your shop’s name, and your country (plus your state, if that’s India). Nothing more. Behind the scenes, an India shop is set up with GST invoicing turned on automatically; every other country gets a simple flat-rate tax mode instead, which you can adjust later in Settings. Your shop also gets a short code prefix derived from its name, the same prefix that shows up in every job, invoice, and certificate number you’ll issue, so you never have to think about numbering yourself.

There’s a 14-day free trial and it doesn’t ask for a card up front, so you can decide whether Bench fits before anyone’s billed.

Load sample data, or start from scratch

The first time you land on the dashboard with nothing in it, you’ll see two paths. One is a “Load sample data” button that seeds a set of believable customers, jobs at different stages, invoices, and certificates, so you can click around a shop that already looks lived-in before you type a single real record. The other is a short list of the same four steps below, if you’d rather start clean.

The getting-started checklist

Under those, the dashboard shows a “Getting started” card with a handful of steps:

• Create your first job
• Issue your first invoice
• Issue your first certificate
• Add your UPI ID (India shops only, so a payment QR can appear on your invoices)

Each step links straight to the right screen, and checks itself off automatically the moment you’ve actually done it; nothing to mark complete by hand. You can dismiss the card at any point and it stays dismissed on that device.

Once it’s clear, you’re not doing anything different from what every job in the shop will use from here: create a job, move it through its statuses, invoice it, and certify it if it needs a certificate.