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Create your workspace: sign up for Zero POS
Sign up with your business name, your email and a password. Confirm your email, and the guided setup takes you from an empty shop to your first sale.
A workspace is your business in Zero POS: its shops, products, customers, sales and team. Whoever creates it is its owner. The sign-up page says under its title: Free while in early access · no credit card.
When to use it
For a business that isn't on Zero POS yet. To work in a workspace you already belong to: Work in more than one workspace.
Before you start
- An email address you can open now: the workspace opens once you confirm it.
- Your VAT rate, and whether your prices include VAT (How prices and tax work: VAT or sales tax).
- Signed in to Zero POS on this device? Sign out first: the sign-up page takes anyone signed in to their own till.
Steps
Sign up
- Step 1
Tap “Start free” on the website, or Create a workspace on the sign-in page.
- Step 2
Type your Workspace name. Zero POS suggests a Workspace code from it: change it if you like, in lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens.
- Step 3
Fill in Your name, your Email and a Password of at least 8 characters.
- Step 4
Check Country and Currency, and type your VAT %.
- With a rate above 0, answer Do your prices include VAT?: it locks at your first sale with VAT.
- A Country in the United States asks for your Sales tax % instead, and moves the Currency to USD unless you changed it.
- Step 5
Tap Create workspace. You are signed in straight away.
Confirm your email
- Step 6
Open the email Zero POS sends to the address you typed, and tap its link. It works for 24 hours.
- Step 7
On the page the link opens, tap Continue to your shop. A device that isn't signed in asks you to sign in first.
- Step 8
Opened it on another device? Back on the first one, reload the page that asked you to confirm, and you're in.
- Step 9
Typed the address wrong? On the waiting page, tap Wrong address? Change it, type the right one and tap Send the link to this address. The first link stops working.
Your first minutes
- Step 10
Follow the guided setup, which opens by itself: your business, your first shop, VAT, payments, a product and a test sale (Set up a new shop: guided setup and the settings tour).
- Step 11
When you reach the till, a device that can use passkeys shows Next time, just your face: tap Save on this device.
- Step 12
No offer, or you tapped Not now? Add a passkey later in My profile (Sign in without typing a password).
- Step 13
Add the people who work with you in MANAGE › Users: each one chooses their own password from an email (Add someone to the team).
What happens next
- You are the workspace's owner: you can do everything in it (What each role can do).
- This device stays signed in and keeps the workspace in its list, so next time Enter is enough (Work in more than one workspace).
- The business details you typed can be changed later (Company info: name, time zone and tax); whether prices include VAT locks at your first sale with VAT.
- Signed up from the Spanish website, the shop starts in Spanish: your screens, the guided setup and your customers' receipts (Languages).
Questions
Can I sign up in Spanish?
What is the workspace code for?
The confirmation email never arrived. What now?
The code I want belongs to a sign-up that was never confirmed. Can I have it?
Do I need a card to sign up?
We already have a workspace. Can we create a second one?
We're in the United States. What changes?
If you see this…
On screen
“That workspace name is already taken.”
What to do
Another workspace already uses that Workspace code. Change it and tap Create workspace again, or wait if it's an unconfirmed sign-up of your own (see the questions above).
On screen
Password must be at least 8 characters.
What to do
Choose a longer one: a short phrase is easy to remember and hard to guess.
On screen
“Too many signups from this network. Please try again later.”
What to do
Several workspaces were created from this internet connection in the last hour. Wait a while, then try again.
Good to know
- Then install Zero POS on the counter's iPad or your phone, so it opens like an app (Install Zero POS on an iPad, phone or computer).