The setup wizard

The first time you sign in, Kalepio asks four questions. They take two minutes and you will never come back to them: everything asked here can be changed later from the settings.

Before the four, there is a fifth: are you setting up your own studio, or joining one? If you are waiting for an invitation, choose the second. You will not be left with an empty studio to deal with once the invitation arrives.

1. Your trade

Tick everything you offer. This is the most important of the four, because each trade you tick creates an example service with its questions already written: the machines, the panels and the finishes for a wrap, the pages and the credentials for a website, the date and the duration for a shoot.

You can turn those example services off if you would rather start from a blank page. And if you tick several trades, the first one ticked is the service pre-selected when you open an order.

Your trade is not in the list? Choose "Other" and say what it is in two words.

2. Your studio's name

This is the name your clients see at the top of every form.

You also choose your public page's address, something like kalep.io/your-studio. That is the one going into your Instagram bio and onto your quotes.

Spend thirty seconds longer on this field than on the rest: changing it later breaks links already shared, including any printed somewhere.

3. Your brand

A colour and a logo. The two things your client sees before reading the first question, and what makes a form look like your business rather than like a tool.

The logo is optional and can be changed at any time from the studio settings, next to the colour.

4. Your activity

Entirely optional: how many projects a month, a sentence about yourself, your Instagram handle.

Nothing here changes how the application behaves. The sentence, though, is shown at the top of your public page, so it is worth writing if you plan to hand that address out.

On the way out

You land on your dashboard, and your first service can already be ordered. The dashboard shows a getting-started card with the three things worth doing next; it goes away when you dismiss it.