Settings

Set up in an hour. Then forget it's there.

How this business is configured, and what's still unfinished. The first hour takes a business from nothing to taking payments with a website live. After that, settings are something you search for, not browse, and Simma watches for anything that no longer matches reality.

Getting started · Northlight Studio4 of 5

✓Currency, region and taxGBP · UK · VAT registereddone
✓Your old website, read7 pages, 42 photos, prices and FAQsdone
✓Timetable and prices31 classes a weekdone
✓Website publishednorthlightstudio.co.ukdone
5Take paymentsVerify your ID and bank · 4 minutesnext

The first hour

The most important visit is the first one.

A new owner arrives knowing nothing about Simma, and the first hour decides whether they stay. So setup isn't a settings tree. It's five steps, most of them done for them, and then it gets out of the way.

Where and how

Country, currency and tax, set once, so every price and invoice is right from the start.

What you already have

The old website and social profiles are read, and pages, photos, prices and FAQs are brought in.

What you sell

Services and products drafted from what was found, for the owner to check.

Your website, live

Published in the brand on a Simma address, with the business's own domain when it's ready.

Take payments

A Simma Pay account, verified in minutes inside Simma.

After that

Search for it, don't hunt for it.

Most visits after the first week happen because something came out wrong. "Why does the invoice say USD?" So every setting can be found by searching for it in the owner's own words, and each one says what it changes.

Business

Name, address, region, currency and the business's Simma address.

RegionalCurrencyAddress

Money

Invoicing, tax, payment terms, shipping, and the business's own Simma plan.

TaxTermsPlan & billing

Communication

Email signatures, legal footers and which notifications go to whom.

SignaturesNotifications

Domains

The business's own domain for its website, portal and email, verified and secured.

Custom domainEmail domain

Integrations

Accounting sync, single sign-on, and secure access for the business's own AI tools.

XeroQuickBooksAI tools

Privacy & data

Consent, cookies, data requests and retention, plus import and export of everything.

ConsentData requestsExport

What Simma notices

It notices when the settings and the business disagree.

Settings sit beside what the business actually does. So Simma can see an unfinished step, or a setting that no longer matches what's happening, before it costs a sale.

Nearly set up"You're two steps from taking payments. The last one was a fortnight ago."

Settings vs reality"Your invoices are going out in USD and your settings say GBP."

Never set"You've sent 40 invoices and never set your payment terms."

A domain not finished"yourbusiness.com hasn't been verified, so your site is still on the Simma address."

A sync that stopped"Your accounting sync hasn't run since March."

A legal clock"A data request came in on the 3rd. You have 12 days to answer it."

The agent that helps

Sage finishes the setup. The owner says yes.

Sage, the owner's chief of staff, walks a new business through its first hour and notices when a setting stops matching the business. Every change is proposed and waits for the owner's approval. Meet the agents →

Sage · Chief of staffTue 09:00 · for approval

"You're one step from taking payments online. It takes about four minutes: your ID and your bank details. Shall we do it now?"

Let's do itLater

Sage · Chief of staffThu 14:20 · for approval

"Your last 6 invoices went out in USD, but you're in the UK. I think the currency was set wrong at the start. Switch to GBP for new invoices?"

Switch to GBPLeave it