# Getting started

> Set up CurrentView in ten minutes: create your business, add a location and items, upload a logo, and put your live board on a QR code, a TV and your site.

Canonical: https://currentview.app/resources/getting-started

## 1. Create your account and business

Sign up at [app.currentview.app/signup](https://app.currentview.app/signup) with an email
address or a Google account. Name your business and pick a **web address** for your board
(`currentview.app/d/your-name`). Choose it carefully: it goes on printed signs, so it never
changes.

Pick what you sell — gelato, beer, pastries, dishes, products — and we seed categories and
labels that fit ("Flavor of the Month", "Kicked", "86'd"…). Everything seeded is editable.

## 2. Add your first location

Every board belongs to a location. Give it a name, an address and a **time zone** — the time
zone decides when sold-out flags reset each morning.

## 3. Add items

Add items by hand, or import a CSV with columns `name`, `description`, `category`, `price`,
`image_url` and `badge` (a short seasonal label such as Fall, Summer, New or Limited, shown on the photo). Items start as **Live** (in the catalog) but not on today's board.

## 4. Brand it

Upload your logo. On Growth and above you can also set colors, fonts and a background
photo. The preview shows your board on a phone and on a TV as you edit. Pick a **card style** too: Tiles (round photo in a card), Scalloped (Tiles with a stamp-like edge on every photo), List (compact rows) or Circles (a big round photo on the page, name left and price right) — the live preview shows each one on your real board.

## 5. Go live

Turn on the public board in Settings, then grab your **go-live kit**: the board link, a QR
code for each location, and the two-line website embed. Print a sign, point a TV at the
link, and you're live.