# Getting started with getpos

> From a sentence or a screenshot to a till taking real payments.

## 1. Describe it

Go to https://getpos.ai and describe the till in a sentence, for example *"A small café with big tiles for coffee and buns, card and Swish, tip on the terminal"*. Or choose **Screenshots of your POS** and upload pictures of the till you use today, or **A photo of your menu**. You can also [start from a template](https://getpos.ai/templates.md).

Sign in with your email: getpos sends a link, no password.

## 2. Watch it run

In about a minute there is a working POS, not a mock-up. Ring up a sale, take a demo payment, print a receipt. Ask the assistant for changes in plain words ("add oat milk to every coffee", "make it dark") and see each change before you keep it.

## 3. Set it up

The setup wizard asks what the till needs to open on Monday, as switches: table service or counter, which payment methods, which card terminals and how many, whether the kitchen and bar get printed tickets, what goes on the receipt. See [Hardware](https://getpos.ai/hardware.md) and [Payments](https://getpos.ai/payments.md).

## 4. Pick your address

Claim `yourname.getpos.ai` and publish. Every change is a new version; publish any of them and roll back at any time. Staff sign in on the till with a PIN.

## 5. Go live

Open your payment account with Surfboard Payments from inside getpos, register a terminal, add the control unit and switch to real payments. See [Going live](https://getpos.ai/go-live.md).

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