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title: "Getting started"
description: "Set up Two Minute Billing step by step: create a business, build your catalogue, take a first payment in test mode, and go live when you are ready to bill."
canonical_url: "https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started"
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# Getting started

> Set up Two Minute Billing step by step: create a business, build your catalogue, take a first payment in test mode, and go live when you are ready to bill.

Work through these in order. By the end you will have a working catalogue, a paying customer and
a business you can switch to live.

- [What Two Minute Billing does](https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started/what-it-does) — what it handles for you, and what it leaves to your payment provider.
- [Create your business](https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started/create-your-business) — the settings everything else depends on.
- [Build your catalogue](https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started/build-your-catalogue) — products, prices and how you charge for them.
- [Take your first payment](https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started/first-payment) — a customer, a subscription and an invoice, in test mode.
- [Go live](https://twominutebilling.com/help/getting-started/go-live) — the checklist before you charge a real card.


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