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Create Your User Account

Sign up in about two minutes. No credit card, no demo call, nothing to install.

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What this covers

Signing up for business software usually means a demo call, a sales email and a credit card before you have seen anything work. This program does not do that. This guide walks you through creating an account, what happens in the first five minutes, and what you should do first once you are in.

There is nothing to install. If you can open a browser, you can run it — on a laptop, a tablet, or your phone.

Step by step

1. Go to internoodle.com and choose Start Free

The sign-up form asks for an email address and a password. That is the entire form. No credit card, no phone number, no company size dropdown, and no “a specialist will be in touch”.

Use an email address you actually check. It is where Invoices you send, replies from Clients, and any notifications will be tied to.

2. Confirm your email

You will get a confirmation email within a minute or two. Click the link in it to verify the address. If nothing arrives, check your spam folder before trying again — requesting a second email is the usual cause of confusion, because the first link then stops working.

3. Tell us about your business

Next you enter your Brand — the name you trade under — and what kind of work you do. This matters more than it looks: your answer decides which Chart of Accounts you start with, so your books are already structured the way a business like yours needs rather than being a blank sheet.

You can change any of it later. Nothing here is permanent.

4. You are in

You land on the Dashboard. The accounting is already switched on and free forever. The other modules — CRM, e-Signatures, Campaigns, social scheduling — are there when you want them, and hidden when you do not.

5. Do these three things first

  1. Add one Client. Takes twenty seconds and gives you something to work with.
  2. Send one Invoice to that Client — even a small one.
  3. Look at your books. The Invoice will already be there. That is the moment the whole system makes sense.

Ten minutes, start to finish. If you only do one thing on your first visit, do that sequence rather than exploring menus.

Tips and best practices

Use a real email, not a throwaway. Your account, your Invoices and your Client correspondence all hang off it, and changing it later is more work than getting it right now.

Set your Brand properly. It appears on every Invoice you send, so put the name your Clients would recognise rather than a shorthand.

Do not turn everything on at once. It is tempting to enable every module on day one. Start with accounting and Invoices. Add the rest when you have a reason to.

Sign in on your phone too. There is no app to install — the same login works in a mobile browser, which is what you will want for the Business Card Scanner and the Receipt Scanner.

What this connects to

The business details you enter here are not just profile fields. They set up your Chart of Accounts, they appear on your Invoices, and they feed your Financial Statements and Year End reporting.

That is why the sign-up asks what kind of work you do rather than just your name — five minutes of setup means the books are already right, instead of something you have to correct in March.

What happens to your data

You are about to put your Clients and your books into someone else’s system, so here is what that means in practice.

Your data is yours. You can export to Excel at any time, and we would rather keep you by being useful than by making it awkward to leave.

We do not sell your data or use it for advertising. The business model is simple and public: the accounting is free, and we earn from the optional paid modules and from tax filing services. That is the whole of it.

It is built and supported in Canada, which matters if you are filing GST, HST or a T2 and care where your records sit.

Troubleshooting

The confirmation email has not arrived. Check spam first. If you have requested several, only the newest link works — use that one.

It says my email is already registered. You may have started an account previously. Use the password reset link rather than creating a second one, so you do not end up with your work split across two accounts.

My password will not save. Passwords need to meet a minimum length and complexity. If it is being rejected without an obvious reason, that is almost always why.

I picked the wrong business type. Not a problem. You can adjust your Chart of Accounts afterwards, or copy a different sample set.

Nothing appears after signing in. A brand-new account is genuinely empty — there is no demo data. Add a Client and it starts filling up.

Common questions

Do I need a credit card to sign up?

No. The accounting is free forever, and there is no card required to create an account or to keep using it.

Is there a trial that expires?

The free accounting is not a trial. It does not expire and it does not downgrade. Paid modules are optional extras on top.

How long does setup take?

A couple of minutes to create the account, and about ten to run through adding a Client and sending an Invoice, which is the part worth doing straight away.

Do I have to install anything?

No. It runs in a browser on any device. The same login works on a laptop and a phone.

Can I change my business details later?

Yes, all of them — Brand, contact details, logo, and the accounts you started with.

What if I run more than one business?

You can set up multiple Business Entities under the one account, each with its own books and its own Invoices.

Video transcript

Show transcript

Signing up takes about two minutes, and there is no credit card.

Go to our website, and choose Start Free. Or Register, at the top right.

Your name, your email, and a password.

Then tell us what kind of work you do. That answer matters more than it looks. It sets up your Chart of Accounts with the right structure already in place.

One last step. We send a verification link to your email. Click it. If it has not arrived in a minute or two, check your junk folder.

You are in, and ready to go!

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