# How do I set up my studio on first login?

URL: https://help.sweb.so/en/pro/getting-started/set-up-your-studio
Mis à jour: 2026-07-03T00:00:00.000Z

On your first login, a setup guide appears on your dashboard with a checklist of steps to complete: your studio, your hours, your payments, your social accounts, your first service. You click a step, a panel opens, you fill it in and confirm, and the step is marked complete.

## How the guide works

The most urgent step to complete opens automatically first. A progress bar at the top of the guide moves forward with each validated step. Until the required setup is finished, the rest of the dashboard (calendar, clients...) stays locked: the guide always brings you back to the current step if you try to access it directly.

## Steps to complete

- **My studio**: address (with automatic lookup by business registration number to prefill details), legal information, public studio profile (photos, bio, styles), and artist profile.
- **My hours** (or team, on Business): your weekly schedule.
- **Payments**: connecting Stripe to take card payments (you can skip it and continue without, but some payment methods will then stay unavailable), then selecting your payment methods.
- **Instagram**: connecting your account to sync some content. You can skip it and connect later from settings.
- **Google My Business**: depending on your setup, connecting your Google listing. This step can also be skipped.
- **Service**: creating your first service or flash.
- **Publishing**: posting your first content.

## Resuming a step in progress

If you leave the guide before finishing everything, it picks up exactly where you left off on your next login, including sub-steps for the studio panel. No data already entered is lost.

## Once every step is complete

A celebration screen appears with a button to access your dashboard. After that, a carousel of optional tasks may show up (completing your profile, sharing your booking link...): these tasks don't block anything, they simply help you get the most out of your account.

## Edge cases

**You skipped a step by mistake.** Instagram and Google My Business stay accessible afterward from settings, without going back through the guide.

**You don't want online payments.** You can explicitly decline online payments from the Payments step; it will then be marked complete with the corresponding note.

**The studio form looks empty after a refresh.** Your legal information already entered is automatically reloaded, refresh the page if the display looks inconsistent.

## What's next

Once your studio is set up, head to defining your hours if that's not already done.