What you'll need
Three things, plus a few minutes of attention:
- A Google account. Your sales data lives in your Google Drive. No third-party server, no monthly fees. A free personal Google account works fine. (A Workspace account works too.)
- Your license key. We sent it in the welcome email along with the template link. It looks like
FD-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. - A device. Any modern phone, tablet, or laptop with Chrome, Safari, or Edge. The app works on all three. Pick whatever you'll use at the booth; the interface adapts to the screen size you're on.
Heads up: this is more setup than a typical app
About 15 minutes of clicking through prompts in your Google account. The reason: fiveanddime doesn't run on our servers. Your sales data lives in your own Google Sheet, on Google's free tier. You have no monthly bill, no third-party server holding your numbers, and no risk of being locked into someone else's pricing later. The setup is the cost; everything that comes from it is yours.
A couple of the screens in Step 2 look scarier than they are. Each step page walks through exactly what to click and why each warning is fine.
All five steps
Each step takes 2–5 minutes. You can jump straight to any step using the strip above (or the same strip at the top of every step page).