# Welcome to ArmPOS

> What the dashboard, the menu and the top bar do, and where to find help.

*Section: Getting started · Updated: 2026-10-19*

This guide shows you around ArmPOS. By the end you will know what the dashboard tells you, how to reach any page, and where to find help.

## The dashboard

ArmPOS opens on the dashboard. It has three tabs: **Overview**, **Sales** and **Inventory**.

![The dashboard's Overview tab: Total sales for the last 7 days, the Products card with Best sellers, Rising and Low stock, and the Business overview with purchases, profit and returns.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/e94929633a-welcome-to-armpos-1-dashboard.webp)
*The Overview tab. The top bar above it is on every page: POS, help, alerts, settings and your account.*

On **Overview** you see:

- **Total sales** in your default warehouse, with the change against the period before and the number of invoices. Its button (**7D** to start) picks the period: **Today**, **Last 7 days**, **This month**, **Last 30 days**, **Last 6 months**, **Last 12 months** or **Custom range…**.
- **Products**: your **Best sellers**, the products **Rising**, and those running **Low stock**.
- **Business overview**: purchases, profit and its margin, sales returns and purchase returns. **See all** opens the **Profit and Loss** report.
- **Decisions powered by data**: a shortcut to AI reports when your plan has them, otherwise to your reports.
- **Sales performance**: a chart of your sales over 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months or 1 year.

In a new shop, **Overview** starts with the **Getting started** card. It lists four steps to your first sale:

- **Add your logo and business details**
- **Add your products**
- **Add your team**
- **Make your first sale**

Each row opens the page for that step. A step shows **Done** once your shop's own data shows it, and the badge counts them, such as "1 of 4 done". The card goes once every step is done, or when someone clickes its **Hide** button, the x, which hides it for the whole shop. Only people who can open Settings see it. When phone alerts are available, a fifth step appears: **Get alerts on your phone**.

## The menu

The menu on the left groups pages by job: **Sell**, **Inventory**, **Customers**, **Reports & finance**, **Team & projects** and **Setup**. You only see the pages your role and your plan include.

1. **Type in Search menu.** It is at the top of the menu. The list narrows to the pages that match, each with the group it sits in.
2. **Press Enter to open the first match.** Or click any page in the list.

![The menu with "stock" typed in Search menu: Count Stock and Opening Stock under Products, then the stock reports under Reports.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/01997285e5-welcome-to-armpos-2-menu-search.webp)
*Search menu finds a page by any word of its name, wherever it sits in the menu.*

**Settings**, **Support**, **Notifications** and **Help center** sit at the bottom of the menu. Press Ctrl B to fold the menu down to icons, and again to open it.

## The top bar

- **Search products, customers, invoices…** searches pages, products, customers, suppliers, sales and purchases. Press Ctrl K (⌘K on a Mac) to open it from anywhere. Type at least 2 characters. On the dashboard this box sits in the page itself.
- **POS** opens the till.
- The **?** button opens help for the page you are on (see below).
- The bell shows your notifications, with the number of low-stock products at the top. **View all** opens every notification, and **Mark all as read** appears when some are unread.
- The gear opens **Appearance**: **Dark mode**, **Full screen** and **Language**.
- Your name opens **Profile**, **Settings** and **Logout**.

![The search window with "kitchen" typed: one page, a product, a customer, a supplier, five sales and three purchases, each in its own group.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/e6a0e15f03-welcome-to-armpos-3-search.webp)
*One search covers every part of your shop. Use the arrow keys and Enter to open a result.*

## Help for the page you are on

Press **?** in the top bar. A panel opens beside the page with the guide for that page, a **Search help** box, **Ask support** and **Full guide**. The page stays usable beside it, and the panel follows you as you move between pages.

![The Help panel open beside the dashboard, showing this guide under "For this page", with Ask support and Full guide at its foot.](https://armpos.online/storage/help/ec56cb10f0-welcome-to-armpos-4-help-panel.webp)
*The ? panel shows the guide for the page you are on. Full guide opens it in the Help center.*

**Help center** is at the bottom of the menu. Search any word, or open a guide from its section. The menu search also finds it by "docs", "guide" or "how to". If a guide doesn't answer your question, **Ask support** in the panel, or **Support** at the bottom of the menu, opens a ticket with our team.

## What's next

Start with the first step: [Add your logo and business details](/app/help/add-your-logo-and-business-details).