Finalize
your business profile.

When you sign up to nouz, you go through two screens: Stripe Checkout (for the subscription payment) and then a short nouz screen we call "finalize". The finalize screen exists because Stripe doesn't need to know what your shop is called, but nouz absolutely does — that's the label on every screen, every export, every email.

01 Why a second form

Stripe is good at billing. It knows your card details, your email address, the subscription you bought. It doesn't know — and shouldn't have to know — that you run a small bakery called Brot & Butter in Vienna, in German, with VAT at 20%. The /onboarding/finalize screen is where we ask for exactly those nouz-specific details, so we can show you the right defaults the moment you land on Home.

Without finalize, your first revenue entry would prompt you with US-default tax rates and English labels, even if you're in Austria. The 60 seconds spent here saves you correcting every subsequent screen.

02 The three fields

• Business name. The umbrella above your locations. Shows up on the Home tab header, every Stripe invoice, every transactional email. Use whatever's on your invoices — brand name is fine, no need for the formal legal entity.
• Country. Sets your default VAT rate and the date / number format we use everywhere. Picking Austria gives you 20% VAT pre-filled and German number format (€1.234,56) across the app.
• Display language. English or German. Applies to the whole app — every tab, every error message, every email. Pick now, change any time from Settings.

None of these are permanent. You can change all three later from Settings → Business profile. But getting them right now means you don't see the wrong country's VAT rate on your first product, which saves you the small annoyance of overriding the default every time.

03 The flow, end to end

1. 1
   Complete Stripe checkout

   Card details, subscription confirmed, Stripe webhook fires.

2. 2
   Redirect to /onboarding/finalize

   The redirect is automatic — you don't need to navigate anywhere.

3. 3
   Fill in the three fields

   Business name, country, language.

4. 4
   Click Continue

   Default location is created behind the scenes with your country's defaults.

5. 5
   Land on Home

   You're fully set up. Time to log your first day.

04 After you save

Saving lands you on Home with your default location already created. The next thing to do is add your fixed costs and your first product — both covered in their own articles in this category. Most owners finish the basic setup (location + fixed costs + a handful of products) in about ten minutes, then start logging real revenue the same evening.