First-Time Setup
The very first time you sign in to a brand-new center, QraOnline walks you through a full-screen setup wizard. It gets the essentials in place — your logo, your language, your first class — and lets you leave the rest for later.
Placeholder. Follow a fresh center through the setup wizard from the welcome screen to the finish line.
What to expect
The wizard appears automatically instead of your dashboard. You'll see a progress bar along the top and a list of steps. On a phone it shows Step X of Y instead of the full list.
You can click any step you've already been through to go back and change something.
Only a center admin sees this. Your teachers and students never see it.
The steps, in order
| # | Step | Required? | What you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome | — | A quick summary of what's ahead. Click Let's get started. |
| 2 | Language | Required | Pick your center's language: French, English, or Arabic. The wizard itself switches straight away. |
| 3 | Appearance | Required | Upload your logo and pick your colour theme. |
| 4 | Finance | Optional | Set default prices so new students and staff start pre-filled, plus automatic payment reminders. |
| 5 | Expenses | Optional | Set up your regular expense categories — rent, utilities, software, and so on. |
| 6 | Meetings | Optional | Connect Zoom, Google Meet, or another provider for online classes. |
| 7 | Classes | Required | Create at least one class. |
| 8 | Roles | Optional | Set up staff roles and invite your team. |
| 9 | Students | Optional | Bring in students and teachers — import a spreadsheet or add people one by one. |
| 10 | Schedule | Optional | Add your recurring weekly time slots. |
| 11 | Optional | Connect WhatsApp — use the shared QraOnline number right away, or request your own business number. | |
| 12 | Domain | Optional | Connect your center's own web address. |
| 13 | Finish | — | Confirmation, then a Go to my dashboard button. |
The three required steps
Three steps have to be done before you can finish. On these, the Continue button stays greyed out until you've done what's needed, and there's no Skip for now button — just Back and Continue.
| Step | What unlocks Continue |
|---|---|
| Language | Nothing to do — a language is already chosen for you. Change it or move on. |
| Appearance | Upload a logo. The colour theme is optional; the default looks fine. |
| Classes | Have at least one class. If your center already has classes, that counts. |
Every choice you make in the wizard can be changed later from Center Settings. You're not locking anything in.
Skipping the optional steps
Every optional step has a Skip for now button next to Continue. Click it and you go straight to the next step.
Once you skip a step, it's remembered for your whole center. It won't come back next time you open the wizard, and it won't reappear for a colleague opening it on another device. No reminders, no pop-ups.
Anything you skip can be set up later, whenever you're ready:
- Finance and expenses — My Center → Finance and see Student Payments
- Meetings — Connecting Providers
- Roles and staff — Roles & Permissions
- Students and teachers — Managing Students, Bulk Import, Managing Teachers
- Schedule — Using the Calendar
- WhatsApp — Connecting WhatsApp
- Your own web address — Using Your Own Web Address
Finishing up
The last screen says You're all set!. Click Go to my dashboard.
That's it — the wizard is done and won't appear again, no matter how many optional steps you skipped.
Common questions
Can I close the wizard and come back later? Yes. Next time you sign in it picks up where you left off, and anything you already saved is still there.
I clicked Skip by accident. Can I go back? Yes — click that step in the list along the top. Or just set it up later from Center Settings.
Can another admin at my center finish the setup for me? Yes. The wizard belongs to the center, not to you personally, so any admin can carry on from where you stopped.
I finished the wizard but want to go through it again. There's no way to re-run it, and you don't need to. Everything it configures lives in My Center and can be edited any time.
The Continue button is greyed out and I don't know why. You're on one of the three required steps. Check the table above — most often it's the logo on Appearance or a missing class on Classes.