The Start is used to manage your sets of books, backups, registration and language.

The following nine (9) options are available:

  1. Open - Open a Set of Books.  
  2. Backup / Restore - Create a backup file of your Set of Books. You may also restore the Set of Books from a valid backup file.
  3. Close Set of Books - The opened Set of Books will be closed. All other ribbon tabs will not be accessible. 
  4. Create Set of Books - This option is used to create a Set of Books.
  5. Delete Set of Books - This option is used to permanently delete a Set of Books.
  6. Save as - This option is used to save an exact copy of the Set of Books. 
  7. Switch language - The osFinancials program will by default use the language selected after installing and starting osFinancials. You may select a different language.  
  8. Online registration - This will launch the "Register your osFinancials" screen. 
  9. Help - 
    1. Help - Launches the context-sensitive Help file. You may press F1 to launch the help file from most screens and fields to launch the topic relating to that screen or field. 
    2. Support - This option will display the support information.
    3. Show welcome - The Welcome to osFinancials will list the latest News. 
    4. Forum - You may access and view the latest and older Forum posts as well as various categories. Should you have a query or an issue, you may search and will probably find a solution to your query or issue. 
    5. Webshop - Launch the osFinancials webshop.
    6. Bug report - This will land on the osFinancials project page at Sourceforge. On the osFinancials project page at Sourceforge, go to Tickets and select Bugs.