Getting started
You already have an account: you were given a username and a temporary password. This is what you find when you sign in.
Signing in#
At www.fyal.es, in two steps: your email or username, then the password. The second time it goes straight to the password.
- Wrong password: the form shakes. After several attempts, you have to wait a while.
- Lock: after 10 minutes untouched, or when you open it again. Nothing is lost; with Face ID or Touch ID your face or fingerprint is enough. Set it in Settings → Profile.
- Another account on the same computer: “Use another account”.
The first time#
- Choose your password. At least 6 characters.
- Your tax details. Your tax authority and the month and year you registered as self-employed. That tells Fyal which instalment applies to you. Change them in Settings → Tax.
The interface#
| Area | What's there |
|---|---|
| Sidebar | Overview, Invoices, Expenses, Projects and Clients. At the bottom, your name: hover for Settings, theme and hiding the sidebar. |
| Header | The period (year or quarter) and the year. They filter everything below. |
| Content | Tables and cards. Forms open from the right. |
| Kaperu | The little face at the bottom right. See below. |
Period and year#
It always opens on the full year. Switch to a quarter and it stays with you on every page until you sign out.
How it moves#
Motion is information: what opens comes in, what closes leaves quickly, and in menus and lists a highlight follows the cursor.
House habits#
- Undo: deleting doesn't ask. A notice appears with Undo, or press ⌘Z.
- Right-click: almost everything has a menu. With several rows selected, it acts on all of them.
- Copy: click a cell's text or a figure. Amounts copy as a bare number with a decimal comma (“1234,56”), ready to paste into a Spanish tax form.
Kaperu#
The little face at the bottom right. It tells you what to file today, box by box, and shows a red dot when something is pending. Try it in Taxes → Kaperu.
On the phone#
Install it on your iPhone: in Safari, Share → “Add to Home Screen”. It opens full screen, with its icon and without Safari's bar. The same app in one column: tabs at the bottom (they shrink to icons as you scroll down), and at the top the magnifier (search, like ⌘K), the +, export and “More”; Invoices and Expenses search and add from there. Tables become iPhone-style lists (Invoices and Expenses, grouped by month), panels slide up from the bottom, and menus and dates open the system pickers. Everything works the same, except dragging files.
| Gesture | What it does |
|---|---|
| Swipe an invoice right | Paid (or pending again) |
| Swipe an invoice or expense left | Delete, with “Undo” |
| Pull down at the very top | Refresh |
| Drag a sheet or a form down from the top | Close it |
| Swipe from the left edge (in the installed app) | Go back from a detail page |
LanguageSpanish or English, in Settings → Appearance. It follows you to any device.