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Getting started in Your Corner (setup guide, with or without a tour)

The welcome and setup steps, and using Your Corner on its own or with your tour's days

Your Corner works on its own. Your rates, offers, projects, invoices, receipts and taxes are yours and need no tour. A tour's days are used only if you have a tour on your login and choose to count them.

THE WELCOME: the first time you open Your Corner it asks three things: how you are usually paid (salary, day rate, per show or weekly), whether tax is taken out of your pay (payroll W-2, contractor 1099, some of each, or not sure), and, only if you are on a tour in ATOM, whether to count that tour's days here. Skip for now closes it.

SETUP STEPS: after the welcome, a short list shows what to do first. Each step ticks itself off when it is really done: set your rate (once you change a number in My rate and offers), add who you work for (a project), check your paid days (only when your tour's days are counted), make your first invoice (or, if tax comes out of your pay, claim back a receipt), and estimate your taxes (once you type an amount). Tap a step to open its room. Hide guide puts the list away; Setup guide at the top brings it back any time.

ON ITS OWN: with no tour, or when you keep your corner on its own, Your Corner leaves the tour out: no My Day card, no paid days card, nothing in the Negotiator tied to the tour, and Per diem shows only if you have per diem from a tour. The four numbers at the top are what you were paid this year from your invoices, what is sent and waiting to be paid, your saved offers, and money owed back to you. My earnings shows your year from your own invoices (paid, sent and waiting, drafts) and what a saved offer would add.

WITH YOUR TOUR'S DAYS: My earnings runs your rate over the tour's dates and the paid days card counts your days. Switch either way at the bottom of Your Corner (Keep my corner on its own, or Count days from your tour). Nothing is deleted when you switch.

PRIVATE: your answers are saved with your rates on your account, on every device you sign in on. Only you see them.

HOW THIS WORKS: each room has a How this works link that opens its help.

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