Your first five minutes with Hemma

01What just happened

You've created an account and a project, and Hemma walked you through a short guided setup: three quick questions to aim things, then the pile — every document you had, handed over at once — and a mirror of your project that you signed off on. If you skipped the pile, that's fine too: everything below works the same, just starting from empty.

The screen you're looking at now is your home. It shows what Hemma read during setup — invoices, quotes, permits, your budget picture — and it keeps filling up as new things arrive: documents you upload, contractors that send you mail. If it's blank, that only means nothing has gone in yet. That's correct too.

02The three things to try first

Pick whichever feels easiest. Each of them anchors a different part of Hemma. You don't have to do all three today.

1. Give Hemma your first document

A real invoice works best. Hemma reads it, extracts the contractor name, the amount, the due date, and the VAT number. You verify, confirm, and move on. After one document you'll already have a contractor in your address book and an amount on your calendar.

Tap the + button at the bottom of the screen, choose a photo or a file, and upload. The first read takes about thirty seconds.

2. Set up your project email address

This is the single most powerful feature in Hemma. Your project has a unique email address. Give it to your contractor, your architect, your municipality. Everything they send arrives in Hemma. Attachments get processed, amounts get tracked, dates show up in your calendar.

You'll find the project email under Settings → Project. Copy it once and send your next invoice there. That's the whole setup.

3. Import your budget from Excel

If you already have a quote or a BoQ in a spreadsheet, Hemma can import it. You'll see your budget lines, link your invoices and quotes to them, and watch your project track itself.

The import wizard guides you through it. Most people finish it in under five minutes.

03When something feels off

• Tap the ? in the top bar for the help index.
• Type a question into the search field — Hemma indexes every article.
• If you're truly stuck, send an email to your project address from your own inbox and write what you need. Hemma will route it.

Nothing here is permanent. Documents you don't want, you delete. Categories you didn't mean to add, you remove. Hemma absorbs the complexity — you stay in charge.

That's it. Five minutes. Now go upload something.