Business settings: Where your business info lives.

Business settings is where all your core business details hang out. Keeping this up to date keeps everything running smoothly, from your GST registration status flowing through the app, to making sure the right info shows on your invoices 

Where to find Business settings 

1. Open the Solo app on your phone. 
2. Tap More in the bottom menu. 
3. Tap Business settings. 

From here, you’ll see: 

• Business and contact details 

• Tax and financial reporting 

Each of these opens a simple screen where you can check and update your info. 

Business and contact details 

This is your “who are you and how do we reach you?” section. These details are used across invoices, reports and other areas of Solo, so it’s worth keeping them current.. 

You’ll typically see: 

Business details 

• Business name: how your business appears in Solo (and often on your invoices). 

• ABN: Australian Business Number 

• Business Type: for example, sole trader. 

• Serial Number: Solos unique account number 

• Industry: the industry your business operates in (e.g. Hair & Beauty, Construction, Other services). 

Contact details 

• Email address: your main business email for customers and notifications. 

• Phone number: the best contact number for your business. 

• Website: your business website, if you have one. 

• Business address: including suburb and other address fields. 

You can update most of these directly in the app so that future invoices and records use the correct details. 

Tax and financial reporting 

This is where GST and reporting settings live. What you choose here affects how Solo behaves across invoices, expenses, categories and reports. 

GST registration status 

This is where you tell Solo whether your business is: 

• Registered for GST 

• Not registered for GST 

Solo uses this status to decide: 

• Whether GST fields and tax codes show on invoices, income and expenses 

• Which reports you can access 

• How tax code fields behave on categories and items (for example, hiding them when they’re not needed) 

You can update this if your registration changes. When you do: 

• Future invoices and expenses will follow your new GST status 

• Past transactions stay as they were (Solo doesn’t rewrite your historical records when you flip this switch) 

GST reporting period 

If you’re registered for GST, you’ll also see a reporting period option – this is how often you report GST to the ATO, for example: 

• Monthly 

• Quarterly (this is the usual default) 

• Yearly 

Solo uses this to control which GST options appear and how totals and reports are shown. 
 
As always, If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below 👇