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title: "Setting up your company · BlastoClean docs"
description: "The settings every other part of BlastoClean reads from: your hourly rate, quote numbering and expiry, business hours, branding, language and — on Business — multiple locations."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/setting-up-your-company"
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# Setting up your company

Getting started · Web app · 2 min read · updated August 13, 2026

**Settings is one long page grouped into business, scheduling, communication, website and money — set your hourly rate, quote numbering and expiry, and business hours first, because every quote and every visit is calculated from them.**

Almost everything the product does is calculated from a handful of numbers you
set once. They live on **Settings**, which is one long page rather than a maze
of tabs — grouped into your business, scheduling, communication, your website,
money and your account, with a menu down the side that jumps to any section.

## The numbers to set first

![The pricing section of Settings, showing the default hourly rate, tax rate, quote expiry and quote number format](/images/docs/settings-pricing.webp)

- **Your hourly rate.** Every quote that is not priced as a fixed amount is
  labour time multiplied by this. It is the single number that moves every
  price in the company, so it is worth getting right before you send anything.
- **Tax.** Applied to quotes and invoices at the rate you set.
- **Quote numbering.** Quotes number themselves in your own sequence —
  `Q-2026-000028` in the pictures throughout this documentation — and the format
  is yours to set. The sequence never reuses a number.
- **Quote expiry.** Thirty days by default. A quote past its expiry can no
  longer be accepted online, which is what makes
  [follow-ups](/docs/follow-ups-and-expiry) worth switching on.

## Business hours and scheduling

Business hours are what the booking form draws its free/busy week against, so
setting them stops the office offering a customer eight o'clock on a Sunday.
Reminder timing, confirmation requests and the quiet hours that text messages
respect are all in the scheduling and communication groups —
[Reminders and confirmations](/docs/reminders-and-confirmations) and
[Text messages and consent](/docs/text-messages-and-consent) cover those.

## Branding and language

Your logo appears on quote pages, PDFs and receipts. Your company language —
English or Spanish — decides what your customers are written to in. A quote
keeps the language it was written in forever, so changing the company language
later does not rewrite what a customer has already been sent.

## More than one location

On the Business plan a company can run several **locations**: branches or
franchise territories, each with its own customers, quotes and schedules, its
own public quote-request form, its own rates and quote numbering, and — where a
branch banks separately — its own payment account.

Settings inherit from the company until a location overrides them, so a new
branch starts out matching the rest of the business and only differs where you
say so. People are assigned to locations, and what they can see follows: the
schedule, the search box and every report show one location's work at a time,
with an "all my locations" view for those who work across several.

## What else is on this page

The rest of Settings is documented where the feature is:

- [Your room and task library](/docs/your-room-and-task-library)
- [Connecting Stripe](/docs/connecting-stripe) and
  [Tips, fees and refunds](/docs/tips-fees-and-refunds)
- [Quote requests from your website](/docs/quote-requests-from-your-website)
- [Calendars and feeds](/docs/calendars-and-feeds)
- [AI assists](/docs/ai-assists)
- [Team, roles and permissions](/docs/team-roles-and-permissions)
- [Exporting your data](/docs/exporting-your-data)