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Short answers on using Sidesheet, from signing in to exporting financials.

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Getting started

  • How Sidesheet works

    Add a company's tax return PDFs to a project and get multi-year financials, checked and ready to export.

  • Create your account and firm

    Create your account with email, Google or a Microsoft work account, confirm the emailed code, agree to the Terms and name your firm.

  • Set up your authenticator

    Scan the code with an authenticator app, then add a backup so a lost phone can't lock you out.

  • Create a project and add returns

    Make one project per company and drop in up to 10 return PDFs, each a card identified by form and year as it uploads.

  • Extract the returns

    Extract reads each return and builds the financials in a few minutes, and you can leave the page while it works.

  • Review a return

    Work through the warnings banner in the review window, then choose Mark as reviewed.

  • Check the financials

    Preview the workbook exactly as it exports, then correct a misread value or accept a check as printed from its return.

  • Export to Excel

    Download the financials as an Excel workbook once every return is ready, with seven tabs and a file named after the company and years.

Account and sign-in

  • Ways to sign in

    Sign in with an email and password, Google or a Microsoft work account, link or unlink them, and why you're asked to sign in again.

  • Reset your password

    Use Forgot your password and the emailed code to set a new password, and what the reset changes.

  • If you lose your authenticator

    Use your backup authenticator, ask another admin to reset it, or contact us if you're the only admin.

Your firm and team

Returns and projects

  • Returns we read

    Federal Forms 1120, 1120-S and 1065 for tax year 2015 on, as PDFs; no state returns or 1040s.

  • When a file can't be used

    What the red message on a file's card means, when to choose Try again, and how to get a better file.

  • Warnings when you add returns

    The project's warnings banner for a different company, the same year twice and a missing year, how to settle each, and why none stops you extracting.

  • Remove a return

    Remove a return with its card's menu, what each removal costs, and how it affects your firm's return count.

Review and financials

Billing and usage

  • Your firm's beta

    What your firm gets during the private beta, where to find when it ends, and that you won't be charged.

  • How returns are counted

    A return counts when its extraction finishes, comes back if extraction fails, and stays counted when removed; here's what happens when your firm runs out.