Run your first workflow in 5 minutes
From sign-up to a workflow firing on your phone. Three steps; the third one usually takes the longest because Android wants you to enable the Accessibility service.
1. Create an account
Go to /auth/sign-up and create one. You'll get a verification email; click through it. There's no credit-card prompt — the free tier covers three workflows.
2. Install the Android app
Open /download on your phone and tap Download APK. We recommend the direct APK over the Play Store version — it ships updates faster and lets us bypass Play Billing fees on subscriptions purchased through smartordercapture.com.
3. Pair your phone
On your laptop, go to /devices/pair. The page shows a QR code. On your phone, open the smartordercapture app, walk through the disclosure flow (it explains what the Accessibility API does in plain English), then scan the QR code from the pairing page.
The device appears in your dashboard with a green "armed" dot within a few seconds.
4. Build a workflow
From the dashboard, click Workflows → New workflow. The builder opens with an empty canvas. Drag a trigger from the left palette (try Manual for now — it lets you fire the workflow from a homescreen shortcut), then drag an action (Show toast is a good first one). Connect them by dragging from the trigger's handle to the action's input.
Click Save. The workflow syncs to your paired phone within a few seconds.
5. Fire it
On your phone, open the smartordercapture app, tap the workflow you just built, and tap the play icon. You should see a toast appear. Your dashboard's run-history feed picks it up within a few seconds via SSE — no page refresh needed.
What if something went wrong?
See Troubleshooting. The two most common issues are (a) the Accessibility service wasn't enabled and (b) the QR code expired before you scanned it (they last 5 minutes).