Getting started with SimplServe is, like all things SimplServe, easy.

First things first:

• All you need is an email address and the Google Chrome web browser
• There’s nothing to install
• Nothing to backup
• Software updates just happen automatically
• Login from anywhere

Once you signup and choose a password, SimplServe leads you through gathering some initial info to get you started. Easy!

Step 1: Let’s enter info for your office, so we can make nice looking affidavits, invoices and field sheets (tap/click to see larger):

Looks easy, right? That’s because it is.

I designed SimplServe with one over-riding principle – I hate complicated software!

Step 2: We need someone to serve our papers. We call this an agent, and to get started we are going to enter the info for one of them. 

If you are a one-person shop, you’ll enter your info here, because you are both the office owner AND the server:

That’s a good start: getting an agent in the system. You can always add more later, or if you are a one-person shop, you’re done.

Step 3: Somebody’s giving us these papers to serve. Before entering a paper, the client for that paper needs to be in the system, so let’s add one now:

Pretty painless to get an agent and a client in the system. Adding more later is just as easy, of course.

Now we are ready to input a paper – this is the last step of getting started.

Either put in a real paper you are planning to serve, or just use some garbage data to give it a try.

Check out this video to see the final step in the getting started process (40 seconds to put on a 1-defendant paper):

And that’s it, you are ready to roll! 

And that’s what I like to call… SimpL !