Godo Help Center
Step-by-step guides for accounting, BIR taxes, HR and payroll, and projects.
Getting started
Set up your company, bank accounts, opening balances, users and security.
- Welcome to Godo: a quick tour
- Set up your company details
- Add bank accounts, cash and e-wallets
- Enter your opening balances
- Understand the Chart of Accounts
Sales and invoicing
Customers, items, proposals, service invoices, payments and credit notes.
- Add and manage customers
- Set up your products and services
- Send a proposal (quotation) and turn it into an invoice
- Create and issue a service invoice
- Record customer payments (full or partial)
Tax reports and books
Tax worksheets and records Godo prepares from your books, plus books of accounts. Not tax advice: confirm with your accountant.
- Tax settings: how your choices change invoices and reports
- Set up the Filing Calendar
- Prepare the quarterly VAT worksheet (2550Q)
- Prepare the quarterly percentage tax worksheet (2551Q)
- Withholding tax on bills and expenses, and Form 2307 certificates
HR and payroll
Employees, attendance, payroll runs, payslips, contribution records and 13th month pay.
- Set up HR: departments, positions, shifts, holidays and pay types
- Add employees (201 file, pay rate and government IDs)
- Record attendance: manual entry and biometric import
- Run payroll, step by step
- Understanding the payslip
Projects and CRM
Projects, tasks, time tracking, project invoices, contracts, leads, support tickets and the client portal.
- Projects: create a project and assign your team
- Tasks, subtasks and the task board
- Milestones and time tracking
- Project invoices and expenses
- Send a project contract for online acceptance
Troubleshooting and FAQ
What common messages mean and how to fix them: sign-in, locked records, closed periods, invoices, bills and payroll.
- I can't sign in or I see "Permission denied"
- This date falls within a closed accounting period
- Invoice problems: can't edit, delete, email or void
- Bill and expense problems: payments, EWT and voids
- Payroll problems: locked days, approval and pay periods