# Set up CopyHero with the assistant


> Follow the guided first-run setup: start your trial, build your first workflow, and see a product transformed.


Canonical URL: https://www.copyhero.app/help/getting-started/guided-setup

On your first visit, CopyHero opens **CopyHero Setup** — a guided conversation
with the CopyHero assistant. It builds your first product-import pipeline
with you and runs it on a real product, so you see the transformation before
you touch the rest of the app.

The progress bar on the left always shows where you are. Your progress is
saved: if you leave and come back later, the assistant continues where you
left off.

## What the setup walks you through [#what-the-setup-walks-you-through]

1. **Free trial.** The assistant shows a trial card with the plan and price.
   Select **Start free trial** to enter payment details on the secure billing
   page; you are not billed today and can cancel anytime during the trial.
   You return to the setup automatically. The trial is required to continue.
   If the plan on the card has no trial period, the card says **Subscribe**
   instead and billing starts right away — the card always tells you which
   of the two it is.
2. **Your store.** Enter your store's web address so CopyHero can detect your
   language and currency, or choose **I don't have a store yet** and tell the
   assistant both values instead.
3. **Basics.** The assistant explains the two words you will see everywhere:
   a **task** is one step of your listing process, and a
   [**workflow**](/help/workflows/how-work-is-organized) is your tasks chained
   in order, run per product.
4. **A practice product.** Paste a **Shopify** or **AliExpress** product
   link — the address of the product page itself — or choose
   **No URL — use a demo product**. If you pasted a link earlier in the chat,
   even before starting the trial, the assistant uses it without asking again.
   A Shopify link is imported together with your first run, so the product
   lands in your library already processed. AliExpress is slow to fetch from
   and takes several minutes, so it is fetched in the background from the
   moment your trial is active, while you set up your store and build your
   tasks. If it is not ready within the wait the assistant tells you about,
   or the fetch fails, the setup carries on with the demo product and says so;
   your AliExpress product still arrives in your library, ready to run through
   your workflow.
   Short AliExpress links and category pages cannot be fetched: open the
   product on AliExpress and paste the address of that page.
5. **Build.** Together you create four starter tasks — build a structured
   description, translate to your store language, convert prices to your
   store currency, and write a product title — and chain them into your
   first workflow. You can ask questions at any point.
6. **First run.** The workflow runs on your practice product, one task at a
   time, and the assistant shows you the before and after side by side when it
   finishes. If a task you edited could write the wrong thing into a field, the
   assistant tells you before it runs.
7. **Make it better.** Not happy with the result? Ask the assistant to change a
   task (for example the title wording) and run again. It starts again from the
   product as it was before the first run, so nothing is processed twice. You
   can also run the workflow on one more product: a Shopify product link runs
   right away, and an AliExpress link is fetched in the background and lands in
   your library. The setup allows three runs in all, and the assistant says
   when they are used up. For more, open your products, select one, and choose
   **Start Workflow** (this needs a [connected Shopify
   store](/help/stores/connect-shopify)).
8. **Done.** The assistant shows you where your tasks, workflow, and product
   live in the app, how to import your next product, and where your
   subscription and help are. Select **Start the tour** for a short guided
   tour of the app (see below), or **Connect your Shopify store** to
   [connect a destination store](/help/stores/connect-shopify) as your next
   step.

## The guided tour [#the-guided-tour]

**Start the tour** begins a five-step walkthrough on the dashboard: a welcome,
where your credits show, the sidebar, where your stores appear, and the
assistant. Every step has **Next**,
**Back** and **Skip**, so you can leave whenever you like; **Ask** ends the
tour and opens the assistant if you would rather ask a question.

The tour is not part of setup and nothing depends on finishing it.

## After the setup [#after-the-setup]

Everything you built is yours to keep and edit: the four tasks appear under
**Tasks**, the workflow under **Workflows**, and the practice product in your
[Product Library](/help/products/products-vs-library). Editing a task changes
your workflow from its next run on; finished products do not change.

**Your workflow becomes your import default.** When the setup ends, your
workflow, **My import workflow**, is set as the workflow of your default
[import profile](/help/settings/import-profiles), so **Import to Shopify** and
**Start Workflow** preselect it. An import started with the workflow selected
runs it, which uses credits; choose **Skip Workflow** to import without it. If
your default import profile already had a workflow of your own, it is left
alone, and you choose **My import workflow** yourself in the **Start
Workflow** step. Change the default under **Settings → Import profiles**.

**The setup does not connect your store.** It only reads your store's language
and currency from the address you gave. To import to Shopify you still
[connect your store](/help/stores/connect-shopify) once. Then follow
[your first product run](/help/getting-started/first-product-run).

**Subscription and cancelling** are under **Settings → Subscription**; see
[cancel your subscription or delete your account](/help/settings/cancel-and-delete-account).

## If the setup seems stuck [#if-the-setup-seems-stuck]

The setup runs to the end — there is no way to leave it early. When a step
looks like it is waiting on you and no buttons are offered, type your answer
in the message box at the bottom. The assistant reads plain text at every
step, so a short "keep going" moves the setup forward.