# Administration

- Open up the root of the Freeside document tree in your web browser. For example, if you created the Freeside document tree in /home/httpd/html/freeside, and your web browser's DocumentRoot is /home/httpd/html, open https://your_host/freeside/. Replace "your_host" with the name or network address of your web server.
- Select Configuration from the main menu and update your configuration values.
- Go to View/Edit service definitions on the main menu, and Add a new service definition with Table svc_acct. Select your domain in the domsvc Modifier. Set Fixed to define a service locked-in to this domain, or Default to define a service which may select from among this domain and the customer's domains.

- Create at least POP (Point of Presence) by selecting View/Edit POPs from the main menu. | OR | If you are not doing dialup, set slipip to fixed and blank for all your Service Definitions which have Table svc_acct.

- If you are using Freeside to keep track of sales taxes, define tax information for your locales by clicking on the View/Edit locales and tax rates on the main menu.
- If you would like Freeside to notify your customers when their credit cards and other billing arrangements are about to expire, arrange for freeside-expiration-alerter to be run daily by cron or similar facility. The message it sends can be configured from the Configuration choice of the main menu as alerter_template.