# Quick Start Instructions
Our Excel add-in automate your Excel workflow for customer revenue analysis. You can Instantly clean data and create revenue waterfalls and cohort analyses — all built with auditable formulas directly in Excel.
## Core Functionality Testing Steps
### 1. Install and Open the Add-in
- Install and launch the HyperPerfect Add-in by running Excel Desktop and clicking **Home** (in the ribbon) -> **Add-ins** -> **More Add-ins** -> **Store** -> Search for "HyperPerfect" -> **Add**
#### If Admin installation is required, send these instructions to your IT department
- Must be a Global Admin or Office Apps Admin.
- 1. Go to the [Microsoft 365 Admin Center](https://admin.microsoft.com)
- Navigate to **Settings** -> **Integrated apps** -> **Get apps** -> Search for "HyperPerfect"
- Assign Users or Groups
- Review your choices and click **Finish deployment**
### 2. Overview
- After sign-in, the add-in’s task pane loads.
- The app has three main menu pages accessible via the top menu bar:
- **Clean**: Cleans customer revenue data for normalization prior to analysis.
- **Analyze**: Adds context to revenue data ("Build" functionality) and creates revenue waterfall analyses ("Revenue Waterfall" functionality).
- The **AI** section is a placeholder for future feature releases.
- **Settings** section is a placeholder for future feature releases.
### 3. Use the Clean Dashboard
- Select an Excel worksheet from the **"Choose Input Sheet" dropdown**, containing dimensional data columns (e.g., customer names, attributes) and monthly revenue data.
- Monthly revenue data headers should be date-formatted
- The data table should start in cell A1
Example source data table:
| Customer | Product | 1/1/25 | 2/1/25 | 3/1/25 | 4/1/25 | 5/1/25 | 6/1/25 |
| --------- | ------- | -----: | -----: | -----: | -----: | -----: | -----: |
| Microsoft | Excel | 1,430 | 1,501 | 1,504 | 1,509 | 1,540 | 1,539 |
| Apple | Numbers | 101 | 102 | 115 | 110 | 109 | 112 |
| Google | Sheets | 556 | 575 | 599 | 625 | 655 | 689 |
- Use dropdown menus for various cleaning settings (e.g., convert monthly revenue to annual revenue via **"Monthly -> Annual"** adjustment).
- Multiple adjustments can be applied simultaneously.
- Click **"Clean Source Data with Formulas"** to create a new sheet with cleaned data.
### 4. Use the Analyze Dashboard to Build a Revenue Data Table
- Navigate to the **Analyze Dashboard**.
- Select an Excel worksheet via the **"Choose Input Sheet" dropdown** containing dimensional and monthly revenue data (the cleaned data output from the previous step or a similar data table with dimensions and month revenue).
- Choose fiscal year-end from dropdown if other than December.
- Build a revenue data table that includes cohort details and quarterly/annual summaries, outputting results to a new sheet.
### 5. Use the Analyze Dashboard to Build a Revenue Waterfall
- After building the revenue data table, construct a Revenue or Customer Count Waterfall using the output:
- Segregate data by Revenue Type (start, new, upgrade, cancel, etc.) and Cohort groupings.
- Click **"Revenue Waterfall"** to display results in a new sheet.
- Note: you must use the output from the Revenue Build to be the input sheet for this operation
## Additional Notes
- **Cohorts**: Waterfalls can be grouped by monthly, quarterly, and annual cohorts if desired
- **Filters**: Waterfalls can be filtered by any dimension from the source sheet. Output results will only include Chosen , which can be helpful when wanting to analyze performance for a parti
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