Training sandbox — practise any scheme safely

The training sandbox (/training) lets you learn OneSixth without touching live books. Each scenario spins up a dummy organisation seeded with realistic transactions for a single scheme.

How it works

• Pick a scenario — TOMS, Motor Trade, Global Accounting, General Goods, Horses & Ponies, or Partial Exemption.
• Work through it exactly like a real org: pull transactions, calculate, preview journals.
• Reset a sandbox to start over, or mark it complete to track your progress.
• We remember the last sandbox you opened so you can resume where you left off.

Guided exercises

Each sandbox lists short “Try this” exercises, each with its own done checkbox:

• TOMS: foreign-currency sales (HMRC rate and a manual rate), mixed UK / non-UK costs, ignoring a duplicate, a prior-period difference with Method 1 / Method 2 guidance, cancelling and re-posting a quarter, and year-end geography by transaction.
• Partial exemption: a foreign-currency purchase, ignoring an input (filed rows can't be ignored), a prior-period difference using the saved snapshot, and a cash-basis date example.
• Stock books and Global Accounting: “Create accounts”, where one existing account is the wrong type and is flagged rather than used. This is simulated.
• Connections and extension: read-only notes on the QuickBooks VAT-frequency suggestion and the Chrome extension.

Safety

Sandbox orgs are clearly badged and never connect to a real accounting platform, so journals are previewed but never posted externally.

Availability

The sandbox is available to firms with beta access (and platform admins). If you'd like access, contact help@onesixth.app.