Learning a new outreach platform costs you time before it saves you any. We can at least make the learning cheap.
Completing onboarding steps now credits connects to your account — connecting a mailbox, building your first segment, writing a sequence. By the time you have set up properly, you have a balance to run a real campaign with, on top of the welcome pack.
The order the walkthrough asks for is also the order that avoids the expensive mistakes, so there is a second payoff beyond the credits.