A method of pairing a mobile computing device with an external device during set up of the mobile computing device, the method comprising, at a computing device initiate a setup application for the mobile computing device; determining if the mobile computing device has an internal scanner; when the mobile computing device does not have an internal scanner: prepare the mobile computing device for pairing with a peripheral scanning device; prepare the peripheral scanning device for pairing with the mobile computing device; pairing the mobile computing device with the peripheral scanning device; and scanning staging indicia with the peripheral scanning device to initiate a device staging application within the mobile computing device.