Why 'works offline' is the feature you'll use most
Signal drops in basements, plant rooms and country lanes. An app that keeps working there, and syncs honestly when the signal returns, is the one you'll actually use.
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Van tracking without the hardware: the app as the tracker
You do not need a box wired into the van to know where the team is. The app on the phone is the tracker, and the map shows customers, jobs, vehicles and people together.
Running two trades on one account (and why the diary doesn't care)
Plenty of trade businesses do two things: windows and gutters, gardens and fencing, solar and the electrics. One account, one diary, one customer list, one invoice run.
April 2026: one core, many trades
With window cleaning solid, April 2026 was about whether the core could carry other trades. Each trade is a module on the same core: its own terms, forms and colour.
March 2026: Plan my day, decide, order, go
March 2026 turned the diary into a morning routine. Plan my day shows what is overdue and what is booked, lets you decide, puts the day in order, and sends it to your phone.
February 2026: working with no signal, offline-first in practice
February 2026 put the offline-first idea from 2024 to work: the round on the device, changes queued, and a clear rule for when two people edit the same thing.
January 2026: trails and replay, and what a day's route can tell you
January 2026 added trails to the live map and a way to replay a device's day. What a route can settle, and why it is worth having.
December 2025: consent first, and tracking a team fairly
December 2025 was about the part of live monitoring that matters most: nobody is tracked without being told first, and everyone can switch sharing off on their own device.
November 2025: where is everybody? Live monitoring begins
Every business with more than one van asks the same question sooner or later. November 2025 began live monitoring: the team on one map, with the phone app as the tracker.
October 2025: one set of maps, built on Google Maps
By October 2025 TradeYoke needed maps in many places. We built one shared set on Google Maps, so a customer, a job and the whole team all use the same map.
September 2025: directions to the door, from the job or the customer
Knowing where the next customer is only helps if you can get there. September 2025 put a Directions button on every customer and job, and began ordering a day by distance.
August 2025: getting the address right, with postcodes and map pins
Everything on a round depends on the address. August 2025 added type-ahead address search, UK postcode lookup and a pin on a map for every customer.