https://tradeyoke.net/blog/tag/building-tradeyoke How TradeYoke was built, month by month from January 2024: customers and jobs, invoicing, quoting, surveys, inspections, maps and live monitoring. en-gb https://tradeyoke.net/blog/the-tradeyoke-build-timeline https://tradeyoke.net/blog/the-tradeyoke-build-timeline Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:39:00 GMT One page listing every part of Building TradeYoke in date order, from the idea in 2019 and the start in January 2024 to where the platform stands in October 2026. AssemblySoft DevOps Our story Engineering Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/from-passwords-to-passkeys-sign-in-and-trust https://tradeyoke.net/blog/from-passwords-to-passkeys-sign-in-and-trust Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:34:00 GMT A system that holds a business's customers and invoices has to be hard to break into. Here is how TradeYoke's sign-in grew, and what is live in the web browser today. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/from-a-2019-idea-to-today-the-whole-tradeyoke-journey https://tradeyoke.net/blog/from-a-2019-idea-to-today-the-whole-tradeyoke-journey Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:33:00 GMT An idea from helping manage window cleaning rounds around 2019, development from the start of 2024, and where it has got to in October 2026. The whole journey in one place. Carl Randall Our story Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/what-building-for-tradespeople-has-taught-us https://tradeyoke.net/blog/what-building-for-tradespeople-has-taught-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:32:00 GMT Looking back from the start of 2024 to now, seven ideas kept proving themselves. They apply to running a trade business as much as to building software. AssemblySoft Business Our story Guides Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/how-we-priced-tradeyoke-four-plans https://tradeyoke.net/blog/how-we-priced-tradeyoke-four-plans Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:31:00 GMT Pricing is part of the product. We looked back at the build to decide what belongs on each plan: a free start, a working core, getting paid, and the business as a whole. AssemblySoft Business Pricing Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/one-core-many-trades-adding-gardening-and-more https://tradeyoke.net/blog/one-core-many-trades-adding-gardening-and-more Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:30:00 GMT 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. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/plan-my-day-decide-order-go https://tradeyoke.net/blog/plan-my-day-decide-order-go Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:29:00 GMT 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. Doerte Window cleaning Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/working-with-no-signal-offline-first-in-practice https://tradeyoke.net/blog/working-with-no-signal-offline-first-in-practice Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:28:00 GMT 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. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Mobile Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/trails-and-replay-a-days-route https://tradeyoke.net/blog/trails-and-replay-a-days-route Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:27:00 GMT 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. AssemblySoft DevOps Product Engineering Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/consent-first-tracking-a-team-fairly https://tradeyoke.net/blog/consent-first-tracking-a-team-fairly Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:26:00 GMT 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. Doerte Product Guides Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/where-is-the-van-live-monitoring-begins https://tradeyoke.net/blog/where-is-the-van-live-monitoring-begins Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:25:00 GMT 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. AssemblySoft DevOps Product Engineering Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/google-maps-across-tradeyoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/google-maps-across-tradeyoke Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:24:00 GMT 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. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/directions-to-the-door https://tradeyoke.net/blog/directions-to-the-door Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:23:00 GMT 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. Doerte Window cleaning Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/getting-the-address-right-postcodes-and-pins https://tradeyoke.net/blog/getting-the-address-right-postcodes-and-pins Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:22:00 GMT 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. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Window cleaning Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/one-signature-pad-for-surveys-inspections-and-job-completion https://tradeyoke.net/blog/one-signature-pad-for-surveys-inspections-and-job-completion Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:25:00 GMT By July 2025 surveys, inspections, quotes and finished jobs all needed a signature. We built one signature pad, and a signature that files itself where you will look. Doerte Guides Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/inspections-checklists-with-evidence-and-sign-off https://tradeyoke.net/blog/inspections-checklists-with-evidence-and-sign-off Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:20:00 GMT June 2025 brought inspections: a checklist you build once, work through on site marking each item pass or fail, with evidence for every fail, signed off and sent as a report. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Guides Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/site-surveys-before-the-quote https://tradeyoke.net/blog/site-surveys-before-the-quote Tue, 13 May 2025 10:19:00 GMT A repeat window clean can be priced from the doorstep. A garden redesign or a large property cannot. May 2025 added site surveys: look, measure, photograph, then quote. Doerte Guides Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/expiry-dates-and-certificates-never-miss-a-renewal https://tradeyoke.net/blog/expiry-dates-and-certificates-never-miss-a-renewal Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:22:00 GMT Insurance, an MOT, a competence certificate: the paperwork that runs out is the paperwork that costs most when you miss it. April 2025 added expiry dates to the library. AssemblySoft Business Guides Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/searching-inside-your-documents-not-just-their-names https://tradeyoke.net/blog/searching-inside-your-documents-not-just-their-names Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:21:00 GMT A library is only as good as your ability to find things in it. In April 2025 we made the library search inside the files, not just at their names. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/the-quotes-board-and-what-happens-after-sent https://tradeyoke.net/blog/the-quotes-board-and-what-happens-after-sent Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:18:00 GMT Most quotes are won or lost in the days after they are sent. April 2025 added a board that shows where every quote stands, and the means to revise and follow up. AssemblySoft Business Product Guides Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/documents-on-every-record-job-customer-vehicle-and-company https://tradeyoke.net/blog/documents-on-every-record-job-customer-vehicle-and-company Tue, 25 Mar 2025 08:19:00 GMT A job's paperwork is not the customer's, and neither is the van's. In March 2025 the documents sticky learned which record you are on and opened the right folder in its own colour. Doerte Guides Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/the-page-a-customer-accepts-a-quote-on https://tradeyoke.net/blog/the-page-a-customer-accepts-a-quote-on Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:17:00 GMT March 2025 gave the customer somewhere to say yes: a secure link to the quote, no login, with lines they can untick and a way to tell you when suits. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/quotes-from-the-same-record https://tradeyoke.net/blog/quotes-from-the-same-record Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:16:00 GMT February 2025 started quoting. A guided quote built from your trade's catalogue and your own prices, sent as a branded PDF, and turned into the job when it is accepted. AssemblySoft Business Product Guides Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/pay-links-cards-and-direct-debit-how-customers-pay https://tradeyoke.net/blog/pay-links-cards-and-direct-debit-how-customers-pay Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:15:00 GMT January 2025 was about getting paid faster: a pay link on the invoice, cards through Stripe, Direct Debit through GoCardless, and every payment settled back onto the ledger automatically. AssemblySoft Business Payments Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/part-payments-receipts-and-who-owes-me https://tradeyoke.net/blog/part-payments-receipts-and-who-owes-me Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:14:00 GMT December 2024 was about the end of the invoice: part payments, receipts, and a clear view of who owes what and how old the money is. Here is what we built and why. AssemblySoft Business Payments Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/an-invoice-ledger-that-cannot-be-quietly-edited https://tradeyoke.net/blog/an-invoice-ledger-that-cannot-be-quietly-edited Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:13:00 GMT November 2024 was about trust. The invoicing ledger only ever adds entries: a correction is a new line, not an edit. Here is why that makes the books easier to trust. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Payments Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/why-invoicing-came-next https://tradeyoke.net/blog/why-invoicing-came-next Tue, 08 Oct 2024 10:12:00 GMT With customers, jobs and a diary working, the next question was money. October 2024 started the invoicing work: why it followed the visit, and the three things it had to get right. AssemblySoft Business Payments Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/getting-an-existing-round-in-import-and-duplicates https://tradeyoke.net/blog/getting-an-existing-round-in-import-and-duplicates Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:11:00 GMT Nobody wants to retype four hundred customers. September 2024 was about import: check the file first, show what will happen, never silently merge, and flag the duplicates. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Guides Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/a-diary-that-fills-itself-recurring-visits https://tradeyoke.net/blog/a-diary-that-fills-itself-recurring-visits Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:10:00 GMT August 2024 was the diary. Set a frequency once and every future visit appears on the schedule; move a visit by dragging it. Here is how the board came together. Doerte Window cleaning Product Building TradeYoke https://tradeyoke.net/blog/signatures-photos-and-filing-the-paperwork https://tradeyoke.net/blog/signatures-photos-and-filing-the-paperwork Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:10:00 GMT Once customers and jobs worked, the paperwork started to pile up: photos, certificates, notes and PDFs. In July 2024 we built a document library that files things where you will look. AssemblySoft DevOps Engineering Guides Building TradeYoke