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The native apps: offline-first, on the van, in your pocket.
Gate codes on the back of an invoice, addresses in three apps and a customer who owes you from March. Here is what a customer record for a trade business should hold, and how to check it works on a phone, at the door.
Most of a window cleaner's day happens on a pavement with a phone in one hand. Here is what a round needs from that phone, and how TradeYoke works in your browser and from your home screen with nothing to download.
A tablet is a better planning screen than a phone and a lighter office than a laptop. Here is how window cleaners use an iPad on the round, what to look for, and how TradeYoke fits an iPad or Android tablet in portrait, landscape and Split View.
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.
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.
Two decisions made in the first half of 2024 shaped everything since: one shared codebase for the web and the apps, and a phone that keeps working when the signal drops.
