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What's new in TradeYoke and why we built it that way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 2024 was the month the customer list and the job list started to work together for window cleaning. Here is what that meant, what was missing, and what we learned from using it.
In June 2024 we first published TradeYoke's terms of service and privacy notice. Why we think a software business should write its rules down early, and how they are kept up to date.
April 2024 was about the customer. What does a window cleaner need on a record: the address, the price, the rhythm, how to get in, and what they owe? Here is how we designed it.
In March 2024 the question was simple and not easy: what is a round, in software? A named list of stops, each with a frequency and a next-due date, in an order you can change.
The idea was about five years old when we started building at the start of 2024. Here is why we waited, what made us begin, and the rules we set ourselves on day one.
