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Paying someone to knock doors for your round sounds simple until you ask what they actually won. Three ways to pay a canvasser, the trap in each, and how to see what they brought in.
Knocking doors is still the cheapest way to build a window cleaning round, and paper lists are where it leaks. How to canvass a street so every yes, not-home and call-back turns into a booked clean.
Too many passwords is how trade businesses end up with a reused one, a shared one or a sticky note in the van. Here is how to carry fewer of them, and how TradeYoke removes passwords altogether.
A booked visit's day has come and gone and nothing was recorded. Was it done, does it need a new day, or is it dead? How to decide, why a repeating job makes it trickier, and a five-minute routine that keeps the diary honest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Locked out of the business app in a customer's driveway, or reusing one password everywhere because it is the only one you remember? Here is how passkeys fix that, what to do whatever software you use, and how to sign in to TradeYoke with a fingerprint.
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.
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.
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.
