Every trade
61 trades. One installer.
A shopkeeper should find their own line of work by name rather than work out which of five vague categories they belong to. So the list is long — and behind it sit only 16 workflows, because a tyre shop, a battery shop and a laptop shop all keep the same things.
Goods
Shops that sell things.
Services
Businesses that do things.
How the list stays this long
61 names, 16 workflows.
Naming the trade separately from the workflow is what lets the list grow without the software growing with it. These are the bundles underneath.
jobwork
11 tradesThe work happens somewhere else, and the record has to survive the journey there and back.
electronics
8 tradesAn appliance is sold once and then lives at the customer for ten years, which is longer than most software remembers it.
hardware
7 tradesBought in one unit and sold in another, which is where most hardware billing goes wrong.
fmcg
7 tradesFast-moving goods, where the scheme is the deal and the date on the packet decides what may still be sold.
retail
6 tradesThe plain counter, plus the few records almost every shop ends up needing.
services
6 tradesThe bill is time and skill rather than stock, and the money often arrives before the work does.
garments
3 tradesSize and colour are the same garment, so they are held as one product with a matrix behind it.
distribution
3 tradesYou are not waiting for customers; you are going to them, on a route, with a load.
security
2 tradesThe kit is installed at a site, carries a serial the manufacturer will ask for, and the money that keeps coming is the contract.
restaurant
2 tradesA bill that stays open while people eat, and a kitchen that has to know before the bill is paid.
repair
1 tradeThe thing being repaired is not yours, and the record has to say so from the moment it comes in.
pharmacy
1 tradeBatch and expiry on every strip, and the ability to find a batch again after it has been sold.
cosmetics
1 tradeWhat is made in a batch is sold by the shade, and both have to be traceable.
mobile
1 tradeThe same shape as an appliance shop, keyed on the IMEI — which is what a service centre and an insurer both ask for.
jewellery
1 tradeThe metal is worth more than the making, and the old piece coming in is part of the payment.
manufacturing
1 tradeRaw material goes in, finished goods come out, and the cost of what you made has to be known.
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Not on the list?
Start with General retail, which is the plain counter, and tell us what your trade keeps that it does not. It goes into the next build — which every shop gets, not a special one built for you.