A bakery, a barber, a potter, and the person who makes things in a shed.
Every tool you have looked at was built for somebody else's trade, and you have been settling. Here is what is genuinely different about eleven kinds of business, and how little of it the software needs to care about.
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Sells the same forty things every morning
Sells Tuesday at half past three
Sells a job, a pile of parts and an invoice
Sells a thing that exists once
A bakery
You sell the same forty things every morning and they are gone by two. What matters is what is left, what sold out early, and never having to write the list twice.
A week for bakeries, on PigglesLeans hardest on Sell, Stock and Money. The other thirteen are there too.
A barber
You are not selling a thing, you are selling Tuesday at half past three. The diary is the business, and an empty chair is the only stock that never comes back.
A week for barbers, on PigglesLeans hardest on Bookings, Customers and Messages. The other thirteen are there too.
A potter
Everything is made once, photographed once and sold once. The website is the shop, and the hard part is that a piece has to come off it the moment it goes.
A week for potters, on PigglesLeans hardest on My Site, Sell and Stock. The other thirteen are there too.
A garage
A job is a booking, a pile of parts and an invoice that nobody can write until the work is done. The same car comes back in a year and the history has to still be there.
A week for garages, on PigglesLeans hardest on Bookings, Invoices and Customers. The other thirteen are there too.
A market stall
You trade three days a week from a folding table with no counter and no back office. Everything has to work on a phone, standing up, with one hand.
A week for market stalls, on PigglesLeans hardest on Sell, Money and Stock. The other thirteen are there too.
A salon
Several people are booked at once and not everyone can do everything. The rota and the diary are the same problem, and telling them apart is where the double-bookings come from.
A week for salons, on PigglesLeans hardest on Bookings, My Team and Customers. The other thirteen are there too.
A tailor
Every job is a set of measurements, two fittings and a date somebody is depending on. The work is bespoke; the chasing, the deposit and the reminder are not.
A week for tailors, on PigglesLeans hardest on Bookings, Customers and Invoices. The other thirteen are there too.
A studio
The work has to be seen before it can be sold, so writing about it is not marketing, it is the job. Being findable is what turns a portfolio into an income.
A week for studios, on PigglesLeans hardest on Content, Get Found and My Site. The other thirteen are there too.
A workshop
You take commissions, you keep materials, and you quote before you build. Knowing what a job actually cost you is the difference between busy and paid.
A week for workshops, on PigglesLeans hardest on Invoices, Stock and Money. The other thirteen are there too.
A supplier
You sell to other businesses, on account, at prices that are not the ones on the website. Terms, purchase orders and who owes what are the whole relationship.
A week for suppliers, on PigglesLeans hardest on Sell, Customers and Invoices. The other thirteen are there too.
A shed
It is you, evenings, and it might be a business by Christmas. What you need is somewhere to start that will not have to be replaced when it works.
A week for side businesses, on PigglesLeans hardest on My Site, Sell and Home. The other thirteen are there too.
None of them needed a different Piggles.
A barber sells time and a bakery sells bread, and underneath they are the same four things: someone to remember, something to sell, a bill to send, and a website that says you exist. If your trade is not on this page, it is not missing. It is one of these eleven with a different word on the door.
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