Run a better trade business
Practical guides for trade and home service businesses in Canada: pricing, scheduling, maintenance plans, getting paid, and running a crew.
Garage door companies: winning the same-day repair when springs snap in the cold
The first deep cold snaps springs all over town, and the client with a car stuck in the garage calls whoever answers first. How garage door companies win the same-day repair, have the right parts on the van, and get paid on the driveway.
Why you should take a deposit on every install, and how much to ask for
A deposit pays for the materials, filters out the clients who were never going to go ahead, and protects your cash flow. How much to ask for, when, and how to ask without losing the job.
The hidden cost of running a growing trade business on texts and spreadsheets
One truck runs fine on a phone and a notebook. Two crews do not. Where a growing trade business leaks money through missed messages, slow quotes and late payments, what it adds up to, and what fixes it.
Your money, your Stripe account: why owning your payment processing matters
When your field service software processes your payments, it sets the rate and holds the relationship. When you own your Stripe account, you see every fee, control your payouts, and can negotiate your rate as you grow. Here is why that matters over the long run.
GST, HST, PST and QST: invoicing correctly in every province
A plain guide for trade businesses to Canada's sales taxes in 2026: the rate in every province, which one applies when you work across a border, what an invoice must show, and the mistakes that cause trouble at filing time.
Interac e-Transfer vs card: what each really costs a trade business
e-Transfers look free and cards cost about 3%. But the real cost of getting paid includes the hours spent matching payments and chasing the slow ones. A plain comparison, with the numbers.
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