Your trade

DeskOps is for service businesses — the ones that go to the customer, or the customer comes to them, and get paid per job, per visit or per month. Seventy trades are recognised by name: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping and lawn care, tree service, fencing, concrete, painting, flooring, handyman, general contracting, gutters, garage doors, pressure washing, cleaning of every kind, junk removal, moving, pest control, pool service, irrigation, septic, snow removal, restoration, locksmith, solar, appliance repair, auto repair and mobile mechanics, detailing, towing, trucking, salons and barbers, pet grooming, photography, catering, tutoring, bookkeeping and tax prep, home inspection, real estate, short-term rental hosting, gyms, and more. A business that is none of these picks Other and gets everything except the trade-specific tools.

Because the business is set up as a membership business — a gym or a studio. Its work is members on plans rather than jobs at an address, so DeskOps shows it no Jobs page, no Schedule, no job dates and no Jobs tab on the phone, and Des does not offer to book or schedule jobs for it. Members live in Customers, their recurring plans in Get Paid → Contracts, and what came in on the Money page. Nothing is deleted: if the industry is changed to a trade that books jobs, Jobs and the Schedule come back with everything already on them.

Four things follow the trade. The words: the Jobs board is named for what you call the work — appointments for a groomer, jobs for a roofer — and quotes and invoices offer the contract types your trade uses, with a lien notice only where you can actually file one. The unit: a job is measured in squares for roofing, linear feet for fencing, hours for a service call, so pricing and margin by type make sense. The categories: expense categories are ordered so the ones your trade uses most sit first, and the Business Health score judges your expense ratio against your trade's norm rather than a universal one. The tools: Des's Tools list shows the forms for your trade — two for most, eleven for fencing. Changing the industry later changes all four; nothing you recorded is touched.

Each trade's note explains today's features and limits, with “We're working on it.” Food trucks get a back office: recorded sales income, expenses and estimated taxes, not its register. Gyms get monthly invoices, plans and setup fees, rather than door access or class credits. Rental hosts import platform payouts as bank deposits, not gross sales or fees; those need separate records. Agents record settled commissions. DeskOps never invents a guest invoice. Contractors can use draws, retainage and payer shares on eligible DeskOps invoices. Field trades can request optional card consent by secure link, then confirm invoice charges. These features are on by default. If temporarily paused, existing invoices, history and card removal remain available. Phone tap-to-pay is unavailable. The note follows current features and keeps these limits visible.