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Small business management that starts when the inquiry does

Small business management usually means five tools that do not talk to each other. This is one place: an inquiry arrives, becomes a customer, becomes work you booked in, becomes an invoice that got paid — and the person you did it for can see their part of it without making an account.

inquiry received
customer created
booking confirmed
invoice sent
paid via portal
scrim announced
sign-up vouched
result posted

You do not need a website from us to use any of this. Most organizations arrive because their site brings inquiries they then lose track of, but the work happens after that — and it is the part nobody sells you. Invoicing and scheduling usually live in different products from the customer list, so the same person gets typed in three times and the answer to “what did we earn on that” is a spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand.

one thread · scroll

The same record, start to finish

ENQ-2417 · thread

Inquiry · website form
received
Customer
—
Job
—
Invoice
—

01 / inquiry

An inquiry arrives from your site

The contact form on your site lands in the dashboard and in your inbox. The source is recorded — and when it is not known, it says so.

02 / customer

It becomes a customer in one step

Nothing is retyped. The person, the service they asked about and the conversation so far stay on the same record.

03 / booked

You book the work in

It goes on your schedule and appears in their portal — the same link you sent, no account to create.

04 / paid

The invoice gets paid from the same place

Send it, they pay from the portal, and “what did we earn on that” is answered by the record — not a spreadsheet somebody maintains by hand.

What it actually does

01 / thread

One thread, not five tabs

The inquiry, the customer it became, the work you booked and the invoice you sent are the same thread. Nothing is retyped, and nothing lives only in your head.

An inquiry becomes a customer in one step
Nothing retyped, nothing lost
ENQ-2417 · thread
live
Inquiry · website form
received
Customer · M. Okafor
created
Job · Fri 09:00
booked
Invoice · INV-0921
paid

02 / portal

Your customers never make an account

You send a link and they are in. They see their invoices and what is scheduled, and they can pay from there. No password for them to forget, and no support message when they do.

A sign-in link, not a credential
Invoices, payment and schedule in one place
portal · magic link
live
portal.link/k9f2
opened
INV-0921 · $480.00
due 14 Sep
Next visit
Fri 09:00

03 / vocabulary

It uses your words

A contractor has Jobs. A music teacher has Lessons. A league has Matches. Rename what the platform calls things and both your dashboard and your customers' portal follow.

Rename services, jobs and products
The customer portal changes too
vocabulary
live
service →
Lesson
appointment →
Scrim
customer →
Player

Questions people actually ask

Do I need a website from you to use this?

No. A site of ours feeds inquiries straight in, which is the tidiest route, but you can add customers and record work by hand and never publish a page with us.

What do my customers have to install or sign up for?

Nothing. They open a link you send them and they are in — no account, no password, no app. If they lose the link you send another.

Can it use my trade's words instead of yours?

Yes. Services, jobs, customers and products can each be renamed for your organization, and the customer portal uses your names too — a portal headed “Jobs” for a piano student is us showing through, and that is a bug rather than a style.

Who holds the money when a customer pays?

You do. Payments settle into your organization's own Stripe account and you are the merchant of record. We connect the account; the funds never pass through us.

Is the community side available yet?

The first part is: a roster of people who agreed to be on it, scrims with results, announcements and sign-ups in your Discord server, and vouching. It is on the Pro plan, and we run it for our own community on the same code. Teams, leagues and seasons are not built yet, and we will say when they are rather than before.

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