Services, priced the way you sell them.

A retainer, a per-person tour and a milestone contract each work differently. For every service you set how it is priced, how it is delivered, when it happens and when it counts as revenue, and the quote, the delivery tracking and the accounting follow those answers.

ServiceTrade licence and visasMilestone-based, stage deliveredQuote
PricedNine waysfee to commission
DeliveredFive shapesbooking to stages
ScheduledSeven kindsor not at all
EarnedFive momentssold is not earned
Four questions a product never has to answer.
Not a boxNine ways to price work that has no shelf

A retainer, a per-person tour and a milestone contract are not one thing with the stock fields hidden. The record asks how it is priced, delivered, scheduled and earned.

Four questions

How it is priced, delivered, scheduled and earned.

Most tools give a service a name and a price and stop. These four settings let one catalogue hold a coaching retainer, a company formation package and a fifteen-person tour without any of them being a special case.

NearSyncCommerceService catalogSearch, plan and askKAll hubs
Nine ways to price work.

The choice here changes the shape of the line-item editor on every deal, so a quote for a retainer does not ask the questions a per-person tour needs.

  • One-time feeA single amount, invoiced once.
  • RecurringA subscription, on the cycle you set.
  • Per personPriced per head. Tours, cohorts, training.
  • Milestone-basedSplit across agreed points in the work.
  • PackageSeveral legs, priced differently, sold as one.
  • Tiered subscriptionA recurring plan with levels.
  • MeteredBilled on what was used.
  • Time and materialsHours plus whatever went into it.
  • CommissionA share of the value, rather than a fee.

Set the answers once. Quotes, delivery and the books follow.

What follows

What those answers control.

You answer the questions once on the service. Nothing has to be set up again on the deal.

The quote line

The quote asks only for what the pricing model needs: a billing cycle for a retainer, a head count for a per-person tour, a rate for time and materials.

The delivery tracker

A service delivered in stages arrives on the deal with its steps already laid out. A scheduled service goes to the booking calendar instead.

The accounting entry

Revenue recognition decides when the money counts as earned, not just invoiced, and Finance posts it that way.

The renewal

A recurring service knows its own billing cycle, so the next invoice goes out without anyone setting a reminder.

Composition

Sell a package as one line, priced part by part.

The customer sees a single line on the quote. Underneath, each part of the package keeps its own pricing.

  • Sell a single service priced one way
  • Build packages where each part is priced differently
  • Compose a custom version on the quote for one-off deals
  • Offer tiers and options the salesperson picks from
  • Sell fixed bundles where the contents never change
Formation packageOne price
Customer seesOne line
Books seeIts parts
Delivery seesIts steps
Detail lostNone
Inside it
Licence applicationA service
Visa runA service
A year of accountingA service
Composed, not mergedone price, three records
Getting paid

Get paid in stages on long work.

Pair a service with a payment plan and the schedule is written once, instead of being negotiated onto every contract.

  • Attach a payment plan and the installments come with it
  • Milestone pricing releases each share as the milestone completes
  • Recurring services send their own next invoice
  • Revenue recognition keeps sold and earned separate in the books
  • Invoices inherit the currency and tax already set on the service
Milestone contractPaid in stages
MobilisationIts own share
Second fixIts own share
CompletionRetention released
Invoiced at the endNo
Tied to the work
Step doneDraw falls due
Two people rememberingNot needed
On the recordnot a paragraph in a contract
Starting points

Start from your industry and the service is half set up.

A new service opens on a picker grouped by industry: professional services, real estate, education, healthcare, travel, trades, media and more. Pick the closest one and the pricing, the scheduling, the delivery steps and the extra fields that kind of work needs are already filled in. Change any of them, or add your own sub-type under any industry.

The picker
Grouped byYour industry, not by kind of field
Fills inPricing, scheduling, steps, suggested fields
Your ownAdd a sub-type under any industry
A starting point, and every setting stays editable
Where you sell it

Offer one service from several offices without copying it.

A service belongs to a primary hub, which decides its currency and which tax rate applies. Tick the other hubs that also sell it and they all work from the same service, so a price change reaches every one of them at once.

Availability
Primary hubSets currency and tax
Also sold byTick the others
Copies to maintainNone
One service to edit, however many offices sell it
Recurring work

Charge per seat, per unit used, or on any cycle you like.

A plan or a retainer bills daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, and a count on top of that gives you quarterly or every second week. Say whether the price is per seat or per unit used, and the quote asks for a head count or a usage figure to match.

Cadence
IntervalDaily, weekly, monthly or yearly
How manyA count, so three months means quarterly
PricedPer seat, or per unit used
Set once on the service, not again on each contract

Booking

Anything scheduled goes to the Booking Engine.

Appointments, classes, cohort starts and departure dates are all scheduling options on a service. The Booking Engine handles the calendar, availability and payments for all of them in one place, and it has its own page.

Access

Who can do what.

Quoting a service and defining how one behaves are different jobs.

See

Browse the service catalogue and what each one includes.

Do

Quote any service, with the right details asked for.

Manage

Add services and set how they are priced and delivered.

Admin

Set revenue recognition and tax behaviour.

See Commerce on your own data.

Half an hour on your own catalogue, with the stock, the delivery and the schedule behind it.