SektorCepte · 2026-10-26
A Price List That Lives on a Page
Let the prices live on a page. A file the phone asks to download slows the job and keeps an old figure alive. When one line changes, the page changes that day.
A person wants to see the price on the phone. You put up a file. The phone asks whether to download it, and the person gives up, or closes the file without opening it. If they do open it, the file is last month's figure. A price list should be a page. A page opens, it scrolls, and one line changes. A file is rebuilt at every change, and the old copy stays on people's phones. Two prices live at once. The page is the single copy that stays alive.
1. Let each job sit on its own line
On the page, the name of the job, a short measure, and the price sit side by side. A long description should not stand in front of the price. The person is looking for the figure. The figure should be visible at the right of the line, or just under it. If the measure changes the price, the measure is written on the line too. One figure belongs to one measure. If you do not write which measure it belongs to, it is taken as the smallest, and the argument starts there. If tax is included, say that once at the top of the page. Do not copy it onto every line. A copied warning pushes the price down and drops it off the first screen of the phone.
2. Correct the changed line that day
If the price changes in the morning, the page changes in the morning. Do not leave a file until evening. Leaving a file until evening shows the old figure all day. On a page, the correction is one line. In a file, the correction is rebuilding the whole list and hunting the old link. The old link does not get hunted down. Someone has saved it. The address of the page stays the same, and the figure inside it changes. A saved address then opens the right price as well. Write the day of the change in a small line at the bottom of the page. The day shows the list is fresh. A day that has passed its month shows the list was forgotten.
3. Do not make the file a second list
A tradesperson who wants paper in hand can print the page. The printed sheet is a copy of that day. It goes on the door and comes down at the end of the month. A separate file link should not sit on the site. If the link sits there, the person skips the page, downloads the file, and arrives with the old figure. In WhatsApp, send the address of the page. Do not attach the file to the chat. An attached file freezes inside the chat. You correct the page, and the file in the chat stays old. In the quick reply to a price question, send the address of the page. The address opens the current list every time.
4. Search and the first screen should see the page
The heading of the page should be the price list and the name of your trade. The jobs you actually sell should be written in it. From the home page, a person should reach this page in one tap. A price hidden at the bottom of a menu counts as unasked. On the first screen, the five jobs people ask about most should be visible. The rest comes when they scroll. Five jobs fit the first glance on a phone. A heap of fifty jobs loses the figure in the middle. Use a group heading: repair, replacement, a visit to measure. The heading lets the person who is looking descend to their own line. A long list without headings resembles a drawer spilled on the counter.
5. The spoken price and the page should stay the same
The figure you say at the counter is the figure on the page. A reduction that is not on the page stays particular to that person and is not written into the list. A reduction that is not written into the list looks, the next day, like something another person is also owed. For a job that becomes firm only after a measure, write a starting figure on the page and add that the firm figure is said after the measure. The start should not look like a ceiling. A start that is taken as a ceiling opens an argument when the job ends. Once a month, read the page aloud. If a price would not leave your mouth, correct either the page or your mouth. If the two stay apart, the customer chooses the cheaper of them.
This evening, open your price page on the phone. See whether the job people ask about most, and its figure, are visible on the first screen. If an old file link is still there, take it off. Tomorrow, send the address of the page to the person who asks the price. An address carries less argument than a file.