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Back-office guides for small contractors

Trades Desk Guide publishes plain-English guides on the paperwork side of running a contracting business: field service software, insurance basics, certificates of insurance, and workers' comp premium audits. We start with Idaho and the Treasure Valley.

How we work: We do not claim to have tested products hands-on. Comparisons are research from vendors' public pricing and feature pages, with sources and the date we checked them. Insurance pages are educational, not advice.

Guides

• Jobber vs Housecall Pro: pricing and features compared (from public pages)
• Idaho workers' comp premium audits: a guide for contractors who use subs
• Contractor insurance types explained: GL, workers' comp, commercial auto, and more
• Free subcontractor certificate of insurance tracker (CSV and Excel)
• Printable Idaho workers' comp audit subcontractor checklist (PDF)