Run your small service business with less guesswork
Practical guides and ready-to-use forms and spreadsheets for people who run a business on their own: pet sitters and dog walkers, house cleaners, and home bakers. Every section starts with a free printable.
Visit reports, client onboarding, bookings
Leave owners a clear record of every visit and keep track of clients, payments and mileage.
Pet sitter resourcesChecklists, quotes, $/hour per home
Room-by-room checklists, plus how to tell which houses actually pay you well.
Cleaning resourcesOrder forms, cake pricing, deposits
Take complete custom orders and price cakes so your own time is paid for.
Bakery resourcesLatest guides
- How much to charge for pet sitting: 2026 rates and a simple pricing method
- How much to charge for house cleaning: hourly vs flat rate, with the math
- How to price cookies for selling: per-dozen math
- Cottage food law basics: permits, labels and limits
- House cleaning walkthrough: how to estimate time and quote
- Pet sitter meet and greet checklist: 30 questions
- What to include in a pet visit report (with a free template)
- Deep clean checklist, room by room, and how it differs from a standard clean
- How to price a custom cake: a worked example with real arithmetic
Why this site exists
Most solo businesses start out on sticky notes and text threads. That works until a client disputes a visit, a house quietly eats three hours a week, or a cake sells for less than its ingredients and your time. These guides cover the boring paperwork that prevents that. The templates are made by a small shop. You can read about it on the About page.