Entertainment, personal and business services
Professional and business services
Time, projects and invoices. The core operation lies outside a point-of-sale catalog; only ancillary counters, cash desks or stores could use it.
Peripheral Planned NAICS 54
Status
Planned The coverage below describes the planned catalog as of repository commit 455b2c8. No app is released. Everything on this page is a plan. The repository contains a catalog and design documents, not a released app.
How the industry works
Operating characteristics
- legal, accounting, consulting and design firms
- timekeeping and billing
- retainers
- disbursements
- client trust funds
Typical roles
- professional
- assistant
- billing clerk
- managing partner
- client
Day-to-day flows
- record time
- invoice clients
- collect payment
- hold retainers
- report to partners
Tenders and payments seen
- bank transfers
- cheques
- cards
- retainers
Inventory and assets
- negligible
- office supplies
Reports they ask for
- billable hours
- utilisation
- invoices outstanding
- revenue by client
Integrations they need
- accounting
- practice-management tools
A day in the life (illustrative scenario)
What the catalog covers
Statuses: C catalogued, P partial, G gap, N no claim. Modules involved: SALE, TKT, INV, PRC, DISC, RET, SVC, CRM, LOYL, GIFT, EMP, CASH, PAY, BK, LITE, RPT, ANL, MULTI, SEC, DATA, FAIL, HW, PE, LATAM, ECOM, PLAT, SET, LNCH, PKGR.
| Capability | Status | Catalog modules |
|---|---|---|
| Selling and checkout | P Partial | SALE, TKT |
| Inventory, lots, purchasing | P Partial | INV |
| Pricing, discounts, tax rules | P Partial | PRC, DISC |
| Returns, credit, special sales | P Partial | RET |
| Work orders, rentals, services | C Catalogued | SVC |
| Cash drawer, shifts, safe | P Partial | CASH |
| Tender types and payments | C Catalogued | PAY |
| Customers, loyalty, gift cards | C Catalogued | CRM, LOYL, GIFT |
| Staff, time clock, payroll basics | C Catalogued | EMP |
| Bookkeeping and ledger | C Catalogued | BK, LITE |
| Reports and analytics | C Catalogued | RPT, ANL |
| Multi-store, multi-register, sync | P Partial | MULTI |
| Security, audit, backup, failsafes | C Catalogued | SEC, DATA, FAIL |
| Hardware and peripherals | P Partial | HW |
| Country fiscal packs | C Catalogued | PE, LATAM |
| Integrations, API, settings | P Partial | ECOM, PLAT, SET, LNCH, PKGR |
| Enterprise accounting (consolidation, intercompany) | P Partial | no dedicated module |
| Project billing (progress, retainage) | P Partial | no dedicated module |
Gaps
- no timekeeping, trust accounting or conflict-check tools
- invoices and recurring invoices (BK-0065) cover only simple fee billing
Closest catalog items
Items whose names or descriptions match this industry. Matching is by keyword, so read each as a pointer, not a promise.
- Progress invoicing RET-0039
- Retention on invoices RET-0040
- Project/job costing SVC-0010
- Time-and-materials billing SVC-0009
- Double-entry journal BK-0008
- Multi-currency ledger BK-0027
- Cost centers / classes / locations BK-0030
- Cross-outlet reports MULTI-0012
- Fixed assets register BK-0083
- Line price override with permission SALE-0016
- Customer attach to sale SALE-0024
- Quick-create customer at checkout SALE-0025
- Duplicate-scan guard SALE-0038
- Prompt for serial / batch on line SALE-0046
- Service line (non-stock) SALE-0049
- Delivery fee line SALE-0053
Sub-verticals
Accounting and tax office
monthly fees
Open →Sub-verticalDesign or architecture studio
projects with milestones
Open →Sub-verticalSmall law office
retainers
Open →Regulation themes to verify
These are themes, not advice and not compliance claims.
- professional licensing
- client-money and trust-account rules
- record retention (themes to verify)
Edge cases that break naive systems
- write-offs
- disputed invoices
- trust funds
Classification
- NAICS
- NAICS 54 (indicative; verify codes) · sectors 54
- Fortune 500 industry labels
- Diversified Outsourcing Services; Miscellaneous
- Fit
- Peripheral
No public reference was gathered for this industry; the description is domain analysis, not sourced research.
Questions
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