One of the first things we had to understand deeply when building ToolbagCRM was seasonality. Not just as a feature request, but as a fundamental constraint on how our users run their businesses.
Lawn care goes quiet in December. Snow removal goes quiet in June. If your phone takes a season off but the bills don't, the cash you bank in July has to keep the lights on in November.
This affected everything from how we built our billing system to what reports we show on the dashboard.
The math that hurts
A landscaper can pull in the bulk of a year's revenue between April and October. Seven months of cash to cover twelve months of expenses, plus their own paycheck, plus a tax bill in April that lands right as the season picks back up.
