Complete practical guide
The errand-running book that starts with three hundred and forty pounds nobody had to pay
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on running errands for other people as a side hustle - why you never fund a client's purchase yourself, what you cannot do in somebody's name, how a task ends, and the record that proves where every penny went.
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What this guide is
Almost every guide to this trade is about being reliable and pleasant. Turn up, be trustworthy, build relationships. All true, and none of it is where the business fails. This book opens with an eighty-four-year-old man's Wednesday shopping, paid for on Bea's own card and settled in cash every Friday at the kitchen table. It worked perfectly for four months. Then he had a fall, went into hospital, and did not come home - and Bea, who did not find out for eleven days, kept working because nothing in her system told her to stop. By the time it became clear, she was three hundred and forty pounds out of pocket, and the person who now handled his affairs was a daughter two hundred miles away who had never heard her name. She had supermarket receipts and nothing else: no agreement, no written authorisation, and nothing showing that the shopping had ever been requested. The daughter said no, and she was right to. The central argument is that this is not a convenience business but an agency-and-accounting one: you spend somebody else's money, in somebody else's name, on things they have not seen, while they are not there. That is closer to what a bookkeeper does than to what a cleaner does, and almost nobody entering the trade recognises it - because the surface of the work looks so ordinary.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these businesses - the money, the authority, the scope, and the record
- Why 'just put it on your card' is a lending decision, and the sentence that refuses it without insulting anybody
- Six ways to fund a client's purchase, ranked - and the one that is never acceptable, whatever they ask
- What you cannot do at a counter, and how to sign for a collection without signing in somebody's name
- Why an unrequested substitution lands far harder than the price difference suggests
- The three numbers, checked weekly in ten minutes, that should all be zero
- The monthly statement almost nobody sends - your largest hidden cost and your best sales asset simultaneously
- Why you look exactly like the scam your clients were warned about, and the two sentences that fix it
- Where prescriptions stop being an errand and start being care work - and why the blister pack is the hardest refusal you will make
- 148 AI prompts with their constraints written in - and not one takes a client's name, address, medication, or spending
Ideal for
People with a vehicle, some flexible hours, and a genuine liking for practical help; people already doing this informally for neighbours and relatives; carers, cleaners, dog walkers, and gardeners being asked to add errands; and anybody already running errands for money who is currently owed something and does not have a piece of paper about it.
- Anyone starting an errand service alongside other work.
- Anybody already doing it who is currently owed money and does not have a piece of paper about it.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with four rules written where they can see them, a standing refusal list and a client refusal list published in client language, a service menu with definition-boundary-funding stated for every entry, a separate client funds account opened on an accountant's advice, a funding mechanism recorded per client and moved as far up the ranking as possible, spend limits and written substitution rules agreed at intake, a two-page agreement with a money clause and a client-facing not-authorised list, a per-task authorisation form carried in the vehicle, a prescription protocol followed identically every time, a chain of custody record for everything carried, receipts photographed at the till, a two-tier task record completable in fifteen seconds, a monthly statement issued to every client whether or not they asked, a weekly close producing three numbers all targeting zero, a verified safeguarding escalation list built before the first client visit, cost per mile and cost per billable hour calculated from real figures, zone-based pricing, a quarterly audit, a continuity plan for sudden unavailability, and thirty-day and ninety-day launch plans.
A complete working system for a local errand-running business alongside other work - built on four rules covering the funding of every purchase, the limits of authority exercised in somebody else's name, the definition and ending of a task, and the reconciled record that proves what was spent - with the monthly client statement treated as the actual product.
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