The desktop layout
On a wide window Businessly opens out — a sidebar instead of tabs, lists beside detail, and dialogs instead of sheets.
The wide layout is triggered by window width, not by being on Windows. A large Android tablet gets the wide one. A tall phone turned sideways can reach 900 wide too (a 2400 × 1080 screen is about 914 wide), and then it gets the wide layout as well; held upright, a phone never does.
The smallest window
On Windows the window has a minimum size — about 900 × 600 at normal display scaling. You cannot drag it narrower than that, so the app can no longer fall into the phone layout by accident while you are resizing.
The sidebar
Instead of five tabs and a launcher button, everything is a row down the left:
Home · Customers · Cash · Bills & rent · Expenses, then Products · Properties · Vehicle expenses · Easy load, and Settings at the bottom.
The six sections that share one button on a phone each get their own row. Nothing is hidden behind a menu.
Two panes
On the wider screens, picking something from a list opens it beside the list rather than replacing it:
| Screen | |
|---|---|
| Customers | The customer opens on the right |
| Products | The product opens for editing |
| Bills & rent | The bill or plan opens |
| Properties | The property hub opens |
| Settings | Sub-screens open in the pane |
Buttons move
The floating button disappears. Its action becomes a button in the bar at the top — New entry on Home, Add product on Products, Cash entry on the cash book, and so on.
Sheets become dialogs
Anything that slides up from the bottom on a phone opens as a centred dialog on a wide window — pickers, the New entry menu, export options, the business switcher.
Forms are a fixed comfortable width rather than stretching across the whole screen.
Keyboard
The PC version understands the keys you would expect, so entering a sale or a payment never needs the mouse.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Enter | In a money form — a sale, a payment, cash in or out, an expense, a loan, a stock adjustment, a deposit — presses Save for you, as long as the form is complete. |
| Esc | Closes the open dialog without saving anything. |
| Ctrl + N | Opens the New entry menu, from any section. Hover the New entry button on Home to see the reminder. |
| Tab | Moves from one box to the next. |
Two other places work the same way. In the Mark several months paid sheet Enter presses the main button, the one that already shows the amount (for example "Receive Rs 3,000"). In the End rental box Enter presses End rental. Either way the usual Undo appears afterwards whenever money moved.
If something required is still missing — a blank amount, an expense with no category — Enter does nothing, exactly as Save is greyed out, and the cursor stays where it was.
The mouse
Right-click a row that has a ⋮ menu at its end — a cash entry, a line on a customer's statement, an expense, a bill, a property — and the same menu opens where you clicked. It offers exactly what the ⋮ offers, and the same confirmation follows.
Your place is remembered
Whichever section you were in is still there when you reopen the app — and resizing the window between layouts never loses it either.
