Receipts
A receipt read down to the line
Snap it. It fills itself in, and you check it before it saves.
Built in Prince Edward Island · Priced in CAD · PIPEDA-aligned
Run your whole business from one app.
Built for the field and the office.
The schedule, every conversation, the costing and the invoicing in one place — for the people on site and the person at the desk. Priced in Canadian dollars, printed on the page.
No credit card · Your website live on day one · Bring your client list
1 of 3 · A normal week
One job. Everyone talking at once.
The customer texts. The crew sends photos and an update from the site. The office writes back, books the visit and sends the quote. It all happens at the same time, in different places.
2 of 3 · One place
Daybook catches all of it.
Every text, email, photo, note and update from the crew lands on the job it belongs to, as it happens. Nobody forwards anything.
3 of 3 · The brief
And turns it into one brief you can act on.
The brief reads what is on the job and tells you where it stands: the gate code, the deadline, what the customer asked for, what you owe them and what they owe you. One tap starts the text, the email, the booking or the reminder. It drafts; you send.
The brief and the Assistant
Texting comes with the top plan of every rate card (Company, for a trade), from a verified toll-free number of your own.
1The gate code, pinned
2The deadline
3What the customer asked for
4What we owe, and the next step
5What the customer owes
A real capture of a contractor’s job. Daybook wrote every line of this brief from the messages on the job; only the five teal labels are added. A camp gets the same brief on a booking, a property manager on a work order.
1 of 3 · A normal week
One job. Everyone talking at once.
The customer texts. The crew sends photos and an update from the site. The office writes back, books the visit and sends the quote. It all happens at the same time, in different places.
- Our front steps are crumblingThe customer, by email
- 5 risers. Hand dig on the leftThe crew, from the site
- Your quote is attachedThe office, by email
- 3 photosThe crew, from the site
- Done before the 24th?The customer, by text
- Gate code 4471. Mind the dogThe office, to the crew
- Checklist doneThe crew, from the site
2 of 3 · One place
Daybook catches all of it.
Every text, email, photo, note and update from the crew lands on the job it belongs to, as it happens. Nobody forwards anything.
3 of 3 · The brief
And turns it into one brief you can act on.
The brief reads what is on the job and tells you where it stands: the gate code, the deadline, what the customer asked for, what you owe them and what they owe you. One tap starts the text, the email, the booking or the reminder. It drafts; you send.
1The gate code, pinned
2The deadline
3What the customer asked for
4What we owe, and the next step
5What the customer owes
- The gate code, pinned. Said once in an email, and now at the top of the job for the crew.
- The deadline. What is time-sensitive, and by when.
- What the customer asked for. Each request, with the message it came from.
- What we owe, and the next step. One next step, and a button that starts it.
- What the customer owes. So nobody chases the wrong person.
A real capture of a contractor’s job. Daybook wrote every line of this brief from the messages on the job; only the five teal labels are added. A camp gets the same brief on a booking, a property manager on a work order.
The brief and the Assistant
Texting comes with the top plan of every rate card (Company, for a trade), from a verified toll-free number of your own.
The Assistant
One list of what needs you today.
Who is waiting on you, what is owed, which lead to call back — most pressing first, each with the button that does it. What a brief says you owe a client becomes a line in the list. It opens from any page.
Toronto
is where your database lives — Canadian-hosted, encrypted in transit and at rest, every business its own account.
$0
per field seat on Crew and Company. Coaches, counsellors and maintenance crews are free on every club, camp and property plan.
GST · HST
by province, on every invoice and in the Sales Tax report — built into the ledger, not bolted on.
Built inside a working masonry company in Calgary — crews in the field every working day — and run from Prince Edward Island.
Three jobs nobody went into business to do.
Keeping the schedule straight. Getting what happened on site back to the office. Getting paid without chasing. Daybook took those three — whatever the work is.
The schedule
Six views. One calendar.
Day, week, month, the map, the dispatch board and the action list — six views of one calendar, so the office and the field are looking at the same picture. Everything you take on has a date.
Field to office
What happened on site, already at the desk.
Clock-in, checklists and photos from the phone already in their pocket — with no signal, if it comes to that; it files itself when the signal returns. The office sees it the moment it lands.
Getting paid
Invoiced when it’s done. Chased without you.
Invoices raised off what was agreed. A reminder you set once does the following-up, with a Pay Now link. E-transfers are matched to their invoices for you to confirm; cards online; EFT read and reconciled.
Same app, your words
One workflow. Two kinds of day.
The mechanics are the same whoever you are. What changes is the vocabulary — and the tools that are switched on.
| Workflow | Field & service trades | Facility & care |
|---|---|---|
| Winning the work | Quotes built from your own labour, materials and markups — the same answer every time — and signed in the client’s portal. | Registration by term, by week or by day, waitlists, and families who register once and come back every season. |
| The day | Clock-in, FLHA safety forms, checklists and photos from the site — offline too. | The week board: every child, the five days across, allergies and medications beside them. Waivers signed before the first day. |
| The client | A client hub: quote approvals and revisions, invoices, a way to pay and a way to message you back. | A family portal: what they booked, what they owe, photos and consents, the schedule — and a way to pay or ask. |
| The money | Progress invoicing on long jobs, GST/HST by province, e-transfers matched for you to confirm. | Monthly billing for a centre or a club, a deposit at registration for a camp; cards and e-transfer; every payment on the family’s record. |
How it’s charged
Growing shouldn’t cost you a seat.
Most software in this market charges by the head. Daybook charges the office and leaves the people doing the work alone.
| Workflow | Field-service platforms priced per user | Care platforms priced per child or per room | Daybook |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currency | Often billed in US dollars — the exchange rate and your card’s foreign fee ride along. | Often billed in US dollars, with the modules priced separately. | Canadian dollars. Every plan, every add-on, printed on the pricing page. |
| The people doing the work | Typically an extra monthly fee for every field user past the plan’s cap. | Typically an extra fee per staff login, per classroom or per child. | Field seats free and unlimited on Crew and Company. Coaches, counsellors and maintenance crews free on every club, camp and property plan. Daycare plans include their staff seats. |
| Your website | Usually a separate builder, or a designer. | Usually not provided. | Included on every plan — a trade, a rep agency, a club, a camp or a daycare starts from pages written for its work; live when you press Publish. |
| Canadian tax | Usually an accounting add-on. | Usually worked out by hand. | GST/HST by province on every invoice, and the Sales Tax report ready for filing. |
Six rate cards — one per kind of business — all on the pricing page. Nothing here is a discount, and there is no setup fee.
Built for Canadian books.
The four things a Canadian business does every week that the rest of the market treats as an add-on.
Mileage
A mileage log that keeps itself
Log the trip at your own per-kilometre rate — ready for the accountant.
Sales tax
GST/HST by province
The right rate on every invoice, and the Sales Tax report ready for filing season.
Interac
E-transfers matched to the invoice
Read from the notice, matched for you, confirmed by you before it books.
Questions, answered.
Is Daybook only for trades?
No. It runs field and service trades and facility and care businesses — camps, clubs and property management among them — each in its own words. Say what you run when you sign up, and the menus, the buttons and the paperwork follow; the tools you do not need are switched off, not hidden.
Do I pay for every person on my team?
No. Daybook charges the office and leaves the people doing the work alone.
Trades and field service: field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company.
Property management: maintenance crews are free and unlimited on every plan.
Gymnastics and rec clubs: coaches and instructors are free and unlimited on every plan.
Day camps: seasonal counsellors are free and unlimited on every plan.
What does it cost?
Every plan and every add-on is printed on the pricing page, in Canadian dollars. There is no setup fee, and you can read every figure without speaking to anyone.
Where is my data kept?
Your database is in Toronto: Canadian-hosted, encrypted in transit and at rest, and every business is its own account.
Can I bring my clients with me?
Yes. Bring your client list as a spreadsheet, or paste it in. It is your list that comes across — not an importer for another product’s export.
Does the brief send messages to my clients?
No. The brief reads what is on the job and drafts the reply or the booking for you. You read it, and you send it. The brief and the Assistant says what it reads and what it does by itself.
Where it came from
Built in the field. Engineered on the Island.
Ryan studied computer engineering in Toronto, then apprenticed as a bricklayer, earned his Red Seal, and in 2014 started a masonry company in Calgary that still has crews in the field every working day. When he moved home to Prince Edward Island he ran his half of it from five thousand kilometres away — the quotes, the schedule, the money, the email — and nothing off the shelf would show him the whole business in one place. Daybook is what that distance taught him to build.
The office sees everything. The field never has to stop.
— Ryan, founder
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