Wall framing and baseboard by the linear foot, floors, roofs and panelling by the square foot, doors, posts and mantels each, stairs by the flight — line items from your own price list, on a quote the client signs. Daybook speaks carpenter.
Carpentry is a project trade, and the app was built for project work: a lead, a site visit, a quote, a win, a schedule that runs for weeks, a change order, an invoice. Not a template with a different noun in the headline: carpentry has its own job types, its own checklists, its own quoting words, its own price list and its own website — and every screen that used to say brick or mortar says stud, casing or flight to a carpenter, from the rough half to the finish half.
The measure is the part that earns its keep. Daybook keeps the first look and the visit where the tape comes out as two different things, and the site measure & scope sheet is the second one: wall lengths, ceiling heights, door and window openings, floor and roof area, stair rise and run, the trim profile and species, the doors with their count, size, style and swing, what the walls are hiding, where the saw station goes and how the floors are protected — with before photos, and the client’s signature on it before a number goes on paper. When the walls turn out to be half an inch out of plumb over eight feet, or the old header over the patio door turns out to be undersized, it is written down and photographed on the day — which is what a change order is settled on.
The carpentry & framing toolkit.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — carpentry & framing gets its own tools.
Quotes built line by line from your price list
Wall framing per linear foot, floor and roof framing per square foot, sheathing per sheet, headers per opening, beams and posts set to the engineer’s spec, baseboard and crown per foot, casing per opening, wainscot per square foot, doors supplied and hung each, built-ins and cabinets per linear foot, stairs per flight, railings per foot, sheds per square foot — a list, not a takeoff, because that is how a carpenter prices. The quote line reads Baseboard & casing — 240 lf.
A carpentry price list, ready to price
Carpenter and apprentice by the hour, site measure and site setup, framing by the foot, the sheet and the opening, joist sistering, sill plate and post replacement with temporary shoring and the engineer’s letter, trim by the foot and the opening, built-ins and cabinets by the foot, stairs by the flight and treads by the step, framing lumber by the lift, LVL by the foot, MDF and primed pine by the stick, the permit, the framing inspection and the bin — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it.
Checklists written for carpentersCrew and up
The site measure & scope sheet, signed by the client before the quote; a daily site log with who was on site, what went up, what was delivered, whether the framing inspection passed and what the walls turned out to be hiding; and a final walk-through & touch-ups with doors swinging and latching clean, nail holes filled, joints caulked, railings solid, the touch-up list and the client’s signature — attached to the right jobs automatically.
Quotes and paperwork in your words
Framing, trim & finish carpentry, built-ins & cabinetry, stairs & railings, structural repair, shed & outbuilding, commercial framing — the job types, the quoting examples and the document preview all speak carpentry, and the units default to linear feet because that is what most of the work is sold in.
Tags for who sends you the work
Referral, Google search and repeat customer as marketing sources, with builder / GC, designer / architect, cabinet shop and realtor beside them; framing, trim & finish, built-ins, stairs, structural repair, outbuilding and commercial as job specialties; homeowner, builder / GC, designer / architect and commercial / property manager as client tiers — seeded on day one, yours to edit.
AI that knows the trade
Rough and finish, header, beam and posts, joists, rafters and trusses, sheathing, lf and per flight, MDF and primed pine, filled and caulked paint-ready, framing inspection, the engineer, the change order and the painter who comes after you — drafts and job summaries use a carpenter’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier files rot, sag, a bouncy floor or a joist that needs sistering as structural repair even when framing words are in the same message, a shed or a bunkie as an outbuilding, a garage or an addition as framing, and stairs as stairs even when the job also lists trim.
A carpentry website, live day one.
Your account starts with a real carpentry site template — a framing page included — edit it in the app, and the quote-request form asks what kind of work it is, where the job is at and when the carpentry should start, then drops a real lead straight into Daybook.
Edited in the app — photos and changes live when you press Publish
A framing page, written for carpenters
Quote-request form that mints a real lead
Bring your own domain — we set it up with you
Put a real trim package on the list.
Your own footage beats any feature list — baseboard by the foot, casing by the opening, doors each, and your own rates on every line.
