Commercial openings & hardware
The door, the frame, the hardware set and the keying counted as one opening — taken off the drawings, priced per opening, submitted for approval, delivered in releases and installed, with a line card and a spec-writers’ page on your website. Daybook speaks openings.
Commercial openings is a project trade, and the app was built for project work: an enquiry, a site visit, a takeoff, a quote, a win, a schedule that runs for months, a progress draw, an invoice. Not a template with a different noun in the headline: commercial openings 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 opening, hardware set or submittal to a door-and-hardware contractor.
The takeoff & submittal record is the part that earns its keep — the opening package as it was read off the drawings, and the document every later argument is settled against. The count on the schedule, the drawing set and its revision, every opening by number, size, handing and wall type, the hardware sets and how they are keyed, which openings the schedule shows as labelled, where the submittal stands — out, approved, approved as noted, revise and resubmit, released to the factory — and the conflicts you found on the set, with the RFI you sent about them. Signed off before anything goes to the factory, so the argument six months later is a document, not a memory.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — commercial openings gets its own tools.
Hollow metal frames knock-down, welded or drywall slip-on; flush and stile-and-rail wood doors; narrow- and wide-stile aluminium entrances; hardware sets, weatherstrip and seals per opening; cylinders, cores and keying per cylinder; Division 10 specialties per stall or per unit; frame install and door hang per opening — a list, not a takeoff, because that is how an opening package is priced. The quote line reads Hardware sets — 24 openings.
The takeoff and the opening schedule, shop drawings and the submittal package, hardware schedules, hinges, locksets and exit devices, closers, stops and plates, electric strikes, mag locks, power transfer and low-energy operators, washroom partitions, screens, grab bars and lockers, install labour per opening, the scissor lift, crating removal and the old doors hauled away — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it.
The takeoff & submittal record, signed off on the schedule; a delivery & install log for every delivery and install day — what landed, what was set, what was hung and dressed, what came short, damaged or in the wrong handing, and what the wall turned out to be doing at the opening; and a closeout & keying handover with every opening operated and latched, the deficiency list, and the keys, cores, control key, final hardware schedule and keying schedule counted out and signed for — attached to the right jobs automatically.
Hollow metal & wood doors, storefront & entrance, hardware & keying, access control & operators, fire-rated opening, washroom & specialties, service call — the job types, the quoting examples and the document preview all speak commercial openings, down to a document preview whose service address names the fit-up rather than a house number and whose terms line reads Progress draws.
General contractor, architect / spec writer, facility / property manager and bid site as marketing sources; doors & frames, hardware & keying, storefront, access control, fire-rated and specialties as job specialties; general contractor, architect / spec writer, institutional and facility manager as client tiers — seeded on day one, yours to edit.
Opening, door schedule and hardware set, handing and throat, knock-down and welded, prep and machining, submittal, cut sheet and approved as noted, RFI, supply only and supply and install, release, deficiency list — drafts and job summaries use a Division 8 vocabulary, and the auto-classifier files a symptom on an installed opening as a service call, anything scheduled as labelled as fire-rated, a reader or an operator as access control, and washroom partitions as specialties. On a rating it says only what the drawings scheduled and the label states.
Your account starts with a real commercial openings site template — a line-card page and a for-spec-writers page included — edit it in the app, and the request form asks what the project is, what you need and what you have to send, then drops a real lead straight into Daybook.
Your own openings beat any feature list — put the frames, the doors and the hardware sets on the list, and sign off the schedule on the takeoff record.
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