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Concrete & paving

The CRM that plans the pour.

Daybook runs a concrete and paving company end to end: your own list prices the flatwork by the square foot, the mix by the yard and the pump by the pour; a cure and handover sheet — the walk-through, the care, the sign-off — rides on every job type, and the job does not close without it; FLHA forms, clock-in and photos come from the crew’s phones. Then the invoice, with GST/HST by province.

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The job “Ivan Vandenberg — Slab & foundation” in Daybook, and its brief: “Work starts Monday, October 12”, an update from the crew, the access code pinned from the customer’s email, a short summary of where it stands, the key facts and what the customer asked for (each with the message it came from).

The rules the trade lives under

Built around the paperwork a concrete and paving contractor already answers to.

  • The cure and the handover, before the job is done

    Driveway, walkway and patio, slab and foundation, decorative and stamped, asphalt and sealcoating, repair and lifting and commercial flatwork jobs do not close without what was done, when foot traffic and when vehicles may go on it, the care told to the client, the photographs of the finished work and the client’s sign-off.

  • Locates, forms and steel, before the first truck

    The pre-pour checklist records what is ready to pour — the utility locates in, the forms set and checked to the string line, the base compacted and graded, the rebar or mesh on chairs, the vapour barrier down under an interior slab, the concrete ordered, the pump and the finishing crew booked — the concrete order, the pour date, the weather and temperature plan, the layout and elevations confirmed with the client, the photographs of the forms and rebar and the client’s sign-off on the layout, with a place for notes. Attached to every concrete and paving job type.

  • Ontario’s rules for contracts signed at a client’s home

    A quote signed at an Ontario client’s home shows them their right to cancel for 10 days, and their copy is emailed with the last day to cancel.

  • Provincial OH&S hazard assessments (FLHA)

    FLHA forms in the crew app, on Crew and up: the hazards, the controls, the conditions and the crew on site, filled in on the phone at the start of the day and filed on the job the moment they land.

Daybook names these so you can see where it helps. It is not a compliance product: it does not request a locate, forecast the weather or pull a permit. The sheets record what was ready before the pour, what went in on the day and what the client was told after it, the hazard assessment is yours to fill in, and your province has the last word.

Three things that go wrong

The headaches every concrete and paving company knows.

Pricing a slab from the curb

Every quote starts as a copy of the last one: the tear-out guessed, the base forgotten, the short-load fee and the pump left off — and the number said on a Tuesday is the number you live with until the last truck is empty.

In Daybook The quote builder prices from your own labelled list — the tear-out, the base and the flatwork by the square foot, the ready-mix by the cubic yard with the short-load fee, the rebar by the length, the steps by the riser, the pump by the pour — with the margin beside the price on every line.

The truck is here and the forms are not

The first truck is backing in, the base is still soft in one corner, the rebar is lying on the gravel, and nobody is sure the client agreed to where the slab meets the garage.

In Daybook The pre-pour checklist rides on every job: what is ready — the locates in, the forms on the string line, the base compacted, the steel on chairs, the concrete ordered, the pump and the finishers booked — the concrete order, the pour date, the weather and temperature plan, the layout and elevations confirmed with the client, the photographs of the forms and rebar, and the client’s sign-off on the layout.

The car on the driveway on day two

The pour went in on Tuesday. By Thursday there is a car on it, in November it gets salted, and in the spring the call comes asking why it cracked — and nobody wrote down what the client was told.

In Daybook The cure and handover sheet rides on every job: what was done, when foot traffic and when vehicles may go on it, the care told to the client, the photographs of the finished work and their sign-off — and the job is not complete until it is answered. The pour day log keeps the loads, the mix and slump, the crew and the curing from the day itself.

The brief

Everyone talks at once. The job gets one brief.

A job is a week of emails, texts, notes and updates from the crew. Daybook files each one on the job it belongs to and writes the brief: the gate code, the deadline, what the customer asked for, what you owe them and what they owe you — rewritten whenever something new arrives.

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.

A job’s brief in Daybook: the gate code pinned at the top, a one-line summary, a time-sensitive deadline, key facts, what the customer requested, a suggestion, the next step and its date, and what is waiting on the customer.
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.

The customerThe customer, textingThe officeA crew memberA crew memberA crew member
  • Our furnace keeps shutting offThe customer, by email
  • Side-wall vent. Narrow doorThe 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
  • The brief’s access code on a phone: 4471, with the customer’s own words — “The side gate code is 4471 — please close it behind you, we have a dog.”

    The gate code, pinned. Said once in an email, and now at the top of the job for the crew.

  • The brief’s time-sensitive line on a phone: send the thermostat finishes to Priya so she can sign and pay the deposit, by Tuesday, October 13, with a Text client button.

    The deadline. What is time-sensitive, and by when.

  • What the customer requested, in the brief on a phone: the thermostat finishes, and confirming the old furnace is taken away, each from Priya Raman’s email.

    What the customer asked for. Each request, with the message it came from.

  • The next step, in the brief on a phone: send Priya the thermostat finish options and confirm the old furnace removal, with a Book visit button.

    What we owe, and the next step. One next step, and a button that starts it.

  • Waiting on the customer, in the brief on a phone: pick a thermostat finish, sign the quote and pay the deposit, with the risk under it.

    What the customer owes. So nobody chases the wrong person.

Real captures of a contractor’s job. Daybook wrote every line of this brief from the messages on the job. A camp gets the same brief on a booking, a property manager on a work order.

The concrete & paving toolkit.

On top of everything Daybook does for every one of its 44 trades — the full list is here — concrete and paving get their own words and tools: the visit before the quote is a site measure and the address is the pour site; a labelled concrete & paving price list in the quote builder; three sheets written for concrete crews; and drafts, replies and job summaries that say forms, base, rebar and mesh, broom finish, stamped and exposed aggregate, control joints, the cure, tear-out, sealcoat and sealer, slab lifting and mudjacking, and flatwork the way a concrete contractor does.

The price list

Priced by the square foot and the yard.

Daybook gives you a labelled concrete and paving price list to quote from: the finisher, the form setter and the labourer by the hour, the layout and the pour supervision; concrete tear-out, asphalt removal, excavation and grading and the compacted gravel base by the square foot, crushed gravel by the tonne, forming by the linear foot and vapour barrier; rebar by the length, wire mesh by the sheet, fibre by the cubic yard, chairs and ties, and rebar placing; ready-mix by the cubic yard with the short-load fee and a cold-weather mix; broom-finish flatwork, garage pads and shop floors and basement floors by the square foot, footings, foundation wall and curb by the linear foot, steps by the riser and control joints saw-cut by the foot; stamped and exposed-aggregate finishes, colour hardener and sealer by the square foot, integral colour by the yard and the stamp mats by the day; asphalt paving, overlays, sealcoating and patches by the square foot, crack filling by the foot and line painting by the stall; polyurethane slab lifting and mudjacking, crack repair, spall repair, resurfacing and trip-hazard grinding; the pump by the pour, the power trowel, the plate compactor, the skid steer and the curing blankets and heaters by the day, a dumpster by the bin, mobilization, and disposal by the tonne or the load. Your own prices go on it, and every quote and invoice reads from it.

By the square foot flatwork, base and finishes by the square foot, the mix by the cubic yard, the pump by the pour — each a labelled line, priced from your own list
Quoting

The price list

Priced by the square foot and the yard.

Daybook gives you a labelled concrete and paving price list to quote from: the finisher, the form setter and the labourer by the hour, the layout and the pour supervision; concrete tear-out, asphalt removal, excavation and grading and the compacted gravel base by the square foot, crushed gravel by the tonne, forming by the linear foot and vapour barrier; rebar by the length, wire mesh by the sheet, fibre by the cubic yard, chairs and ties, and rebar placing; ready-mix by the cubic yard with the short-load fee and a cold-weather mix; broom-finish flatwork, garage pads and shop floors and basement floors by the square foot, footings, foundation wall and curb by the linear foot, steps by the riser and control joints saw-cut by the foot; stamped and exposed-aggregate finishes, colour hardener and sealer by the square foot, integral colour by the yard and the stamp mats by the day; asphalt paving, overlays, sealcoating and patches by the square foot, crack filling by the foot and line painting by the stall; polyurethane slab lifting and mudjacking, crack repair, spall repair, resurfacing and trip-hazard grinding; the pump by the pour, the power trowel, the plate compactor, the skid steer and the curing blankets and heaters by the day, a dumpster by the bin, mobilization, and disposal by the tonne or the load. Your own prices go on it, and every quote and invoice reads from it.

  • A labelled starter price list on day one, with your own prices on it
  • Labour, tear-out and prep, reinforcement, concrete and flatwork, decorative, asphalt, repair and lifting, equipment, fees and disposal
  • The margin beside the price on every line, and the estimated cost for your eyes only — never on the PDF
  • Your own mix prices, finishes and sub rates alongside the starter list — Crew and up
  • Approved, or sent back for a revision, in the client’s portal
  • A price book that updates when you scan a supplier invoice — Crew and up
Quoting

The request

A request becomes a site measure. Then a quote.

Every request from a homeowner, a builder or a municipality lands on one board with its job type — a driveway, a garage pad, a stamped patio, asphalt, a sunken slab, a parking lot — and one button: Schedule a site measure. Measure it, check the grade, and build the quote on the job; when the client approves it in their portal, the job is won and ready to schedule.

Scheduling
The requests board in Daybook: “Ahmed Cole — Driveway, walkway & patio” and “Simone Fitzgerald — Asphalt & sealcoating”.

The request

A request becomes a site measure. Then a quote.

Every request from a homeowner, a builder or a municipality lands on one board with its job type — a driveway, a garage pad, a stamped patio, asphalt, a sunken slab, a parking lot — and one button: Schedule a site measure. Measure it, check the grade, and build the quote on the job; when the client approves it in their portal, the job is won and ready to schedule.

  • The requests board in Daybook: “Ahmed Cole — Driveway, walkway & patio” and “Simone Fitzgerald — Asphalt & sealcoating”.

    Every request, on your phone. Call the client or email them from the card, and book them in with the button under it.

  • The job on its page in Daybook, its steps across the top: Schedule, Start, Finish, Invoice and Get paid.

    The job’s own page. Its steps across the top, the client a call or a text away, and its photos, notes and messages a swipe apart.

  • A finished job in Daybook: Job finished, Generate warranty and Closeout.

    Finished. Every step ticked, and one tap starts the warranty from the job and its quote — nothing reaches the client until you send it.

  • Six job types: driveway, walkway and patio, slab and foundation, decorative and stamped, asphalt and sealcoating, repair and lifting, commercial flatwork
  • Asphalt, blacktop or sealcoat is filed as asphalt even when it names a driveway; stamped, exposed aggregate or coloured is decorative whatever the slab; a crack or a sunken slab is a repair, and a tear-out and re-pour is the slab’s own type — sorted for you
  • Schedule the site measure from the request — and plan the day’s route from the same board
  • Not viewed, measured, quoted and lost: where every request stands, at a glance
  • Requests from your website’s quote form land here as real requests, with the job address on them
Scheduling

The paperwork

Three sheets, written for concrete crews.

A pre-pour checklist for everything that has to be true before the first truck arrives. A pour day log for every pour. A cure and handover sheet for the walk-through after the cure. All three attach themselves to every concrete and paving job type, and the handover will not let one close unfinished.

The crew app
The checklists in Daybook: “Pre-pour checklist” and “Pour day log”.

The paperwork

Three sheets, written for concrete crews.

A pre-pour checklist for everything that has to be true before the first truck arrives. A pour day log for every pour. A cure and handover sheet for the walk-through after the cure. All three attach themselves to every concrete and paving job type, and the handover will not let one close unfinished.

  • Pre-pour checklist: what is ready to pour — the locates in, the forms on the string line, the base compacted, the rebar or mesh on chairs, the concrete ordered, the pump and the finishing crew booked — the concrete order, the pour date, the weather and temperature plan, the layout and elevations confirmed with the client, photos of the forms and rebar, the client’s sign-off on the layout, with a place for notes
  • Pour day log: the pour date, the weather and temperature, the loads received with the mix and the slump, the crew on site, what was placed and how it was finished, the curing — compound sprayed, a wet cure, blankets and heat, the joints saw-cut the next day, barricades up — with places for the issues and the photos
  • Cure & handover: what was done — the forms stripped, the joints cut, the edges backfilled, the sealer applied or a date set, the barricades removed — when foot traffic and vehicles may go on it, the care told to the client, finished photos, the client’s sign-off, with a place for the deficiency list
  • Attached to the right job types automatically — Crew and up
  • Yours to edit, and you can add your own
The crew app

Safety on site

The FLHA, filled in on the phone. Filed before the first truck.

Pick the job and the address and the crew come with it; the day’s conditions, each task with its hazard and its control — submitted from the phone at the start of the day and on the job’s record the moment it lands. Then clock-in, checklists and photos, with no signal if it comes to that.

The crew app
An FLHA in the crew app, “Place and float the slab, then saw-cut the joints”: the task with its hazard and its control, and the crew on site under it.

Safety on site

The FLHA, filled in on the phone. Filed before the first truck.

Pick the job and the address and the crew come with it; the day’s conditions, each task with its hazard and its control — submitted from the phone at the start of the day and on the job’s record the moment it lands. Then clock-in, checklists and photos, with no signal if it comes to that.

  • The crew app’s home: a greeting by name, then Submit hours, FLHA, My jobs and More, and the jobs on the go below them, each with Add update.

    Their day. Hours, the FLHA and their jobs a tap away — and an update from a job on the go goes straight to the office.

  • A crew member’s list in the crew app, 10 active: “Dermot Suzuki — Driveway, walkway & patio” and “Ana Underhill — Repair & lifting” among them, each with its address and its time.

    Their jobs. Every job they’re on, with its address, its booked day and a chat with the office.

  • An FLHA in the crew app, “Place and float the slab, then saw-cut the joints”: the task with its hazard and its control, and the crew on site under it.

    Before the work starts. Pick the job and the site, its contact and the crew fill in; they add each task with its hazard and its control, and submit it from the phone.

  • FLHA forms on Crew and up: job, site, conditions, tasks with hazard and control, the crew on site
  • Clock-in and timesheets from the phone in their pocket
  • Checklists filled in on the pour site — with a signature if you want one
  • Photos taken where there is no signal, filed when it returns
The crew app

Getting paid

Invoiced off the quote. Closed out with a review request.

The invoice is raised off the quote the client approved — all of it, the part that is finished, or the extra work approved on top. 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. And when the job is finished, its page offers the warranty and closeout package and a review request.

Invoicing & payments
A finished job in Daybook: Job finished, Generate warranty and Closeout.

Getting paid

Invoiced off the quote. Closed out with a review request.

The invoice is raised off the quote the client approved — all of it, the part that is finished, or the extra work approved on top. 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. And when the job is finished, its page offers the warranty and closeout package and a review request.

  • An invoice off the approved quote — all of it, the finished part, or the extra work approved on top
  • Change orders for the work the client adds after the quote
  • An overdue invoice chases itself, with a Pay Now link
  • E-transfer matched for you to confirm; cards online; EFT
  • A finished job offers the warranty and closeout package, and a review request
  • GST/HST by province, and the Sales Tax report ready for filing
Invoicing & payments

The crew

The phone already in their pocket.

Field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company, so every finisher and labourer has the app: the day’s jobs, clock-in, the FLHA, the checklists, the photos — and the office sees it the moment it lands.

  • A crew member’s list in the crew app, 10 active: “Dermot Suzuki — Driveway, walkway & patio” and “Ana Underhill — Repair & lifting” among them, each with its address and its time.
  • The crew app’s home: a greeting by name, then Submit hours, FLHA, My jobs and More, and the jobs on the go below them, each with Add update.
  • The job on its page in Daybook, its steps across the top: Schedule, Start, Finish, Invoice and Get paid.
  • The checklists in Daybook: “Pre-pour checklist” and “Pour day log”.

The economics

Priced on the office. Free for the crew.

Most field-service software charges by the head, in another currency. Daybook charges the office seats, in Canadian dollars, and leaves the people holding the floats alone.

Workflow Field-service platforms priced per user Daybook
Currency Often billed in US dollars — the exchange rate and your card’s foreign fee ride along. Canadian dollars. Every plan, every add-on, printed on the pricing page.
The crew Typically an extra monthly fee for every field user past the plan’s cap. Field seats free and unlimited on Crew and Company — every finisher and labourer gets the app.
Concrete tools A generic quote form; the price list lives in a spreadsheet. A labelled concrete & paving price list in the quote builder, three sheets written for concrete crews, and drafts and replies in a concrete contractor’s words.
Canadian tax and mileage Usually an accounting add-on, or by hand. GST/HST by province on every invoice, the Sales Tax report, a mileage log at your own rate, receipts read for you.
Your website Usually a separate builder, or a designer. A concrete & paving site template on every plan, with a driveways page and a quote-request form that mints a real lead.

Nothing here is a discount, and there is no setup fee.

Three plans, priced in CAD.

Concrete and paving run on the trades rate card — every plan the same app, the office seats counted and the crew free from Crew up. Solo $99 / Crew $249 / Company $449 a month CAD. Office seats included on every plan. Field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company. Crew and Company include selling online, and Company also includes your own domain and texting — a plan without them can add them.

  • Solo — $99/mo CAD · 1 seat · no additions · Start on Solo
  • Crew — $249/mo CAD · 3 office seats · +$39/mo each after · Start on Crew
  • Company — $449/mo CAD · 10 office seats · +$39/mo each after · Start on Company

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Switching

Moving from a spreadsheet, or from another platform.

There is no importer for another product’s export, and the page does not pretend there is. What there is gets a concrete and paving company running in an afternoon.

Bring your client list

Upload a CSV or paste it in — names, phones, emails, addresses — and the clients are there. A QuickBooks client list imports straight across.

Put your prices on the list

The concrete & paving price list is already labelled, from the finisher’s hour to a cubic yard of ready-mix and the pump by the pour. Type your own prices in — or, on Crew and up, scan a supplier invoice and the price book fills with your real costs.

Your website, live day one

The concrete & paving template is already written for the work, with a driveways page — your photographs and your words go in, and the quote-request form drops leads straight into Daybook.

Questions concrete and paving companies ask.

Is there a concrete estimator?

No — the builder prices from your own labelled list, and there is no takeoff that works out the quantities. You work out the square feet, the yards and the lengths; the list carries the tear-out, the base and the flatwork by the square foot, the ready-mix by the cubic yard, rebar by the length and mesh by the sheet, forming, footings and curb by the foot, steps by the riser, the finishes, the asphalt and repair lines, and the pump by the pour, with your own prices on it.

Which jobs will it not let me close?

Every concrete and paving job type — driveway, walkway and patio, slab and foundation, decorative and stamped, asphalt and sealcoating, repair and lifting, commercial flatwork — carries the cure and handover sheet: what was done, when foot traffic and when vehicles may go on it, the care told to the client, the photographs of the finished work and the client’s sign-off. It is yours to edit.

Does it work out when they can drive on it?

No. Daybook does not work out a cure, forecast the weather or request a locate. It keeps what you record: the pre-pour checklist has the pour date, your weather and temperature plan and a tick for the locates in, and the cure and handover sheet has when foot traffic and when vehicles may go on it, as you told the client, with the care you told them.

Can I bring my own prices?

Yes. Scan a supplier invoice and the price book updates; put your own mix prices, finishes and sub rates alongside the starter list; set your own labour rates and markups. The quote builder prices from your numbers, not ours.

What does a finisher cost?

Nothing on Crew and Company — field seats are free and unlimited. The office seats are what is counted, and the pricing page prints exactly how many each plan includes.

Does it work on a pour site with no signal?

Clock-in, checklists and photos work with no signal and file themselves when the signal returns. The office sees them the moment they land.

Bring a real driveway. Watch it priced.

Your own numbers beat any feature list — start the trial, measure one driveway and price the tear-out, the base and the pour from your own list.

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