Daybook
Electrical
Daybook runs an electrical contractor end to end: a request becomes a booked service call, the electrician quotes at the panel from your own price list, and the service call report, the panel upgrade sheet and the rough-in sheet are filled in on the phone — permit number, inspection, photographs before the drywall. Then the invoice, with GST/HST by province.
The rules the trade lives under
The upgrade sheet has you tick grounding and bonding to code and AFCI/GFCI where required, and take the readings at completion; the rough-in sheet asks whether the smoke and CO alarms are interconnected — on Crew and up.
A panel upgrade does not close without the permit or inspection number, the photographs of the open panel, the label and the meter base, and the customer’s sign-off. The rough-in sheet wants every wall photographed before the drywall.
FLHA forms in the crew app, on Crew and up: the hazards, the controls, the conditions and the techs on site, filled in on the phone at the start of the day and filed on the job the moment they land.
A mileage log that keeps itself, at the per-kilometre rate you set, ready for the accountant at year end.
Daybook names these so you can see where it helps. It is not a compliance product: it does not pull a permit, book an inspector or check your work against the code. The sheets record what you did, the hazard assessment is yours to fill in, and the inspector has the last word.
Three things that go wrong
A request sits in a voicemail, the call is booked by text, and the price the electrician gave at the panel lives in somebody’s head until the customer rings to ask about it.
In Daybook A request becomes a booked service call, and once the call is done the job’s next step is Mark won — with a quote there when the job needs one. A 200 A upgrade still gets quoted before the utility disconnect is booked.
The drywallers came Thursday. The rough-in was right — and now there is no picture to prove it, and no note of the inspection number.
In Daybook The rough-in sheet wants the openings, the circuits, the wire, the permit number and every wall photographed before drywall, signed by the electrician — and the job is not complete until it is filled in.
The second trip starts with a phone call back to the office: what is in that house, how old is it, and what did the last tech find?
In Daybook The unit stays on file at the address — make, model, serial and age — and the service call report keeps the panel, the circuit, the fault and the readings, so the tech arrives knowing what is there.
The 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 AssistantTexting comes with the top plan of every rate card (Company, for a trade), from a verified toll-free number of your own.
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 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.
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.
On top of everything Daybook does for every one of its 44 trades — the full list is here — electrical gets its own shape. A visit is a service call, not a site visit; the button says Book a service call; and the drafts, the replies and the job summaries say circuit, breaker, panel, service, opening and device the way an electrician does.
The service call
Every request lands on one board with its service type — troubleshooting, a panel upgrade, an EV charger, a rough-in — and one button: Book a service call. The electrician troubleshoots and quotes at the panel; when the call is done, the next step is Mark won.
The price list
An electrician quotes from a price list, not an estimator — so yours starts labelled: the diagnostic and the after-hours call, panel upgrades and sub-panels, new and dedicated circuits, EV chargers and generators, pot lights, rough-in and finish per opening, wire by the foot. Your own prices go on it, and every quote and invoice reads from it.
The paperwork
A service call report with the panel, the circuit, the fault and the readings. A panel and service upgrade sheet with the utility disconnect, the labelled panel and the inspection. A rough-in sheet with every wall photographed before drywall. They attach themselves to the right jobs, and the last two will not let a job close unfinished.
Safety on site
Pick the job and the address and the techs 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, the sheets and the photos, with no signal if it comes to that.
Getting paid
The invoice is raised off what was agreed at the panel — or by stage on a long rough-in. 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.
The techs
Field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company, so every journeyman and apprentice has the app: the day’s calls, clock-in, the FLHA, the sheets, the photos — and the office sees it the moment it lands.
The economics
Most field-service software charges by the head, in another currency. Daybook charges the office seats, in Canadian dollars, and leaves the people pulling wire 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 techs | Typically an extra monthly fee for every field user past the plan’s cap. | Field seats free and unlimited on Crew and Company — every journeyman and apprentice gets the app. |
| Electrical tools | A generic job form; the permit number lives in a text message. | The service-call shape, a labelled electrical price list, three electrician’s sheets, and the unit on file at the address. |
| 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. | An electrical site template on every plan, with a panel-upgrades page and a book-an-electrician form that mints a real request. |
Nothing here is a discount, and there is no setup fee.
Electrical runs on the trades rate card — every plan the same app, the office seats counted and the techs 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.
Switching
There is no importer for another product’s export, and the page does not pretend there is. What there is gets an electrical contractor running in an afternoon.
Upload a CSV or paste it in — names, phones, emails, addresses — and the clients are there. A QuickBooks client list imports straight across.
The electrical price list is already labelled, from the diagnostic to wire by the foot. Type your own prices in — or, on Crew and up, scan a supplier invoice and the price book fills with your real costs.
The electrical template is already written for the work, with a panel-upgrades page — your photographs and your words go in, and the book-an-electrician form drops requests straight into Daybook.
No. The panel upgrade sheet and the rough-in sheet record the permit or inspection number and whether the inspection passed, with the photographs beside them. Pulling the permit and booking the inspector stay with you.
No — an electrician quotes from a price list, so that is what Daybook gives you: the call, the circuit, the panel, the fixture and the rough-in per opening, labelled on day one, with your own prices on it.
Yes. The service call report, the panel and service upgrade sheet and the rough-in sheet are yours to edit, and you can add your own. Checklists are on Crew and up.
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.
A real form in the crew app, on Crew and up: the job and site, the day’s conditions, each task with its hazard and its control, and the techs on site — filled in on the phone at the start of the day and filed on the job.
Clock-in, checklists and photos work with no signal and file themselves when the signal returns. The office sees them the moment they land.
Your own calls beat any feature list — start the trial, book one, mark it done and see what the job page already knows.
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