Fence by the linear foot, deck by the square foot, gates by the opening and footings by the post — two units on one quote, and posts checked plumb on the string line before a board goes on. Daybook speaks fencing.
Fencing and decks is a project trade, and the app was built for project work: a lead, a site visit to walk the line, a quote, a win, a multi-day build, an invoice. Not a template with a different noun in the headline: fencing 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 stone says post, panel or picket to a fencer.
Two units on one quote is the part that earns its keep. The same document prices 140 feet of cedar privacy fence by the foot, a 12 × 16 composite deck by the square foot, a walk gate as a single line and the stain and seal as an optional extra the client can take or leave — no second estimate for the deck, no spreadsheet reconciling a foot against a square foot.
The fencing & decks toolkit.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — fencing & decks gets its own tools.
Quotes built line by line from your price list
Cedar, pressure-treated, shadowbox, horizontal, picket, split-rail, vinyl, chain-link and ornamental aluminum by the foot; decks in pressure-treated, cedar, composite and PVC by the square foot; stairs per step and skirting per foot; railings in wood, aluminum, composite, glass or cable by the foot; walk gates, drive gates and openers by the opening; post holes, sonotubes and helical piles per footing — a list, not a takeoff, because that is how a fencer prices.
A fencing & decks price list, ready to price
Every fence style by the foot, farm page-wire and 8 ft commercial chain-link, gates and gate hardware, decks and resurfacing by the square foot, five kinds of railing, pergolas and louvered privacy screens, footings per post, repairs by the hour, stain and seal with the pressure wash before it, boards and posts by the piece, auger hire, old fence and deck removal, dump fees and the deck permit — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it.
Checklists written for fencersCrew and up
A site visit & layout with the fence length and height, the deck footprint and its height off grade, the material, the gate widths, whether the survey pins were found, whether locates are ordered and whether an auger can get through the gate; a posts & framing check for holes to depth, every post plumb on the string line and the ledger flashed and lagged; and a completion & handover that asks whether every gate swings clear and latches first time, signed by the client before the job can be closed.
Quotes and paperwork in your words
Fence build and fence repair, deck build and deck repair, gate and opener, pergola and privacy screen, commercial and farm fencing — the job types, the quoting examples and the document preview all speak fencing, down to a sample quote carrying a cedar fence by the foot, a composite deck by the square foot and a stain-and-seal line the client can decline.
Tags for who sends you the work
Referral, yard sign, neighbour saw the fence and home show as marketing sources; deck, fence, gate, pergola & screen, repair and commercial & farm as job specialties; homeowner, builder / GC, property manager, farm / acreage and commercial as client tiers — seeded on day one, yours to edit.
AI that knows the trade
Posts on 8 ft centres, panels and sections, pickets and boards, footings below frost, sonotubes and helical piles, ledger, joists and decking, balusters and stringers, shadowbox and board-on-board, top rail and tension wire, composite against cedar, survey pins and the property line — drafts and job summaries use a fencer’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier keeps a sagging gate out of a fence build and a rebuilt deck out of deck repair.
A fencing & decks website, live day one.
Your account starts with a real fencing and decks site template — a composite-vs-cedar page included — edit it in the app, and the quote-request form drops leads straight into Daybook with the job address already on them.
Edited in the app — photos and changes live when you press Publish
A composite-vs-cedar page, written for fencers
Quote-request form that mints a real lead
Bring your own domain — we set it up with you
A hundred feet of cedar and a deck off the back door.
Your own numbers beat any feature list — price the fence by the foot and the deck by the square foot on one quote and see it read right.
