Daybook
Gasfitting
Daybook runs a gasfitting company end to end: a request becomes a booked service call, the gasfitter quotes at the appliance from your own price list, and the service call report, the gas line sheet and the conversion sheet are filled in on the phone — the leak test, the pressure test, the permit number. Then the invoice, with GST/HST by province.
The rules the trade lives under
The gas line sheet records the appliances served, the pipe, the pressure test and whether it passed, whether the CSST is bonded, and that the lines were purged and the appliances lit. On Crew and up.
A line run or a rough-in does not close without the pressure test, the photographs of the run before the walls close and the gasfitter’s sign-off. The same sheet has a place for the permit number and whether the inspection passed.
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. A furnace or water heater quote opens with the province’s cover page.
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.
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, check anyone’s gas ticket or check your work against the code. The sheets record what you did, the hazard assessment is yours to fill in, and the inspector and your province have the last word.
Three things that go wrong
A leak call comes in between a range hookup and a BBQ line, and somebody has to read the whole message to see that it is the one that cannot wait.
In Daybook Any smell of gas is filed as a gas leak and emergency first, whatever appliance or line it names — and the request becomes a booked service call from the same board as everything else.
The line is run, the drywall is up, and the inspector asks for the pressure test and the permit number.
In Daybook The gas line and pressure test sheet wants the pipe, the test and its result, the lines purged and the appliances lit, and the run photographed before the walls close, signed by the gasfitter — 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, what does the rating plate say, and what did the last gasfitter find?
In Daybook The appliance stays on file at the address — make, model, serial and the year it went in — and the service call report keeps the fault, the leak test and pressure readings, and whether it was left in service.
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 — gasfitting 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 drop and trunk, stub-out, hookup, conversion and orifice, regulator, pressure test, CSST and black iron the way a gasfitter does.
The service call
Every request lands on one board with its service type — a leak, a line run, a hookup, a conversion — and one button: Book a service call. The gasfitter quotes at the appliance; when the call is done, the next step is Mark won.
The price list
A gasfitter quotes from a price list, not an estimator — so yours starts labelled: the leak check and the after-hours leak call, the first appliance drop and each additional one, line extensions and stub-outs, rough-in per outlet, pressure tests, range, dryer, BBQ and heater hookups, conversions, propane tank sets, black iron and CSST by the foot, the gas permit. Your own prices go on it, and every quote and invoice reads from it.
The paperwork
A service call report with the appliance, the fuel, the leak test and whether it was left in service. A gas line and pressure test sheet with the pipe, the test, the permit and the run photographed before the walls close. A conversion and commissioning sheet with the orifices, the pressures set and the label on the plate. They attach themselves to the right jobs, and the last two will not let a job close unfinished.
Equipment and plans
Every client has an equipment list: the furnace, the fireplace, the range at each address, with its model and serial, the year it went in, its warranty and when it is next due. Sell a maintenance plan on top — a yearly safety check of the gas appliances, say — and the visits go on your schedule and keep coming, and the plan bills itself.
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 appliance — or by stage on a long rough-in. With a Stripe card reader, the gasfitter takes a card or Interac debit before the truck leaves. For the rest, 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.
The techs
Field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company, so every gasfitter 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 running the pipe 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 gasfitter and apprentice gets the app. |
| Gasfitting tools | A generic job form; the pressure test and the permit number live in a text message. | The service-call shape, a labelled gasfitting price list, three gasfitter’s sheets, and the appliance 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. | A gasfitting site template on every plan, with a propane-and-natural-gas page and a book-a-service-call form that mints a real request. |
Nothing here is a discount, and there is no setup fee.
Gasfitting 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 a gasfitting company 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 gasfitting price list is already labelled, from the leak check to CSST 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 gasfitting template is already written for the work, with a propane-and-natural-gas page — your photographs and your words go in, and the book-a-service-call form drops requests straight into Daybook.
No. The gas line and pressure test sheet has a place for the permit number and whether the inspection passed, with the photographs of the run beside them. Pulling the permit and booking the inspector stay with you.
A gas line run, a new-construction rough-in and a conversion. The line sheet wants the pressure test, the lines purged and the appliances lit, the photographs and the gasfitter’s sign-off; the conversion sheet wants the orifices, the pressures set, the homeowner shown the shut-off and the flame, and the customer’s sign-off. Both are yours to edit.
No — a gasfitter quotes from a price list, so that is what Daybook gives you: the call, the drop per appliance, the hookup, the conversion and the rough-in per outlet, labelled on day one, with your own prices on it.
Yes. With a Stripe card reader, anyone in the field you have allowed to take payment can charge an invoice for a job they are on — tap, insert or Interac debit — and the payment lands on the invoice by itself. Cash and cheques are recorded on the spot.
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.
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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