Home inspection
A request becomes a booked inspection with the fee agreed at the booking, the findings sheet, the new-build walkthrough and the ancillary test record sit on the job, and the invoice and the website come with them — the report itself stays yours to write. Daybook speaks inspector.
Home inspection is a service trade, and the app takes the service shape for it: a request is waiting to be booked, not viewed; the booked thing is the inspection, not a site visit; and once it is done the job’s next step is Mark won rather than Generate quote, because the fee was agreed when the booking was made. Underneath it is the trade’s own — buyer’s inspection, pre-listing, new build & PDI, warranty-year, ancillary testing and commercial assessment as service types; an inspection findings sheet, a new build & pre-delivery walkthrough and an ancillary test record as forms; quoting words that count properties, samples and reports; a starter price list of inspections by size band and tests by the sample; and a website with a page on what an inspection covers.
What Daybook does not do is write your report, meet a standard or hand anyone a verdict — the report is yours, in your own software, on your own letterhead. What it does is everything around it. The findings sheet records the property, its approximate age and floor area, the occupancy and the weather on the day, which systems you walked and which you could not, the data plates off the heating system, the water heater and the electrical panel, and how each item was recorded in your own observational words — functional at the time of the inspection, serviceable with maintenance noted, monitor, further evaluation recommended, a safety concern noted, or not inspected for want of access — with the limitations written down beside them and photographs against each one. The booking, the fee, the file and the invoice sit on the same job by the time you sit down to write.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — home inspection gets its own tools.
The request chips read To book and Call done, the button says Book a service call, and once the inspection is done the job’s next step is Mark won rather than Generate quote — the fee was settled when the booking was taken, so a quote is there if you want one and never in the way.
An inspection findings sheet with the systems walked, the data plates, the summary items, the observational condition wording and what could not be accessed; a new build & pre-delivery walkthrough with the stage, the areas walked, the items for the builder list and whether each was tagged on site; and an ancillary test record for radon, air quality, mould, water, thermal imaging and sewer scope, with the instrument and its serial — attached to the right jobs automatically.
Inspections by size band and by property type — condo, townhouse, mobile and modular, seasonal — pre-listing, pre-drywall and footing stages, the pre-delivery walkthrough, a three-stage new-build package, the warranty-year walk, deficiency re-visits, commercial and multi-unit condition assessments, radon by monitor or alpha track, air quality, mould air and surface sampling, water bacteria and chemistry, sewer scope, thermal imaging whole-home or targeted, the inspector by the hour, a walk-and-talk with no report, lab analysis per sample, mileage and travel, and a no-access charge. Not one line is work on the house — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it.
Agent referral, past client referral, builder and repeat client as marketing sources; buyer, seller, new build, warranty year, ancillary test and commercial as job specialties; referring agent, homebuyer, seller, builder, investor or landlord and commercial owner as client tiers — seeded on day one, yours to edit.
Buyer’s inspection, pre-listing, new build & PDI, warranty-year, ancillary testing, commercial assessment — the service types, the quoting examples and the document preview all speak home inspection.
The inspection and the report, the summary the client’s agent reads, the condition deadline, pre-listing, PDI, warranty-year, ancillary, data plate, observed and at the time of the inspection, further evaluation recommended — drafts and job summaries use an inspector’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier files an accepted offer as a buyer’s inspection, a before-we-list as pre-listing, an eleven-month walk as warranty-year and a radon ask as ancillary testing. It is told never to write a repair, a price for one, or a pass or fail — that is the trade you refer out to.
This is not copy — it is what the app says to home inspection businesses, word for word. Most trades see the left-hand word; you see the right.
Your account starts with a real home inspection site template — a page on what an inspection covers included — edit it in the app, and the Book an inspection form drops leads straight into Daybook.
Your own bookings beat any feature list — take one from the request to the invoice and see what the job already holds by the time you sit down to write.
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