Daybook
Masonry — the flagship trade
Daybook runs a masonry company end to end: quotes priced from your own labour, materials and markup; a brick and stone library with matching and supplier RFQs; FLHA forms, clock-in and photos from the crew’s phones; progress invoicing on the long jobs; GST/HST by province. It was built inside a Calgary masonry company, and it runs there every working day.
The rules the trade lives under
Your quote carries your own terms and is approved — or sent back for a revision — in the client’s portal, so the paper under the contract is yours and signed.
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.
Progress invoicing by stage — what is billed, what is paid and what is still owed, plain on every statement — so the holdback your accountant tracks has a clean trail under it.
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: the hazard assessment is yours to fill in, the holdback is yours to hold, and your accountant has the last word.
Three things that go wrong
A wall gets priced fast, often from a truck, and a number guessed on a Tuesday is the number you live with for three months.
In Daybook The quote builder does the masonry math — bricks to lay and bricks to buy, mortar, labour — from your own costs, and shows the cost and the margin beside the price.
The FLHA is on a clipboard, the hours are in a text, the photos are on three phones, and the office finds out on Friday.
In Daybook Clock-in, the FLHA, checklists and photos from the crew’s own phones, filed on the job the moment they land — with no signal, if it comes to that.
A six-week job billed at the end is six weeks of carrying payroll and material before the first dollar comes back.
In Daybook Progress invoices by stage, a reminder that chases itself with a Pay Now link, and e-transfers matched to the invoice for you to confirm.
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.
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.
On top of everything Daybook does for every one of its 44 trades — the full list is here — masonry gets its own tools. None of them was invented for a brochure. Every one earned its place on a job before it earned a line on this page.
The quote
Pick the job type — chimney, block, full brick, natural or manufactured stone, thin brick — put in the dimensions and your own costs, and the builder writes the labour, the materials and the line items. The math is deterministic: computed, never guessed.
Brick and stone
A product library in the hundreds, on every plan from day one. On Crew and up, matching finds the closest brick or stone from a photo and the quote drafts the RFQ for you to send to your suppliers, and the price book keeps itself current — scan a supplier invoice and the prices update.
Trade knowledge
Trade knowledge per job type — chimney, block, stone — so every draft, reply and job brief uses a mason’s words: crown not cap, flue liner, step and counter flashing, repair against full rebuild. Written once by you, used on every job after.
Safety on site
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.
Getting paid
Invoices raised off what was agreed, by stage on the long jobs. 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 crew
Field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company, so every mason 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.
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 laying brick 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 mason and labourer gets the app. |
| Masonry tools | A generic quote form; the takeoff lives in a spreadsheet. | The masonry quote builder, the brick and stone library, matching with supplier RFQs, a self-updating price book. |
| 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 masonry site template on every plan, live when you press Publish, with a quote-request form that mints a real lead. |
Nothing here is a discount, and there is no setup fee.
Masonry runs 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.
Switching
There is no importer for another product’s export, and the page does not pretend there is. What there is gets a masonry 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.
Scan it and the price book fills with your real prices. Bring a real quote from your shop and watch the builder price it from your numbers.
The masonry template is already written for the work — your photographs and your words go in, and the quote-request form drops leads straight into Daybook.
No. Daybook does progress invoicing — bill the stage, and the statement shows what is billed, paid and still owed. The holdback itself stays with your accountant, who has a clean trail to work from.
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 crew on site — filled in on the phone at the start of the day and filed on the job. Checklists for the rest of the day work the same way, with a signature if you want one.
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.
Yes. Scan a supplier invoice and the price book updates; put your own products alongside the library; set your own labour rates and markups. The quote builder prices from your numbers, not ours.
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 numbers beat any feature list — masonry is what we know best. Start the trial, bring a wall from your shop, and price it in Daybook.
14-day free trial · No credit card · Bring your client list