Daybook
Pressure washing
Daybook runs a pressure washing company end to end: a request becomes a visit and a quote from your own price list — a house by the storey, a driveway or a deck by the square foot — a storefront or a fleet becomes recurring visits that stay on the schedule, the day’s round opens on a map in the order you will drive it, and the visit log records the method used on each surface. Then the invoice, with GST/HST by province.
The rules the trade lives under
The visit log records the method on each surface — soft wash, surface cleaner, wand, hot water or hand brush — whether the plants were wet down, covered and rinsed after, and photographs once it is done, with a place for the solution and its strength. On Crew and up.
A deck or fence job does not close without the dry days since the wash, the weather window, the product, the coats and photographs of it sealed.
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.
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.
Daybook names these so you can see where it helps. It is not a compliance product: it does not know your town’s rules for wash water and storm drains, or what a product’s label allows. The log records what you did, the hazard assessment is yours to fill in, and the label and your province have the last word.
Three things that go wrong
The fear every client brings: a wand too close to vinyl, oxidized paint, an open vent. And afterwards, an argument about what was used.
In Daybook The property setup sheet has the siding material and what to protect; the visit log then records the method on each surface — soft wash for siding, roofs and painted wood, pressure for concrete — with a place for the solution and its strength, and whether the plants were wet down, covered and rinsed.
A wash on Monday, a seal on Wednesday because the calendar was open, and by August it is peeling.
In Daybook The seal and stain record is the return visit: the dry days since the wash, the moisture reading, the weather window, the product and the coats, with photographs of it sealed — and a deck or fence job is not complete until it is filled in.
Most houses want the same wash every year, and every April the list is rebuilt from last year’s invoices.
In Daybook On a job, choose Recurring → Make recurring from the ⋯ menu and pick the cadence — yearly for the spring house wash, every six months for spring and fall, monthly for a storefront or a fleet — and its visits go on the schedule, with upcoming ones added every night.
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 — pressure washing gets its own shape. The place is a property, not a job site; a new job starts as a one-time job, and a storefront or a fleet becomes recurring visits from the job’s own menu; the work is on the route, the crew is out today, and a visit is logged; and the drafts, the replies and the job summaries say soft wash and surface cleaner, house wash, brighten, seal and stain, moss treatment and the spring route the way a washer does.
The request
Every request lands on one board with its service type — a house wash, a driveway, a deck, a storefront — and one button: Schedule a visit. Walk round the property and quote from your own price list. A new job starts as a one-time job, because a house wash or a driveway clean is quoted and done once; a monthly storefront or a fleet is one choice away.
Repeat rounds and route billing
A single wash stays a single job. For the house that wants it every spring, a storefront or a fleet, choose Recurring → Make recurring on the job and pick the cadence — monthly, every six months, yearly — and its visits go on the schedule and keep coming, with their arrival window on every reminder. The day’s round opens on the map: every property numbered in the order you will drive it, with the run’s drive time and distance, and the order yours to change. Bill visits then turns the completed visits into draft invoices — one per visit or one a month, as each job’s Billing card says.
The price list
A washer quotes from a price list, not an estimator — so yours starts labelled: the house soft wash by the storey, soffits and gutter exteriors by the foot, driveways, walks, patios and garage floors by the square foot, paver cleaning and re-sanding, concrete and paver sealing, the deck wash, the seal and the stain, fences by the foot, roof moss treatment, storefronts, lots and dumpster pads, gum and graffiti, fleet by the unit, the cleaners and sealers by the jug and the pail. Your own prices go on it, and every quote and invoice reads from it.
The paperwork
A property setup sheet from the walk-round — what each surface is made of, where the water is, what to protect. A visit log, one entry per visit, with the method on each surface and the plants rinsed. A seal and stain record for the return visit once a deck is dry. They attach themselves to the right jobs, and the seal record will not let a deck job close unfinished.
Safety on site
Pick the job and the property 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, the visit log and the photos, with no signal if it comes to that.
Getting paid
A house wash or a driveway is invoiced the day it is done; a storefront or a fleet contract is billed from its completed visits, by the visit or once a month. 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. And with a Stripe card reader, the crew lead takes a card or Interac debit at the door.
The crew
Field seats are free and unlimited on Crew and Company, so every washer has the app: the day’s visits, clock-in, the FLHA, the visit log, 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 on the wand 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 washer gets the app. |
| Pressure washing tools | A generic job form; what went on the siding lives in somebody’s memory. | The route shape, one-time washes and repeat rounds that stay on the schedule, a visit log with the method on each surface, a seal and stain record, billing by the visit, and a labelled washing price list. |
| 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 pressure washing site template on every plan, with a house-washing page and a quote form that mints a real request. |
Nothing here is a discount, and there is no setup fee.
Pressure washing 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 pressure washing 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 washing price list is already labelled, from the single-storey house wash to a pail of deck sealer. Type your own prices in — or, on Crew and up, scan a supplier invoice and the price book fills with your real costs.
The pressure washing template is already written for the work, with a house-washing page — your photographs and your words go in, and the quote form drops requests straight into Daybook.
No. A new job starts as a one-time job, because a house wash or a driveway clean is quoted and done once. For the house that wants it every spring, a storefront or a fleet, open the job’s ⋯ menu and choose Recurring → Make recurring; from then on its upcoming visits are added to the schedule every night.
Yes. Set what a visit bills on the recurring job’s Billing card — per visit, or one invoice a month — and Invoices → Bill visits lists every completed visit that is not on an invoice yet and turns them into draft invoices in one go. Nothing reaches a client until you review and send it.
The schedule opens on the map for a washing company: the day’s properties numbered in the order you will drive them, with the run’s drive time and distance. Drag to change the order, or let it find the shortest run.
A deck or fence job. Its seal and stain record wants the dry days since the wash, the weather window, the product, the coats and photographs of it sealed. It is yours to edit.
No — a washer quotes from a price list, so that is what Daybook gives you: the house by the storey, the driveway and the deck by the square foot, the seal and the stain, labelled on day one, with your own prices on it.
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.
Your own properties beat any feature list — start the trial, book the wash, and the seal record is waiting for the day the boards are dry.
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