Small engine & power equipment repair
A repair is booked, the machine is dropped off or collected, its make, model and spec numbers sit on the job, and the fix is quoted off your own price list before the teardown goes further — with a pickup-and-delivery page on your website. Daybook speaks small engine.
Small engine repair is a service trade, and the app takes the service shape for it: a request is waiting to be booked rather than viewed, the visit is a service call rather than a site visit, and once the call is done the job’s next step is Mark won — the repair was quoted before the teardown went further. What is different here is the place: the work happens on a bench, not at an address, so the forms, the quoting examples and the AI say on the bench and on the rack, and a machine is dropped off, picked up or delivered rather than visited. The rest is the trade’s own: tune-up & winterizing, powersports & outboard, snowblower, chainsaw & handheld, generator & power equipment and mower & lawn tractor as service types; a machine intake tag, a bench repair report and a seasonal service sheet as forms; and a price list running from the bench diagnostic to a chain on the grinder.
The intake tag is the part that earns its keep, because a rack of machines in May all look alike. It takes the make and model, the spec or engine serial, how the machine arrived — dropped off, picked up, trailered in by a contractor — what came with it and what state it was in, down to a tank that smells like varnish, what the owner says it stopped doing, the limit you are not to go past without ringing first, and photos of the model plate and any damage. The bench repair report carries it on with the fault found, the systems touched, the parts used and the bench hours, and the job cannot be marked complete until that report is filled in — the test run and the safety checks are required on it, so nothing goes back on the shelf untested.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — small engine repair gets its own tools.
The request chips read To book and Call done, the button says Book a service call, and once the call is done the job’s next step is Mark won — the machine was priced off the list before the teardown went further, so a quote is there if you want one and never in the way.
Make, model, serial number and fault code sit on every job, filled in or not — in a shop that is the model and spec number stamped on the deck or the shroud, the engine serial and what it stopped doing. An empty strip says so and asks for them, so the parts book is being read against the right machine before anything is ordered.
The bench diagnostic and the in-season rush that moves a machine up the rack, tune-ups by machine class from a walk-behind to a generator, winterizing and a season plan, carburettor, ignition, recoil, valve, deck, drive, auger and pump-end repairs, blades and chains on the grinder, parts from a plug to a deck spindle, oil, two-stroke mix, bar oil and stabilizer, pickup and delivery in town or out and a contractor’s whole trailer load, a loaner while yours is in, storage by the week and the old machine hauled away — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it. Quotes are built from that list a line at a time, and the quote line reads Mower tune-up — 3 machines.
A machine intake tag for what came in, how it got here and what came with it; a bench repair report with the fault, the systems, the parts, the bench hours, what to tell the owner and a sign-off at pickup; and a seasonal service sheet, one per machine, with the class, the season, everything done this visit, the hours on it and the next service due — attached to the right jobs automatically.
Tune-up & winterizing, powersports & outboard, snowblower, chainsaw & handheld, generator & power equipment, mower & lawn tractor — the service types, the quoting examples and the document preview all speak shop, down to a quote that asks how many machines, a bench diagnostic fee, and a service address naming a ride-on picked up from a customer rather than a house to call at.
Bench diagnostic, model and spec number, pull start and recoil, two-stroke and mix, stale fuel and varnish, sharpened and balanced, bar and chain, shear pins and auger, pickup and delivery — drafts and job summaries use a shop’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier files a tune-up or a blade sharpening as seasonal work even when it names the mower, keeps pickup and delivery as a line on the job rather than a job type, and leaves a note that names a symptom but no machine in Other rather than guessing which sheet to put on the rack.
This is not copy — it is what the app says to small engine repair businesses, word for word. Most trades see the left-hand word; you see the right.
Your account starts with a real small engine repair site template — a pickup-and-delivery page included — edit it in the app, and the Book a repair form asks what the machine is, what it stopped doing and how it will get to you, then drops a real lead straight into Daybook.
Your own machines beat any feature list — read the model and spec numbers onto the job, price the fix off your own list, and let the bench report say what it needed.
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