Snow & ice management
The trigger depth and the priority set on the property before the first snowfall, the route in driving order at five in the morning, a log for every push, and a season-end report that closes the contract — with a seasonal-contracts page on your website. Daybook speaks snow contractor.
Snow & ice is the first route trade Daybook was finished for, and the route shape was built around it. A driveway is not a job site, it is a property; a visit is a visit, not a site visit; a new job starts as recurring rather than as a one-off, because nobody plows a driveway once; and the schedule opens on the map rather than the calendar, because the question on a storm morning is which properties, in what order. It is not a re-skin of the trades that came before it: seasonal contract, commercial lot, residential driveway, sidewalks & walkways, salting & de-icing and snow hauling are its own service types; a property setup sheet, a visit log and a season-end report are its own checklists; the starter price list, the quoting words and the website are the trade’s own; and a one-off haul is still a job, because the shape sets a default and never a rule.
The record is the part that earns its keep. Every visit gets a log — the date, time in and out, how much snow fell, what was actually done from the list (plowed, shovelled, salted, sanded, hauled, or checked and nothing needed), the bags of salt used, whether anything was damaged, notes and photos — which is the record a commercial client asks you for in April. Then the season-end report closes the contract: markers collected, visits and salt for the season, damage or claims written down, and whether they are renewing. It attaches itself to a seasonal contract and will not let that job be marked complete until it is filled in.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — snow & ice management gets its own tools.
For a snow contractor the default flips: a new job starts as recurring work rather than a one-off, so the driveway you just took on is a property you keep rather than a single call to close. A one-time haul, a one-off clear or a walk-through before the season stays a single visit when that is what it is.
The schedule leads with the map: the day’s properties as numbered stops in driving order, the drive time and distance above the list, the order yours to drag — or press Optimize, see what the new order saves, and Apply it. On a storm morning that is the screen the crew opens. The calendar is one tap away.
Walked before the season and answered once: the trigger depth that sends the route out, the priority — first on the route and clear before 7am, standard same day, or low within 24 hours — where the snow gets piled, what to watch for (the curb or lawn edge, sprinkler heads, a septic or well cover, vehicles parked overnight, a steep grade), whether the driveway markers are in, the gate code, photos of the property before the season and a crew sign-off. The visit log and the season-end report come with it.
The gate code and the access notes live on the property and show on every job, and when there is nothing on file the job says so and links to the client’s page — because a gate nobody can open at five in the morning costs the route its first stop.
Twenty-five labelled lines: driveway, lot, sidewalk and salting visits, the second pass on the same storm, seasonal contracts for a driveway, a driveway and walks, or a commercial lot with a visit log, hauling by the load, loader, plow truck, blower and labourer by the hour, rock salt, ice melt, sand and bulk salt, driveway markers and snow fence, spreader and blade rentals, the call-out and the after-hours premium, and the snow dump fee. Labelled on day one, with your own prices on them — the numbers are yours to set.
Trigger depth, route, push and clear, shovel and blow, salt, sand and ice melt, haul, markers, property — drafts and job summaries use a snow contractor’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier leans to a seasonal contract whenever a season, a winter or a contract is mentioned at all, and files a plaza, a store or a fire route as a commercial lot even when the same note also asks for walks and salting.
This is not copy — it is what the app says to snow & ice management businesses, word for word. Most trades see the left-hand word; you see the right.
Your account starts with a real snow and ice site template — a seasonal-contracts page included — edit it in the app, and the quote-request form drops leads straight into Daybook with the property address already on them.
Your own driveways beat any feature list — put a street of them in, open the map, and log the first push.
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