Getting started

Your first hour.

We create your company and put your crew in. You add your builders and your active jobs — about an hour with a coffee, once, on a laptop or a phone. Everything below is a tap, not a form to send us.

Who does what

We hand you the keys. You park your own trucks.

The only thing you cannot do yourself is create the company, because that is the wall that keeps your records away from every other contractor's. That part takes us a minute.

UsYour company, your code, your link. We create it, send you the link and your office login, and stay on the phone for the first walkthrough if you want one.

YouYour contractors, jobs, checklist and crew. Nobody knows your builders and your phases like you do, and typing them in yourself is faster than telling somebody else how. It is all in the app, under Builders, Template and Add Job.

UsThe stuck parts. If something will not go in the way your shop actually works, say so. That is worth more to us than a polite customer.

The setup, in order

Nine steps. Six of them take two minutes.

01Sign in as the office. Open your company link, type the manager name we gave you, and set a password. Whatever you type the first time becomes the password — so do this yourself, on your own phone, before you send the link to anyone.

02Add your contractors. Tap 🏢 Builders. Put in every GC and builder you work under and give each one a color. The colors are what make a job recognisable at a glance on a phone in the sun.

03Add your jobs. Add New Job — name, address, Builder or Service Call, and which contractor it sits under. Start with your active jobs only. Do not back-fill last year; nothing good comes of it.

04Set your standard checklist. Tap 📋 Template. These are the items that repeat on every house — slab, rough, trim, final. Type them the way your guys say them out loud, not the way a spec book says them. One tap then applies the whole list to a new job.

05Group your crews. Tap 👷 Crews, name each crew and list the guys in it. Optional, but when one man checks in, his whole crew shows on the schedule in their color — which is the point of the schedule.

06Drop in plans and docs. Any sheet, photo or PDF, attached to the job. Optional on day one, and the first thing your crew will thank you for.

07Get the crew on. Send them the same link. Each man types his first name and picks a 4-digit PIN — the PIN is his from then on, so nobody logs work under his name. Then Add to Home Screen and it behaves like any other app on the phone.

08Run a week. Do not announce a new system. Tell them to log what they finished at the end of the day, the same as the text they already send. That is the whole ask.

09Friday, open the billing queue. Everything the crew flagged as billable is sitting there waiting on a decision. That is the hour this was built for, and it is the day you will know whether it is worth keeping.

How long you have

Your first month is free.

Nothing is charged while you set it up, work it out and run it. If it is working, your plan starts at the regular price. If it is not, walk away — you have paid nothing and you take your data with you.

01Day one to day thirty: free. You put a card on file to start, and nothing is taken for 30 days — cancel inside them and you are never charged. Long enough to load your jobs, work out the kinks, and get through a few Fridays, which is the day this earns its keep or does not.

02Day three, we check in by email. One question: did your builders go in yet? If they have not, the month has not really started, and we would rather sort that out than watch the clock run down. Rather talk it through? Reply with a number and a good time and we will call you.

03Day 31, your plan starts — $79, $149 or $249 by size. Not for you? Cancel before then and you are never charged.

Step 7, written for you

What to send your guys.

Copy this. Short, no training session, no meeting. It works better than a speech.

📱"New app for the jobs — [your link]. Type your first name, pick a 4-digit PIN, then Add to Home Screen. Your jobs, the plans and the punch list are all in there. At the end of the day put in what you finished, same as you'd text me. That's it."

If a man is going to push back, it will be on day two, and it will be about typing. Tell him he can hold the microphone and say it out loud instead. That usually ends it.

If you get stuck

Ask. It is a short list of people to get through.

01Email hello@getdaysheet.com. A real person reads it, usually the same day.

02Or take the walkthrough. Ten minutes on a video call while you do steps 02 to 05 with someone watching. Ask for one here.

03If something does not fit your shop, say so. Half of what is in the app is there because a foreman complained about the other half.