Booking software for excavation contractors in Canada.
Price the dig after you have walked the lot, get it signed before the machine moves, and run your operators, your trucks and your washed-out days from one week.
Start with Google- Site walks booked while you are still in the seat
- Two machine sizes priced side by side on one quote
- Signed quotes become booked machine days
- Move a wet dig and the crew moves with it
- Free, up to 200 bookings a month
Online booking
Site visits booked while you are in the seat
Your builders will not call back. Give them a page that takes the lot address and the scope, and the walkthrough lands on your calendar overnight.
Learn moreSmart scheduling
Machines, operators and floats on one week
Every excavator, every lot and every float in one view, so the morning your mini ex is booked twice is something you catch on Friday.
Learn moreNobody picks up from inside an excavator cab.
You spend the day in ear protection with a bucket in your hands, and that is when the calls land. Anyone who leaves no message calls the next outfit.
The inquiry waits even when you cannot
A page that takes the lot address and the scope means the job is still there at five, written down, instead of a missed number you cannot place.
A walkthrough, not the dig
What gets booked online is the site visit. The number is still yours to write once you have seen the ground, which is the only honest way this trade prices.
Need a price on the site cut and the footings. There is a fair bit of fill across the back of it.
One lot, two machines, two numbers.
Your builder wants to know if the dig is a week or two. Put both machines on one page with the haul-off under each, and let them pick today.
Two machines on one quote, with Pro
Machine size, rock and whether the spoil stays on the lot are option groups, so checking haul-off moves the total on screen while your builder is reading it. Options on an estimate come with Pro.
Machine days do the math
Put the days against your machine rate and the estimate adds up the same on the tailgate as it would at the desk at eight that night.
Haul-off gets its own line
Loads and dump fees sit apart from the digging, so nobody reads one number and decides the excavator cost twice what it did.
The estimate keeps its number
Document numbering is set once and does not move, so the estimate they signed and the invoice that follows point right at each other.
- Machine float on & off siteMobilisation$680
- Bulk cut · 5t excavator2 days$3,400
- Cart away spoil · 8 loadsTip fees$1,760
The quote a builder is sitting on.
A dig is priced against two or three others and nobody rings to say so. Knowing yours was opened twice on Thursday is the difference between a follow-up and a nag.
Sent, viewed, accepted
Every quote says which of the three it is and when it was last opened, so the ones worth a call on Friday are obvious.
Accepted becomes machine days
The moment it is signed it converts into a booking, so nobody re-types a site cut into the calendar at nine at night.
An expiry, because tip charges move
Put a date on the quote and a rate you wrote before the wet season cannot be held against you after it.
- Émilie TremblayBooked just now$215Accepted
- Ryan MacLeodOpened 2h ago$480Viewed
- The Oak CaféSent yesterday$120Sent
Every dig you take on
Built for site cuts, footings and everything trenched around them
Basement excavation
Priced in machine days after the walkthrough, with the depth on the job, and booked the day your builder signs.
Frost-depth footing digs
Booked with honest durations so the forming crew is not standing over a half-dug trench on a Tuesday morning.
Weeping tile and foundation drainage
Priced per run with the stone and the backfill on their own lines, which is what keeps a change order friendly.
Water and sewer service trenches
Quoted with the connection and the restoration broken out, so nobody thinks the pipe cost what the digging did.
Lot grading and rough grade
Square metres and days do the math, so the number on the tailgate matches the one you would write at the desk.
Septic bed excavation
Its own package with an expiry date, because a rate you wrote in the fall should not be held against you come spring.
Clearing and stump removal
Trees, stumps and debris on one line with the loads under it, so the customer can see exactly where the money goes.
Driveway base and gravel
The smaller work that pays for the float, dropped between the big digs and visible to the whole crew.
Backfill and compaction
Booked as its own return trip, so the day you come back is on the calendar before you leave the first time.
Spring thaw reshuffles
A washed-out Monday dragged to the next workable day, taking the operator and the truck along instead of blowing up the week.
- Ryan MacLeod2mCan you come Thursday instead?
- Bookables1hA booking request needs your answer
- Priya Sandhu3hRunning 10 late on the Parkdale job
Everything you need before the bucket goes in.
The utility plans, the drainage layout, the levels and the builder's programme all arrive in different places and end up on a phone. Kept in one thread against the job, they are still there on the morning of the dig.
- MarSite cut and level3 machine days
- JunFootings and service trenchQuote accepted
- JunPaid in fullBank transfer
The builder you dug three sites for.
Repeat work is most of this trade, and the second job always starts with someone trying to remember what you charged for the first. Every quote, dig and payment stays on the one record.
One week, every operator and every machine on it.
A dig runs long, an operator is on a second site by Wednesday, and the truck is booked against both. Laid out on one timeline, the day that does not add up is visible on Friday instead of at seven on Monday morning.
A washed-out week you can move in one shot.
Frost and rain do not care about the schedule. When the lot is under water the dig moves, and so do the truck, the operator and the forming crew.
Drag the dig and the crew comes with it
Everything attached to that job moves at once. One drag saves you four phone calls made from the shoulder of a highway.
Your crew sees it change
The new start hits their phones right away, so nobody drives an hour to a lot that got called off last night.
Free on every plan
Moving work around the week costs you nothing. Automating what fills the gap is the part that sits on Pro.
The lots a float will actually reach.
Moving a machine costs you money before it turns a bucket, and the further out the lot the more of the week the float eats. Draw the line once.
Draw it instead of describing it
Towns and shapes on a map, not a paragraph on a contact page nobody reads before they book.
Outside the line, they can still ask
A job past the boundary arrives as an inquiry instead of a booking, so the big one up the highway is still yours to say yes to.
- Roncesvalles8 regions · 2 crew
- Riverdale7 regions · 2 crew
- Toronto North7 regions · 2 crew
Get paid before the machine leaves the lot.
Your builder pays on their terms, not yours, and every week it sits is another week the dump fees are riding on your card.
Cash and transfer are free
Record what landed against the job on any plan. Nothing about the free plan stops you getting paid for a dig.
Cards come with Pro
Send the link while the lot is still being raked off and watch it clear. We never hold your money on its way to you.
Staged, when the work earns it
The float and the finished dig can each carry their own payment request on Pro. They sit after the booking, never at the point someone picks a date.
- Émilie TremblayP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer$380
- Ryan MacLeodP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash$240
- Priya SandhuP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card$380
- Jacob WongP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card$190
One app for the whole job
Everything you need to run your groundworks business.
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As you grow with us you can go Pro.
Common questions.
You do not have to, and this does not pretend you should. The online page books the site visit, not the work: lot address, rough scope, a date. You walk the ground, build the estimate from machine days, haul-off and the float, and send it from the same job.
Price it before you find it. Rock, unsuitable fill and a second machine can each ride on the estimate as an option your builder checks, so the number updates right in front of them instead of turning into an awkward call from the job. Options on an estimate come with Pro.
No, and you would not want software making that call. Locates are provincial: Click Before You Dig points you at your province’s one-call centre, and you place the request there yourself, ahead of the dig. What Bookables does is keep the locate ticket, the markings and the plans in one thread on that job, so the morning you dig nobody is hunting through email for something from three weeks back.
Drag the dig to the next workable day. The operator, the truck and the float come along with it, and your crew have the new start time on their phones before you put yours down. Moving work around the week is free on every plan.
Draw the areas you will float a machine to and the booking page holds that line for you. Anything outside still comes in as an inquiry, so the job that is worth the trip stays a call you get to make.
Not at all. Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand on any plan, at no cost. Cards come with Pro, and so do staged payment requests, which go out after the booking exists rather than at the moment someone picks a date.
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