Joinery & Manufacturing
Know what a job made before it leaves the workshop.
The quote is built in CAD, the cut list is re-typed into the job system, the purchase order is typed again off the cut list, and the hours are entered a fourth time into payroll. By the time anyone knows whether that kitchen made money, it has been installed for a month and the next three have been quoted exactly the same way.
Calculate Your SavingsWhere the week goes now
- ✕Cut lists and BOMs re-typed out of CAD into the job and purchasing systems
- ✕Purchase orders for sheet goods, hardware and edging raised by hand
- ✕Workshop hours written on paper, then keyed into payroll and job costing separately
- ✕Job costing known weeks after the job shipped, if it is worked out at all
- ✕Variations agreed on site and absorbed instead of billed
- ✕Progress claims on commercial fitouts raised late or missed entirely
What happens instead
- ✓A job entered once, from quote through to final invoice
- ✓Material orders raised from the cut list instead of retyped off it
- ✓Actual cost against quote visible while you can still do something about it
- ✓Every variation priced and billed rather than absorbed
- ✓Progress claims raised on time, at every stage
- ✓Payroll built from the hours actually clocked against jobs
Typical for a small team in this sector
~10 hours a week
Around 480 hours a year returned to the work you are actually paid for.
An estimate, not a measured result — based on a 48-week working year. Use the calculator for figures built on your own team.
The actual jobs
Named work, not “admin”.
These are the specific end-to-end jobs we automate in joinery & manufacturing businesses. If you recognise three of them as your week, there is a case to be made.
Typical Joinery & Manufacturing package
Empower + Xero + CAD cut-list bridge
Cut lists, purchase orders and job costs flow from the quote to the workshop floor without re-entry. This is the scope we would normally propose first for a joinery & manufacturing business — priced at our published rates, before we have seen your systems.
$4,500
setup, one time + GST
$547
per month + GST
3
integrations · discovery fee included
Loads pre-filled, so you can add or remove systems and watch the price move.
Joinery & Manufacturing case study
We publish client results only when a client has put their name to them and the before-and-after numbers have been measured, not estimated. When a joinery & manufacturing business does, this is where it goes. In the meantime the calculator gives you your own numbers rather than somebody else's.
Works with what you run
Keep every system you already use.
Nothing is replaced and nobody retrains. If one of your systems is older or more awkward than the rest, that is usually the one hiding the biggest saving.
Accomplish more with the people you already have.
Half an hour with us and you will know which hours your firm is losing, what they cost you a year, and whether automating them is worth it.
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