Software for contractors, cabinetry and the trades
The recurring problem in this trade is knowing what a job actually cost while there is still time to do something about it, and the recurring cause is that costs arrive from several directions and get reconciled at the end.
What it looks like today
- Job costs assembled after the fact from invoices and timesheets.
- Change orders agreed verbally on site and written up later, or not.
- Dealer orders taken by phone against SKUs and finishes.
- Scheduling crews across jobs on a whiteboard.
- Margin per job known months afterwards, if at all.
What replaces it
- Costs landing against the job as they happen.
- Change orders recorded and signed off before the work is done.
- Dealers ordering against their own pricing, with order status they can see.
- One schedule showing where every crew is.
- Margin visible while the job is live.
See what this would look like in your business.
Tell us how the work runs today. We'll show you where it leaks and what we would build first, at a fixed price. The first conversation costs nothing.
A dealer network is a wholesale business with a catalog problem
A kitchen cabinet manufacturer selling through dealers has to present a catalog of SKUs and finishes, hold each dealer's pricing, take orders against it, and manage production and shipping behind it. That is closer to a distribution business than to a contractor, and building it as a dealer portal rather than as order paperwork is usually the correct shape.
Change orders are where the margin goes
Almost every contractor we have spoken to loses money on work that was agreed informally and never captured. This is not a software insight — everyone in the trade knows it. What software does is make capturing it take fifteen seconds on site rather than an evening at a desk, which is the difference between it happening and not.
Questions
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What software helps a contractor know what a job actually cost?
One that records labor, materials, subcontractors and change orders against each job as they happen, so the cost of a job is visible while it is still running, not reconciled at the end. A custom system does this around how your crews and suppliers already work.
Can change orders be tracked and billed?
Yes. Each change order is recorded against the job with its price and the customer's approval, and it flows into the invoice, so extra work is billed instead of absorbed.
Can dealers order from our catalog?
Yes. A cabinet maker with a dealer network can give each dealer a portal with their own prices and their own orders, so an order arrives already priced and nothing is retyped from an email.
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