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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.
How it usually works 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.
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.
Tell us what your business runs on.
We start by drawing how the work actually moves through your business. That drawing is yours whether or not you build with us.
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