Estimating & Job Costing Software for Carpenters

Price custom work from lumber cost up. Add your material and shop hours, set the margin you need, and let the number come from the math, not a guess.

Starts with your Google account, or an email link if you would rather. That's the whole signup.

No password to make up. We email you a link and it signs you in.

HomeServicesIT gives a custom woodworking shop one place to price a build from lumber cost up, keep a long job visible while it sits in the shop, and bill it the day it ships. From the bench or the truck. No enterprise setup, no per-seat fees.

Where the day actually breaks down

The three things that cost woodworking & carpentry businesses the most time and money - and why the usual way of handling them doesn't cut it.

1

Custom work gets priced by feel, and feel does not track lumber.

Today: Board foot prices move. A number that was right on the last built-in is quietly wrong on this one, and you do not find out until the material bill arrives and the job you were proud of made less than the easy one.

2

A six-week build looks like silence to the client.

Today: Nothing visible happens between the deposit and the install, so the client assumes nothing is happening. You end up sending reassurance texts instead of working, and they still ask again next week.

3

The final invoice waits on somebody adding up shop hours.

Today: Hours logged on a scrap of plywood get transcribed eventually. Between the piece leaving the shop and the invoice going out there is usually a week of nobody's favorite paperwork.

How HomeServicesIT fixes each one

Same three problems, handled by design instead of by hand.

Fixes problem 1

Price the build from the material up

Set what a linear foot of face frame or a sheet of casework takes in lumber, hardware and shop hours, then set the margin you need. The quote comes out of the math instead of out of a guess you have to defend later.

Fixes problem 2

Keep the shop stages on the board

Milled, glued, sanded, finished, installed. Call the columns whatever you call them out loud, and a long build stops being invisible between the deposit and the delivery.

Fixes problem 3

Bill the day the piece is done

The invoice builds off the finished job with the real hours already against it, so it goes out while the client is still standing in front of the thing they bought. That is the best day of the whole project to ask for money.

A day in the life

Priya, cabinetmaker, two-person shop

Priya quotes a wall of built-ins by counting linear feet. The assembly already knows what a foot of face frame takes in maple, hardware, glue and bench hours, and the waste is already in the quantities, so the quote takes minutes and shows her the margin before it goes out.

The build runs five weeks. She moves the job across the board as it goes and drops a photo at each stage: rough carcasses, the first coat of finish, the doors hung in the shop. The client watches it happen in their own portal and stops asking for updates, because the updates are already there.

Install day, she logs the last of the shop hours and sends the invoice from the client's living room. Later that quarter she pulls up what the job actually made against what she quoted. The maple ran over. The next built-in gets priced with that number in it, which is the whole point of having tracked it.

Lumber and shop-hour assembliesCustom shop stages on the job boardProgress photos in the customer portalQuoted vs actual job costingInvoice on delivery

Everything else built for woodworking & carpentry businesses

Field service management sized for crews of one to five. Customer records, property history, quotes and invoicing from the driveway live in one place, which covers the CRM half of the job without a second app.

Price custom work from lumber cost up

Add your material and shop hours, set the margin you need, and let the price come out of the math instead of a guess.

The board feet are already counted. Order them.

Pull lumber and hardware straight off the estimate onto one page for the mill run or the hardware store. No recount needed.

Photo documentation of every build

Before/after photos show the craftsmanship and protect you if a detail is ever questioned.

Invoice as soon as the piece is done

Send the invoice from the shop or the install site instead of letting it wait until you have forgotten the details.

Client and project history in one place

Keep notes on measurements, materials, and finishes tied to each customer.

A portal clients actually check

Share progress photos and invoices somewhere more reliable than a text thread.

Schedule shop time and install days together

See build time and on-site installs on the same calendar.

Manage a small crew without paying per crew member

Assign work across your team without paying more per person.

Try it free for 30 days

No credit card required. See your whole schedule, customers, and invoices in one place from day one.

Starts with your Google account. That's the whole signup.

Want the long version first? See how it works.

What markup do you need for a 30% margin? Work it out on the markup vs margin calculator before your next quote.

Questions woodworking & carpentry businesses ask

Can I price custom work from lumber cost?

Yes. Set what a linear foot of face frame or a sheet of casework takes in lumber, hardware and shop hours, and set the margin you need. The quote comes out of the math rather than a guess, and waste is already in the quantities.

Can a client follow a six-week build?

Put your own shop stages on the board, milled through installed, and drop a photo at each. The client watches it in their portal, which is usually enough to end the reassurance texts, because the reassurance is already there. A long build stops looking like silence between the deposit and the install.

Will I find out if a build lost money?

Enter the material invoice and the real shop hours and you get quoted against actual with the gap named. If the maple ran over, the next built-in gets priced with that number in it, which is the only reason tracking it is worth doing.

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