For furniture makers
Costing software for custom furniture makers
A dining table is not one price. It is a species, a thickness, a base, a finish schedule and somewhere between twenty and eighty hours of bench time that depend on all four. Quoting from the last one you built only works until a customer changes something.
In practice
Quote it by saying it
Every operation in the app is a tool the chat can call, so a furniture shop can price work by describing it — with your materials and your rates doing the arithmetic.
Called 4 tools
find_job("Henderson walnut table")update_material_cost("walnut 8/4", 16.20)reprice_job(recalculate: true)list_affected_quotes()
Every number here came from your costing engine. The model picked the tools and filled in the arguments — it never does the arithmetic.
What makes costing hard in a furniture shop
- Lumber bought by the board foot, used by the part, with real waste
- Hardware and slides that change with every configuration
- Finish schedules with several coats, each with its own labor
- Bench hours that vary hugely between a slab top and a frame-and-panel top
Typical materials
- Hardwood and slab stock, by board foot
- Sheet goods for cases and panels
- Hardware, fasteners and joinery
- Finish, by coat and coverage
Costed in
board feet, each, hours
A formula might look like
(board feet × $/bf × waste factor) + hardware + (bench hours × shop rate) + finish
What it does
Built to handle exactly this
The same four pieces, set up around how a furniture shop actually works.
Materials with your attributes
Define the fields your furniture shop tracks, not a generic SKU with a quantity. Hardwood and slab stock, by board foot sits alongside everything else you buy.
Purchase units to usage units
Set the conversion and the waste factor once. Quote in board feet, each, hours without redoing the arithmetic every time.
Your real labor rates
Separate rates per operation, so the expensive steps carry their own cost instead of hiding inside an average.
Your pricing formula
Minimums, quantity breaks and margin, applied the same way on every quote regardless of who wrote it.
Reprice when costs move
Change one material price and see every affected quote immediately — before a customer finds it for you.
A defensible breakdown
Show materials, labor and overhead separately when someone asks why the number is what it is.
Early access
Get in early as a furniture shop
Set up your materials and rates once, and quote the way a furniture shop actually works — by clicking or by asking.
- Founding accounts lock their price for life
- No card, no trial clock, no sales call
- Import your existing parts list to start
Know what the job costs before you quote it
Built around how a furniture shop actually prices work.
Founding accounts lock their price for life. No card required.