Carpentry and Joinery Job Management Software
Carpentry sits awkwardly across two kinds of software. Field service products assume a technician attends a site and completes a job. Manufacturing products assume a workshop producing to an order. Most joinery businesses do both on the same job, and the handover between them is exactly where the money is usually lost.
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Start buildingWhat the job has to hold
- Workshop and site stages on one job, with the handover visible
- Materials and cut lists, including offcuts and waste that get priced but not planned
- Quoted price plus variations, because a survey never survives contact with an old building
- Staged payments — deposit, materials, completion — and what triggers each
- Site measurements and templates captured accurately enough to cut from
- Snagging as its own stage, linked to the job rather than recorded as a new one
- Subcontracted finishing such as spraying or fitting, tracked against the same job
Why the workshop-to-site handover loses money
The two halves are usually tracked separately: the workshop knows what it made, the fitters know what they fitted, and nobody holds the whole job. Time spent remaking something that was measured wrong sits in the workshop's numbers while the cause sits in the site's, so the pattern never becomes visible.
A job model that covers both
Fieldproxy models the job across workshop and site with stages you define, so materials, labour and variations accumulate against one record and the true cost of the finished piece is known.
Two approaches to the same problem
| Field service or workshop software | One job across both | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | One half of the work | Workshop and site on one record |
| Remakes | Absorbed in workshop time | Visible against the job that caused them |
| Variations | A note on an invoice | Priced and tracked |
| True cost | Reconstructed | Known |
What you can run on it
- Quoting with variations priced separately
- Workshop and site stages on one job
- Materials, cut lists and waste
- Staged payments with defined triggers
- Site measurement capture
- Snagging linked to the original job
- Reporting on job profitability, remakes and variation value
Common questions
Can it cover both workshop and site work?
Yes, on the same job, which is the main reason general field service products fit joinery badly. The handover between the two is where cost is usually lost and it needs to be visible.
How are variations handled?
Priced and tracked against the original quote rather than absorbed into it, so the difference between what was quoted and what was delivered is explicit.
Does it handle staged payments?
Yes, with the triggers you define — deposit, materials ordered, completion — rather than a fixed billing model.
Can it track remakes?
Yes, against the job that caused them, which is the only way the pattern behind them becomes visible.
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