You don’t lose jobs on the floor.
You lose them in the paperwork.
Quoting, job tracking, and the wiring between your shop system and QuickBooks, for job shops and made‑to‑order manufacturers, so the quote goes out in hours, the office can see the floor, and every job reports whether it made money.
All of it, or just the part you need.
Quote to cash, the way it actually runs.
A made‑to‑order job passes through five stations between the quote request and the check clearing. The machines aren’t the problem. Here’s where the hours get lost.
Quote it fast. Run it visible. Know what it made.
Everything below works on what you already own: the shop system stays, QuickBooks stays, the estimator stays. What changes is that they finally act like one shop.
The web piece is the smaller section below. Buyers here qualify you; they don’t browse.
One system of record, from the floor to the books.
JobBOSS runs the jobs, QuickBooks runs the books, the floor runs on paper travelers and memory, and the office re-keys between all three. We wire what you already own into one line: what happens on the floor shows up in the office, what ships becomes an invoice the same day, and every closed job reports estimated against actual without anyone assembling a spreadsheet.
Using something else, or a spreadsheet you outgrew two years ago? We build around it, not over it.
- Job status the office can see without walking the floor
- Ship-to-invoice the day it leaves the dock
- Estimated vs. actual cost on every job, automatically
- Shop system to QuickBooks with nothing re-keyed
Both ends of the job, built custom.
The two places the packaged systems leave a job shop exposed are the two ends of every job: the quote that has to go out fast, and the customer who wants to know where their order is. We build both, as one piece of software shaped to how your shop actually prices and runs work.
A quote request comes in; the quote goes out in hours, not days. Your estimator’s rules, encoded into a system the whole shop keeps: materials, setups, margins, the things only he knows. His judgment gets faster instead of staying a bottleneck.
Your customer’s purchasing desk sees status, docs, certs, and quote history without calling the shop, and the answer they see comes from the floor data, not from whoever picked up. The “where’s it at?” call, retired.
And the loop between them: closed jobs feed actual costs back into the next quote. The shop that knows what work really costs is the shop that quotes fast and right.
Priced as a project: paid in thirds as it’s built, and the last third can be spread out. The details are on the Pricing page.
The front door, sized for how your customers buy.
Nobody browses their way to a machine shop. They qualify you, against an approved‑supplier checklist or a capability search at 2pm on a sourcing deadline. The front has exactly two jobs.
A site that passes the supplier check.
Purchasing departments vet you off the website before the first email: equipment list, tolerances, materials, certs, industries served. Most shop sites answer none of it. Ours are capability pages first: built to survive the approved-supplier check, with real photos of your floor.
How we build sitesFindable for what the shop actually does.
When an engineer goes searching for the process, the material, or the region, somebody’s shop comes up. Local visibility here isn’t consumer marketing; it’s being the findable answer to specific, qualified searches. Counted in quote requests, not clicks.
How visibility worksStark Industrial outgrew its systems. So we built one.
An industrial products company whose operation had outgrown its systems: orders everywhere, nothing the office could see without digging, revenue slipping through the gaps. We built the software that runs it. It’s still running.
Stark is a distributor, not a machine shop. Different operation, same capability: take an industrial business’s operational mess and make one system of it.
- Ships become invoices the same day, automatically
- One screen showing orders, stock, and what goes out today
- Thousands of orders. Still running today.
- Small by designNo handoffs, no account managers, just the person you hire.
- Honest about fitNot every business needs us, and we’ll tell you if yours doesn’t.
- Built to lastMonth to month on the ongoing work, because we stick around to keep it working.
Common questions.
Give us a call.
Whether it’s a website, more calls, or a day with less paperwork, tell us what you’re after and we’ll tell you where we’d start.