Find out where your margin went
A quote is what you think a job will cost. The invoice is what it actually cost. Most shops never line the two up, so the gap between them, and the habit that opened it, stays invisible until the bank balance does the explaining.
Score the habits. Run one job. See the gap.
Two quick checks, right in your browser: eight habits behind a healthy quote, then one real job quoted against actual. Two minutes, no login, and nothing you type is saved when you close the tab.
Eight habits that decide whether a quote is honest
One tap per row. 1 means it never happens, 5 means every job without fail. Honest answers only, the scorecard works for you and not on you.
Quoted against actual, line by line
Take the last job that shipped. It's prefilled with a sample trailer job to show the shape of it, so clear it and use your own numbers.
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One habit to fix, and what this job's leak costs you across a year of work like it.
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Two numbers behind every quote
Not part of the diagnosis above, but worth checking while you are here. Get these two wrong and every quote is wrong before the job starts.
Everything it costs to keep the doors open for a month, over the hours you can genuinely sell.
Markup is what you add on top of your cost. Margin is what you keep out of the price. Add 20% and you only take home 16.7%, so divide instead.
The sheet you just filled in, already built
Same four lines, same quoted against actual, same margin kept. The difference is nobody assembled it. Hours come off the floor at each person's rate, materials off the order and its purchase orders, so the review is waiting the day the job closes.
Driver chips say what moved. Hours +$1,340 on labor, Over +$500 on materials, without opening a thing.
Live while the job runs. See the cost accruing now, and catch time logged to nothing before it reaches the margin.
Keep the books you have. Syncs with QuickBooks Online, Xero, and MYOB.
Straight answers
No. Nothing you type into the scorecard or the job calculator is stored or sent anywhere. Refresh the page and it's gone. Use the print button on your result if you want to keep a copy.
No. It's free and works on its own, the same two checks, just live. If it's useful, the demo is there when you're ready, not before.
Because the number on one job doesn't tell you why. The eight habits are the usual reasons a quote and an invoice drift apart, scoring them first tells you which one to fix, not just what it cost you this time.
Clear them, there's a button right on the calculator. Run your own job through it, then do it again on the next one that ships.
See it on your own jobs.
Bring the job you just scored. We will quote and run one of your real jobs, live, inside Factory - no slides, no gimmicks. Just Factory on the work you already have.
We don't just build the software. We know the work.
Straight-talking advice on running a sharper, more profitable shop - pricing, people, and the floor. Written for fabricators, by people who've done the work.