Joinery Financial Tracking Software — Know Your Margins

You finished the job. The client paid. It felt like a good project. But was it actually profitable? When you factor in the extra timber you had to reorder, the two days of overtime, the glazing that arrived damaged and needed replacing — did you make money or lose it?

Most joinery workshops don't know their true margins until the end of the year, if then. By that point, you've already quoted and completed dozens more jobs using the same pricing assumptions that might be wrong.

Why You Need Real-Time Financial Visibility

Knowing your margins after the fact is accounting. Knowing your margins during the job is management. If you can see halfway through a project that costs are running 20% over estimate, you can act — reduce scope, negotiate with the client, or at minimum adjust your pricing for similar future jobs.

How Joinery Core Tracks Finances

Per-Project Cost Tracking

Every project has a financial view: contract value, deposits received, material costs (pulled automatically from stock), labour costs (pulled from timesheets), and calculated profit. Live, updated as the project progresses.

Material Costs from Stock

When you allocate materials to a project, their cost is automatically included in the project financials. No manual entry, no forgotten items. The cost is always accurate because it comes from actual stock data.

Labour Costs from Timesheets

Worker hours logged against a project are multiplied by their hourly rate and added to the project cost. You see the real labour spend, not an estimate.

Margin Alerts

See at a glance which projects are healthy and which are bleeding money. Green means profitable, red means you need to pay attention. Before it's too late.

The Pricing Feedback Loop

After a few months of tracking real costs, you'll have data on exactly what different project types cost to deliver. Sash windows take X hours and Y materials. Fitted wardrobes take more labour but less material. This data transforms your quoting from guesswork into precision — and precision is how you protect your margins.