Joinery Pricing Software — Price for Profit, Not Guesswork
Estimating works out what a job costs. Pricing decides what you charge — and that is a different discipline. Two workshops can estimate the same job at the same cost and one makes a healthy profit while the other barely breaks even, purely because of how they turn cost into price. Joinery pricing software exists to make that step deliberate instead of a gut call.
Price Is Cost Plus a Decision
Your price has three layers: direct cost (materials plus labour), overhead recovery (rent, machinery, insurance, admin), and profit. Pricing by feel usually means skipping the middle layer — quoting direct cost plus a bit, and quietly funding your overhead out of what should be profit. Pricing software makes all three layers explicit.
The three layers of a joinery price
- Direct cost — materials and labour for the job
- Overhead recovery — your fixed costs, spread across jobs
- Profit — the margin you actually keep
Set Your Charge-Out Rate Once
Your labour rate is not what you pay a joiner — it is what you must charge per hour to cover that wage plus your share of overhead plus margin. Get this number wrong and every hour on every job is mispriced. Software lets you set it once and apply it consistently, so you are not re-deriving it on each quote.
Apply Margins Consistently
The hidden profit-killer is inconsistency: a higher margin on jobs you are nervous about, a lower one on jobs you want, a round-number discount to win the work. Joinery Core applies your overhead and profit percentages to every estimate the same way, so your pricing is consistent and defensible. You can still choose to discount — but you do it knowing exactly what you are giving away.
Price From Real Data, Then Check It
Because pricing sits in the same system as your production and timesheets, you can compare what you priced against what the job actually cost. If labour consistently runs over, your charge-out rate or your hours estimate is wrong — and now you can see it and adjust, rather than repeating the same under-pricing forever.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is pricing software different from quoting software?
They overlap. Quoting is about producing the document; pricing is about the strategy behind the number — your rate, your overhead recovery, your margin. Joinery Core handles both: the pricing logic and the branded quote.
What margin should I use?
That is your decision and depends on your market and risk. The software does not pick it for you — it makes sure whatever you choose is applied consistently and that you can see the effect on the total.
How do I know if I am pricing too low?
Compare quoted profit against actual profit per job over time. If the gap is consistently negative, your prices are too low or your estimates too optimistic. Recording both is the only way to know.
Turn cost into a price that protects profit
Joinery Core builds your price from real costs and applies your margins consistently — then checks them against what jobs actually cost. 14-day free trial, no card.