Dadoboard

Running the shop

How the shop management side works

Real screens from Ridgeline Cabinet Co., a made-up shop. Tap a picture or its blue button to try it. Nothing you do is saved.

One job, from drawing to paid

Designed Drawn Cut Built Shipped Paid

The Brandt kitchen from the design side is the job at cutting on this floor, and its balance is in this cash flow. The laundry and the dealer's orders are the same made-up shop's other jobs.

Nothing skips ahead

The crew's phone screen. Try to move the Brandt kitchen past cutting before every part is scanned.

The crew's floor screen on a phone: the Brandt kitchen at CNC cutting, Cut parts 173 of 176, and its Next button greyed out
  1. Next on the Brandt kitchen at cutting is greyed out: three parts are still to scan, and the app names them.
  2. Scan the three parts it names. Now Next works.
  3. A laundry at packing won't ship until its last two cabinets are photographed. Photograph them and it goes.

Every part is scanned before a job leaves cutting, and every cabinet is photographed before it ships, without anyone having to check.

Your steps, your pace

The real step editor. Slow CNC cutting to 15 cabinets a day, add a paint booth, make the job bigger, and watch the dates slide.

The demo shop's steps, CNC cutting first at 25 cabinets a day, with the dates a 20-cabinet job would get

Your steps, not a fixed list, and the same steps run the board, the calendar, the time clock and the money.

Set up your dealers

Your office on the left, your dealer on the right (one side at a time on a phone). Pick one of the two ways a dealer sends you work, then tap the blue spot to go on.

Your office and your dealer side by side: the dealer's design in the shop's room designer, with the shop's price and the dealer's
Your office and your dealer side by side: the dealer's order in the office's Dealer Orders, with their elevation attached and a ship date

Each dealer gets a login of their own, with their markup. They design in the same room designer you use, or send their own drawings, and you schedule the work.

Cash flow, thirteen weeks out

Tap a week to see what comes in (deposits and balances) and what goes out (payroll, bills and orders), then this week on the Home screen.

Cash flow: the bank balance week by week for the next 13 weeks

A forecast that works alongside QuickBooks: you see the tight week coming, and which jobs' balances land when.

Coming next on this page

  • Move a job on the board
  • Crew scorecard and remakes
  • Quote to signed invoice
  • The supplier's confirmation filled in for you