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Three tools. One workspace. Free for 14 days.
Not a bundle of separate apps — the parts you price are the parts you cut, and the offcuts they leave come back as stock on the next job.
Job Estimator
Price a job from what it actually consumes, with every layer shown separately.
- Materials, hardware, labour phases and waste
- Overhead as a percentage, then true gross margin
- Customer-ready PDF quote
Cut List & Sheet Optimizer
Nest the parts onto your real sheet sizes and print the diagrams for the floor.
- Saw kerf, grain direction and edge banding respected
- Workshop cutting diagrams and a cut-list PDF
- CSV in and out
Offcut Rack
Answer "do I already own a piece this size?" before you buy another sheet.
- Searchable rack of what the last job left over
- Checks both orientations unless grain forbids it
- One purchase list across several jobs
Stop guessing what the job should cost.
- Material and hardware costs get forgotten, then come out of the margin.
- Labour gets underestimated, because the hours nobody bills are still hours.
- Overhead gets left out entirely, then paid for out of whatever margin survives.
- Margin is confused with markup — a 30% markup keeps 23.1%, not 30%.
- Quotes live in scattered spreadsheets nobody can reconstruct six months later.
From raw costs to a profitable quote.
- 01
Add real job costs
Lumber, sheet goods, hardware, finishing and consumables, entered at what you actually pay.
- 02
Add labor and shop expenses
Labor phases at your own hourly rate, plus waste on the materials it applies to and your shop overhead.
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Protect your margin
A selling price from your target gross margin — cost ÷ (1 − margin), never cost × markup.
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Create a professional customer quote
A branded PDF with scope, line items, tax, total and your own terms. Your costs and margin stay internal.
From the first cost line
to what the job really made.
Deterministic math, with every cost, margin and total shown separately—then a cutting plan, a purchase list and the real margin when it is done.
Woodworking Job Costing
Track materials, hardware, other costs, labor phases, quantities, units, and shop rates in one estimate.
True Gross Margin
Apply waste and overhead, then calculate profit from the selling price instead of confusing margin with markup.
Customer Quote Export
Turn the live estimate into a clean PDF with project scope, line items, tax, total, and terms.
Cut List & Sheet Optimizer
Nest the parts onto your real sheet sizes with saw kerf, grain direction and edge banding respected, then print the cutting diagrams.
Offcut Rack
Keep what the last job left over on a searchable rack, so the next one asks whether you already own a piece that size before you buy.
Estimated vs Actual Profit
Record what a job really cost against the frozen estimate, net the collected tax out, and see what an hour in the shop actually earned.
Built for custom woodworking businesses.
- Custom furniture makers
- Cabinetmakers
- Built-in specialists
- One-person woodworking shops
- Small professional workshops
Arithmetic you can check, not a black box.
Deterministic calculations
The same inputs always produce the same total. No estimate ranges, no hidden rounding.
Transparent formulas
Every layer is shown separately — materials, waste, labour, overhead, margin, tax — so you can check the arithmetic.
Private account data
Your quotes, customers and prices belong to your account and are never used to train anything.
No AI-generated dimensions
Nothing here invents a measurement. You supply the numbers; the app does the arithmetic.
No hidden spreadsheet formulas
Nothing to maintain, and nothing that silently breaks when a row is inserted.
How woodworking job costing works here.
Enter the real job costs
Add lumber, sheet goods, hardware, finishing supplies, and labor. Use the units and rates your shop actually pays.
Protect your margin
Apply material waste, shop overhead, and a true gross-margin target. Every step of the price remains visible.
Send a professional quote
Save the estimate and export a clean customer PDF with scope, line items, totals, tax, and terms.
Cut it without retyping it
Send the priced parts to the sheet optimizer. It nests them with your kerf and grain, and offers offcuts already on your rack before a new sheet.
See what it really earned
Record the hours and invoices against the frozen estimate. Find out where a job lost money, and what an hour in your shop actually made.
Quote the next one better
After a few closed jobs it tells you what your estimates are consistently missing — from your own record, and only when you apply it.
Who uses PlankCAD to price work.
Quote the whole cabinet job
Price sheet goods, hardware, labor, waste, installation, and overhead in one visible estimate instead of maintaining disconnected spreadsheet tabs.
For Cabinetmakers
Protect the margin on custom work
Model premium materials, finishing time, revisions, and shop overhead before agreeing to a price that only looked profitable.
For Furniture Designers
Price setup and material risk
Include programming, setup, operator time, consumables, and spoilage risk so machine time is not the only production cost that reaches the quote.
For CNC Shops
Why you can trust the number.
PlankCAD is new, so there are no customer logos here yet — only things you can check for yourself.
The same inputs always give the same price
No model, no estimate range, no hidden rounding. A quote you can reproduce is a quote you can defend when a customer asks how you got there.
Every layer of the price stays visible
Materials, labour, waste, overhead, margin and tax are each shown on their own — never rolled into one number you cannot explain.
Your rates stay yours
Estimates are scoped to your account and readable only by you. Your shop rate and margin are commercially sensitive and are never shown to anyone else.
Nothing to pay to find out
Three saved estimates free, forever, with no card. If it does not fit how your shop prices work, you have lost nothing but the time.
Simple pricing for profitable woodworking.
Try every available PlankCAD feature free for 14 days. Create up to 10 estimates — no credit card required.
No credit card required · Up to 10 estimates · Cancel anytime
Your trial lasts 14 days and includes up to 10 estimates. No payment method is required, so you will not be charged automatically — and your estimates stay yours either way.
PlankCAD Pro
Everything you need to price the work and quote it professionally.
- Unlimited estimates
- Material, hardware and consumable cost lines
- Labor phases with your own shop rate
- Waste and overhead applied where they belong
- True gross-margin pricing, never markup
- Customer-ready PDF quotes
- Quote revisions with a fixed history
- Saved estimate history
- Saved material library
- Customer records
- Cut lists and sheet optimizing
- Offcut inventory
- Estimated versus actual job cost
- Metric and imperial
- Saved business defaults and branding
- Email support
Cancel anytime · No hidden fees
Woodworking estimating questions.
It totals materials, hardware, other costs, material waste, and labor; applies shop overhead; then divides that cost basis by one minus your target gross-margin rate. Tax is added afterward. Every component is displayed separately.
No. Markup is profit divided by cost; gross margin is profit divided by selling price. PlankCAD uses true gross margin so a 30% target produces a price with 30% of revenue left after the modeled job cost.
The current version saves estimate drafts in local browser storage on the device you are using. They are not yet synchronized across devices, so export important quotes and do not treat local drafts as your only business record.
The PDF includes the project, customer, quote number, date, materials and labor lines, cost basis, gross profit, subtotal, tax, customer total, notes, and terms. Review scope and local tax treatment before sending it.
No tool can guarantee that an estimate includes every real-world cost. PlankCAD makes the math deterministic and omissions easier to see, but you remain responsible for scope, supplier prices, labor assumptions, taxes, contingencies, and customer changes.
Build your first estimate free.
No credit card required. Price the job, save the draft, and export the customer quote.
Deterministic Estimate Math · Your Quotes On Your Account · No Hidden Fees
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