The cabinet shop app — every change priced and dated before the saw runs.
The measure is done, the sheets are stacked for cutting — and at two o'clock the client calls: she'd rather go handle-free. Your own app takes the request with a photo, turns it into dollars and days, and sends it back for approval.
30-second check · free, no strings attached · answer usually the same day
Tap around — this is roughly how your future app will feel.
What should your cabinet shop app do?
5 questions · 30 seconds · then a concrete proposal with a fixed price.
What the app for your cabinet shop can do.
Tap through the building blocks — on the right you see how it looks in your app. You pick what actually helps between the measure and the walkthrough.
Built-in wardrobe · the HarpersCutting from October 1$4,860Built-in wardrobe · the HarpersCutting from October 1$4,860She'd rather go handle-free after all. What does that cost — and when is the install?
Play the request through: attach a photo, pick a variant, approve. On the right you see what lands on the job in the same second.
Change request · the HarpersSep 24 · 2:00 PM
2 · Which change is it?
3 · Approve — only then does the saw run
Job total, as approved on September 12
As long as nothing is approved, the sheet stays in the stack. That's the whole point: better to wait six minutes than to build six fronts twice.
Without an app: three phone calls, two days lost, and a misunderstanding at the end.
Same shop, same wood — only now everybody knows what was agreed.
The sheets are stacked for cutting. From here on, every change costs wood, time and a conversation.
That's why the app leads with the price and the new date — and the saw doesn't run until it's approved.
What an app really changes in a cabinet shop.
A cabinet shop doesn't sell something off a shelf, it sells a promise: this dimension, this wood, this hardware, on this date. Between the handshake and the walkthrough sit weeks in which people change their minds — and every change of mind costs wood, time and a conversation. Your own app won't draw your casework and won't cut a single board. It holds what was agreed, what changed and what that costs — in one place both sides can see.
What the two o'clock change really costs
The built-in wardrobe for the Harpers sits on the job at $4,860, the measure was on September 24, the install twelve days later on October 6. At two in the afternoon the request comes in: handle-free after all. On the facts that's a short answer — push-to-open means $180 more and four extra days, because the hardware has to be ordered. What gets expensive isn't the hardware, it's the road to it: a call to the shop, a callback in the evening, a third call because nobody mentioned the install date on the second.
In the app the same thing is one line with two numbers and a button: +$180 · +4 days, install moves from October 6 to October 10, approve or decline. What's approved sits on the job with a timestamp — and cutting starts only after that. That's the real gain: not the $180, but the set of fronts you don't build twice. Over a week that turns fourteen callbacks into three; a little further down you can run it with your own numbers.
A handshake holds — as long as both sides remember the same thing.
“A handshake is enough around here”
The line comes up in almost every first conversation, and it isn't wrong. In the trades the spoken word carries further than it does elsewhere, and nobody wants to hand a long-standing client a form. Only the handshake rarely fails on good faith — it fails on memory. Four weeks after the measure one side remembers “brass pulls,” the other remembers “brass, if it isn't much more” — and both remember correctly what they understood.
The app doesn't replace the handshake, it writes it down. The client taps Approve, you see the time and the wording, done — it takes less than a callback and it feels like paperwork to neither side. In practice one sentence at the measure is enough: “Anything we change, I'll send to your phone with a price and a date, so we don't have to guess later.” Anyone who doesn't want the app gets the same thing as a PDF by email — and you still have it on the job.
Where the app stops — and what the first month looks like
An honest limit belongs here: this app doesn't draw. It doesn't lay out casework, it doesn't optimize a cut list, and it replaces neither your CAD nor your estimating program. What happens in your shop software stays there; the app is the channel to the client and the file for everything agreed between the measure and the walkthrough. And it isn't a legal opinion: it records approvals with a name and a timestamp — whether that's enough for you in a dispute is a question for your attorney, not for us.
Two weeks pass before the first version is in the stores — and from $4,000 that isn't a trial, it's a full app under your own name. After that it gets quiet for a while: the first job runs through it, the second one too, and at some point you notice that Friday afternoon isn't going into callbacks anymore. Clients notice it most at the walkthrough — three photos, the open punch items, a signature on the screen, and both sides still hold the same report a year later. Even so, count in months rather than weeks before all eleven open jobs run through it as a matter of course.
How many calls does one change in the middle of a job cost you — and how often had the cutting already started? Tell us, and we'll run it through with your numbers.
What do those callbacks cost you in a week?
≈ 76 hours a year that no longer go into the phone — time that stays in the shop.
Plus what usually gets quietly eaten: an approved change like the Harpers' sits on the job at $180 instead of in your goodwill column — and cutting doesn't start until it's approved.
Half a minute · you end up with a proposal and a fixed price
One project. Every device.
This is how the listing for your app will look once we submit it. Type in your name, pick a color — the preview on the right picks up both straight away.
Measured Sep 24 · install Oct 6
Case, solid white oak3 bays, 1 1/2 in.$2,380Fronts, white oak veneer6 doors$1,640
Hardware, soft-close24 hinges$520Push-to-open instead of pullshandle-free front · photo attachedopen
Your change has been priced
Push-to-open instead of pulls: +$180 and +4 days.
Install tomorrow at 7:30 AM
Two woodworkers, about 4 hours — please keep the driveway clear.
Photo 1 · install dayhardware set and adjustedPhoto 2 · fronts closedreveals checkedPhoto 3 · pulls and hingessoft-close adjustedFollow your job from the site measurement to the walkthrough: line items, dimensions and photos live in the app. Send a change request with a photo — you get the extra cost and a new install date back and approve it on your phone. You pick the install day yourself, and the walkthrough report with its photos stays yours. more
We wanted handle-free fronts in the middle of the job. Instead of three phone calls the answer came into the app: extra cost, new install date, approve. Everything fit in the end — and we knew up front what we were signing up for.
The three photos and the one open punch item were in the report right away, and I signed on the screen. The toe-kick panel came later as agreed. On the measure I would have liked a drawing in the app too.
Version 1.2
Change approval with a price and a date: request the change, see the extra cost and the new install day, approve it with one tap.
Just a preview — your name, your logo, your colors. Screenshots come from the app on this page; figures and reviews are placeholders.
Built once, available everywhere: your customers download the app from the store, you run everything from a browser.
What we build is out in the app stores.
Six apps of our own, used by real people every day. What you see here are the untouched store screenshots and preview videos — exactly what anyone downloading them gets. Click through the shelf.
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Real listings — the buttons open the actual store pages.
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Your app goes out the very same way: under your name, with your logo.
Who actually builds your app?
No off-the-shelf builder, no chain of anonymous contractors: an owner-run development studio that designs, codes and looks after apps for cabinet shops itself.
Have a nice day — an owner-run development studio: the person you deal with is the developer himself.
Change approvals, install dates or walkthrough reports — which one first?
Tell us in 30 seconds what eats the most time between the measure and the walkthrough — you get a concrete proposal with a fixed price.
Free, no strings attached · usually an answer the same day
From an idea to your app in the stores.
Tell us about your shop
A short conversation: what you build, how many jobs are running, where it snags between the measure and the walkthrough.
You get a proposal and a fixed price
Concrete and readable: what the app does, how it looks, what it costs — in writing.
We build, you watch
You see a preview on your own phone early and say what should work differently in the shop's day.
Your app goes into the stores
We handle the App Store and Google Play — under your shop's name.
We stay on it
Updates, new building blocks, help along the way — you're not alone with the technology.
What does it all cost?
There is no hourly billing and nothing added on afterwards: you choose a package, you get a fixed price for it, and you know in advance what is included. Even Start is a complete app — the larger packages add features and deeper technology, not better quality.
Included everywhere: App Store, Google Play and the browser — along with hosting, updates and support. The only difference is the feature set.
Start
A complete app, not a stripped-down version
from $4,000
ready to submit in 2 weeks
- In the App Store, on Google Play and in the browser
- Published under your own name
- Every core feature of your trade, fully built
- Push messages to your customers
- Hosting, updates and support included
Business
More features, more automation
from $10,000
usually 3–4 weeks
- Everything in Start
- Extra modules, cut to fit how you work
- Admin area: edit content and offers yourself
- Reminders and routines that run on their own
Complete
Woven tightly into your systems
from $20,000
from 4 weeks, depending on scope
- Everything in Business
- Connections to your point of sale, calendar, inventory system and more
- AI features, custom interfaces, an area for your staff
- Continuous further development
Rather not pay a large sum up front? Then subscribe.
from $199 / month
- We build it, run it and maintain it; you pay monthly
- Updates, new features and support are part of it
- The source code stays with us at first and becomes yours once it is paid off in full
Depending on the feature set, projects land between $4,000 and roughly $30,000 — how far your app goes is your call. We name the fixed price after a short conversation, free and without obligation.
The three packages are typical sizes; anything in between is possible too. The math: base package $4,000, each additional module about +$900, each connection to an existing system about +$2,500. The shows what every single feature costs.
Where do the speed and the price come from? We work with current tooling, AI included — the time we save goes back into the price, the care stays handmade.
Common questions about a cabinet shop app
The answer that matters most: your fixed price.
Five questions, half a minute — free and without obligation.
The next change request is coming.
A free first conversation — no sales pressure, an honest proposal with a fixed price for your shop.
We usually reply the same day · your fixed price comes in writing — then take your time to decide.
Your cabinet shop app
Free, no strings attached