Quoting software for carpenters.
Joinery gets quoted two ways and both are right. Measured work, where the price comes off the drawing or the tape. And day work, where the price comes off the clock. TradeDraft handles both from the same rate book, so a week of second fix and a single hung door are priced from the same numbers.
Your own rates, not a national average
Hanging a door, running skirting, a stud partition, fitted storage by the metre — this is work you do often enough to have a settled price for already. The rate book keeps your prices and pulls them into the next quote, so the eleventh quote starts half-written.
Where a job is genuinely day work, price it by the day or the half day and the document reads as a proper quotation either way.
Fire doors are a different item, and a different price
An FD30 door set is not an internal door with a better hinge. It is a certified product, it is fitted to a specification, and it costs what it costs. It has its own line in the rate book so it is never priced as ordinary door hanging.
The same goes for a fire-rated loft hatch, a staircase, and kitchen carcass assembly — all jobs a joiner is asked for constantly and none of them ordinary second fix.
What was included, in writing, before anyone starts
Second fix is where “while you are here” lives. The Schedule of Works, the exclusions and the assumptions the price rests on are printed as numbered clauses on the quote, so “I thought that was included” has a clause number.
When something genuinely is extra, it becomes an Additional Works sheet with its own price and signature, agreed before the work happens rather than at the final invoice. More in handling variations.
Working for a builder
If you are subcontracting to a main contractor, the deduction is worked out on the labour with materials excluded at direct cost, and the reverse charge is applied only where the conditions are met. Neither is a box you remember to tick. The conditions are set out in CIS for subcontractors.
What it has nothing to do with
It does not produce cutting lists, drawings or CAD, and it does not order timber. It does not schedule your week. It prices the job, gets it accepted, prices the changes and invoices it.
Questions worth asking first
Can I quote day work and measured work in the same place?
Yes. The rate book holds items by whatever unit suits — per metre, per item, per day or per half day — and a quote can mix them. The document reads as a proper quotation either way.
Does it handle CIS if I subcontract to a builder?
Yes. The deduction is worked out on the quote total less the materials figure you enter, which is the HMRC rule, and the reverse charge is applied only where the conditions are met.
How much is it?
£45 a month or £450 a year, flat, with no per-user charge.
The 30-day trial needs no card. Sending, downloading and online acceptance are all included.