Quoting software for kitchen fitters.
A kitchen is one of the few jobs where you are out of pocket before you start and where the last day is longer than anybody allowed for. TradeDraft is built for both: a deposit taken when the customer is keenest, and a rate book that already contains the small items that make up the final push.
A deposit before the units are ordered
The order goes in and the money goes out, often weeks before you are on site. A deposit can be set as a percentage or a flat amount, and on domestic work the customer can pay it by card at the moment they accept — which is the moment they are most committed. It lands in your own Stripe account rather than passing through us.
Whether to ask at all, and how much, is covered in should I take a deposit.
The gas and the electrics are somebody else’s lines
Connecting a gas appliance is work for a Gas Safe registered engineer, and in most cases the final electrical connection is work for a qualified electrician. The rate book keeps those as their own named lines — Gas appliance connection — by a Gas Safe engineer and Electrical connection — by a qualified electrician — so they are priced honestly and the customer can see who is doing what.
That matters twice over. It stops a quote reading as though you are doing work you may not lawfully do, and it stops a cost you are paying somebody else for quietly disappearing into your own margin.
The last day, priced before it arrives
Cornice, pelmet and plinth. End panels. Worktop cut-outs for the sink, the hob and the tap. Handles. Taking the old appliances away. None of it is difficult and all of it takes hours, and it is the part of the job most often absorbed rather than charged.
Every one of those is already in the rate book as its own item, so the price you send has them in it.
When the units do not fit the wall that is actually there
A wall that is out by 20mm, a floor that falls away, a soil pipe exactly where the tall unit goes. The standard terms already cover the case where something could not reasonably have been seen when you quoted. When it happens, it becomes an Additional Works sheet, priced and signed before the work is carried out — not a discussion at the end when the customer is looking at a finished kitchen.
What it has nothing to do with
It is not kitchen design software. It does not plan the layout, render a visual, or produce a cutting list, and it does not talk to a supplier’s ordering system. It prices the job, gets it accepted, prices the changes and invoices it.
Questions worth asking first
Can I take a deposit before I order the units?
On domestic jobs, yes. A deposit can be set as a percentage or a fixed amount and the customer can pay it by card when they accept, straight into your own Stripe account. On CIS or reverse-charge work card payment on acceptance is not available, so you would collect it the usual way.
How does it handle the gas and electrical connections?
They are separate named lines in the rate book — by a Gas Safe engineer and by a qualified electrician — so they are priced as what they are. That keeps the quote honest about who does what, and stops a cost you pay somebody else for disappearing into your margin.
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.