A quote request lands at ten to five and sits until morning. The order gets typed into the shop system, the shipping sheet and the invoice, and the customer calls midweek to ask where it is. We build the Quote-to-Ship System so a job moves from request to dock on one set of facts everybody can see. We build it for manufacturers, fabrication shops, distributors and logistics companies across Houston and beyond.
A fabrication shop. Two shifts.
Request · 4:50 pm
Sat in an inbox overnight
Logged and assigned on arrival
Requests come in through a form on your website that collects drawings, quantities and material, then get logged, assigned to an estimator and acknowledged to the customer right away.
Quote · 5 days
Priced in a spreadsheet
Quote built from your price rules
Your material costs, labor rates, setup times and margins become price rules, so an estimator enters the job details and the quote builds itself for review.
Order · Mon
Retyped into three systems
Entered once, everyone sees it
Once a quote is accepted it becomes the order, and the shop floor, shipping and billing all work from that same record.
Status · Wed
“Where’s my order?” calls
Customers check status online
Customers get a link to a status page that shows where their order is, from in production to shipped, with tracking once it leaves your dock.
Dock · Thu
Paperwork missing at shipping
Paperwork prints with the order
Packing lists, bills of lading and labels are generated from the order and print when it’s marked ready to ship.
Owner · Fri
No idea what shipped late
Dashboard shows what's running late
A dashboard sets open orders against their promised dates, so you see what’s slipping while there’s still time to act.
What we build
A website form that gathers drawings, specs and quantities, then logs and routes every request.
Prices built from your own costs and rules, so quotes come out consistent no matter who writes them.
One record per order, from accepted quote to shipped, visible to the front office and the floor.
A simple page where customers check on their order instead of calling.
Open orders, promised dates and late jobs on one screen.
Your data and accounts stay yours.
Everything runs in accounts under your name. Once it's paid for, the system is yours too. How we handle your data
The services behind it
Straight answers
No. Your ERP stays the system of record. We build the pieces around it that it handles poorly or not at all, like quote intake and a page your customers can check. We connect to your ERP or accounting system where it allows it, and we’ll tell you when keeping what you have is the better call.
It quotes the way your best estimator does, because we build it from their rules. Anything unusual gets flagged for a person to price, and every quote can be reviewed before it goes out.
Only who you choose. Role-based logins and least-privilege access keep margins with the office, the floor sees the job, and customers see only their own orders. An audit trail records who changed what.
Let's get started
Thirty minutes on the phone and you'll know the one thing worth fixing first — and what it's worth to fix it. No pitch, no jargon, whether we end up working together or not.
Prefer to talk? (832) 639-5923
Tomball, TX · serving Houston and remote across the U.S. · usually reply same day