What does it cost, and what costs extra?

Piggles is $99 a month, flat, with all sixteen apps included: quotes and invoices, stock, the website, bookings, money and the rest. That covers one business, one location, one website and three people with their own sign-ins. If you need more room later (more storage, more email, more customer records, more people) you add it. No app is ever an upgrade. The first 14 days are free and you do not enter a card.

My work is custom. Will software built for shops fit it?

Nothing here assumes a shelf of identical things. A commission can be its own kind of record with your own fields. Stock has units that convert, so lumber bought by the board and measured by the foot is one material, and a piece made of other things (a cabinet from boards, hinges and finish) can be set up as a recipe, so you can see how many you could build and what the parts cost.

Will it actually tell me if a job lost money?

Yes, as long as the costs are in it. Materials, subcontractors and other costs can be charged to the job they were for, and material costs include the freight it took to get them to you. Approved hours from My Team arrive in Money as wages in the overall profit figure rather than on each job, so price your time into the quote as well.

I already have quotes, customers and a materials list somewhere. Do I start over?

No. Bring customers, products and stock in from a spreadsheet or another system, and see what will happen row by row before anything is written. Your accountant can stay too: Money hands them a spreadsheet of your spending with every column labeled and their account codes on each line.

Can I use it from the shop floor?

The parts you do standing up are built for a phone. Stock has a stripped-back mode for scanning a delivery in or counting a shelf with one hand free, your website reflows to fit a small screen, and the invoice email puts every line inside the message so it reads properly on a customer’s phone.

What happens when I take on a second person or a second unit?

Three people are included, each with their own sign-in and only the access their job needs. More people or another location are added when you need them. Products, orders and invoices are unlimited, so getting busier never pushes you onto a bigger plan. There is only one plan.

Quote it, build it, and find out what it actually made you.

A workshop runs on commissions, a rack of materials and a price you gave before the first cut. Piggles keeps the quote, the materials and the invoice pointing at the same job, with the hours logged against it too, so when a piece leaves the bench you know whether you were busy or paid.

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InvoicesThe price you gave is the price that gets billed.
StockThe rack, counted the way you actually buy and use it.
MoneyFind out what the job made, not just what it charged.

If this sounds like your week

The quote was a guess, and nobody checked it afterward.

You priced the dining table in March from memory of the last one. It was delivered in May. Whether the walnut, the finish and the extra Saturday were covered is something you find out at tax time, if you find out at all.

The materials live in your head and a notebook.

You buy lumber by the board and use it by the foot. The offcuts were never counted, and you discover you are out of the hinge you always use on the morning you need six of them.

Quotes go out and go quiet.

A quote sits in your sent folder. Following up was never anybody’s job, so nobody does, and the customer who was ready to say yes hires the shop that called back.

You tried a spreadsheet, and then three more.

One for quotes, one for materials, an invoicing app, and a notes app for measurements. Each one is fine by itself. None of them know it is the same job, so the numbers never meet and the question you actually care about never gets answered.

A commission is one thing, so it should be one record: the quote, the materials, the hours and the bill all pointing at the same job.

What most workshops are juggling, and what takes its place

~~quotes typed up in a word processor and saved as files~~Invoices
A quote written there has to be retyped as an invoice, and the two never know about each other. Here the accepted quote becomes the invoice, and the deposit and the balance both land on it.
~~a notebook of what is left on the rack~~Stock
A notebook cannot tell you how fast you really get through a material or how long your supplier really takes to deliver it. Stock can, and it says so while there is still time to order.
~~a shoebox of material receipts, sorted at tax time~~Money
Costs recorded against the job that caused them add up to a profit figure. Costs in a shoebox add up to a long weekend in April.
~~hours added up from memory at the end of the week~~My Team
People clock in and out, so the week’s hours come from the clock rather than from memory, and the approved hours reach Money as wages.
~~a sticky note reminding you to chase a quote~~Automations
The note falls off the monitor. The nudge goes out on the day you chose either way, and stays quiet if they already said yes.
~~a spreadsheet of commissions, measurements and deadlines~~Customers
Your own kind of record, with the fields you always write down, sits beside the customer it belongs to and has its own place in the navigation.

A normal week for workshops, on Piggles

Monday, 7am
Coffee, then Home. It counts what is waiting on you in plain sentences: somebody on your website’s chat waiting for a reply, an invoice that has gone late, and the finish you use on everything running low before you reach for an empty can.
Home
Monday, 10am
The weekend inquiry becomes a card on your board of work you are trying to win, with what it is worth and a follow-up date on you. The measurements go on the record too, in a commission record you set up with your own fields: dimensions, wood, finish, date needed.
Customers
Tuesday, 2pm
You send the quote with your logo and your terms. When they accept, it turns into an invoice without retyping a line, and you send a link to pay the deposit. Part payments land against the same invoice, so the balance on it is always the real balance.
Invoices
Wednesday, 8am
Stock says the walnut will run short at the rate you actually use it, measured against how long your supplier actually takes. The order goes in. When the delivery arrives, the freight is spread across the boards, so a board costs what it cost to get it into your shop.
Stock
Thursday, all day
Your helper clocks in and out, so their hours are a timesheet you approve rather than a total scribbled at the bottom of the week. Their account only shows what their job needs. Your margins stay yours.
My Team
Friday, 9am
Last week’s cabinet quote has gone quiet. An automation you switched on sends a polite nudge after five days, checks first that they have not already said yes, and does nothing if they have. Every run is listed, so you can see exactly who it wrote to.
Automations
Saturday, 10am
The table is delivered. Money shows what the job made after the materials and the other costs you charged to it. If it came in thin, you know before you quote the next one like it.
Money

The apps workshops use most, up close

Invoices

The price you gave is the price that gets billed.

A commission is paid in pieces: a deposit to start, sometimes a payment partway through, the balance on delivery. Invoices keeps all of it on one document tied to the quote it came from, so what is still owed is never a sum you work out on the back of an envelope.

Everything Invoices does

Quotes and invoices carry your logo, your terms and your wording, from one set of templates you set up once.
An accepted quote turns into an invoice without retyping a line, and the two stay linked, so you can always see what was promised next to what was billed.
Send a link to pay whatever is still owed, deposit or balance. Paid through Stripe, each payment records itself against the right invoice.
A quote can go out for signature, and the signed copy stays attached to the record for the day somebody remembers the job differently.
Overdue invoices are listed by how late they are, and a reminder goes out that is firm and polite without you drafting it.
A line can carry what the walnut cost you and your markup, or one of your saved markup rules, so the margin is on your screen before the quote leaves.

Stock

The rack, counted the way you actually buy and use it.

Materials in a workshop are awkward. You buy by the board, the sheet or the gallon and use them by the foot, the cut or the coat. Stock is built for that, and for things made out of other things, so the count on the screen matches the count on the rack.

Everything Stock does

Units convert, so a board bought whole and used by the foot is one material with one honest count rather than two lists that disagree.
A recipe says what goes into a piece you build, shows how many you could make from what is on hand, and uses up the parts when you record the build.
Freight and handling are spread across a delivery, so a board costs what it took to get it into your shop, not just the price on the supplier’s invoice.
Reorder points come from how fast you really use a material and how long your supplier really takes, not a number somebody typed in during the first week.
Racks, shelves and bins each hold their own count, so “we have hinges” also tells your helper which drawer to open.
Counting one corner on a schedule keeps the record honest without losing a day to a full stocktake, and every correction is approved by a person.

Money

Find out what the job made, not just what it charged.

Turnover says you were busy. Money says whether you were paid for it. Because the sales, the materials and the costs already live in Piggles, profit on a commission is a screen you open rather than an evening with a calculator.

Everything Money does

One lumber bill can be split across the three commissions it was for, and a subcontractor’s bill charged to the job that needed it, so every finished piece has a real figure beside it.
Every job is listed with what it made after its materials and the costs you charged to it, worst first, so you see which kinds of work are worth taking on again and which only look good in photographs.
Costs that come round every month, like rent, insurance and the van, are recorded once and stay in the picture without being retyped.
What customers owe you is sorted by how old it is, and what you owe your lumber yard shows when it falls due.
Once your helper’s hours are approved in My Team, they arrive here as wages on their own, so the people you pay are in the profit figure without a second entry.
Your accountant gets the numbers without a year of retyping, handed over as a spreadsheet of your spending with every column labeled and their account codes on each line.

Moving over

Bring the lists you already keep.

Open Move in, drop in the spreadsheet of customers or materials you already have, and say what each column means. Piggles shows what will happen to every row before anything is saved, and any row it cannot take is listed with its row number from your file, so you fix it in the spreadsheet and try again. Stock counts can carry the shelf, the reorder level and what each piece cost you. Jobs you are still quoting can come in the same way, with what each is worth and how far along it is.

Type in the parts that only live in your head.

Some things have no file to import, and it is better to know that now. Your commission record (the fields for measurements, wood, finish and the date needed) is set up by hand, once. So are the recipes for pieces made of other parts. Quotes and invoices already sent from your old tool stay there: let the paid ones rest, and raise the open ones again here.

Run the next job on it from quote to delivery.

Profit by job only knows the costs recorded against that job, so the cleanest switch is one commission run entirely on Piggles: quote, materials, costs and invoice. Your old jobs stay where they are. From that first one on, every piece that leaves the bench has a real figure beside it.

Your first hour

Look around the practice records first. The account arrives with sample customers, products and orders so you can learn on something that looks real.
Enter your business name, address and logo once. From then on they are what appears on every quote, invoice and receipt.
Set up a commission record with the fields you always write down: measurements, materials, finish and the date somebody is depending on.
Add the ten materials you use most, with the unit you buy them in and the unit you measure them in.
Send one real quote, turn it into an invoice, then press the button that clears the practice records. It removes every sample and touches none of yours.

One price, and it does not climb because a job got bigger.

$99 a month

Piggles is $99 a month, flat, with all sixteen apps included. For a workshop that means quotes, invoices, stock, the website, timesheets and your money figures on one bill. The price changes only if the business needs more room, never because you used another app.

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The $99 covers one business, one location, one website on your own domain, and three people with their own sign-ins.
Products, orders and invoices are unlimited, so a hundred materials or a thousand quotes cost the same as ten.
Room for 10,000 customer records, 10 GB of storage for photos of finished pieces and drawings, and 5,000 email sends a month. Order and booking emails do not count toward the sends.
A second unit across town is an added location, and a fourth person at the bench is an added seat. Each is added in one tap with the price on the button, and removed the same way.
Reaching a limit switches nothing off. Your site stays up, and only new additions of that one kind pause until you add room.
The first 14 days are free with no card, long enough to quote and invoice a real job before you decide.

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