CNC machining, manual lathe and mill, welding and fabrication. Price the shop time and the material, quote the job, and get paid. Built by a contractor, priced for a machine shop.
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CNC machining, manual lathe and mill, and welding each price by the hour from your price book, with setup and run time split out. (Pro & Crew)
Steel and aluminum by the pound with your markup live in your price book, so material lands on the quote at your real cost, not a guess.
Send a clean quote the customer approves and pays a deposit on, so the material order is covered before you cut a chip.
Attach the drawing or a photo of the part to the quote, so the scope and the revision are on record with the number.
Quote the first article and setup up front, then price the production run per piece once it is approved.
Overdue invoices get a polite automatic nudge every week until the shop gets paid.
Three steps between the walkthrough and the money.
Machining hours, setup, material, and finishing. Type it or talk it, the AI drafts priced line items in YOUR rates.
The customer opens a clean quote, approves, and pays the deposit, card or bank.
Invoices carry pay links, reminders chase the PO, and payments land straight in your bank.
A machine shop quote is shop time plus material plus setup, and the margin is in pricing CNC, manual work, and welding at their real hourly rates with material at cost plus your markup. SayEstimate holds each rate and drafts the quote from a spoken or typed job.
Deposits cover the material order before you cut, first-article and production pricing keep repeat runs straight, and automatic reminders chase the PO so you are machining, not calling accounts payable. Plans start at $9.99 a month with a 14-day free trial and no credit card to start, and the whole app speaks six languages, English and Español both included.
Machine shop work prices on shop rate, an hourly number for CNC, manual lathe and mill, and welding or fabrication, plus material at cost plus a markup, plus setup and programming time that is real money on a short run. The trick is that setup and first-article inspection are a fixed cost the first piece carries, so a one-off and a production run of the same part price very differently per piece.
A machine shop quote should split setup and programming from run time, price material at cost plus markup with the weight shown, and note that per-piece production pricing follows once the first article is approved. Rush and same-day work carry their own rate, and a shop minimum keeps a five-minute job from costing you money. SayEstimate holds your shop rates, your material markup, and your setup and minimum, and drafts the quote from a spoken walkthrough.
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