Bespoke software for your joinery business — free prototype in 5 business days
Cutting lists in Excel, workshop orders on paper, installation appointments in your head? You are a joiner or cabinetmaker, not a software administrator. krafteq builds your own business software for joinery and cabinetmaking — fixed price instead of a subscription, with a cutting list generator, site measurements on a tablet, and installation tracking. The code is yours, EU hosting, built in Leverkusen for woodworking businesses across the Rhineland and all of Germany.
Includes cutting lists, workshop orders and installation tracking — out of the box.
Who this is forDoes this sound familiar?
We build for joinery and cabinetmaking businesses with 1–20 employees — owners and master craftsmen who produce furniture, doors, staircases, windows, or complete interior fit-out. These are the situations we encounter most often:
Entering cutting lists twice
You draw in SketchUp or AutoCAD, transfer the dimensions to Excel, copy them into the quote, and enter them again in the workshop order. The same data three times over — and somewhere along the way an error creeps in.
The workshop asks about every order
Where are the fittings? Which veneer? Dimensions in mm or cm? Every morning the phone rings from the bench because the cutting list is incomplete or nowhere to be found. Hours are lost to back-and-forth rather than cutting.
Installation appointment moved — nobody knows
The client postpones by a week. The installer drives there anyway. Or the reverse: everything ready in the workshop, but the delivery date is in no system everyone can see. Verbal agreements don't hold.
Site measurements on a notepad
On-site with the client: tape measure, sketch, mm precision. Back in the office you have to type up the figures, some sketches are illegible, sometimes connecting dimensions are missing. A second visit costs time and money.
SaaS does not fit furniture production
plancraft, ToolTime, and HERO are solid products — for painters or electricians. For joiners, cutting list logic, workshop order sequencing, and machine time are missing. You pay monthly for software that was built half for other trades.
Material purchasing with no overview
Timber panels, fittings from Blum or Hettich, lacquers, veneers — ordered from three supplier catalogues, filed across five e-mails. On the next job the search starts again from scratch.
FeaturesWhat do we typically build for joinery and cabinetmaking businesses?
A joinery software solution from krafteq is assembled from modules we tailor to your business — from furniture manufacturing through interior fit-out to staircase and window production. These eight features appear in virtually every joinery project:
Cutting list generator
Automatically generate cutting lists from order dimensions — position, material, dimension in millimetres, quantity, processing, fittings. Exportable as CSV or PDF, optionally in CNC format for your machine.
Site measurements to mm precision
Enter dimensions directly on-site into the software — tablet or smartphone, with a sketch function, photo attachments, and connecting dimensions. No manual transcription back at the office.
Material purchasing and suppliers
Timber, fittings, glass, lacquer, veneer, and panel materials in one master database. Reorder suggestions at minimum stock, with optional integrations to fittings and panel materials suppliers — where an API is available.
Workshop orders with machine time
Orders in the workshop with sequencing, required tools, and machine time at the CNC, panel saw, or edge banding machine. Visible on the workshop tablet, with time recording per position.
Delivery and installation appointments
From workshop completion to delivery to the customer's installation appointment. Route planning, travel times, handover record with signature on the tablet — all parties see the current status.
Semi-finished stock management
Timber panels, boards, veneers, off-cuts — who has what in stock, where is it, how much remains? Consumption is automatically deducted on the workshop order.
Photo documentation of finished work
Completed furniture, fitted kitchens, installed staircases — photos per order, automatically assigned to the customer file. Doubles as a marketing portfolio for your website or social media.
Mobile app and e-invoicing
iOS and Android for site measurements, installation documentation, and time recording — including offline on site without signal. E-invoicing with XRechnung and ZUGFeRD for the phased mandatory e-invoicing requirement from 2026.
How it worksThree steps to your own joinery software
No sales process, no open consulting invoice. You see working software within a week and know the cost of your v1 in advance.
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Submit an enquiry
Describe your business and the workflows you want to digitalise. The form takes 5 minutes — trade (joiner or cabinetmaker), number of employees, focus (furniture, interior fit-out, staircases, windows), desired features, optional free text. We respond within 24 hours with a concrete plan.
Free and non-binding. No sales pressure, no newsletter spam.
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Prototype in 5 business days
krafteq builds a working prototype of your most important 1–2 workflows. Hosted live on Krafteq Cloud, with a login for you and 1–2 further users, and realistic sample data matching joinery orders — a cutting list for a fitted kitchen, a workshop order for a staircase, an installation appointment at a customer's premises. In the walkthrough we demonstrate everything and discuss the next version.
You see your own joinery software in action — before you pay a penny.
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Your own v1 in under 4 weeks
If you wish to proceed, you receive a binding fixed-price quote between €1,000 and €2,000 for your v1 — depending on scope, delivered in under 4 weeks. We develop in 1- to 2-week sprints with demos. Source code in the client repository from Sprint 1. Krafteq Cloud: €250 / year per software, first year included, optional.
Fixed price instead of hourly billing. Code is yours. Hosting and maintenance included.
What you receiveFour components — in every Krafteq package
Every Krafteq project delivers not just your individual joinery software, but the complete operating infrastructure around it. Standardised, secure, scalable — engineering quality at a craftsman's price.
Your own business software
Tailored to your joinery or cabinetmaking business and your real workflows. Source code in the client repository from Sprint 1, fixed price €1,000–2,000, delivered in under 4 weeks, fully documented. Even if krafteq disappears tomorrow, your software continues to run on any host.
Krafteq Cloud — €250 / year per software (first year included)
Managed hosting on servers in Germany (EU fallback available), optional. €250 per year per software, with the first year included. Covered: security patches, daily backups, monitoring, Krafteq support, maintenance, GDPR-compliant operation with a Data Processing Agreement (DPA), TLS, your own domain. No subscription trap, cancel at any time.
Client and document portal
A central web interface for your relationship with krafteq: project status, contracts and DPA, tickets, releases, invoices, backup status. No more scattered e-mail threads — everything in one place.
IAM and security from day one
Centralised logins, multi-factor authentication, roles, audit log, tenant separation — based on Keycloak (open source, EU-hosted). Optional single sign-on against Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace.
Comparisonkrafteq vs. plancraft, ToolTime, HERO & Co.
The established SaaS providers are solid software — for standard businesses, with standard processes, at a standard fee. For joinery and cabinetmaking businesses with their own cutting list logic or a desire to own the code, the calculation is different.
| krafteq Bespoke Software | plancraft / ToolTime / HERO | TAIFUN / Bosch OfficeOn | |
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| Model | Fixed price + hosting | Subscription | Subscription |
| 5-year TCO (10 users, incl. add-ons) | €2,000–3,000 | €9,000–18,000 | €9,000–18,000 |
| Cutting list generator (joinery-specific) | Included — built individually for your furniture / staircase / window logic | Limited — generic position lists, no material-dimension processing | Limited — cross-trade, no CNC export |
| Code ownership | Yes — in the client repository from Sprint 1 | No | No |
| Data export | At any time, self-service in the portal | Limited | Limited |
| Adaptation to your workflows | 100 percent bespoke | Standard configuration, limited customisation | Standard configuration, limited customisation |
| Location | Leverkusen (NRW), personal contact | Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover — remote | Various |
| EU data residency | Guaranteed (Germany) | Variable — partly US backend | Variable |
| E-invoicing (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD) | Included in fixed price | Included (partly add-on) | Included (partly add-on) |
| VOB-compliant invoicing | Included — for larger contracts with stage payments | Partly as add-on | Partly as add-on |
TrustWith the rigour of a German engineering partner
krafteq is a German GmbH headquartered in Leverkusen. We have served enterprise clients in industry and manufacturing for years — and we bring those engineering standards to the joinery software stack.
krafteq GmbH, Leverkusen
German company based in the Rhineland. Personal contact rather than a call centre. On-site meetings possible, fully remote equally so.
ISO 27001 in progress
Information security management system in the gap-analysis phase, target date Q1 2027. Already in place today: code review on every change, secrets management with HashiCorp Vault, internal SBOM generation.
EU hosting and GDPR by design
Krafteq Cloud runs on servers in Germany (EU fallback available) — no US CLOUD Act risk. Data Processing Agreement (DPA) available as standard, encryption in transit and at rest.
Built by Senior Engineers
Every specialist brings at least 10 years of professional experience.
“A joinery business works with dimensions in millimetres and fittings from Blum or Hettich — no standard SaaS maps that cleanly. AI-assisted development has changed the rules: bespoke software that genuinely understands your cutting lists and workshop orders is now available at a fixed price for the first time. We build it for you — with code ownership, without a subscription trap, and with the rigour we owe enterprise clients.”
FAQFrequently asked questions
A different trade? See the trades hub.
krafteq also builds for plumbing, heating and HVAC businesses, electricians, painters, and roofers — as well as metalworkers, timber framers, tilers, landscapers, and further trades. The modules are proven; the adaptation to your workflows takes shape in the prototype.
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