Standard software for your joinery business — bought, not rented
Line items in a spreadsheet, workshop orders on paper, installation appointments in your head? You are a joiner or cabinetmaker, not a software administrator. krafteq Handwerk is standard software for joinery and cabinetmaking — from the enquiry through site measurement, quote and workshop order to installation, e-invoicing and the export to your tax advisor. Bought once instead of rented monthly, in a dedicated installation for your business. Built in Leverkusen, for woodworking businesses across the Rhineland and all of Germany. We are currently rolling krafteq Handwerk out with the first businesses: you test it free of charge, receive an individual offer afterwards, and we set up your business together with you.
The installation arrives with the terms, units and templates of the joinery trade — not as an empty system.
Who this is forDoes this sound familiar?
krafteq Handwerk is built for joinery and cabinetmaking businesses with 5 to 50 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 the same dimensions three times
Measured at the customer, keyed into the quote, written out again for the workshop — the same data three times, in three programs. Somewhere along the way an error creeps in, and it only shows up at the saw.
The workshop asks about every order
Where are the fittings? Which veneer? Which dimensions apply now? Every morning the phone rings because the details are 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, millimetres. Back in the office you type up the figures, some sketches are illegible, sometimes connecting dimensions are missing. A second visit costs time and money.
Your subscription software cannot be changed
plancraft, ToolTime and HERO are solid software. But they run as one system for all customers at once — customer-specific changes are typically more limited in standardised multi-tenant operation, and the exact scope differs from vendor to vendor. And where the price hangs on seats, the monthly bill grows with it: plancraft bills each further office and mobile seat separately, HERO each further app licence, ToolTime tiers by team size (TEAM up to 5, MAX up to 10 employees) — as of Aug 2026.
You want to buy instead of rent
You pay monthly rent for software that leaves you with nothing in the end. With krafteq you buy a perpetual right of use and get your own installation — data in Germany, data export at any time, and operation in your own network if you want it.
FeaturesWhat krafteq Handwerk covers for joinery and cabinetmaking businesses
A job runs all the way through: enquiry, site measurement, quote, costing, workshop, installation, time tracking, e-invoice, accounting export. The installation arrives with the terms, units and templates of the joinery trade — not as an empty system.
Line items instead of a second list
What is being produced sits as hierarchical line items on the job — component, material, dimension, quantity, in the units of your workshop: millimetres, linear metres, pieces. Quote, workshop order and invoice all work from the same line items instead of you entering them three times.
Site measurement at the customer
Record dimensions on site — in the browser on tablet or smartphone, with photos per item. The measurement sits on the job and feeds the costing without retyping. Back at the office there is nothing to key in.
Catalogue, supplier prices and costing
Panel materials, fittings, glass, lacquer and veneer as catalogue items in the units of the trade. Supplier conditions come in via Datanorm, and costing uses a real surcharge structure per cost type. Stock levels and purchasing are deliberately not included.
Workshop orders and work sections
A project gets separate work sections — cutting, finishing, installation — each with its own status and its own time recording. The master craftsman sees the status of all jobs, the workshop sees its day view.
Delivery and installation appointments
From workshop completion through delivery to the installation appointment at the customer: appointments and crew sit in staff scheduling, the status on the job. Everyone sees the same picture instead of relying on word of mouth.
Measurement, defects and handover on site
Whatever should be captured at handover is handled through questionnaires — you define the fields. Defects are recorded on the job, with photo and description, and drive the rework.
Photo documentation of the finished work
Completed furniture, fitted kitchens, installed staircases — photos sit on the job and in the customer record, with comments in the site diary. Useful in the event of a complaint and as material for your website.
E-invoicing and billing
Interim, final and recurring invoices, XRechnung and ZUGFeRD, open items, dunning and reconciliation against your bank statement. Plus the DATEV export with the receipt package for your tax advisor.
ProductThis is what your joinery software looks like
Carcass, veneer match, concealed hinge, workshop journeyman hour — the terms are already in there. The screens are in German, the language of the product.
Open quotes, overdue invoices, running jobs and cash balance at a glance — the state of the business when you open the app.
The day view for office and site: today's activities and your own attendance with breaks.
Weather, crew size and incidents per working day, stored on the job — a late delivery is on record too.
Defects with severity, status and location per job — from a furniture edge to a plinth panel, tracked until fixed.
The measurement belongs to the job: site visit, date and customer, plus the calculated quantities per unit for scope and quote.
Quotes, invoices and reminders with recipient, status and amount in one list — from draft through released and paid to overdue.
Receipts and payments with posting suggestions, collected as the package for the tax adviser and exported per period.
Weekly planning with lanes for enquiries, jobs, teams and people — workshop and installation side by side.
The trade's article master with article number, unit and supplier — the basis for calculation and quoting.
Your joinery test instance — with your own data
We set up your test instance, configured for the joinery trade. You see on one of your own jobs whether it fits — usually within three working days, without a sales call.
- No subscription
- No sales call
- No obligation
How it worksYour own joinery installation in three steps
No sales process, no open consulting invoice. You see a running system with your own data before terms are discussed.
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Submit an enquiry
Describe your business briefly in the form — joinery or cabinetmaking, size, focus (furniture, interior fit-out, staircases, windows), what is currently causing trouble. It takes 5 minutes. Only the industry is required, everything else is optional.
No sales call, no sales pressure, no obligation.
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Your test instance
We set up your test instance — with the terms, units, wage groups and catalogue categories of the joinery trade — and send you the access, usually within three working days. You create a real job, from the measurement through to the installation date, and see whether it fits.
You judge a running system, not a plan.
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Quote and start
If it fits, you receive an individual written offer: a fixed-price perpetual licence for your business, plus running your installation — with krafteq as an annual service with the first year included, or self-hosted on your own server. We set up your business together with you. Fine-tuning after go-live is included; its scope is set out in your quote.
Pay once, use indefinitely. Whatever does not fit in the first months, we fine-tune.
What you receiveFour building blocks — in every quote
You buy the software. You rent the operation — or run it yourself. Those are two separate things and they stay separate. The concrete terms are set out in your quote, not on this page.
Fixed-price perpetual licence — one-off
You buy a perpetual right to use the software as delivered. Paid once, no monthly licence fee, no minimum term. Billed per business, not per user and not per workstation — the seats for workshop and installation crew are therefore included.
Your own installation per business
Your own database, your own domain, your own configuration — not a shared system with other businesses. That is precisely why a change for your business is possible at all. Data export at any time.
Operation as you prefer
Run by krafteq as an annual service — the first year is included, after which security updates, backups, monitoring and support run through it. Servers in Germany, GDPR data processing agreement. Or self-hosted on your server or at your IT provider. Or entirely offline in your own network — handy if there is no signal in the workshop anyway.
Fine-tuning and updates
All updates and security updates are included in the first year, as is fine-tuning after go-live within the agreed scope: whatever does not fit your workshop in the first months, we fine-tune. After that, updates run through maintenance — and without maintenance your version simply keeps running.
Comparisonkrafteq vs. plancraft, ToolTime, HERO & Co.
The established providers deliver solid software. The difference is not a feature list but the model behind it: how it is billed, what remains after a cancellation, and whether your business gets its own installation.
| krafteq Handwerk | plancraft / ToolTime / HERO | TAIFUN / Bosch OfficeOn | |
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| Billing | per business, one-off | monthly per plan — plancraft from 59.90 euros, HERO from 69 euros, ToolTime from 79 euros (net, entry tier, as of Aug 2026) | TAIFUN: purchase according to the vendor page, price on request, modular · Bosch OfficeOn: subscription from 49.99 euros/month, 12-month term |
| Perpetual right of use | Yes — perpetual licence | ends with the subscription (plancraft, ToolTime and HERO list subscription models on their pricing pages) | TAIFUN: purchase according to the vendor page · Bosch OfficeOn: ends with the subscription |
| Dedicated instance | Yes — own database, own domain | cloud operation at the vendor (per the vendors' own statements) | TAIFUN: own server possible according to the vendor · Bosch OfficeOn: cloud |
| Line items and measurement in one system | Built in — hierarchical line items in the units of the workshop, measurement on the same job | Generic position lists | Cross-trade |
| Workshop and installation | Separate work sections with their own status and time recording | settings within the standard product; the vendor states the actual scope | settings within the standard product; the vendor states the actual scope |
| Adaptation to your workflows | Switch areas off, rename processes and statuses, change settings — plus fine-tuning after go-live | settings within the standard product; the vendor states the actual scope | settings within the standard product; the vendor states the actual scope |
| Operation without internet | Possible — installation in your own network | not part of the offering per the vendors' own description (as of Aug 2026) | TAIFUN: own server possible according to the vendor · Bosch OfficeOn: cloud subscription |
| Location | Leverkusen (NRW), personal contact | Hamburg, Berlin, Hanover (registered offices per the imprint) | Various |
| Where the data sits | Servers in Germany — or your own server | cloud operation at the vendor (per the vendors' own statements) | TAIFUN: own server possible according to the vendor · Bosch OfficeOn: cloud |
Competitor price sources (regular prices, net, as of Aug 2026; promotions not included): plancraft price list, ToolTime price list, HERO price list, TAIFUN price page, Bosch OfficeOn price page — A model comparison without amounts: krafteq terms belong in the individual quote. The statements about the other providers refer to their publicly described subscription model, not to individual tariffs.
Instead of a subscription: your own joinery installation
Try krafteq Handwerk with your own data — your test instance, configured for the joinery trade. No sales call, no obligation — we just come back with one or two quick questions about your business.
- No subscription
- No sales call
- No obligation
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 build krafteq Handwerk to the same standards.
krafteq GmbH, Leverkusen
German company based in the Rhineland. A fixed, German-speaking contact in Germany — not a call centre. On-site meetings possible, fully remote equally so.
Security built into the process
Every change is reviewed, credentials are held in a secured vault, and every release is checked for known vulnerabilities.
Data in Germany, or in your own network
Run by krafteq on servers of European providers (Hetzner, OVHcloud or IONOS, depending on requirements) in Germany — data processing agreement (DPA) available as standard, with subprocessors and safeguards documented in the DPA and the technical and organisational measures, encryption in transit and at rest. Or self-hosted, or entirely without an internet connection.
Built by Senior Engineers
Every specialist brings at least 10 years of professional experience — and the software is a product that is developed further continuously, not a one-off build.
“A joinery business works in millimetres, with jobs that run through the workshop and out to installation. That does not call for a build project but for standard software that already reflects the daily work and can be set to your own terms. Bought instead of rented, in your own installation — and whatever does not fit in the first months, we fine-tune. You know fine-tuning: the piece stands, now it is made to fit.”
FAQFrequently asked questions
A different trade? See the trades hub.
krafteq Handwerk also runs in plumbing, heating and HVAC businesses, electrical contractors, painters and roofers — as well as further trades. The overview page shows the model, the scope and the comparison against the subscription providers.
View trades overviewWould you prefer to speak first?
Book a 30- to 60-minute initial consultation. You describe your joinery or cabinetmaking business, and we give an honest assessment — even if the answer is: an existing subscription product suits you better. No sales pitch, no obligation.
- No sales call
- No obligation
- 30–60 minutes