Keep a clear head across every job.
You came up doing the work. You built a name for it. You grew. Now the hard part isn’t any one job — it’s keeping a clear head across all of them at once, without the whole place living in one person’s head.
Built by a working sheet metal shop to run itself — orders on dockets, dockets to the stations, the whole shop moving. It runs every day.
The hard part isn’t any one job — it’s keeping a clear head across dozens at once.
A few questions a shop like yours should be able to answer in seconds:
- 1 How many hours of billable work did the team do each day last week?
- 2 Is there enough in the pipeline to keep everyone busy?
- 3 A client just rang — when’s their job done?
- 4 Someone broke their arm — how do you reassign their jobs, and what does that do to your delivery dates?
We built this to answer those — for our own shop.
Morris Sheetmetals is a working ~15-person sheet metal shop. Before DocketWorks it ran on paper folders and a whiteboard with handwritten job-number magnets — and the owner had almost no idea where the numbers stood until months later: how many quotes were going out, what share of the team’s hours actually got billed, whether the pipeline was full.
DocketWorks is the system that replaced the whiteboard. MSM runs on it every day. More on who built it →
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of the team’s hours, billed — known, not guessed
Before DocketWorks, MSM couldn’t have told you this figure. (Real number from MSM — coming.)
How it works, in 30 seconds.
A staff member fills in their timesheet.
That gets them paid — and puts that time against a job. One entry, both things done.
Someone raises a purchase order.
That orders the material — and puts the cost against a job. Again: one entry, both things.
Underneath: a board for every job, reports, scheduling, and it keeps your suppliers’ price lists up to date for you. See how it works →
It already fits a shop like yours.
DocketWorks is quick because it isn’t a build-your-own kit. It already knows how a shop like this runs — so there’s nothing to set up, no settings to fiddle with, and every field on the screen is there because the job needs it.
The honest other side: if your shop works in a fundamentally different way, a tool with more switches will suit you better — and we’d rather say so early than waste your time. More on who it’s for →
When I looked at WorkflowMax for my own shop, the dealbreaker was simple: I couldn’t enter a job into it faster than I could write it on paper. That’s the price a tool built to fit everyone tends to charge — and the one DocketWorks deliberately doesn’t.
Coming from a whiteboard, a spreadsheet, or Trello?
Most shops we work with aren’t switching from another job system — they’re coming off paper, a spreadsheet, Xero, or Trello. Here’s what changes.
$40 per staff member / month.
Everything in the box — no add-on modules. Works with Xero.
I own a sheet metal shop. I built DocketWorks to run it — and we do, every day. It’s solid enough now that other shops like ours can use it too.
Demo video coming
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See it for yourself — no call, no pitch.
Try the live demo, or grab a time to be walked through it.