DocketWorks

How it works

Underneath, it’s a board for every job, with timesheets and purchase orders wired straight into the jobs — plus quoting, reports and scheduling. Here’s the shape of it.

What it looks like

A board, much like Trello’s — every job is a card you can see at a glance, moving through the stages of your shop. Open a card and there are tabs for the things that job needs: drawings, costs, the timesheet entries against it, the lot.

The DocketWorks job board — columns of job cards, with tabs for drawings and more

Keeping every job moving

This is the strongest part of the system. Every job has a stage and a due date; you can see the whole shop’s worth of work in one view, spot what’s slipping, and reassign a job to someone else in a couple of clicks — and see straight away what that does to your delivery dates.

When someone’s off sick or on leave, the work doesn’t live in their head — it’s on the board.

A job card on the board, showing its stage, due date, and who it’s assigned to

Timesheets and purchase orders, wired into the jobs

When a staff member fills in their timesheet, it does two things at once: it gets them paid, and it puts that time against a job. No double entry, no “I’ll reconcile it later”.

Same with a purchase order: raising it orders the material and puts the cost against the job it’s for. So at any moment you can see what a job has actually cost you in hours and materials — not what you guessed it would.

A timesheet entry in DocketWorks, with the time going against a job

Quoting

It knows what materials cost — it keeps your suppliers’ price lists up to date for you, so a quote starts from real numbers. There’s a chatbot to help you draft one, you can refine a quote and see its old versions, and there’s a counter for how many days a quote’s been sitting waiting on the customer.

Solid, and it does the job — it’s the part we’re still sharpening.

Building a quote in DocketWorks, with material prices pulled in automatically

Reports and scheduling

The picture a whiteboard never gave you: how your billable hours are trending day to day and week to week, how many quotes you’re winning, what share of the team’s time actually gets billed, and whether the pipeline’s full enough to keep everyone busy.

DocketWorks reports — billable-hours trends, quote acceptance, pipeline
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A real, working system — no call, no pitch.