Machine Shops
CNC, manual, Swiss, screw machine. 3–15 people. The heartland customer.
Shop software without the BS. JobQuote IQ is the fastest way to quote a job, track it through the shop, and invoice it — without hiring a data-entry person to keep the software happy. Three screens. One job per screen. Done.
You’re a 3 to 15 person shop. You don’t need ISO modules, Gantt charts, or CAD feature recognition. You need five things, fast. Here’s what you’re dealing with instead.
Built for 30-person shops with a dedicated ops manager. Hundreds of menus, dozens of required fields, implementation measured in months. You’re a 5-person shop — you need software, not a second full-time employee to keep it happy.
Your quote spreadsheet was built in 2014 and has been copy-pasted 4,000 times since. Formulas break. Nobody remembers which tab is the good one. When you re-quote the same job for a repeat customer, you start from scratch every time.
ProShop is a great product. It’s also built for shops with 30 employees and a 3-month implementation budget. A 5-person shop running ProShop at $200/user hits $1,000/month before you’ve quoted your first job. That math doesn’t work.
QuickBooks is great at being QuickBooks. It’s not a quoting tool. So you’re quoting in Excel, invoicing in QuickBooks, and re-entering every line item between the two. Double entry. Every time. Forever.
Quote it. Track it. Invoice it. That’s the whole product. Anything more is a distraction. Anything less is Excel.
Enter the customer (or pick from the list). Add line items — material, labor hours, outside services. Tax auto-calculates. Click send. PDF lands in the customer’s inbox with your logo on it.
Customer accepts? Quote becomes a Job automatically. Status: New → In Progress → Complete → Shipped. That’s the whole workflow. No Gantt charts. No capacity planning. You already know what’s on the floor.
Click “invoice” on the completed job. Invoice is pre-populated from the accepted quote — no re-entry. Email it, record the payment, done. QuickBooks sync pushes the customer and invoice over for you.
No “enterprise-grade workflow optimization.” No AI hype. Just the tools a shop owner actually uses every day.
Tab through fields. Enter to save. Built to be keyboard-driven so you can crank through 20 quotes on a busy morning without touching the mouse.
Your logo. Your colors. Your shop name. Professional quote PDFs that look like they came from a real shop — because they did.
Send the quote straight from JobQuote IQ. Status updates as the customer opens it, accepts it, or declines it. No guessing, no follow-up emails asking “did you get this?”
One-way sync on invoice send. Customer pushes to QuickBooks. Invoice pushes to QuickBooks. No double-entry. Your bookkeeper stops hating you.
Your top customer re-orders the same bracket every quarter? One click duplicates last quarter’s quote with today’s pricing. Repeat work takes 30 seconds, not 30 minutes.
Owner, estimator, invoicer, admin person, spouse who helps on Saturdays — everyone uses it. No per-seat pricing. No trimming who gets access.
Same workflow — customer, quote, job, invoice. Different materials, different units, different rates. JobQuote IQ handles all four with the same three screens.
CNC, manual, Swiss, screw machine. 3–15 people. The heartland customer.
Laser, waterjet, press brake, weld, finish. Multiple operations per part.
TIG, MIG, stick. In-shop, mobile, on-site. Travel and per-diem built in.
Millwork, cabinetry, furniture. Board-foot pricing. Progress billing.
A 5-person shop on the Shop plan is $15.80 per user. The same shop on JobBoss is $750 a month. You do the math.
14-day free trial on every plan. No credit card required. Cancel anytime.
30 minutes to set up. 5 minutes per quote. Zero data-entry people. Zero credit card to start. Zero excuses.