Key takeaways
- Quotes are assembled from estimates and markup.
- Job cost includes consumables, not just steel.
- Stock movements keep the rack honest.
- Margin per job informs the next quote.
A welding shop's pricing is usually a number the owner arrives at by looking at the drawing and thinking about the last similar job. It is often close and occasionally disastrous, and the shop rarely finds out which because nobody adds up the steel, the days and the rods afterwards. WeldDesk PH makes the quote a calculation and the job a cost record.
A quote with parts
A quote holds a material estimate, a labour estimate and a markup percent, and the quoted amount follows from the three.
When a customer negotiates, the shop can see whether the room is in the markup or whether the steel take-off was optimistic.
Cost from three places
Job cost gathers the steel issued on material lines, the welder days at their daily rates, and the consumables logged, meaning rods, discs, primer and gas.
Consumables are the cost most often ignored in this trade and routinely run into thousands of pesos on a single gate.
Steel that agrees with the yard
Every material line should have a matching stock movement of type Job Use, so on hand reflects what is actually in the rack.
Items at or below reorder level are visible before a job stops halfway for want of two lengths of tubular.
Margin per job, before the next quote
Gross margin and margin percent sit on the finished job, which turns each completed job into evidence for the next quotation.
A shop that learns its grills work runs at forty percent and its structural work at twenty-two has learned which jobs to chase.
Review exceptions every week
Resolve duplicate IDs, missing links, overdue balances, negative amounts, and open operational items in CHECKS before using the dashboard for decisions.
WeldDesk PH Microsoft Excel Edition is designed for Microsoft Excel 2019 or newer on Windows or macOS.
No structural engineering design or load calculation, no welding procedure or welder certification records, no steel mill test certificates, no CAD or cutting-list generation, and no BIR sales reporting.
Frequently asked questions
What if a rush job has no quote?
Open the job without a quote ID and enter the contract amount agreed. It still gets costed and still shows its margin.
Should the owner's own labour be recorded?
Yes, as a labour line at a daily rate. Otherwise the margin on every job is overstated by exactly the value of the owner's time.
Does it produce cutting lists?
No. It records the material lines you issued and their cost. The take-off and cutting plan stay on your own drawings.
Does this replace official records?
No. No structural engineering design or load calculation, no welding procedure or welder certification records, no steel mill test certificates, no CAD or cutting-list generation, and no BIR sales reporting.
