Drop in the PDF
Start with the client's drawings. Joina reads the job and builds a quote-ready starting point.
Estimating software for Australian cabinetmakers
Quote faster. Price right. Hit your margin.
Most cabinet shops are underquoting and don't know it. As you drop in cabinets, Joina builds the quote automatically — materials, labour, overheads — and protects your margin.
Automated
from client drawing to priced quote
Every cost
materials, labour, waste, overheads, GST
Clean output
quote PDF and shop drawings from your data
Workflow
From client drawing to priced quote in one clean run.
Joina does not try to replace your trade judgement. It gets the repeat work out of the way so you can check the job, price it, and move.
Review extracted info
Check the detected zones, runs, cabinet counts, materials, hardware, and job notes before the number is final.
Price from your data
Loaded supplier pricing, your own updates, labour, waste, overheads, margin, and GST roll into the quote from the automated job data.
Send the pack
Export the client quote PDF and shop drawing pack using your rates, suppliers, overheads, margin, and approved settings.
Pricing engine
Loaded supplier pricing, real overheads, profitable quotes.
Starting with a large Australian supplier pricing library alongside a smart overhead and your labour rates with Joina's smart calculator, solves the hardest part of estimating: "knowing the actual costs" and removes the "guesstimate" "She'll be right" methodology.
Most traditional software takes months to configure. Joina extracts your exact overheads during onboarding, comes loaded with supplier pricing you can quote from day one, and lets you add or update your own prices as your library changes.
Shop drawing output
Instant shop drawings you can send with your quote.
Once the job is shaped in the automated build workflow, Joina generates clear shop drawings with elevations, sections, dimensions, labels, cutlists, nesting previews, and build details tied back to the same quote record.
Automated drawing
Kitchen elevation + section
Nesting and cutlists
Instant visual nesting and cutlists to help estimate material required and purchasing
See sheet utilisation, parts, edging, hinge cups, shelf pin holes, and machining detail before the job moves into ordering or production.
Nesting
App screenshot with hinge cups and shelf pins
Cutlist
Parts, edging, and machining
Custom shop rates
Your labour, overheads, and margin drive the quote.
Joina is set up around your shop's own numbers: direct labour, assembly, install, shop rate, overhead recovery, and target margin. Every quote carries those individual calculations through the job instead of hiding them inside a generic rate.
Labour
CNC, assembly, install
Overheads
Recovered from your rates
Audit
Line-by-line price build-up
Property lookup
Site address to factory distance, priced into the job.
Joina can look up the project address, confirm the matched site, compare it with the factory address from your branding settings, and feed the distance into the delivery calculation.
Lookup
Matched site address
Distance
Factory to project
Quote
Delivery cost line
Property Profile
Matched
Project address
42 James Street, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006
Street number match confirmed against geocoder.
Distance estimate
18.4 km
Factory source
Branding address
Access
Moderate
Vehicle
Small truck / van
Delivery distance rate
18.4 km × $3.50/km
$64.40 ex GST
Handling
12 cabinets × $20/cab
$240.00 ex GST
Delivery + handling
$304.40 ex GST
Calculation workbook
Install fixings + sealants
Ex GST
Workbook row
Basis
Rate
Total
Cabinet construction screws
168 screws from cabinet count
$95 / 500 box = $0.19 ea
$31.92
Installation screw pack
24 screws from install allowance
$95 / 500 box = $0.19 ea
$4.56
Installation caulking
8.40 LM from elevation width
$6.50/LM + 0.03h labour
$84.84
Screws + caulking
Library costs carried into quote workings
$120/hr install labour basis
$121.32
Source
Fixings & Fasteners
Source
Adhesives & Sealants
Audit
Advanced quote notes
Workbook costing
The small consumables stay in the number.
Screws, caulking, packers, adhesives, and other workbook rows are priced from the same library as the bigger materials. Joina can show how each allowance was built, so install consumables do not quietly disappear from the quote.
Screws
Pack cost split to each unit
Caulking
LM rate plus install labour
Trace
Every row visible in workings
Product
Everything needed to get the quote out cleanly.
Joina keeps the quoting run practical: start with the drawing, count the real costs, protect the margin, then send the pack.
PDF in
Start with client drawings instead of a blank spreadsheet.
Cabinet job built
Use the automated build workflow for zones, runs, materials, hardware, and labour.
Costs visible
Track material, waste, labour, overheads, margin, and GST.
Outputs ready
Send quote PDFs, shop drawings, cutlists, and nesting previews from the built job data.
Commercial signal
Quote capacity without hiring another estimator.
Drag the volume to feel the shape of the upside. The numbers are deliberately conservative: fewer repeat inputs, fewer manual takeoff passes, fewer late quote rebuilds.
Quotes per month
18
Estimator hours freed
54
Annual capacity unlocked
$324k
Built for Aussie cabinet shops