Client drawings
Have client drawings? Drop in the PDF.
Upload the drawing set, review the project details, then approve the price and send to your client.
PDF
Review
Quote
Estimating software for Australian cabinetmakers
Automated quoting & shop drawing
Are you tired of endless back and forth and countless drawing revisions? With JOINA you can update your drawings in seconds! So simple anyone can do it! With live pricing updates you can see how the changes affect your quote.
Workflow
Two ways to quote fast with JOINA.
Whether the client sends drawings or you are building the job from scratch, JOINA will create accurate quotes from your overheads everytime.
Build from scratch
Building from scratch? Drop in cabinets.
Simply drag cabinets into place, and Joina builds the shop drawing and quote live as the layout takes shape.
Layout
Finishes
Quote
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
Pricing engine
Your suppliers, your overheads = profitable quotes.
Starting with a large Australian supplier pricing library that is maintained and kept up to date by us. JOINA's smart calculator solves the hardest part of estimating by combining your overheads and labour rates to find the actual costs of any project, removing doubt and guesswork so you can sleep at night knowing you will not lose on the job.
Most traditional software takes months to configure, is complicated to understand, and takes trade skills to operate. Joina is designed so admin assistants or non-qualified staff can use it easily. It grows with your organisation and lets you add or update your own prices as your costs and business evolve.
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
Commercial reality
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