Stacked drawer fronts
One panel off the saw, four fronts after it. A deep drawer joins the set as well: two fronts of 178 over one of 358 make a panel of 725.
Cutting optimisation · Cabinet creation · Quoting
Web Elements turns a kitchen design into a priced quotation, a rip-first cutting plan, labelled panels and a production job, all from the same cabinet rules. Nothing is typed twice.
14 days of the whole system, free. No card needed.
One chain
A design becomes a quotation. An accepted quotation becomes a job. A job becomes a cutting plan, labels and a stock order. Nobody re-keys a number on the way.
Build units from your own catalogue, or import a Winner design.
Priced from your price list, in groups, with a summary.
One click makes the job and freezes its payment terms.
A snapshot of what the job is made of, checked by gates.
Rip-first plans with every cut numbered, the grain kept together.
Labels in the order the parts leave the saw.
Reserve, issue and reorder from a live ledger.
Loading, delivery and installation. On the way.
01 — Cabinet creation
Teach Web Elements how your workshop builds: a frame, the components it is made of and the rules for every board. It sizes a whole range from that. Change a rule once and it tells you how many units it touches before anything moves.
| Board | Rule | Cut size |
|---|
Illustrative rules for a 720 high, 560 deep floor unit in 16 mm board. Every company sets its own. Boards are rounded up to the next whole millimetre, fronts down.
02 — Cutting optimiser
Boards are cut rip first, the way a sliding-table saw is used. Every first cut runs the full length of the board. Each strip is cross-cut into pieces, and a piece is ripped once more where narrower parts lie side by side. Three stages, and no more.
12.9% of the boards bought were waste, against 19.6% for the earlier optimiser. The benchmark is 11 712 parts, taken from real cutting lists and from kitchens composed of real units. It is our own measurement, not an industry standard, and the same list always gives the same plan.
03 — Cut afterwards
Four drawer fronts cut from wherever they fell on a sheet never quite match. Tick one box on a scheme and every unit built on it cuts its stacked drawer fronts as one panel, so the grain runs on from the top drawer to the bottom one, as it would on a solid board. The saw cuts the panel. The fronts are cut from it afterwards.
Four labels for set C, in the order the fronts are cut from it
One panel off the saw, four fronts after it. A deep drawer joins the set as well: two fronts of 178 over one of 358 make a panel of 725.
A corner's base and top come off the saw square and are cut to their notch or their 45 afterwards, then edged on the front the cut leaves. An end unit's 45 is drawn the same way.
The hole is the door less the model's two figures, in the middle of it, drawn in dots on the door it is cut from. It is not edged, and the door keeps a row of its own on the list.
04 — Catalogues and prices
Our own staff keep the catalogues of the suppliers South African workshops buy from. Switch on the ones you buy from, take them whole or only the ranges you use, and price them the way your merchant does. From there the price list works out what every unit costs, in every price group, once, and keeps it.
Every colour, finish, thickness and sheet the board makers list. Choose the colour, then its finish.
Tapes in every size the suppliers make, each colour knowing which boards it matches.
Hinges, runners, lift systems and fittings by the thousand, at the list price less your discount.
A door maker's styles and colour ranges, priced by you per square metre, for the doors you buy in.
| Unit | Plain colours | Woodgrains | Super matt |
|---|---|---|---|
| F600Floor unit, 1 door | R 2 180 | R 2 310 | R 2 480 |
| F6004DFloor unit, 4 drawers | R 4 320 | R 4 590 | R 4 960 |
| MW800Wall unit, 2 doors | R 1 890 | R 1 990 | R 2 140 |
| FC900Floor corner unit | R 3 650 | R 3 870 | R 4 150 |
Sample figures. Every company sets its own prices, markups and charges.
05 — Quoting and Winner import Winner import: Enterprise
Winner is where a kitchen is designed. Web Elements is where it is priced, made and called by your own codes. Drop the export in, check what it found, confirm. The quotation and its cutting list are made in one go.
| Position | Quantity | Item Code | Width | Height | Depth | ItemGroup Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 3 | F600 | 600 | 720 | 560 | Kitchen |
| 1.1 | 3 | 718X596 | 596 | 718 | Unit fronts | |
| 2.0 | 1 | F6004D | 600 | 720 | 460 | Kitchen |
| 3.0 | 2 | MW800 | 800 | 720 | 300 | Kitchen |
| 4.0 | 1 | FC900 | 900 | 720 | 900 | Kitchen |
| 5.0 | 1 | DW600 | 600 | 820 | 560 | Electrical equipment |
| 9.0 | 1 | MT/SP | 600 | 2120 | 16 | Covering panels |
Columns are found by their headings, in any order, with any separator. Whatever else the export holds is passed over.
Sample figures, to show the layout.
Each unit is matched by its code to one of yours, and your unit is what is cut. Drawn or rebuilt at another size, the quotation gets its own copy made at Winner's size. Winner's fronts are compared and any difference is a note.
Right-click a line Winner draws and you do not make, a dishwasher or an oven, and leave it off. Or quote a plain grocery as your own with internal drawers. This time only, or always by its code.
A side, a base or a top Winner veneers is cut from the front colour, and every board across it is sized again by that board's thickness. Kick plates and ceiling fillers come in as your own, as long as the board.
A customer you do not have yet is added as a client when you confirm. Anything the file leaves open, the client, the model, the board the fronts are cut from, is chosen on the review page, not guessed.
The model, the front colour and its edging, the carcass colour and its edging, and the backing, chosen in one window, with a small kitchen drawn in three dimensions in the colours you pick.
Kitchen, Bedroom cupboards, Tiling, Plumbing, or groups of your own. Side panels, kick plates and other work stand on lines of their own, in the right section, and the printout ends on a summary of them all.
Every unit takes its price from your own price list (see catalogues and prices). A Winner design does too: the hinges and runners Winner lists under a unit are part of its price, and Winner's own amount stands in only where your list has none.
06 — Production Enterprise
When the client agrees, one click makes the production job and freezes its payment terms. Each step towards the saw is guarded by gates you set to Off, Warn or Block.
A Manager can override a Block with a reason of ten characters. It is kept, logged and flagged red on the board. The Fact gates cannot be overridden: a job with no board has nothing to cut.
Terms are typed on the quotation, or taken from a template of yours: a share or a fixed amount, due on acceptance, before production, on delivery, or 30 days after it for an account. A payment is taken against them in order, with nobody allocating it. A wrong one is voided with a reason, never deleted.
Eight stages, from ordering materials to installation, each with the days it takes and whether you use it. Delivery stands on the agreed date, each stage ends the working day before the next, and one day of slack is kept. A stage that runs late asks why.
A proforma invoice for each payment that falls due and a receipt for each one paid, printed with your logo from the job's page. Your own accounts issue the tax invoice, and its number is kept on the payment.
Units to build, every unit with its boards, fronts and fittings to tick. A store list to sign, the components counted by size off the saw, a drilling list, a progress plan and the bill of materials, printed or saved as a PDF.
A panel is named by its component's pattern, B868x544. A side is named by what is drilled into it, so every unit of a range shares its side drillings, and a left and right side drilled alike are one file the machine mirrors.
Where a model buys its doors from a door maker, the quotation names the colour and the job prints the doors to order: each size with how many and their square metres, under the style and the colour.
07 — Stock and purchasing Enterprise
Stock is a ledger. Every receipt, issue, count and return is a signed row, and what is on hand is worked out from it, never typed over. A job reserves its boards when it is released, never when it is only quoted.
Sample figures. The shortfall is the reserved and planned needs and the level you keep, less the shelf and what is on order.
08 — Labels and printouts
A label is printed for every part of the cutting plan, to stick on as it comes off the saw. A panel cut six times gives six labels. They come strip by strip, so the stack on the bench follows the plan on the wall.
Point the camera at the QR code on the label of the unit you have built.
Take a photo of the labelFloor unit, four drawers
Press when the unit is put together and ready for the next step.
09 — The floor's phone app Enterprise
Every unit leaves the bench with a label and a QR code on it. A worker points a phone at the label, the unit comes up, and one big button marks it built. The job's office sees it the moment it is pressed.
10 — Built to be trusted
A workshop runs on numbers that stay put. These are the rules the whole system is built around.
A component is shared by many units. Before a change is saved it says 12 units are built with this component and will be updated.
You confirm, and the component and its units change together, or not at all.
Once a quotation is out, only a draft can be changed. A line keeps its price until you price it again: when the price list has moved, the quotation says how many units it would now price differently. The payment terms are frozen the day it is accepted.
What a job is made of is frozen when it is prepared. Refresh it from the catalogue until cutting starts. After that, a change is a new job and never an unlock.
A payment is voided with a reason and entered again. A stock movement is taken back by a row of its own. Clients, materials and components are switched off, never deleted.
Boards, edging, groove depth, front gaps, hinge types and sets, how boards are cut, charges and markups live on Workshop Defaults. Change one and a bar shows how many units are older than the change, then updates them all in one go.
Every screen and every query is scoped to your company. Admin, Manager, Estimator and Operator decide who may accept, hold, cancel or void, and the Operator never sees the money.
11 — Plans
Every company starts with 14 days of the whole system, free and with no card. Then choose the plan that fits the workshop. Moving between them keeps everything you have made.
For a workshop that quotes, builds its own units and cuts them.
5 seats · R16 500 a year
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For the whole workshop, from a Winner design to a finished, paid job.
20 seats · R27 500 a year
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Prices are in South African Rand, before VAT. A year is eleven months of the monthly price. Seats are the people who can sign in. The 14 days are the Enterprise plan, whichever you choose after them.
What is next
Everything above works today. These are planned and not yet built, so you can see where the system is going before you commit to it.
Marking a unit built is done. Next: a unit's boards, fronts and fittings to tick, checklists at each stage, and drilling runs against the drilling list.
A loading list, a delivery note signed by the client and by whoever offloads, short and damaged goods with photos, snags and handover.
Answer a few questions about how your workshop builds, and start with whole ranges of units already sized your way, instead of setting them up yourself.
Late jobs by cause, a calendar of stages, notifications and an export to your accounts.
Keep leftovers above a size on the shelf and cut from them first.
Match Winner's hardware and front codes to your own, so those lines can be ordered as well.
Questions
No. Type a cutting list, import one from Excel or CSV, or build and quote units from your own catalogue. Winner is one more way in, for workshops that design their kitchens in it, and importing a Winner design is part of the Enterprise plan.
Which units, how many and how each stands: its size, hinge side, direction and veneering, and whether it was rebuilt. What each unit is made of, what it costs and what it is called are your own. Winner's descriptions and amounts are not needed.
You set the saw on Workshop Defaults: rip first or least waste, which edge the first strip comes off, the blade, the trim, the narrowest piece that can fall free, the longest rip and how far the rip fence reaches. A plan that cannot be cut is refused with the setting to change. It is never put in front of the workshop.
Yes. Tick it on a scheme and every unit built on it cuts its stacked drawer fronts as one panel when the fronts' board has grain. The panel is placed on the sheet like any part, and its fronts, drawn in dots, are cut from it afterwards. Each front gets its own label, and a job needs the same edging either way.
From what each is made of: its boards, edging, fronts and fittings at your own prices, your charges and your markup, worked out once for every price group of every model and kept as a price list. A quotation takes its price from that list. When a price changes, the list says which prices are older and updates them when you say so.
A quotation keeps its prices until you price it again. Before a component is saved, it tells you how many units are built with it. A scheme, an assembly, a fitting set and Workshop Defaults each show how many units are older than their last change, and update them when you say so.
There are four roles today: Admin, Manager, Estimator and Operator. Managers and Admins hold, cancel and void, and only they see what a price is made of. The Operator sees no money, and a worker can be signed in on a phone without an e-mail address. Roles you define yourself are planned for both plans.
Professional quotes, builds units, makes cutting lists, optimises them and prints the labels, for 5 people. Enterprise adds the Winner import and everything from accepting a quotation onward: production jobs with gates, stages, payments and a board, stock and purchasing, and the floor's phone app, for 20 people.
Yes. A new company has 14 days of the whole system, which is the Enterprise plan, with no card. When the 14 days are over the account is locked until you choose Professional or Enterprise, and nothing you made is lost. There is no free plan after that.
It is our own benchmark: 134 cutting jobs and 11 712 parts, from real cutting lists and from kitchens composed of real units, measured against our earlier optimiser. Your waste depends on your parts and your saw. Try your own list in the 14-day trial and see.
Build a unit, type a cutting list, press Optimise and watch the sheets fill. Then quote it and take it through production. No card needed, and nothing you make is lost when you choose a plan.