Job Tracking, Quotes and a Website for Your Welding and Fabrication Shop

Mythex builds the job board, quote sheet and steel stock list a fabrication shop needs from a plain description of how your shop works. Ask for a quote calculator priced from today's steel costs, a board that follows each gate or staircase through cutting, coating and fitting, or a website that sells made-to-measure gates, then publish it with a real database.

Where a fabrication shop loses time and money

Work arrives as a phone photo of a broken hitch, a pencil sketch of a gate, or a structural engineer's drawing with a revision letter in the corner. Each job then passes through ordering, cutting, welding, a trip to the galvanizer or powder coater, and a fitting day, and the only record is a job sheet pinned to a board. Quotes go out with last month's steel price and get accepted three months later. The offcut rack holds plenty of usable box section and flat bar, but nobody knows the lengths, so a new length gets ordered for a small bracket. A shop this size needs a job record that carries the drawing, the material and the stage, and a stock list it can actually search.

Quotes built from steel sections and lengths at current supplier prices
Drawing revisions signed off before any steel is cut
Job stages that include time away at the galvanizer or coater
Offcuts logged with section and length so small jobs come from stock
Welders matched to jobs by coding and certification
Deposits taken before steel is ordered for bespoke work

What you can build for welding and fabrication shops

A steel quote sheet that expires before prices move

List each section, 50x50 box, 40x8 flat, 100x50 channel, with the length needed, and the sheet prices it from the supplier rates you keep updated. Add hours for cutting, welding, grinding and fitting, and price galvanizing or powder coating as their own lines. Every quote carries a validity date, two or three weeks by default, so an old price cannot be accepted after steel has gone up.

Build a quote app for my fabrication shop. I add steel sections with length and quantity and it prices them from a supplier price table I can update. Add labour hours for cutting, welding, finishing and fitting at my hourly rate, separate lines for galvanizing and powder coating, and a validity date that defaults to 14 days. Export each quote as a PDF.

An offcut rack you can search from your phone

Full lengths and offcuts are logged by section, size, grade and length. When a piece over a set length goes back in the rack, someone tags it and enters it in a few seconds. Before ordering for a bracket or a small repair, search for 'angle 50x50 over 800mm' and see what is already paid for. Wire, gas, discs and rods get reorder levels.

Make an inventory app for a welding shop. Track steel by section type (box, angle, flat bar, channel, plate), size, grade and length, including offcuts with their exact lengths and rack location. Let me search by section and minimum length, allocate stock to a job before it is cut, and set reorder levels for wire, gas, cutting discs and electrodes.

Drawing sign-off before the saw starts

Upload each drawing revision to the customer's job page. The builder or homeowner approves revision C with one click, and the portal records who approved it and when. They then follow the job through ordering, fabrication, coating and fitting, see a photo of the finished piece before it leaves for the coater, and download material certificates and weld records for structural work.

Build a customer portal for my fabrication shop. Each job has drawings with revision letters that the customer must approve before we cut, with the approver and date recorded. Show job status (ordering, fabrication, finishing, fitting), photos of the finished piece, and downloadable material certificates and weld records.

A shop schedule that waits for the coater

Assign welders by skill and coding, plan saw, plasma and press brake time alongside people, and book site fitting with the van and lifting gear. Fitting days for coated work can only be booked once the piece is marked back from the galvanizer, which stops a crew turning up at a house with nothing to fit.

Make a scheduling app for my fabrication shop. Assign welders to jobs by skill and certification, book machine time on the saw, plasma cutter and bender, and schedule site fitting with a van and lifting equipment. Block fitting dates for coated jobs until the piece is marked back from the galvanizer or powder coater.

A website split by the work you actually do

Separate galleries for gates and railings, staircases, structural steel and machinery repair, because a farmer and an architect are looking for different proof. Say whether you design, work from drawings, or both, list your finishes, and give mobile welding its own page. The enquiry form takes photos and drawing files with rough dimensions.

Make a website for my welding and fabrication shop with galleries for gates and railings, staircases, structural steel and repairs, a mobile welding page for farms and factories, a finishes section (galvanizing, powder coating), and an enquiry form that accepts photos, sketches and PDF drawings with rough dimensions.

Quoted hours against real hours, by job type

Log the hours on each job and compare them with the quote. The dashboard shows which job types overrun, often staircases and complex railings, along with jobs stuck waiting on material or coating, and revenue split between custom work, structural and repairs.

Build a dashboard for my fabrication shop showing quoted versus actual labour hours by job type, jobs waiting on material or coating, revenue split between custom metalwork, structural steel and repairs, and steel cost per kilo over time.

From the job board to an app

Start with the jobs you have open today. Put each one in with its customer, drawing, material list, due date and stage, and use the app as the board for two weeks before adding anything else. Then add the offcut list, because it pays back fastest. Quotes come next, using the same material table, so a quote that is accepted becomes a job without retyping. Customer logins and dashboards can wait until the core record is trusted on the shop floor.

Week one: job list with stages and drawings
Week two: steel and offcut stock
Then: quotes, deposits and the customer portal

Deposits on bespoke work

A gate built for one driveway is worth scrap to anyone else. Have the quote state the deposit and have the app send a deposit invoice when the customer accepts, so steel is only ordered after it is paid. Larger structural jobs can carry stage invoices, and mobile repairs a callout and mileage charge.

Questions

Can I track steel offcuts?

Yes. Ask for an inventory that logs each offcut by section, size and length, with its rack location. You can search for a piece long enough for a job before ordering new steel.

Can customers approve drawings online?

Yes. A customer portal can show each drawing revision and record who approved it and when. That gives you a signed record of dimensions before anything is cut.

Can quotes use current steel prices?

The quote app prices from a supplier price table you keep up to date. Mythex does not pull live steel prices from your supplier automatically, but updating the table changes every new quote.

Can I use it on a tablet in the workshop?

Yes. The app works in any browser, so a tablet on the bench or a phone in the van both work. On Pro you can also turn it into Android and iPhone apps that open your published app.

Do I need to code, and what does it cost?

You describe the app in plain words and change it by chatting, no code needed. Free needs no card and gives daily credits; Pro is $25/month and adds code editing, export and a custom domain.

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