Track commissions, materials, and customer revisions. Bit & Grain knows your trade because we're a furniture maker too.
Seth runs a one-person furniture shop in rural Vermont. Here is how a commissioned walnut dining table moves through Bit & Grain from the first conversation to delivery day.
The client wants a 96-inch walnut dining table with breadboard ends for ten people. Seth builds the estimate in Bit & Grain: walnut slab cost from his usual mill, finish supplies, hardware, and 40 hours of labor. He emails the estimate link. The client approves and pays a 50% deposit through Stripe the next morning. The commission is now in the queue.
Seth picks up 90 board feet of 8/4 walnut from his mill rep. He snaps the invoice in Grain AI chat when he gets back to the shop. The AI reads the board-foot quantity, species, and dollar amount, and assigns the cost to the dining table commission. The material cost is on the job before the first board hits the jointer.
Three weeks into the build the client asks to add a set of hand-cut mortise-and-tenon leg joints instead of the originally quoted floating tenons. Seth creates a change order in Bit & Grain: documents the change, adds 8 additional labor hours, and sends it through the client portal. The client approves it before Seth starts cutting the mortises. The change order locks in and will appear on the final invoice.
The table is done. Seth photographs it in the shop and shares the photos through the client portal before delivery. On delivery day, Seth marks the commission complete in Bit & Grain and sends the final invoice: original estimate plus the joinery change order. The client pays the balance via Stripe while Seth is still setting up the table in their dining room.
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