For fabrication and machine shops
Built by a fabrication shop, for shops like it
KiwiDock started with KiwiMill, a 9-person fabrication shop that still runs on it today. If you build custom parts, models, or fabricated goods to order, this is the system built with your kind of work in mind from day one — not a generic CRM with your industry’s name bolted onto the marketing.
Every inbound job on one board — drag a card from quoted to won.
A parts list on every job, not a separate spreadsheet
Every deliverable can carry its own materials and parts list — track what’s needed, what’s been ordered, and what’s outstanding, without a second document living outside the system. Label it however your shop actually talks about it: “Model,” “Job,” “Build” — the term is yours to set.
Deliverables live on the job — the parts list stays with the work.
Deposits and staged billing for materials-heavy work
Fabrication work often means real money tied up in materials before a job ships. KiwiDock’s invoicing supports a percentage deposit up front and progress billing as the job moves — locked against the order so nothing gets double-billed, and no manual tracking of “what’s already been invoiced on this one.”
A deposit invoice — generated from the job, locked against the order.
What’s been billed, what’s still open — next to the job, not in a side spreadsheet.
Bill from the quote, not a second spreadsheet →
CAD files, quotes, and the job itself, in one place
Every opportunity has a place for customer-provided files and your own attachments alongside the quote and notes — the paperwork lives next to the work, not scattered across email threads and a shared drive nobody can find things in. When the quote wins, it becomes a project with the same customer and the same scope.
Quotes sit on the opportunity they belong to.
Won work shows up as a real project — same customer, same scope.
Shop floor, not just the front office
Check a job’s status, see what’s next, or pull up a customer’s history from your phone — built for people who spend their day away from a desk, not just the person doing the books. The day planner shows who’s on which job. The Gantt is there when a build has more than one moving part.
Who’s on what today — drop a job onto the week.
The same work on a timeline, when a job has more than one moving part.
Schedule and Gantt without a project-management degree →
Simple today, room to grow
Set up roles for how your shop actually runs — sales, shop floor, billing, management — each with their own access level. Start with what you need now; the rest is there when you grow into it, not a paywall you hit early.
Roles for how your shop actually runs — sales, shop floor, billing, management.
We still run our own shop on KiwiDock, every day. For the full walkthrough, see how KiwiDock works.