Job shop software that knows what every part actually cost

One job, front door to final invoice

Here's a job's day in the life inside FullVue — the same loop your shop already runs, minus the re-keying.

Quote, signature, job, actuals, invoice. Because every step lands on the same record, "did we make money on that one?" becomes a lookup instead of an argument.

• Quote it with real numbers. Build a structured quote with material, machine time, and labor as their own lines — so the price is built from costs, not from what you charged last time and hoped.
• The customer signs from a link. Send a quote link they open on their phone and e-sign. No customer login. No DocuSign subscription on your end.
• The job creates itself. The moment the quote is signed, FullVue turns it into a job with the tasks and materials carried over. Nobody re-types a traveler.
• The floor logs the work. Operators log time and materials against the job as it moves — setup, run time, the extra plate you had to shear when the first one warped.
• Steel gets bought on the record. Raise a purchase order for the material, receive it, and see the PO, the receipt, and the vendor's bill linked on one screen, tied back to the job.
• You invoice the actuals. Draft the invoice straight from logged job data, adjust lines where reality differed, email the PDF and watch for the read — then send invoices and bills to QuickBooks Online so the books stay current without double entry.

Where job shops leak margin

Talk to owners on the machining forums and the same four leaks come up, in almost the same words. Fabrication job costing isn't a report you run in April — it's plugging these while the job is still on the floor.

• The $20-a-part surprise. You book a month of work, ship it, and find out at the end you were effectively taping a twenty to every part that went out the door. Quote-vs-actuals on each job shows the drift while the run is live — when you can still fix the price on the next release.
• The handwritten-traveler tax. Somebody spends evenings copying paper job tickets into QuickBooks. When the floor logs straight to the job, the invoice is already built — and it pushes to QuickBooks Online instead of being typed twice.
• The two-hour time-card morning. Reconciling punches by hand costs someone half a morning, every morning. Attendance is a time clock plus staff scheduling that produces payroll-ready reports your bookkeeper or payroll provider runs with. It doesn't process payroll — and we won't tell you it does.
• Buying steel you already own. Low-volume, high-mix shops pile up drops and remnants nobody tracked, then buy fresh plate for a job the rack could have covered. Inventory counts tie into jobs, a low-stock widget flags what's actually short, and a purchase-request queue turns reorders into decisions instead of panic buys.

The module checklist for a fab or machine shop

Most machine shop software makes you swallow the whole platform. FullVue is modular — here's the set job shops actually run, mapped to the need. Start with Jobs and Sales; add the rest when the team trusts the data. Base prices for every module and bundle are public on /pricing.

• Job costing and travelers → Jobs (Core). One record per job: time, materials, extras, and cost-sheet views for margin.
• Quoting and signatures → Sales. Structured quotes, e-sign links with no customer login, and jobs auto-created on signature.
• Material and consumables → Purchasing & Inventory. POs, receiving, and vendor bills on one screen; flat single-level assembly BOMs for weldments and kits; a low-stock widget feeding a purchase-request queue.
• Time clock and scheduling → Attendance. Punches, week rosters, shift swaps, PTO accruals, and payroll-ready exports for your payroll provider.
• Walk-in and will-call sales → Counter (POS). Barcode scan-to-cart at the counter, in the same system as your jobs.
• Coolants, gases, and consumables compliance → SDS. A searchable, tag-organized safety-data-sheet library instead of the binder nobody updates.

How we're different — the honest version

No superlatives, just the things we'd want to know if we were buying.

• Priced by crew size, not per seat. Pricing steps in five-employee brackets — a shop in the 10-employee bracket runs about $242/mo for the field-service bundle on annual billing (about $433/mo for everything; month-to-month adds 12.5%). Hiring one more hand doesn't add a license line item.
• Support from the builders. Questions are answered by the people who built it — replies within one business day. No tier-one script.
• Proof, not a logo wall. A 27-person CNC cutting-table manufacturer has run day-to-day operations on FullVue since 2023 — quoting, jobs, purchasing, invoicing.
• Veteran-owned, built in Appleton, Wisconsin. We'd rather be clear than clever, and we'd rather under-promise than walk a claim back.

See it with your own workflow

Tell us how you quote, run work, and bill today — we'll walk the same loop through FullVue and you can judge the fit yourself.