The tools that run in your browser.
Estimating Tool
Line-item materials, labour and overheads. Calculates cost, quote price and gross margin in real time using the correct formula.
Open calculator →Job Costing
Actual vs quoted. See your real margin on every job and identify where the money is going.
Open calculator →Markup vs Margin
The calculator that shows what confusing markup with margin is actually costing you on every job.
Open calculator →CNC ROI Calculator
Does the CNC investment actually stack up for your workshop? Payback period, labour savings, break-even volume.
Open calculator →Shop Rate Calculator
Your true hourly rate — including overheads, downtime, leave loading and target profit. Not a guess.
Open calculator →Every major cabinet software reviewed. Independently.
Cabinet Vision, Microvellum, Mozaik, ERP platforms and CAD/CAM tools — reviewed without commercial influence. Commercial relationships never change editorial conclusions.
CNC, edgebanders, beam saws — real buying guidance.
When buying a CNC actually makes your workshop worse. What a $180k edgebander gets you that an $80k one doesn't. The real payback calculation, not the showroom version.
The Australian joinery benchmark.
Genuinely useful once we have enough data.
We're building the AU joinery industry dataset from the ground up. Anonymous submissions. Real data from real workshops. We need 100+ submissions before publishing serious comparative numbers — we won't publish until the data is statistically meaningful.
Eventually: "Australian joinery shops with 6–10 employees averaged 31.4% gross margin in 2026." That's the goal. We're not there yet.
Reads that make your workshop more money.
joinery.io Australia.
AU-specific content: labour rates, pricing benchmarks, licensing by state, suppliers and jobs. Built for the Australian market.
Australia — Live
Labour rates, pricing benchmarks, licensing, GST, superannuation, suppliers and jobs — all specific to the Australian market in AUD.
Open AU section →New Zealand
NZD pricing, LBP licensing, KiwiSaver — coming next.
Coming soonThe Joinery Brief — AU
Monthly newsletter for Australian joinery and cabinetmaking businesses. Industry intelligence, new tools and business ideas. No fluff.
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