Business Type

A Crew of 3-5

Sound like you?

You've got a solid crew and steady work coming in. The challenge now is keeping everyone coordinated, quoting consistently, and knowing which jobs actually make money.

Your Day

You're pricing up a big extension job. Instead of guessing material costs, you pull up A.X.E.L's materials catalogue with your actual supplier prices. The quote includes labour rates that match what you actually charge (not what you think you charge). When you send it, the customer can accept it with one click. No back-and-forth, no printing, no chasing.

A Day With A.X.E.L

See how A.X.E.L fits naturally into your routine — morning, midday, and evening.

Morning

8:00 AM: A.X.E.L's dashboard shows you everything at a glance: three active jobs, two quotes pending customer approval, and one invoice overdue (you make a note to chase that later). Your crew's calendars are full for the week, but you can see exactly who's where and what materials they'll need. No more wondering if someone's going to show up to a job without the right gear.

Midday

12:30 PM: Customer calls about the kitchen quote you sent yesterday — wants to add a breakfast bar. You pull up the materials catalogue, find your supplier's breakfast bar prices (updated last month), add it to the existing quote, and send the revised version. Customer approves it while you're still on the phone. The job goes straight into the schedule, materials get added to this week's supplier order.

Evening

7:20 PM: End-of-day review time. A.X.E.L shows you that the bathroom job cost more in materials than expected (note to self: check those tile prices), but the office refit came in bang on budget and made good profit. You can see which jobs are actually making money versus which ones just keep everyone busy. Next month, you'll price bathrooms differently.

Features That Matter To You

These features are designed specifically for businesses like yours.

Profit & Loss Reports

See which jobs made money and which didn't. Track materials, labour, and overhead per project.

Being busy isn't the same as being profitable. A.X.E.L shows you the real numbers per job so you can stop taking work that barely pays the bills and focus on the stuff that actually grows the business.

Materials Catalogue

Your supplier prices in one place. Build accurate quotes using real costs, not guesswork.

No more losing money because you quoted last year's prices or forgot about delivery charges. Your actual costs are in the system, so your quotes reflect reality instead of wishful thinking.

Professional Quotes

Consistent pricing across all team members. Templates ensure you never miss a cost.

Whether you're quoting or your foreman's quoting, the numbers match. No more customers comparing different prices from the same company, no more forgetting to include scaffolding or waste disposal costs.

Job Management Dashboard

See all active jobs, their status, and profitability in one view. Keep everything on track.

You need to know if jobs are running over, if materials have been ordered, and if anyone's falling behind. The dashboard gives you that helicopter view so you can spot problems before they become disasters.

What Changes

Here's how your workflow gets easier when A.X.E.L becomes part of your routine.

How it works now

You quote jobs based on gut feeling, hope everyone remembers what materials to order, and don't really know if you made money until the job's long finished (if ever). Coordination happens through shouting and hope.

How it works with A.X.E.L

Quotes are based on real costs, materials get ordered automatically when jobs start, and you can see profit/loss in real time. Your crew knows what's expected, when, and where. Less chaos, more control.

Real Example

A realistic scenario showing how A.X.E.L works in practice.

SarahbuilderManchester

Sarah's crew is doing three extension jobs simultaneously. Tuesday morning, the Stretford job needs extra RSJs that weren't in the original plan. Sarah adds them to A.X.E.L, the system checks her steel supplier's current prices, updates the job cost, and automatically generates a variation invoice for the customer. The steel gets added to Thursday's supplier order. By Thursday afternoon, the customer's paid the variation, the steel's delivered, and the job carries on without missing a beat. No paperwork pile-up, no forgotten costs, no arguments about extras months later.

Getting Started

A.X.E.L is designed to be easy to adopt — no big changes, no steep learning curves.

Set up your materials catalogue with your top 20 most-used items and their current prices. Add your crew members and assign them to a few jobs. Run one complete job through the system — from quote to final invoice — to see how everything connects. Once you see the flow, you'll want everything in there.

Ready to Give It a Go?

A.X.E.L works with how you already work — it just makes the admin bits easier. Start free and see how it fits your business.

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