Estifex

How to use it. The whole manual.

What it is

A price calculator for a wood workshop. It reads a drawing, works out how much timber the part really takes, and lets you add everything else that goes into the price. It is not connected to any stock record — nothing here ever touches a pack, a consumption or an audit report.

Set it up once

Materials — what you buy and what it costs. Timber by the cubic metre, sheets, veneer and fabric by the square metre. Each timber also carries its own defects percentage. Positions — everything that is not material: machining by the minute, sanding by the hour, dowels by the piece, packaging, delivery.

Then, for each estimate

Name the customer, the product and the quantity. Add a part and set the shape — type it, or drop the drawing in. Choose the material; the rate and the defects come with it. Add the positions. Set overhead, the prototype multiplier and the margin. Overhead is a percentage of materials plus extras. The prototype multiplier lifts the cost, before margin. Margin is a percentage of that cost. Change the order and every quote in the system is wrong by a different amount.

What you are charged for is the board

630 × 100 × 23 is bought as 700 × 110 × 32. A sheet keeps its thickness. Too thick is a question. The drawing wins where it states the blank.

The cutting list

The workshop name and the mark go on the sheet, inline, so the paper needs no second request. It is a list for the yard, not the offer the customer holds.

The offer

Minted when it leaves. Numbered Q-year-nnnn. The note on this estimate is typed on the estimate; the standing text that goes on every offer lives in My profile.

Customers

Typed once. Search when there are two hundred. Estimates counted on the card. Put away, never deleted.

Three doors in

From Kubifex Pro, a signed link that lives ninety seconds. From the Vivifex signup form. From an e-mail and a one-time code. The installation password is only the door while the database has no users in it.

What Estifex will not do

It will not invent a board. It will not treat a comma as the end of a number — a Latvian keyboard types 0,5. It will not write an estimate into Kubifex. It will not call a draft a win.

The rest of the family

Estifex is a Vivifex product. Same paper, same ink, same refusal to guess a figure nobody gave us. Tarafex answers packaging data once and keeps it. Kubifex keeps the chain-of-custody record for a workshop that holds a certificate. Formifex runs the manufacturing side. Estifex holds a price, and none of them registers you with anybody.

Questions

Where do I start?

The workshop profile, then one material with a real rate, then one part whose board you already know by heart. If the number on screen is not the number you sell, the rule is wrong for your yard — write to hello@vivifex.com before you trust the rest.

Price

€89 a month, VAT excluded. Fourteen days to try it, and the trial is the whole tool, not a cut-down version.

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