Work
WorkTickets is the routing, traveler, and job-costing layer for CNC, sheet metal, welding, and plastics job shops — one-tap clock-in, live WIP, and actual-vs-quoted labor, without the cost or scope of full ERP.
Overview
Shop-floor execution and costing for 5–50 employee job shops. Define a routing once — ordered operations, work centers, standard times per part number — then generate the traveler from it, on paper with a barcode or on a screen at the machine. Operators tap in and out per operation from a shared kiosk or their phone, and WIP, actual-vs-quoted labor and burden-rate job costing update as they go. Because every traveler comes from a defined routing, every operation clocked has a standard time to compare against; that is what makes actual-vs-quoted possible at all.
The problem
Quotes get built from feel and memory, and nobody knows which jobs made money until year-end tax prep — $15,000–$40,000/yr in margin decided blind. "Where is job X?" costs an owner or supervisor 30–45 minutes a day of walking the floor (~$8,000/yr). And scrap and rework are never attributed to the operation that caused them, so the same defect recurs job after job ($5,000–$12,000/yr). The alternative is an ERP at $15,000–$75,000+ all-in, which these shops have either declined on cost or bought and never fully deployed.
Key features
- Routing and traveler builder — ordered operations, work centers and standard times per part number
- One-tap kiosk clock-in, or individual mobile login, with setup/run/waiting/rework reason codes on every punch
- Live WIP dashboard answering "where is job X" in under two seconds
- Actual-vs-quoted labor compared at the operation level against the routing's standard times
- Burden-rate job costing, recalculated whenever rates or hours change
- Scrap and rework logging tied to the specific operation within the specific job
- QuickBooks export
Benefits & outcomes
- Close the actual-vs-quoted loop before the quarter ends instead of at tax time
- Answer "where is job X" from a screen rather than 30–45 minutes a day on the floor
- Surface recurring defects — a scrap entry without an operation is not a valid record, so attribution is structural
- Get shop-floor costing without an ERP implementation project