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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. "Where is job X?" means an owner or supervisor walking the floor. And scrap and rework are never attributed to the operation that caused them, so the same defect recurs job after job. The alternative is a full ERP, 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 a walk across 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