Point of sale for custom frame shops and galleries — priced in united inches off the supplier price files that keep changing, with a work ticket the bench can actually build from.
Custom framers had a standard, and then they did not. When the long-time incumbent went away, a whole trade was left choosing between a spreadsheet and a generic retail POS — neither of which can price a frame. Framing is not a SKU: the price comes from united inches of moulding, plus the mat, plus the glass, plus labour, calculated off vendor price files that change without asking.
Done by hand at the counter, that math is slow while a customer waits, and every rushed quote leaks margin the shop never sees again. Meanwhile the bench works from a ticket that does not carry the cut list, so the measurements get re-derived at the saw — and finished pieces sit on the rack for weeks because nothing tells the customer they are ready.
DerMar built FrameForge around the quote itself. The pricing engine works in united inches the way framers actually quote, reading the supplier price files so a number at the counter reflects this year's costs and not last year's. The customer sees a live preview of the moulding, mat and glass on their own piece before they commit, which turns a leap of faith into a decision.
What the counter agrees to is what the bench receives: every work ticket prints with the cut list, so nothing is re-measured or re-derived at the saw. When the piece is done, an automatic text tells the customer it is ready — which is the difference between a finished order and a rack full of them. Payment, order status and customer history sit on the same record.
Moulding, mat, glass and labour priced the way the trade actually quotes a job.
Vendor pricing stays current, so a quote is never built on last season's numbers.
The customer sees the moulding, mat and glass on their piece before they commit.
The bench gets the cut list on the ticket — nothing is re-measured at the saw.
Automatic notification when a piece is finished, so it leaves the rack.
Payment, order status and the customer's past work on a single record.
When the software a trade depends on simply goes away, the shops do not stop framing. FrameForge exists so that the answer to "what do we run now?" is not a spreadsheet.
When the tool a trade was built around gets discontinued, someone has to build the replacement. That is the work we do.
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