You've built 300 signs. Your estimator remembers maybe 20 of them. Smart Quoting remembers every single one — and hands you an honest hours+cost estimate the moment you tag a new RFQ. Pylons, channel letters, vinyl, digital print, wayfinding. One file. Offline. $49/month.
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Every signage forum thread surfaces the same three problems. GlyphFex attacks all three.
Channel letters with stud-mount pattern onto EIFS takes 3x the labor of flush-mount on wood. Your estimator's gut forgets. Smart Quoting tags every job with its mounting, substrate, illumination — future quotes with the same combination surface the real median hours.
The Shop Floor terminal has one giant "Start" button per job. Forgot? Tap the start time, backdate to when you actually started — no supervisor phone call needed. Forgot to stop? Next login catches overnight timers and offers a shift-end rollback so Friday's job doesn't silently log 72 hrs. Edits show as an amber "edited" pill on the timesheet — self-service for the installer, full visibility for you.
Three stops across the metro on a Tuesday install run? One tap on the Travel button separates windshield time from hands-on installation. Your weekly hours card shows it as a split: "28.5 work · 4.3 travel". Bill drive at a different rate, deduct it from shop-productive, or just see where Tuesday went.
Proof looked right, printed run is off by 2 shades, client rejects at install. Reprint and redeliver is rework, not first-pass work — but you have to know that to quote smarter next time. GlyphFex's Rework toggle is 3 taps: Rework → "Material / vendor defect" (bad ink batch) or "Operator" (printer miscalibrated) → done. Hours roll into a monthly Rework Rate card on Analytics — most sign shops guess at this number; you get to measure it.
Replacement panel, second install trip, customer keeps waiting. That's hours you absorbed — tagged as rework with "Operator" root cause, visible as a red bar on Analytics so you see which install crew is losing margin over time. No blame form, no NCR paperwork, just honest data.
Custom built-in fields track permit number, site survey date, install window, engineering stamp. Gantt calendar shows every job by install date. Shop-floor Display Board on a TV so the crew sees today's installs when they walk in.
You don’t have to give up the tools the office already uses. GlyphFex is the source of truth for what’s on the floor; the office workflow stays whatever the bookkeeper already knows. All four below are on the Solo plan — no “Integration tier” upsell.
Tag a new sign and the chip shows median hours from your own past jobs — pylon vs. channel-letter, EIFS vs. wood stud-mount, illuminated vs. non. Honest about thinness: at 6 matches it reads “Best guess (low data) — adjust as you learn”; at 20+ it adds “(high confidence)”. Full Smart Quoting guide →
If the office runs invoicing or year-end summaries in an Excel workbook with pivots and charts, point GlyphFex at it. Five GlyphFex-owned sheets refresh on demand; her pivots, formulas, and charts keep working. Full Live Excel guide →
Webhook subscriptions fire when a job hits Install Scheduled, Permit Approved, or Complete. Pair with Zapier to ping the install crew’s Slack, draft a customer follow-up email, or update the wall-mounted job board on a TV. Full Webhooks guide →
Every 15 minutes (or daily, your call) GlyphFex drops CSV + JSON snapshots into a folder you pick. Power BI’s folder connector and Excel Power Query both read from there. Stable v1 schema; your dashboards never break. Full Data Feed guide →
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No demo call, no sales pitch. Download, install, create your pipelines, enter your next 10 quotes. If Smart Quoting isn't telling you something new by the 10th, the trial limit is a great place to stop.