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.
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.