Bring in the scope
Start with a tender PDF, client drawings, room notes, or a fresh cabinet layout. Keep finishes, inclusions, exclusions, and site assumptions visible before the number is built.
Cabinet making software Australia
Cabinet making software for Australian cabinet shops
JOINA connects quoting, cabinet pricing, shop drawings, cut lists, nesting previews, and job costing. The result is one job record from the first scope review to the factory handover—not another isolated design file or spreadsheet.
Australian pricing
Job costing
Shop drawings
Cut lists
Short answer
What does cabinet making software do?
Cabinet making software turns a job scope into structured cabinet data that can be priced, reviewed, documented, and handed to production. For a small or growing Australian shop, the useful test is not the length of the feature list. It is whether a change to a cabinet, material, labour rate, or margin flows through without the team rebuilding the quote in several places.
Connected workflow
From incoming drawings to a job the workshop can understand.
JOINA is built around the commercial path of the job. Scope, cabinet build, supplier items, labour, overheads, drawings, and production details stay attached to the same record.
Build the cabinetry
Shape base, overhead, tall, robe, vanity, and custom cabinets with dimensions and construction choices that remain useful beyond the visual layout.
Apply shop pricing
Use loaded supplier pricing as a starting point, then apply your own materials, hardware, labour, waste, overhead recovery, margin, delivery, and GST settings.
Review the outputs
Check quote workings, elevations, sections, dimensions, labels, cut lists, nesting previews, edging, drilling, and cabinet notes before anything leaves the office.
Hand over one record
Keep approved scope and production detail together so estimating, admin, purchasing, and the factory are not working from different versions of the job.
Choose for the bottleneck
Not every cabinet software category solves the same problem.
Some systems lead with client design, others with CNC output, and others with job management. JOINA is strongest when the bottleneck is turning cabinet scope into a reviewed, profitable quote and carrying that logic into drawings and production planning.
Primary need
What to look for
JOINA fit
Quoting and estimating
Materials, hardware, labour, overheads, waste, margin, GST, scope, quote PDF.
Core workflow
Drawings and handover
Elevations, sections, dimensions, labels, cabinet data, cut lists, nesting review.
Connected output
Direct machine control
CNC-specific post-processors, tooling rules, machine code, and tested machine integration.
Check separately
Real job outputs
See the detail that moves from quote to workshop.
A connected system should make the commercial number easier to defend and the cabinet build easier to review. These are product outputs from the same JOINA workflow.
Shop drawing output
Create clear elevations, sections, dimensions, labels, and cabinet details while the build remains tied to the quote.
Watch drawings in action
Cut list and machining review
Review cabinet parts, edging, hinge cups, shelf pin holes, construction holes, and material detail before purchasing or production handover.
Explore cut list softwareSelection checklist
Seven questions to ask before changing cabinet software.
Trial the system on one awkward, real job. A perfect demo kitchen will not show where your team loses time or margin.
- Can we use our own rates?Supplier pricing, labour, overhead recovery, waste, delivery, and margin must match the shop.
- What changes automatically?Edit a cabinet or finish and check which prices, drawings, parts, and outputs follow the change.
- Can another person audit the quote?Assumptions and allowances should be visible without reverse-engineering one person's spreadsheet.
- Does it handle our common work?Test a kitchen, robe, laundry, vanity, or fitout—not only the system's sample job.
- What reaches the workshop?Confirm the exact drawings, cut list fields, nesting views, exports, and machine boundaries.
- How quickly can we start?Check the work needed to load suppliers, materials, hardware, labour rates, and cabinet standards.
- What is the commercial payback?Measure estimating hours saved, quote capacity, avoided omissions, and the value of one protected margin.
See it on a real job
Test JOINA on the cabinet workflow your shop already knows.
Start with a free 30-day trial or bring a kitchen, robe, laundry, vanity, or custom joinery scope to a product walkthrough.
Cabinet making software FAQ
Questions Australian cabinet shops ask before switching.
What should cabinet making software include?
For a quoting-led shop, look for connected scope, cabinet data, materials, hardware, labour, overheads, waste, margin, GST, drawings, cut lists, and quote output.
Is JOINA built for Australia?
Yes. JOINA uses AUD and GST, comes with loaded Australian supplier pricing, and lets the shop update its own materials and rates.
Will it replace our quoting spreadsheet?
It is designed to replace the connected quote-and-costing workbook. You can still use spreadsheets for one-off analysis where they are the faster tool.
Can office staff prepare quotes?
The structured workflow allows admin or estimating staff to build and review jobs using the shop's approved materials, rates, and margin settings.
Does JOINA run a CNC machine?
JOINA focuses on quoting, costing, drawings, cut lists, nesting, and machining-detail review. Confirm direct machine and post-processor requirements separately.
How much does JOINA cost?
JOINA is $79 AUD per month after a free 30-day trial. All current features are included, with no obligation and cancellation at any time.