Frame shop software
Price it right. Frame it true. Run the whole shop.
MiterCut was built in a working frame shop, for frame shops. It designs to scale, prices every job the way framers actually work, and runs everything from the first quote to the day it’s picked up.
For Windows 10 and 11. Mac version coming soon! Your data stays on your computers.
Price it right
Every job priced the way a framer would price it.
Most shops lose money in the same three places: mats charged by the inch, labor that isn’t charged at all, and math done in a hurry. MiterCut does the math the way you would, every time.
- Mats by the sheet. A double mat is two sheets. Oversize work moves to the bigger board, and its price.
- Labor by the kind of job. A standard frame, needlework or a jersey each carry their own time at your hourly rate.
- Your markups on moulding, mats, glass and labor, plus your own shop charges.
- Cut sizes worked out for you: the opening, the mat, the glass and the frame, down to the eighth of an inch.
- Sales tax on every invoice, and in your reports for any dates.
An example. Your own prices and charges set the real numbers.
Design it true to scale
See the finished piece before you cut a thing.
Every design is drawn to scale with rulers, from the moulding’s real width to the mat’s reveal. Photograph the art with your camera and see it in the frame. Two openings, fillets, liners, stretched canvas: it’s all there.
- Custom mats, or a standard frame off the wall, each the way you’d really cut it.
- Your camera, connected: the customer’s art in the frame, at the counter.
- A work order with every cut size, ready for the back room.
Let customers design
A customer station that sells while you work.
Customers pick art type, mats, frame and glass on a touch screen, see it on their art, and send it to the counter. You finish the order with them, not from scratch.
- An estimate with tax as they go, or no prices at all: your choice.
- “Ask for help” brings you over when they want you.
- The same design, online, on your own website.
Run the shop
From quote to pickup, nothing falls through.
Quotes become work orders, and the open work orders become your pick list and your purchase orders. Deposits, balances, gift cards and house accounts all in one place.
- What’s due, ready and owed, on one screen every morning.
- Purchase orders by vendor, made from what the open jobs need.
- Card terminals, cash with change, checks and more.
Know your numbers
Reports that answer real questions.
Sales, sales tax, how people paid, who owes you, what’s on your shelves and what hasn’t moved in 90 days. Profit and margin for the owner’s eyes only.
- Any dates, printed or as a spreadsheet.
- The day’s close, matched to the drawer and the card terminal.
- Costs and markups never reach a customer’s screen.
Everything a frame shop does
One program, from the counter to the back room.
Vendor catalogs
Import your vendors’ price files. Names, sizes and pictures fill themselves in where vendors publish them.
Work orders
Every job from quote to pickup, with its cut sizes, notes and photos, and a ticket for the bench.
Pick lists
What the open jobs need from the shelf, and what has to be ordered.
Purchase orders
Order by vendor, track what’s on order, and check it in when it arrives.
Inventory
What’s on hand, what it’s worth and what hasn’t moved, kept as you sell and receive.
Payments
Deposits and balances, card terminals, cash with change, checks, and refunds that land in the right place.
Gift cards and coupons
Sell and redeem gift cards, run promotions, and see what they brought in.
House accounts
Designers and businesses who pay monthly, with statements and what’s owed.
Customer email
Review requests after pickup and news to the customers who said yes, sent through your website, with unsubscribes honored.
Every computer in the shop
The counter, the back room and the office, on the same page.
One computer keeps the shop’s data. The others join it with a code and work from the same jobs, customers and prices. No cloud subscription and no monthly server bill.
Everyone signs in
Each person has a PIN and a role. Staff see what their job needs; costs and profit stay with the owner.
Works when the internet doesn’t
MiterCut runs on your own computers. If one can’t reach the shop computer, it says so and works from its copy.
Your data is yours
It lives on your computers and is backed up as you work. Reports print or save as spreadsheets whenever you like.
Updates that spread themselves
Install a new version on one computer and the others are offered it.
Switching to MiterCut
Bring your shop with you.
Changing software shouldn’t mean starting over. MiterCut brings in what you already have.
- Your records from LifeSaver: customers, jobs, invoices and payments, checked against LifeSaver’s own totals.
- Your vendors’ price files, as they send them, every column matched for you.
- Your vendors’ own names, sizes and pictures, filled in by MiterCut where the vendor publishes them.
Why MiterCut
Built behind a real counter.
MiterCut grew up in a working custom frame shop, one problem at a time: the mat that was priced by the inch, the labor nobody charged for, the customer who couldn’t picture it, the order that went missing. Every screen was tried at that counter before it went anywhere else.
It’s made for the small shop that’s good at framing and tired of fighting its software.
Questions
Good things to ask before you switch.
What does MiterCut run on?
Windows 10 or 11 on an ordinary PC, and a Mac version is coming soon. One computer keeps the shop’s data; others join it. The customer station runs on any touch screen or tablet browser in the shop.
Do I need the internet?
Not to work. MiterCut runs on your own computers. The internet is used for things like card payments, emails and texts, vendor pictures and updates.
Where is my data kept?
On your shop computer, backed up as you work, and copied to the other computers that join it. It isn’t stored on our servers.
Which card terminals does it work with?
MiterCut is built to take card payments through Dejavoo terminals and Square, alongside cash, checks, gift cards and house accounts. Tell us which terminal you use and we’ll tell you where it stands.
Can I bring my records from my old software?
Yes, from LifeSaver: customers, jobs, invoices and payments. Vendor price files come in as the vendors send them.
Can customers design online?
Yes. MiterCut Online adds a design page to your WordPress website, with your frames, mats and prices, and orders arrive at your counter.
Is there a monthly fee?
Pricing is being finalized. Sign up below and you’ll hear first, including early-access pricing for the first shops.
Still growing
MiterCut is always getting better.
Development is ongoing. New features and fixes arrive as updates, and an update installed on one computer is offered to the others.
Need a custom feature? Contact us! Tell us how your shop works and what you wish your software did.
Coming soon
Be one of the first shops on MiterCut.
Pricing is being finalized. Leave your email and you’ll hear first, with early-access pricing for the founding shops. On a Mac? Tick the box and you’ll hear when the Mac version is ready.
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