Joinery software: a wardrobe configurator for workshops

Closetforge is a white-label 3D wardrobe configurator and quoting tool for joinery workshops: it covers the wardrobe side of your business, with your price book, your materials and your brand, and nothing else.

If you are searching for joinery software, it helps to be clear at the start about what this is. It is not a drawing package for a whole joinery shop, and it does not run your production. It is the part of the business that meets the customer: a configurator on your website, and a priced quote with a cut list at the end of it.

A general joinery shop that also does wardrobes

A joinery workshop usually earns its living from a mix: staircases, doors, windows, a bespoke piece for an architect, and wardrobes. Wardrobes are the work that is closest to repeatable. The same board, the same carcass, the same hinges and drawer boxes come round again and again, but each room needs a different arrangement.

That repeatability is why wardrobes suit a configurator and a lot of the rest of joinery does not. The customer can choose within rules you have set, and the arrangement is checked as they go, so a design that cannot be built is refused with a reason instead of being sent to you.

Wardrobes only, by design

Closetforge handles wardrobes and nothing else. It is a decision, not a gap we plan to fill. A narrow scope lets the rules be exact: the interior is worked out from the board thickness, a shelf is checked against the space it sits in, a drawer against the hardware that carries it.

Where a customer wants something outside that, a quote can carry custom lines that you write yourself. Those are an escape hatch for the odd extra, such as a bespoke panel, and not a second product.

Your price book, your materials

The price is calculated by the server from your own settings. You decide what boards cost, how much waste to allow, what each type of work takes in minutes, your hourly rate, your mark-up and your VAT. Your catalogue holds the boards and finishes you actually buy, and you can hide any you do not want offered. The customer never sees a price the engine did not produce, and a price that is missing from your book stops a quote from being sent instead of being guessed.

Boards are billed as the sheets they come from, pooled across the whole quote, so one wardrobe that wastes an offcut does not pay for a sheet another part of the order could have used.

Several units in one room

A real job is rarely one wardrobe. A bedroom might want two wardrobes either side of a bed, a shelf unit, and a box above. A dressing room might run along three walls. Closetforge keeps these together as one project for the customer, with the units placed in the room, and prices them as separate cabinets on one quote.

Tall units can be stacked on a base, a wall-hung unit can float above a plinth, and one sliding front can run across several carcasses. The picture the customer sees and the bill you receive come from the same geometry, so they agree.

Installation and transport on the quote

Fitting is part of the price. You choose whether installation is included in the wardrobe price or shown as its own line, and the quote can be set for fitting on site or for assembly in the workshop. Travel is billed for the round trip, with distance worked out from the customer's address using open mapping data, and you can set which measurement visits are free, paid or done remotely.

Designs that are checked as they are made

Every change a customer makes, or the assistant makes for them, goes through the same set of rules. A door that would collide with a neighbouring unit, a shelf too deep for the carcass, or a wardrobe wider than a single board allows is refused with a sentence that says what to do instead. The rules sit in one place, so the customer, the assistant and a colleague helping through a share link all meet the same limits.

For a workshop, this means fewer quotes that cannot be built. It also means a request that reaches you has already passed the checks you would otherwise run in your head.

What you receive at the bench

Every quote has a workshop version alongside the customer's. It lists each panel with its size and edging, the hardware and accessories, and a cut layout across the boards. That gives your machinist something to work from, and lets you check the price against what will really be cut.

What it does not do

It does not design other fitted furniture, loose doors, stairs or windows. It does not run your production schedule, connect to your CNC machine or your accounts package, and it has no integrations with other software. The only file export is a cut list for panel-saw optimisers.

It does not publish a price list of someone else's boards. You bring your own prices, and the starting point for a new account is a set of defaults you should review.

It does not take payments from customers, and it does not manage a team of users inside your account. Setting up extra logins is something we do for you on request.

Try it with your own eyes

See the live demo to build a wardrobe as a customer would and read the quote it produces. Then book a call and bring a recent job: we will walk through how your own materials, labour and travel would price it.