How do I price boards and decors in my fitted wardrobe quotes?
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Closetforge is a white-label 3D wardrobe configurator and quoting tool for fitted-wardrobe makers. Boards are usually the largest cost on a fitted wardrobe, so this article explains where their prices come from and how to make them yours.
Step 1: tick the decors you stock
On a new workspace, the setup guide's third row, Your boards, opens /admin/setup/boards. It shows the decors in your catalogue as a grid with one box each: I stock this.
- Anything you leave unticked is hidden from your customers' picker. It is not deleted, and you can tick it again here at any time.
- Each decor shows the edge band it is banded with, or warns you that it has none or that the band has no price yet.
- Under Defaults for new designs you choose two decors: the Body (carcass and interior) and the Fronts (doors and drawer fronts). A new wardrobe starts in these. Only decors you stock can be a default.
This step never sets a price. That happens on the Materials page.
Step 2: check each price
Open Materials (/admin/materials). Every board has a price per square metre, and the label beside it tells you where the price comes from:
- yours: a price you set. Use Set your negotiated price to enter what your supplier actually charges you.
- base, after your country's name: the shared base price for boards in your country. It is a starting point, not your supplier's invoice.
- base — from catalogue: copied from the shared catalogue and not yet priced for your country. Check it before you quote.
- not set: no price at all.
A quote uses your own price first and the country base second. It never converts a price from another currency. Reset takes your own price away and goes back to the catalogue price.
Boards you buy that are not in the catalogue can be added with Add Material. Their price is the one you type.
Suppliers you offer
Suppliers (/admin/suppliers) lists the manufacturers whose catalogues you can offer. Turning a manufacturer off hides its catalogue boards and hardware from your configurator and your quotes. Your own custom materials are never hidden this way. The same page lets you import your own negotiated prices.
Edge bands
Every visible edge needs a band, and a band needs a price per metre. Edge bands (/admin/edge-bands) lists your bands. A band is linked to a board through the board's edit form, and a board picks up a band with the same decor code automatically.
Most workshops run two thicknesses: a thicker band on everything you can see, such as doors, drawer fronts and the outside of the carcass, and a thinner one on shelf and divider fronts. Tell the platform which pair you stock under Pricing → Edge banding, and each metre is costed at the right band.
If a decor your designs use has no priced band, the setup guide says so, and a quote on that decor shows edge banding not priced.
How boards are billed
You are billed for whole sheets, so your customer is too. Each quote lays its parts out on your sheets, and it bills whichever is more: the sheets that layout needs, or the net board area plus your waste factor. The sheets are pooled across the whole quote, not counted per cabinet.
Set how your workshop cuts under Pricing → How your workshop cuts: how sheets are cut, the spacing between parts, the trim on each sheet edge and the board waste factor. You can see the result on every quote as a sheet layout. See your test quote.
When the step is green
The Your boards row is done when you have saved the step and no decor your designs use is missing a price or a priced edge band. Until then, the row names the decors still missing one and links to the page that fixes it.