MakerBooks

Catalog quoting that carries work onto the shop floor.

Replace spreadsheet guesswork with machine, material, labor, and margin math—then move accepted quotes into work orders and production.

Built for fabrication shops that outgrew cells and tabs

MakerBooks is a dedicated quoting and operations app for 3D printing, laser cutting, and similar maker businesses—not a generic ERP.

  • Margin-aware quoting

    Price jobs from machine time, materials, labor, consumables, margin, and tax—persisted in integer minor units so totals stay honest.

  • Reusable catalogs

    Keep machines, materials, labor rates, and tax profiles ready for estimators instead of rebuilding rates in a spreadsheet.

  • Shareable customer quotes

    Issue immutable revisions, render PDFs, share expiring links, and convert accepted quotes into work orders once.

  • Light MES

    Plan operations, assign work, track materials and QA, and fulfill from a one-facility production foundation.

  • Printer & filament links

    Connect Moonraker print runs and Spoolman filament inventory when your shop already runs that stack.

  • Invite-only access

    Public signup stays off. Owners invite staff, roles stay scoped, and optional SSO or passkeys fit shop policy.

Where it fits

Designed for small-business and serious hobbyist fabrication—not for reinventing accounting or multi-site ERP.

  1. 01

    Leave the quoting spreadsheet behind

    Estimators pull rates from live catalogs, apply margin and tax once, and keep a revision history instead of emailed workbook copies.

  2. 02

    Hand off from estimate to floor

    When a customer accepts a quote, MakerBooks opens a work order so production managers are not retyping scope into another tool.

  3. 03

    Keep filament and printers in the loop

    Shops already on Spoolman or Moonraker can link inventory and print-run lifecycle without bolting another spreadsheet on top.

  4. 04

    Hosted isolation or self-host

    Hosted tenants get a dedicated stack at your company hostname. Self-host shops keep data on their own Compose deployment with the same application.

Product surfaces

Placeholder frames for now—swap real captures into landing/public/screenshots/ when ready.

  • Quote builder
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    Catalog-backed lines, margin, and tax on a single revisioned quote.
  • Work orders
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    Accepted quotes become shop work with operations and status.
  • Production queue
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    See what is scheduled, in progress, and ready to fulfill.

Prefer to self-host?

Run MakerBooks on your own infrastructure with Compose. There is no call-home license check—paid agreements cover support, onboarding, updates, and assisted operations.

Contact us about self-hosting

hello@clevelandcoding.com