Wood Industry
Custom Software for Wood Industry
Most of our software work moves aging Microsoft Access databases and spreadsheet sprawl onto modern cloud systems. Your team keeps the workflow it already knows while we swap out what sits underneath. Yard inventory sits on a whiteboard and kiln schedules in a notebook, with orders kept in a legacy database.
Does Imagi-Tech do Custom Software for sawmills and lumber yards?
Yes. Imagi-Tech provides custom software development to sawmills and lumber yards across ten Ohio markets, from our office in Marietta, Ohio. We scope and quote each project after a free audit. The problem it addresses: yard inventory sits on a whiteboard and kiln schedules in a notebook, with orders kept in a legacy database.
Sound familiar?
Where sawmills and lumber yards usually get stuck
- The real system is a spreadsheet emailed around with numbers in the filename
- Two people have to re-key the same order into two places
- Reporting means someone stays late with a pivot table
- The software you bought does 40% of the job and blocks the other 60%
What's included
What you get
- Business process review and documentation
- System blueprint with diagrams and user cases
- Prototype checkpoints before anything ships
- Cloud storage with desktop, tablet, and phone access
- Training and ongoing support
One system your team opens every day, from a desk or from a phone.
Wood Industry
The systems we end up in
Most sawmills and lumber yards run some version of these four. Our Custom Software work usually starts with getting them to share data.
Log and lumber inventory by species and grade
Kiln schedules and moisture records
Order entry, tally sheets, and shipping
Grading, yield, and scale tickets
What changes
- Tally that matches the yard without a walk-around
- Kiln and order schedules visible to the whole crew
- Yield reporting you can set prices from
How we work
Custom Software, cut into four pieces
Review
We sit with the people doing the work and write down how the job runs from one day to the next.
Blueprint
You get diagrams, user cases and a written scope to approve before anyone writes code, so month three holds no surprises.
Prototype
At every checkpoint you click through a working version, and we catch wrong turns early while they cost little.
Launch and support
We migrate your data and train your staff, then stay on for support. The system belongs to you, documentation included.
Proof
Work like this, written up
Each write-up explains what the client was up against and how our fix turned out.
Grimm Scientific Industries
Grimm ran day-to-day operations on spreadsheets until we built them an ERP from scratch. The company has quadrupled in size since, on the same system.
4x growth in company size since the system went in
JobTrax Custom ApplicationThe Proz
A mobile crew needed onsite photos to reach the office the same day, and the general manager wanted a scheduler to drag jobs onto. After eight years of continuous development, The Proz is the dominant hood cleaner in their area.
8+ yrs building and improving the same system
Work Order ApplicationThe PM Company
Years of features stitched onto the same app had left maintenance workers with an interface nobody enjoyed. We rewrote it on Vue, and crews now start and pause jobs on a tablet and switch between them on the fly.
Get a clear read on your technology
We'll run a free audit and explain what we find in plain language. You keep the report whatever you decide.
Get Free Audit →Where we work
Custom Software for Wood Industry, by market
Pick the market closest to you. We send the same people and follow the same process everywhere we work.
Mid-Ohio Valley
Central Ohio
Southwest Ohio
Questions we get asked
About Custom Software for Wood Industry
How long does a custom software project take?
It depends on scope. Once the blueprint is done, you get a timeline in writing. The order of work stays the same on every project: we review how you work, you approve a blueprint and click through prototypes, and then we launch and support it.
Do we own the software when it is finished?
Yes. The source code, the data, the documentation and every login belong to you, and we keep none of it back to hang on to you as a client.
What if our requirements change halfway through?
The prototype checkpoints handle that. You click through a working version at each one, so we catch a wrong turn early, while it costs little to fix.
Can it work with the systems we already have?
Usually, yes. Most of our projects hook into something you already run, such as an accounting package, a carrier portal or a machine on the shop floor, and we replace only the parts that need replacing.
Do you work with sawmills and lumber yards?
Yes. Sawmills and lumber yards across Ohio are a big part of our client list. The process stays the same whatever the sector: an audit, a written scope you approve, prototype checkpoints where they fit, and then launch and support.
How does an Imagi-Tech custom software development project start?
With a free audit. We look at what you run now and give you a plain-language read on what is solid and what is one bad morning away from trouble. Scope and price come after that.
What does Custom Software cost?
Scope decides it, so the free audit comes before any number. You get a fixed written quote before anything is billed, and you keep the audit whether or not you hire us. Digital Marketing is the one exception, sold at a published monthly price.
What if the person who built our current setup has left?
That is the normal case, and we handle it often. We document what you have from the outside, based on what it does, and the people who use it every day are usually the best source.
Free audit
Let's get started
Tell us what's giving you trouble, in your own words. "Our Access database is dying" is plenty to go on.