Grafta for Welders & Fabricators
Price the gates while you're still at the gap in the wall, take the deposit before you order the steel, and invoice the fitting the day it's hung.
Say the job. Grafta writes the quote.
A real example of the kind of job a welder quotes with Grafta — spoken once, itemised automatically.
You say
“Quote for Tomás Brennan in Portlaoise. Supply and fit a pair of steel driveway gates — three metres across, box-section frame, primed and painted, hung on new posts. Two days fabrication and a day fitting at three-twenty, and about nine hundred in steel and consumables.”
Grafta builds
For Tomás Brennan · Portlaoise
The admin that eats a welder's evenings
Jobs priced on the back of a steel offcut — and the materials list worked out twice, once to quote and once to order.
Steel bought out of your own pocket because the deposit was never asked for properly.
Workshop fabrication and site fitting living in two different diaries, connected by memory.
Grafta, working the way welders & fabricators work
Quote at the gap in the wall
Measure up, speak the spec — gates, posts, finish, steel — and the itemised quote is drafted before you're back in the van, labour and materials split.
Steel priced as its own line
Materials move week to week — itemise them separately from labour so your margin is visible and a price rise doesn't quietly eat it.
Deposits before you cut
Send a deposit invoice with the accepted quote so the steel money is in the bank before the order goes in.
Invoices builders can process
Branded, itemised, VAT-correct invoices with due dates matching your terms — and overdue ones flagged so 30 days doesn't become 60.
Plus jobs & scheduling, receipts capture, customer records and a live money view — see all features.
The renewals Grafta watches for you
Set the date once — get reminded before it bites.
VAT, done right
Supply-and-fit work on a property — gates, railings, balustrades, structural repairs — can qualify for the reduced 13.5% VAT rate as a service on immovable property. But steel is dear: if materials pass two-thirds of the ex-VAT price, the whole job flips to 23% (the "two-thirds rule"), and fabrication handed over without fitting is normally standard-rated anyway. Grafta handles VAT per line item so the invoice comes out right either way.
Read the VAT guide for Irish tradespeopleWelders & Fabricators ask us
Materials are half the price of my jobs — how does quoting handle that?
Steel, posts and consumables go in as their own line items, separate from your fabrication and fitting days. The customer sees exactly what's what, your margin is protected, and because materials are itemised the two-thirds VAT rule is easy to sanity-check before you send.
Can I take a deposit before ordering steel?
Yes — raise a deposit invoice the moment the quote's accepted, then invoice the balance when the gates are hung. Both sit against the same job so nothing gets lost between workshop and site.
I fabricate in the workshop and fit on site — how does that work in Grafta?
One job, itemised lines for both, and the fabrication days and fitting day scheduled in the same diary — so the making and the hanging don't collide, and the whole thing is invoiced together at the end.
How much does Grafta cost?
Solo is €9.99/month for your first year on the founding offer (then €19.99), and Team starts at €49/month for 2 users. Every plan starts with a free trial — no card needed.
Do my customers need the app to accept a quote?
No. You send a link — they open it in their browser, see the itemised quote with your branding, and tap Accept. You get notified straight away.
Less paperwork. More time on the tools.
Start free — no card, no setup, your first quote in two minutes.
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