Live — job tracking for machine & job shops

Run the shop floor,
not an ERP.

For job shops that need real control of quoting, travelers, routing and job status — without implementing an ERP. Quote to the print, print the traveler, run the board, push the invoice to QuickBooks. Your customers and your floor work from zero-login links.

30-day trial · no credit card · import your open jobs from JobBOSS or a spreadsheet

$119/mo Flat. Unlimited users. Cancel anytime.
How it works

One loop, quote to paid.

1

Quote to the print

Build it from parts and operations — work-center rates, materials, markup, quantity breaks. Send a link they accept online. No account for them.

2

Job & traveler

Accepting creates the job with its number and router. Print the traveler — a QR takes the floor straight to it.

3

Run the board

The floor scans in on a shared tablet — starts and finishes operations, logs time, notes and photos. Everyone sees the same board.

4

Invoice & QuickBooks

Invoice from the job — deposit, final, or several jobs combined. Push it to QuickBooks Online; paid status flows back on its own.

The slow part isn't the machining.
It's what you send out — and the quotes and invoices waiting on someone else. Partwright emails you a morning digest of parts due back from vendors, quotes with no reply, and invoices past due. Shop-facing, never spam to your customers.

The situation

You're stuck between a whiteboard and a $10k ERP.

Paper travelers, a spreadsheet, a whiteboard and QuickBooks will run a shop — right up until the week gets busy and nobody can say which job is where. The answer above that is an ERP: MRP, inventory control and finite scheduling you don't need yet, priced and scoped for a plant many times your size.

The whiteboard

Free, and everyone can see it — until someone erases a job, the shop rate lives in one person's head, and "where's that part?" means walking the floor.

Partwright

The tracking loop done well — quote, traveler, board, invoice, QuickBooks — and a hard line against everything a small shop doesn't run.

The ERP

JobBOSS, E2, ProShop. Real power, priced per seat and built for shops many times your size. Months to implement, and you use a tenth of it.

Partwright is built and priced to stay in the middle: one flat price, unlimited users, and a deliberately narrow job.

The floor side

Paper where paper wins.
Software where it saves time.

A traveler that walks with the job is still the fastest thing on the floor — it works with oily hands, it doesn't go flat, and it's already how your shop reads a router. Partwright prints it, then puts a QR code on it. Scanning is the whole interaction: start the operation, finish it, add a note or a photo. Nobody spends their day navigating screens to get work done, and the office still sees every status change the moment it happens.

What's included

Everything a small job shop actually runs

The quote-to-invoice loop, the shop floor, and the push to QuickBooks. Nothing you'd have to switch off.

Status board

Every active job across your real stages — in production, outside, inspection, ready, shipped. Drag to move; the board updates live for the whole shop.

Quoting

Estimate from operations and materials, or price ad-hoc. Work-center rates, markup, and quantity breaks do the math. Send a PDF or a link they accept online.

Job travelers

Print a clean traveler with the router, the print revision, and a QR code that opens the live job on the floor.

Shop-floor tablet

Shared devices, a 4-digit PIN per person — no email logins on the floor. Start and finish operations, log time, add notes and photos to the job.

Outside processes

Track parts sent to heat-treat, plating, or grinding — which vendor, promised back when — and get a morning digest of what's due.

Invoicing & QuickBooks

Deposit and final invoices from any job, or several jobs combined. One-way push to QuickBooks Online, with paid status polled back.

Parts & history

A part library keyed by customer, part number, and revision. Every quote and job a part has seen is one click away — reorders take seconds.

Your data, always

Import from JobBOSS or a spreadsheet with column mapping. Export everything as CSV any time. Cancel and your account goes read-only — never hostage.

Who it's for

  • Contract machine & job shops making parts to customer prints and POs
  • Running jobs off paper travelers, spreadsheets, a whiteboard and QuickBooks
  • Quoting from operations and materials, and routing work across several steps
  • Losing time to "where's that job?" — and to quotes nobody followed up
  • Wanting job tracking in place this week, not a six-month rollout

Who it's not for

  • Shops whose next real problem is MRP, inventory or purchasing
  • Anyone who needs AS9100 / ISO document control inside the tool
  • Finite-capacity or machine-level scheduling
  • Full accounting or payroll inside the app
  • Plants already running a planning department on an ERP

Partwright is intentionally not a full ERP

Each of these is a real capability and a whole product in its own right — shops that need them should buy them. Partwright leaves them out so it stays fast, flat-priced, and learnable in an afternoon.

  • No MRP or material planning
  • No inventory or stock control
  • No purchasing or supplier POs
  • No QMS / AS9100 / ISO control
  • No payroll or time-and-attendance
  • No finite-capacity scheduling
  • No accounting beyond the QuickBooks push
  • No customer logins to manage

If planning and inventory are what's actually hurting, you need an ERP — and we'll say so rather than sell you this. Partwright is for shops whose problem today is quoting, routing, travelers and job status.

Pricing

One plan. One price. No surprises.

One flat price for the whole shop — every user, every job, every quote. No per-seat maths before you can add a machinist.

$119 / month
Or $1,190/year — two months free.
Users (owner, office & floor)Unlimited
Jobs, quotes, parts & customersUnlimited
Job travelers with QRIncluded
Shop-floor tablet (PIN)Included
Outside-process tracking & digestIncluded
QuickBooks Online syncIncluded
CSV import & exportAlways
Online invoice paymentsYour Stripe · no added fee
SupportDirect email — no ticket queue
ContractNone — cancel anytime
Free trial30 days, no card required
Founding shops lock in $59/mo for life · 15 founding-shop spots available
Start your 30-day trial

Flat pricing. No per-user fees. No surprises.

How it's built

Independent and founder-led.

One product, for one kind of shop, paid for by the shops that use it. That keeps the roadmap pointed at job-shop work rather than at whatever the next tier up will pay for — and it's why the feature list stays short on purpose.

Simple enough to run the floor. Stubborn enough to stay that way.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Does the shop floor need logins?

No email or passwords on the floor. A shared tablet, and each person taps a 4-digit PIN to log time and finish operations. Scanning the traveler's QR code opens the live job straight away.

Is this going to replace my ERP?

No — Partwright is intentionally not a full ERP. There's no MRP, inventory, purchasing or finite scheduling, and those are real capabilities worth buying when you need them. Partwright is for the shop whose problem right now is quoting, routing, travelers and knowing where every job stands.

How does it work with QuickBooks?

Invoices push one-way to QuickBooks Online, and paid status flows back automatically. Your books stay in QuickBooks — Partwright doesn't try to be your accounting system.

Can I bring over my open jobs and parts?

Yes — CSV import for open jobs, parts, and customers, with column mapping so your existing export or spreadsheet works as-is. There's a migration guide for JobBOSS exports, or email it over and we'll set your shop up.

Do my customers need accounts?

No. Accepting a quote, viewing an invoice, and paying online all happen through a private link. No passwords, no signups, nothing for them to forget.

What happens when my trial ends?

Your account goes read-only. Nothing is deleted, your exports keep working, and your links stay live. Subscribe when you're ready and pick up exactly where you left off.

What if I want to leave?

Export everything as CSV, cancel in one click, keep read-only access to your history. Your data was never ours to keep.

Who's behind Partwright?

Partwright is built and run by BLIXTAR TECH S.R.L. — an independent, founder-led company. Support is answered directly by email rather than through a ticket queue. What that's worth is easiest to judge from how your data works: CSV export of everything at any time, and an account that goes read-only rather than locked if you stop paying.

Ready when you are.

30-day trial, no card. Import your open jobs and you're tracking work the same afternoon.