For historic window restoration shops
Parting Bead tracks each part from the opening to the bench and back, puts your crew’s hours on the part they worked, and shows labor against your estimate while the job is still open.
$199 per shop per month. Or start with a $99 assisted 30-day pilot.
The problem
Forty sashes off one house, numbered in pencil. Which one is the upper sash from the north bedroom?
Hours land on the job, not the window, so you can’t see which openings ate the time.
You learn a job ran over once it’s finished, when there’s nothing left to change.
Parting Bead keeps each part, its stage and its labor in one record: from the opening to the rack, and back where it belongs.
01 · Parts
Add the job’s windows with their location and size, then the sashes, stops, cords and glass you take out. Each part gets a short code your crew can write on a tag.
W1-SASH-U tie a part to its opening
02 · Board
Identified, removed, in repair, ready, installed. The board shows every part in its stage and where it sits in the shop, so anyone can find that sash without walking the racks.
Rack B or Glazing table
03 · Time
Technicians pick the job, the part if there is one, a quick time and the kind of work. Nothing to install: Parting Bead runs in the phone’s web browser.
04 · Labor
Give parts an estimate in hours or dollars. Parting Bead costs every logged hour at that person’s pay rate and shows the difference by part, by window and for the whole job.
05 · Extra repairs
When strip-down turns up rot or a cracked pane, a technician flags it from the part. The office prices it, prints a clean copy for the customer, and records whether they approved.
06 · Roles
Four roles decide what each person can see and do. Pay rates, labor costs, estimates and prices stay with owners and managers.
| Task | Owner | Manager | Technician | Viewer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See jobs, windows and parts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Add parts and move stages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | —No |
| Log their own time | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | —No |
| Flag an extra repair | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | —No |
| See pay rates, costs and estimates | ✓ | ✓ | —No | —No |
| Price change orders and record decisions | ✓ | ✓ | —No | —No |
| Shop settings and team | ✓ | If allowed | —No | —No |
Also in Parting Bead
Quantities and costs on each job, kept apart from labor.
Contacts, notes and every job you’ve done for them.
Invite your crew and give each person a role.
A shop-wide record of what changed, who changed it and when.
Pricing
No per-person fees. Start with an assisted pilot on a real job, then keep going if it fits your shop.
$99one time · 30 days
We set Parting Bead up with you and run it on a job you’re working now.
$199per shop · per month
Everything in Parting Bead for your whole shop.
Prices in US dollars.
Questions
A phone, tablet or computer with a current web browser. There’s nothing to install. Parting Bead saves as you go, so it needs an internet connection; it doesn’t work offline.
Book a demo and bring a job you’re working on. If it fits, the pilot starts with us setting up your shop, team and pay rates with you and entering your first job together.
Not automatically yet. During the pilot we enter your first job with you.
No. You type part codes in and write them on your own tags or tape. Photos aren’t supported yet either.
No. Parting Bead tracks the work, the time and the extra repairs. Keep using your accounting software for invoices and payments.
Not yet. Print the customer copy, get their answer, then record it in Parting Bead with their name.
Owners and managers. Technicians and viewers never see pay rates, labor costs, estimates or prices.
Yes. Every record belongs to one shop, and every request is checked against the signed-in person’s shop and role.
Send your shop’s name and a job you’re working on. We’ll walk through it in Parting Bead together.