Building Materials Quoting Software for Lumber Yards and Supply Houses

A lumber yard stocks dimensional lumber, engineered wood, plywood, OSB, drywall, insulation, siding, decking, roofing, windows, doors, millwork, concrete, and hardware. A builder emails over a takeoff on a Tuesday morning — a PDF list of what the framing package needs, maybe an Excel of the opens and closes. Your counter salesperson used to retype every line, chase units, and pray the spec was right.

Quotery reads a client's list of materials as PDF, Excel, or CSV and maps each line to your catalog. A 40-page client request that used to eat someone's entire morning finishes in under a minute. Every match links back to the original document so you can spot check it. The system knows the difference between a 2x4x8 KD HT SPF stud and a 2x4x8 KD HT SPF #2 and better, and it pulls the specs, units, and compliance attributes for each line, because your margin depends on the difference.

Your team reviews the matches, adjusts, and sends. No retyping, no spreadsheet ping-pong. Nobody spends Tuesday rekeying a client's takeoff into a quote.

Lumber quoting lives in units most software does not handle. Board feet. Lineal feet. Random lengths with tallies. Squares for shingles. Sheets for plywood. Packs for engineered lumber. Linear feet with specific length cuts. A 50,000 board foot framing package with mixed lengths, species, and grades quoted in the wrong unit is a pricing error that wipes margin on the entire job.

Quotery handles all of it natively. No forcing 2x4x8 into fractional quantities. No manual conversions that introduce rounding errors at scale. The framing package calculates instantly with the right price breaks applied, the right tallies, the right species upcharges. The salesperson builds the quote. The math takes care of itself.

Your quotes are accurate to the board foot. Your margin is accurate to the penny. Your customers stop calling to ask why the invoice does not match the quote.

OSB can swing 40% in a quarter. Framing lumber moves on futures, tariffs, mill output, and weather. A hurricane in the Southeast pushes plywood prices up 15% overnight. Your sales team is quoting off last month's cost because the new price sheet is still sitting in purchasing. Every quote that goes out at the old cost is margin you will never get back.

Your cost stays in sync with the market, and Quotery quotes every client request against your current cost the moment it arrives. Margin analysis shows the impact of a cost change on your most-quoted products, sorted by open quote volume, so you decide which increases to pass through and which to absorb, line by line. No quote leaves at a stale cost because the number is fresh when the client takes off.

Historical pricing stays preserved. Every cost change. Every SKU. Every effective date. When a builder pushes back on a price increase, you have the mill invoice to back it up.

A lumber yard with three locations and a truss plant has inventory spread across four places. A contractor at the counter needs 50 sheets of 3/4 CDX. Branch A has 20. Branch B has 35 but nobody at Branch A can see that. The counter salesperson calls Branch B. Busy. Calls again. No answer. The contractor walks out and buys from the competitor across town.

Quotery shows available stock at every location on the same screen. Branch A short on something critical. Branch B has it. The system routes the pick and the delivery goes out on time. Stock transfers between branches are tracked in the same system with a clean audit trail. No phone calls. No walkie-talkies. No lost sales because inventory visibility stopped at the building wall.

Your inventory is one pool, not four silos. Your customers get what they need from whichever branch has it.

Lumber yards live on contractor credit. Net 30 terms. Progress draws on big jobs. The builder pays when the bank releases the draw and not before. Your AR aging report has accounts at 60, 90, and 120 days. You are running a bank for your customers and the interest rate is zero.

Quotery supports progress billing tied to project milestones. Payment via card, ACH, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. D+2 settlement standard. Instant payout available when cash timing matters. Your AP module handles supplier bills, approvals, and payment runs from the same screen.

Every dollar in. Every dollar out. All in one place. You stop being a bank and get back to selling lumber.

Building codes vary by jurisdiction and by application. Floor joists in one county need L/480 deflection. In the next county over, L/360 is fine. Fire rated assemblies need specific drywall types and fastening patterns. Treated lumber for ground contact is not the same as treated lumber for above ground use. Ship the wrong grade and the load gets rejected at the job site.

Quotery supports compliance tagging at the product level. Span ratings. Fire ratings. Treatment levels. Relevant code references. When a quote includes products that may not meet code for the project's jurisdiction, the system flags them. It is not a substitute for the building inspector. It catches mismatches before the load goes out.

The right lumber ships the first time. The inspection passes. The builder stays on schedule. You keep the account.