Works uses a few words in a particular way. Here's what each one means.
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Plate | A saved print setup: the printer, build time, filament (total grams for the whole plate), hands-on time, and what it yields (e.g. 6 × Phone Stand). |
| Job | One print of a plate on a printer, on the schedule. |
| Made / Bought / Assembled | How an item comes to exist. Made: you print it, and its cost is its share of its plate. Bought: you buy it, and its cost is its price (or the pack's price ÷ how many are in it). Assembled: you put it together from other items and services, such as assembly time. |
| Product | Any item ticked Sold. It has a retail price, and Works shows its profit and margin. |
| Default plate | The plate an item's cost comes from, when it can be printed on more than one. Works shows each plate's cost per piece so you can pick the cheapest. |
| Spool | One physical roll of filament, numbered S-0001, with its grams left: sealed, open, loaded or empty. |
| Print loss | Pieces that didn't come out good when a job was finished. Reports show what they cost. |
| Landed cost | What a received item really cost: its price plus its share of shipping, fees and any taxes you don't get back. |
| Quote / Order | Q-0001 is a price offered to a customer; SO-0001 is a sale. A quote becomes an order with one click (Make it a sale). |
| Quick job | One screen for a walk-in sale while the customer waits, including a one-off print straight from the slicer. |
| Waking hours | When you're awake to start and empty printers. Works flags jobs that start or finish outside them. |
Where things are
The menu across the top:
- Dashboard
- Sales: Quick job, Orders, Quotes, Products
- Production: Schedule, Printers, Plates
- Stock: Inventory, Purchase orders, Suppliers
- Customers: Customers, Messages, Directory listing, Reviews
- Reports
Settings and Plan & billing are in the account menu (your name, top right).
A few things that are true everywhere
- Everything can be undone or corrected. Loading a spool, finishing a job, receiving stock, changing an order's status: each has an Undo or a way to fix it, and the history is kept.
- Your real costs. Prices and profits come from your own rates, printers, filament and supplies, not generic estimates.
- Any printer, any slicer. Nothing is tied to a brand. You type the grams and build time in from your slicer.
- Your currency, time zone and taxes. Each shop has its own currency (CAD or USD), time zone and tax list.