Matched to your own units
Each unit is matched by its code to one of yours, and stopped if it is not built from a scheme or if Winner drew it at another size. Your unit is what is cut. Winner's fronts are compared and any difference is a note.
Cutting optimisation · Cabinet creation · Quoting
Design it.
Quote it.
Cut it.
Web Elements turns a kitchen design into a priced quotation, a rip-first cutting plan, labelled panels and a production job, all from the same cabinet rules. Nothing is typed twice.
The Free plan cuts 10 lists in any 30 days. No card needed to look around.
16 mm, with grain
2745 × 1825
1Trim the long edge
ADoor
- Size
- 2300 × 446 × 16
- Board
- Light Oak melamine
- Sheet
- 1 of 3
- Edge
- 2 long, 0 short
12.9%
of boards bought wasted, across our 134-job benchmark
about 3s
to plan a cutting list of 400 parts
3stages
rip, cross-cut, rip again. A sheet is never cut more
11columns
is all a Winner export needs to become a quotation
One chain
Every step reads the one before it.
A design becomes a quotation. An accepted quotation becomes a job. A job becomes a cutting plan, labels and a stock order. Nobody re-keys a number on the way.
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1
Design
Import a Winner design, or build units from your own catalogue.
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2
Quote
Priced lines in groups, printed with a summary.
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3
Accept
One click makes the job and freezes its payment terms.
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4
Prepare
A snapshot of what the job is made of, checked by gates.
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Cut
Rip-first plans with every cut numbered.
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Label
Labels in the order the parts leave the saw.
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Stock
Reserve, issue and reorder from a live ledger.
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Deliver
Loading, delivery and installation. On the way.
01 — Cabinet creation
Build the cupboard once.
Size every width.
Teach Web Elements how your workshop builds: a frame, the components it is made of and the rules for every board. It sizes a whole range from that. Change a rule once and it tells you how many units it touches before anything moves.
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No formulas to write. Pick the source of a size, tick the parts of the frame that come off it, type a clearance. The calculation library is closed, so a size always works out or says why not.
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Ranges in one go. 300 to 1050 by 50, and 1200 as well. Each unit is coded from the prefix, its width and a suffix: F600, F6004D.
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Sections from the floor up. Four drawers in a 720, or a door with two shelves behind it. The sections may never add up to more than the unit.
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Corners and end units are first-class. Diagonal and angled corners, and an open end unit, each with its own frame and a cut front edged after cutting.
| Board | Rule | Cut size |
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Illustrative rules for a 720 high, 560 deep floor unit in 16 mm board. Every company sets its own. Boards are rounded up to the next whole millimetre, fronts down.
16 mm board with grain
2745 × 1825 mm
Sheet 1 of 1
1Trim the long edge
Leftover 13.6%
02 — Cutting optimiser
A plan the saw can actually follow.
Boards are cut rip first, the way a sliding-table saw is used. Every first cut runs the full length of the board. Each strip is cross-cut into pieces, and a piece is ripped once more where narrower parts lie side by side. Three stages, and no more.
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The widest strip first, from the edge your fence is on. The part a strip is ripped for is the first piece cut off it. Right or left is one setting.
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Every cut, in sawing order, with the note the operator reads: Rip 996, Cross-cut 720. The labels come off in the same order.
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It follows your saw. Blade, trim, the narrowest piece that can fall free, how far the rip fence reaches, the longest rip. A refusal names the setting to change.
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Checked before you see it. Several planners each make a whole plan and the best is cut. Every plan is replayed against the rules, so a wrong one never reaches the workshop.
The parts' area alone needs
871
Web Elements, rip first
921
Our earlier optimiser
996
12.9% of the boards bought were waste, against 19.6% for the earlier optimiser. The benchmark is 11 712 parts, taken from real cutting lists and from kitchens composed of real units. It is our own measurement, not an industry standard, and the same list always gives the same plan.
03 — Quoting and Winner import
Design in Winner.
Quote and build in Web Elements.
Winner is where a kitchen is designed. Web Elements is where it is priced, made and called by your own codes. Drop the export in, check what it found, confirm. The quotation and its cutting list are made in one go.
Excel Export.csv
| Position | Quantity | Item Code | Width | Height | Depth | ItemGroup Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 3 | F600 | 600 | 720 | 560 | Kitchen |
| 1.1 | 3 | 718X596 | 596 | 718 | Unit fronts | |
| 2.0 | 1 | F6004D | 600 | 720 | 560 | Kitchen |
| 3.0 | 2 | MW800 | 800 | 720 | 300 | Kitchen |
| 4.0 | 1 | FC900 | 900 | 720 | 900 | Kitchen |
| 9.0 | 1 | MT/SP | 600 | 2120 | 16 | Covering panels |
Columns are found by their headings, in any order, with any separator. Whatever else the export holds is passed over.
- Position
- Quantity
- Item Code
- Rebuild info
- Hinge
- Width
- Height
- Depth
- ItemGroup Name
- Veneering
- Direction
What the review page finds
- Four units matched to your own, by code
- The customer found among your clients, or added when you confirm
- Side panel and kick plate kept as lines of their own
- One front differs from yours. Yours is the one cut, and the line says so
QuotationQ-2026-0042
Draft
Kitchen
F600Floor unit, one shelf, 1 door3R 6 540.00
Winner front 718 × 596 · hinge left
F6004DFloor unit, four drawers1R 4 320.00
MW800Wall unit, 2 doors2R 3 780.00
FC900Floor corner unit1R 3 650.00
MT/SPSide panel 2120 × 6001R 1 240.00
Kitchen totalR 19 530.00
Tiling
Splashback tiling1R 4 800.00
Tiling totalR 4 800.00
Summary: KitchenR 19 530.00
Summary: TilingR 4 800.00
VAT 15%R 3 649.50
TotalR 27 979.50
Sample figures, to show the layout.
The customer and the model, from the file
A customer you do not have yet is added as a client when you confirm. Anything the file leaves open, the client, the model, the board the fronts are cut from, is chosen on the review page, not guessed.
Quoted in sections, with a summary
Kitchen, Bedroom cupboards, Tiling, Plumbing, or groups of your own. Side panels, kick plates and other work stand on lines of their own, in the right section, and the printout ends on a summary of them all.
Prices today are typed per unit, or carried across from Winner's amounts. Costing a quotation from every board, front and fitting of a unit is on the way (see what is next).
04 — Production
From a yes to the first cut,
with gates that say no for good reasons.
When the client agrees, one click makes the production job and freezes its payment terms. Each step towards the saw is guarded by gates you set to Off, Warn or Block.
- New
- Planning
- Released
- In production
- Delivered
Prepare New to Planning
- BlockSite details: address, a contact with a phone, the delivery date
- FactBoards resolve: the model and every board are chosen
Release Planning to Released
- BlockPayments due: what falls due on acceptance and before production is paid
- WarnDrawings signed off · install date set · snapshot current · stock covered
Start cutting Released to In production
- FactA cutting list has been made
- BlockThe boards are on the shelf, not merely on order
- WarnEvery board has a cutting plan
A Manager can override a Block with a reason of ten characters. It is kept, logged and flagged red on the board. The Fact gates cannot be overridden: a job with no board has nothing to cut.
Incoming 3
Kitchen, 12 unitsDelivery 24 Nov
Vanity and pantryOn hold
Study desk and shelvingDelivery 8 Dec
Planning 2
Bedroom cupboardsDelivery 3 Dec
Kitchen, 7 unitsPromised within a week
Released 3
Kitchen, 9 unitsReleased over a gate
SculleryDelivery 14 Nov
LaundryDelivery 19 Nov
In production 2
Kitchen, 15 unitsAssembly is late
Wardrobes, 4 unitsCutting, day 2
On track
Needs a look
Late
Sample jobs
Payments in the order they fall due
Terms are typed on the quotation: a share or a fixed amount, due on acceptance, before production, before delivery. A payment is taken against them in order, with nobody allocating it. A wrong one is voided with a reason, never deleted. Proforma invoices and receipts print from the grids.
Stages dated back from the delivery date
Eight stages, from ordering materials to installation, each with the days it takes and whether you use it. Delivery stands on the agreed date, each stage ends the working day before the next, and one day of slack is kept. A stage that runs late asks why.
The lists the floor works from
A store list to tick and sign, a drilling list that says how many sides of how many panels per board, a progress plan and the bill of materials. One layout, printed or saved as a PDF from the job's page.
05 — Stock and purchasing
Know what is on the shelf,
and what the jobs have claimed.
Stock is a ledger. Every receipt, issue, count and return is a signed row, and what is on hand is worked out from it, never typed over. A job reserves its boards when it is released, never when it is only quoted.
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Only the key items are tracked: every board and tape, and the hardware that is a hinge or a runner. Screws and small fittings never stop a job.
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Order suggestions by supplier, in the supplier's own unit rounded up: a whole sheet, a roll of 50 m, a box of 1000. Make the draft purchase orders in one click. Nothing is placed for you.
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Goods received against the order, part by part, at the cost on the invoice. The average cost moves with it, so a job's material cost is what it actually took.
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A count starts it and keeps it right. Load opening balances from your own spreadsheet. A wrong entry is reversed by a row of its own, never rubbed out.
16 mm board with grain
sheets
On the shelf42
Reserved by released jobs31
Available11
Planned, jobs still being prepared18
On order0
Short7
Order suggestions
Draft purchase order
Place
Goods received
Sample figures. The shortfall is the reserved and planned needs and the level you keep, less the shelf and what is on order.
06 — Labels and printouts
Labels in the order
the parts leave the saw.
A label is printed for every part of the cutting plan, to stick on as it comes off the saw. A panel cut six times gives six labels. They come strip by strip, so the stack on the bench follows the plan on the wall.
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Everything the assembler asks. The part's letter and name, its size, the job, the board, which sheet, the grain, what it is edged with and which edges are edged, including an edge cut after the board is shaped.
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A label for every unit, too: the client, the code, the description, which side the door is hung on, and a QR code. "1 of 3" to "3 of 3" for a line of three.
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Plans for the workshop printer. A workshop prints in black and white, so the cutting plan prints as a wireframe, one page for every sheet, with the cut lines still dashed.
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One layout everywhere. Cutting list, quotation, purchase order, store list and drilling list print, or save as a PDF, with your logo and the same margins and foot.
COMPADoor
- SIZE
- 2300 × 446 × 16
- JOB NO
- Q-2026-0042
- BOARD
- Light Oak melamine
- SHEET
- 1 of 3
- GRAIN
- Along the board
- EDGE MAT
- 1 mm Oak PVC
- EDGE
- 2 long, 0 short
Sample customer
F6004D
Floor unit, four drawers
Hinge left
Q-2026-0042 · unit 2 · 2 of 3
07 — Built to be trusted
Nothing changes behind your back.
A workshop runs on numbers that stay put. These are the rules the whole system is built around.
See the impact first
A component is shared by many units. Before a change is saved it says 12 units are built with this component and will be updated.
You confirm, and the component and its units change together, or not at all.
A quoted price stays quoted
Once a quotation is out, only a draft can be changed. Changing a board or a component later never reprices it silently, and the payment terms are frozen the day it is accepted.
A job locks at the first cut
What a job is made of is frozen when it is prepared. Refresh it from the catalogue until cutting starts. After that, a change is a new job and never an unlock.
Mistakes are reversed, not erased
A payment is voided with a reason and entered again. A stock movement is taken back by a row of its own. Clients, materials and components are switched off, never deleted.
Your defaults, in one place
Boards, edging, groove depth, front gaps, hinge bands, charges and markups live on Workshop Defaults. Change one and a bar shows how many units are older than the change, then updates them all in one go.
Each company's data is its own
Every screen and every query is scoped to your company. Admin, Manager, Estimator and Operator decide who may accept, hold, cancel or void, and the Operator never sees the money.
08 — Plans
Start free. Grow into the whole workshop.
Upgrading keeps everything. Your data carries over and the higher plan only unlocks more.
Free
For a project at home, or a first look at the optimiser.
R0
for ever
1 seat
Start free- Cutting lists typed in, optimised and printed: 10 in any 30 days
- A cutting diagram for every sheet
- Your own materials and edging
- Prints carry Web Elements wording
Standard
For a small workshop that quotes elsewhere and cuts here.
R499
a month, before VAT
1 seat · R5 489 a year
Talk to usEverything in Free, plus
- No limit on cutting lists
- Cutting-list import from Excel or CSV
- Hardware and suppliers
- Basic schemes and cabinets
- Priority support
Professional
For a workshop that quotes and builds its own units.
R999
a month, before VAT
3 seats · R10 989 a year
Talk to usEverything in Standard, plus
- Quotations and standard units
- Cutting lists made from a quotation
- Workshop defaults: boards, edging, hinges, charges
- Your own roles and permissions (coming soon)
- Quotation, cabinet list and component list printouts
- Priority support
Enterprise
For full manufacturing, from a Winner design to a finished job.
R1 999
a month, before VAT
10 seats · R21 989 a year
Talk to usEverything in Professional, plus
- Winner project import: quotation, cutting lists, edging, hardware and labels
- Full quotations with cost and profit
- Cabinet range creation and maintenance
- Panel labels, unit labels and a CNC drilling list
Prices are in South African Rand, before VAT. A year is eleven months of the monthly price. Seats are the people who can sign in.
What is next
On the way, and honest about it.
Everything above works today. These are planned and not yet built, so you can see where the system is going before you commit to it.
The shop floor, on tablets
Scan a unit's QR code to mark it built, checklists at each stage, and drilling runs against the drilling list.
Delivery and installation
A loading list, a delivery note signed by the client and by whoever offloads, short and damaged goods with photos, snags and handover.
Costing on every quotation line
Price a unit from its boards, edging, sections, fronts and hardware, so a quotation is priced from your own rules.
Dashboards and a calendar
Late jobs by cause, a calendar of stages, notifications and an export to your accounts.
Offcuts as stock
Keep leftovers above a size on the shelf and cut from them first.
Winner hardware, mapped
Match Winner's hardware and front codes to your own, so those lines can be ordered as well.
Questions
Things workshops ask first.
Do I need Winner to use Web Elements?
No. Type a cutting list, import one from Excel or CSV, or build and quote units from your own catalogue. Winner is one way in, for workshops that design their kitchens in it.
What does the Winner import take from the design?
Which units, how many and how each stands: its size, hinge side, direction and veneering, and whether it was rebuilt. What each unit is made of, what it costs and what it is called are your own. Winner's descriptions and amounts are not needed.
Will it cut the way my saw cuts?
You set the saw on Workshop Defaults: rip first or least waste, which edge the first strip comes off, the blade, the trim, the narrowest piece that can fall free, the longest rip and how far the rip fence reaches. A plan that cannot be cut is refused with the setting to change. It is never put in front of the workshop.
What happens to my quotations when I change a board or a component?
A quotation is frozen once it is quoted. Before a component is saved, it tells you how many units are built with it. A scheme, an assembly, a fitting set and Workshop Defaults each show how many units are older than their last change, and update them when you say so.
Who can do what?
There are four roles today: Admin, Manager, Estimator and Operator. Managers and Admins hold, cancel and void, and the Operator sees no money. Roles you define yourself are planned for Professional and up.
Is there a free plan, and what does it limit?
Yes. Free cuts 10 lists in any 30 days, with a diagram for every sheet, for one user. Its printouts carry Web Elements wording. Upgrading keeps everything you have made.
How accurate is the waste figure you quote?
It is our own benchmark: 134 cutting jobs and 11 712 parts, from real cutting lists and from kitchens composed of real units, measured against our earlier optimiser. Your waste depends on your parts and your saw. Try your own list on the Free plan and see.
Cut your first list free.
Type a cutting list, press Optimise and watch the sheets fill. When you are ready for quotations and production, it is the same system.