RafterSuite puts a live 3D building designer on your website and prices every change from your own catalog. Each quote request arrives as a priced estimate, ready to print as a quote and a foundation plan. The shop, the crew and the books are next.
A board of every open job by status, follow-ups with a morning email, a job thread for every call and note, and sales numbers by rep. Plus job costs against the estimate, and partition walls.
Slab or piers, every column and lean-to post, lettered baseplates with a detail sheet for each, every door and window dimensioned, and open areas that step down and slope away. Printed under your name.
Your letterhead, a picture of the customer’s building, its colors and one price range, with no line items. Save a change to the design and the estimate reprices.
Undo and Redo, a tablet layout and a simpler phone designer, tidier tabs, numbered doors and windows, and eighteen 3D props for scale.
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Product tour
Everything RafterSuite does today.
Every screen in this tour is built and working in the app, from the designer your customers use to the back office your team runs on. A beta invitation gives you the 3D designer and a view-only look at the back office; estimates, prices and team changes are for company accounts.
Pictures are taken straight from the app, using a fictional demo dealer, Greenbow Construction. Prices are hidden in them. In the app, every price comes from your own catalog. Prefer it step by step? Take the guided tour.
Your customers design their building in 3D, on your website.
A live 3D designer under your company’s name, logo and colors. Customers see a price range as they go, and your reps use the same designer to fine-tune any building.
Gable and single-slope roofs, clear-span and multi-span frames, up to 300′ long
Lean-tos on any wall, open or enclosed, and wrapped around corners
Roll-up, sectional and sliding barn doors, walk doors, standard windows and framed openings, placed to the inch
Separate roof and wall panels, colors, wainscot, insulation, gutters and overhangs
Open or close any bay, and 3D props for scale, from tractors to boats
02RafterSuite Design & Estimate
The 3D model and the price are the same building.
Switch to the Structural Frame view and see the steel you’re selling. The material list is built from that same design, so what your customer sees is what you price.
Columns, rafters, purlins, girts and eave struts, sized by your own structural rules
Rafters picked from your engineer’s design tables, with every column matched to its rafter
Baseplates, connection plates and clips counted for every frame
Express Shelters with the roof cantilevered past the columns, and bypass wall girts for your reps
Gable and eave overhangs drawn and priced, with limits that follow the endwall framing
An estimated shipping weight on every estimate, broken down by material
03RafterSuite Design
Every design can turn into a lead.
Customers share their building by text, email or social media, or save its picture. When they’re ready, Get a Quote sends the building and their details straight to your office.
A shared link reopens the building exactly as it was, and anyone can change their own copy
Link previews show a picture of the building with your company’s name
A shared link doubles as a way to save a design for later
Each quote request emails your team and arrives as a fully priced estimate
04RafterSuite Estimate
Leads arrive as priced estimates.
Every quote request becomes an estimate in your back office, priced item by item from your own catalog, rules and margins, with the customer’s building attached.
Primary and secondary steel, sheeting, trim, openings, foundation, insulation, freight and fees
Price the odd item right on the estimate, or add a one-off line
Takeoffs counted the way a crew orders, from wall panels to purlin laps, butyl tape and closures
An Unusual features line for an extra charge or a discount, while the customer still sees one price
Open the building in 3D, save a change, and the estimate reprices from today’s prices, keeping your manual items
Jobs within city limits priced for engineered plans, and “not sure” flagged for your rep to confirm
05RafterSuite Estimate
A clean quote on your letterhead.
Print or save a quote for your customer: your letterhead, the job name and number, a picture of their building, its colors, what’s included and one price range. The line items stay in your office.
Your phone, email and address, how long estimates are valid, how wide the price range is, and your own conditions
A check before you print for anything that still needs a price
Letter, Legal, Tabloid or A4, or save it as a PDF
Every preview and print recorded in the activity log
One click on the Foundation tab draws the plan: the slab or piers, every column and its baseplate, the lean-to posts and footings, and every door and window, dimensioned the way a drafter would.
Dimension strings locate each opening from the corners and columns, then the bays, then the overall
Every baseplate drawn to size and lettered by kind, with a detail sheet for each letter showing its anchor bolt holes
A numbered openings key with each door’s and window’s kind, size and wall
Turn, zoom and pan, with labels that always read the right way
Print-ready sheets with your logo, the job name and a QR code that opens the job
A foundation for each lean-to, so a lean-to on piers can sit beside a slab
Every estimate comes with a list of everything that goes on the truck: steel, panels, trim, fasteners, doors and more, with identical pieces combined and colors and lengths shown.
Check items off as they’re loaded, and everyone looking at the list sees the same checkmarks
Works on a tablet on the shop floor, and prints for the paperwork
Only physical goods: no fees, labor or prices on it
08RafterSuite Design
Templates that give every customer a head start.
Publish ready-made buildings for customers to start from, and let your team build and share their own.
Each template tile shows a drawing of its steel frame
Serial numbers that are never reused, so everyone talks about the same building
Reps share templates with teammates; owners and admins decide what customers see
Turn any job into a template straight from its estimate
09Company settings
Your name on it, and only the choices you sell.
The designer carries your logo, name and colors. You decide what customers can pick, and everything else simply isn’t there.
Your logo, a wide header logo and your theme colors
Tick the roof types, pitches, framing styles, foundations, insulation, panels and openings you offer
Your color palette for panels, trim, doors and frame
Size limits for span, height and lean-tos, and up to five questions of your own on the quote form
10Your team
Roles for everyone, and sign-in without a password.
Owners, admins and sales reps each get what their job needs. Add people, change their role or switch them off from one page.
Owner, Admin, Sales Rep and Beta Tester roles, each managing only the roles below it
Each role sees only what it’s for: prices, margins and company settings stay with owners and admins, enforced by the app and logged
Passkeys: sign in with a fingerprint, a face scan or a device PIN
Forgotten passwords reset with an emailed code
A built-in user manual for everyone who signs in, and Ask, a help assistant that answers from it
11Region
Feet and inches, or metric.
Each dealer chooses its measurements, currency and number format, for dealers across English-speaking countries.
Buildings in meters, doors and windows in millimeters, weights in kilograms
Catalog prices per meter, square meter or kilogram, and freight per kilometer
The same steel sizing and pricing rules either way
Quotes and plans on A4 or Letter
Also in the box
Help where you workA plain-language user manual in the back office, a Help button in the designer that opens beside the building, and Ask, a help assistant for your team and your customers.
Engineering toolsImport your engineer’s design tables, look up beam sizes and plates, and check purlin holes against the frame braces.
Price updates by spreadsheetDownload your price list, fill in what changed and upload it. Every change is kept in a price history.
Freight by distanceDelivery priced from the distance between your shop and the job site.
Leads where you want themNew quote requests emailed to the address you choose, with a backup address and a flag if one didn’t go out.
Job numbersEvery estimate gets its own job number, never reused, on its quote, loadout list and foundation plan.
See it move
The designer in motion.
Short clips recorded in the RafterSuite designer, with prices hidden.
A finished building, all the way around.
Change the size, add a lean-to, try new colors.
From finished building to structural frame.
Sample documents
See what your customer and your crew get.
Both samples come from the fictional demo dealer, are stamped “SAMPLE” and have their prices hidden.
Sample quote
The quote a customer receives: your letterhead, their building’s picture, its colors, what’s included, one price range and your conditions.
The dimensioned plan with its lettered baseplates, the openings key and a detail sheet for the baseplates, with the header your company gets on every sheet.
RafterSuite is being built to connect the office, the shop and the field. Here’s what each part of your company gets today, and what comes next.
Owners & admins
Today Your catalog, rules, options, branding and team in one place, and sales numbers by rep.
Next Margin at a glance.
Sales & estimating
Today Leads arrive as priced estimates, ready to adjust in 3D and print, with statuses, assigned reps, a pipeline board and follow-ups.
Next Quote approval and customer status emails, switched on by your company.
Shop & crew
Today Dimensioned foundation layouts and a loadout list to check off.
Next Fabrication and installation packages.
Office & finance
Today Every estimate itemized, job costs against the estimate, and every catalog price change kept in a history.
Next Customer payments to your own account, then an accounting hand-off.
Who it’s for
Built for fabricators, and for the dealers who sell their buildings.
RafterSuite is made first for companies that sell, fabricate and have the building put up. Dealers, brokers and distributors who buy their buildings from a fabricator are part of the plan too.
Fabricators who sell and build
You quote the building, fabricate the steel and have it put up, so the quote, the steel and the shop need to agree.
Today, in the beta: the 3D designer on your website, priced estimates from your own catalog, printable quotes, foundation plans and a loadout list for the shop.
In development: shop and crew packages for your fabrication shop.
On the roadmap: an engineering review step before a plan reaches the shop.
Dealers, brokers and distributors
You sell the building and a fabricator makes it. You need a fast, accurate quote and a clear order.
Today, in the beta: the same designer, estimates and printable quotes work for any company that sells pre-engineered metal buildings.
Coming: a dealer version that keeps the shop tools out of the way.
Coming: linking a dealer to its fabricator, so orders go one way and job progress comes back. We’re still shaping this with fabricators.
