Built for Australian Carpenters
Quoting & Invoicing Software for Carpenters
Quote the wardrobe off the alcove measure, before you've packed the tape.
From door hangs and skirting runs to custom built-ins, decks, and staircases, price per door or per linear metre, track your Bowens and Dahlsens markup, invoice before you pack the ute, and chase the payment from the next site. All-in-one for $0 to $69/mo, replaces Tradify + Xero + Calendly.
Free plan. No card required. · GST & ABN built-in · Itemised quotes & invoices · Sign up in 60 seconds





Xero, ServiceM8 and Squarespace add up to $90/mo at their own published starting prices, verified 2 August 2026. OneBookPlus Starter is $29/mo, a $61/mo difference, before whatever you pay for bookings, CRM and email marketing. Check the maths with your own numbers below.
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Reference material for sole traders and contractor teams
Start a Trade Business
8-step founder guide, ABN, GST, licence, White Card, insurance, tools, pricing, first clients.
InteractiveTradie Quote Calculator
Interactive estimator combining hourly rate, materials markup, travel, callout, and GST.
ReferenceTrade Licence by State
State-by-state thresholds, regulators, and invoice requirements for AU trade licensing.
Operator GuideBuilding & Construction Award
Plain-English MA000020, CW/1–CW/10, industry/tool/fares allowances, RDO system.
ReferenceTradie Insurance Guide
PL, workers comp, tools, vehicle, PI, home warranty, contract works, coverage and premium ranges.
Key takeaways
5- OneBookPlus is quoting, job-management, and invoicing software for Australian carpenters, replacing stacks like ServiceM8 ($29/mo), Tradify ($48/mo per user, ex GST), Xero ($37/mo) and Calendly (US$10/mo). Vendor prices verified 2 August 2026. One platform from $0/mo (Free), $29/mo (Starter), or $69/mo (Growth, billed in AUD).
- Carpenters in Australia typically hold a Certificate III in Carpentry (CPC30220) and a state-issued trade licence, NSW Fair Trading, VIC VBA, QLD QBCC, SA CBS, or WA BCB, and your licence number prints on every quote and invoice automatically.
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- Framing and structural carpentry work follows AS 1684 (Residential Timber-framed Construction) for stud, plate, and bracing sizing, with AS 4055 wind classifications driving the required tie-down and bracing schedule.
- Pricing flexibility per door, per linear metre of skirting or trim, per square metre of decking, or fixed-price for custom built-ins lets you mix unit-priced and fixed-price line items on the same GST-compliant quote.
- Materials markup tracking against Bunnings, Bowens, and Dahlsens supply runs gives you true gross margin per job, with receipt photos lined against the job record so BAS-time GST credits export cleanly.
Everything You Need
Built for How Carpenters Actually Work
Forget clunky desktop software. OneBookPlus is the carpentry business app designed for chippies who spend their days cutting, hanging, and fitting, not in an office.
Carpentry Quotes: Per Door, Per Linear Metre
Build detailed quotes for door hangs, skirting runs, custom built-ins, decks, and staircases. Price by door, by linear metre, by square metre, or fixed-price, itemise labour and timber, and customers accept with one click.
Materials Markup Tracking
Log timber, fixings, hardware, and joinery supplies at cost, then apply your standard markup automatically. See exactly what you paid Bunnings, Bowens, or Dahlsens versus what the customer was charged on every job.
Job Board for Custom Builds
Track multi-week fit-outs, custom wardrobes, and staircases on a visual job board. Move cards from Quoted to Materials Ordered to In Progress to Snag List to Invoiced, never lose a job mid-build.
GST & BAS Ready
Every invoice automatically calculates 10% GST and displays your ABN and licence number. Export GST summaries at BAS time, your accountant will thank you.
Crew Scheduling & Week View
See your entire week, door hangs, deck builds, fit-outs, and snag-list days. Assign jobs to your chippies, second-fix carpenters, or apprentices and track progress from Quoted through to Invoiced.
Hourly Rate Billing
Bill repairs, snag-list days, and small jobs at your hourly rate alongside fixed-price jobs on the same invoice. Start a timer on your phone, log it against the job, and the hours roll into the invoice automatically.
Client History & CRM
Carpentry runs on repeat work. Store every customer's job history, materials preferences, and snag-list notes. When the same homeowner calls about another reno, you've got the file open in seconds.
Quote Win Rate & Revenue Trends
Track your 90-day quote conversion rate. See week-over-week revenue trends so you know if your pipeline is growing or tightening before it becomes a cash flow problem.
Online Bookings for Free Quote
Share a public booking link so homeowners can book a free measure-and-quote without phone tag. Block out your unavailable times, set the visit length, and bookings drop straight onto your calendar.
AI Estimating
Describe a job, a deck, a fit-out, a run of built-ins, or speak it, and watch a full, sectioned estimate build in front of you, priced from your own cost catalogue and calibrated to what you actually pay your suppliers. A built-in reviewer flags missing items, pricing outliers and AU compliance gaps, and lets you add any it finds to the estimate with one tap. You review every line; the AI just does the first draft. Included, not a paid add-on.
Learn more about AI EstimatingCost Catalogue & Recipes
Keep your timber, hardware and labour rates in one catalogue, then build reusable recipes that price a stud wall or a deck per m² in one click, so every quote is grounded in your real costs and your markup, with wastage built in.
Learn more about Cost Catalogue & RecipesDigital plan takeoff
Upload a plan (PDF or photo) and AI measures it, deck and floor areas, wall runs and opening counts, dropping each measurement straight onto the drawing with a confidence score. Zoom, pan and drag any shape to correct it, then tap one symbol (a door, a window) and it finds and tallies every other one. Accept the numbers you trust and build a priced estimate from them.
Learn more about Digital plan takeoffSite photos into a progress claim
Photograph what's done on site and AI reads the photos against your schedule of values, suggesting a percent complete for each stage, framing at 90%, fit-out at 60%. It drafts the claim for you to review; you check every stage and nothing bills until you send it. The claim goes out as a GST-compliant invoice the client can pay online.
Learn more about Site photos into a progress claimFree plan available · No credit card · Cancel anytime
Free booking page included
Your carpentry business gets a booking page. Free.
Stop paying a website subscription you do not need, and skip the up-front designer quote. Every OneBookPlus carpenter gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? The Website Builder app is $29/mo and we host it for you.
your-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-businessyourbusiness.com.au: your own branded domain, hosted by us24/7 customer self-booking
Customers book carpentry jobs from your branded page any time. New enquiries land in your dashboard ready to schedule.
Branded with your colours, logo & licence
Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.
Show service prices upfront
Deck build $2,400. Door hang $480. Customers see prices before booking, kills the price-shopping phone calls.
Mobile-first: looks great on phones
Your booking page is built mobile-first, so a customer searching on a phone can book without pinching to zoom.
Bring your own domain: we host the site
Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Website Builder app ($29/mo) and point your domain at the site we host for you, through a guided DNS and SSL wizard. We don't sell domains, keep yours wherever you registered it.
Local SEO baked in
Schema.org markup for carpentry services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'carpenter in [suburb]' searches.
Carpenters website cost, typical
What carpenters pay for a website
- From $24/mo
Website builder
Squarespace's cheapest plan billed monthly, verified 2 August 2026. Wix publishes no fixed Australian rate.
- $15 to $40/mo
Web hosting + SSL
Bundled in builders; separate if custom site
- $1,500 to $3,000
Designer (one-off)
Only if you want a custom-built site
- From US$10/mo
Bookings on Calendly
Per seat, billed in US dollars, verified 2 August 2026. Separate from your website.
Typical recurring total
~$39 to $64/mo
+ US$10/mo per seat if you add Calendly for bookings, billed in US dollars, and $1,500 to $3,000 up-front if you hire a designer
With OneBookPlus
Included on every plan
- Branded booking page, free plan
- Hosting + SSL, free plan
- 24/7 customer self-booking, free plan
- Connect your own domain with the Website Builder app, +$29/mo (BYO)
Your total
$0 to $29/mo
See it in action
The screens you work from, on site.
These are real product screens: the quote for built-ins, doors and decks, the job board with status per project, and the invoice with materials at cost plus. Tap any screen to zoom in.
Quote built-ins, doors, decks
A quote with the total on top, subtotal and GST underneath, quantity, unit price and GST on every line, a valid-until date, and one button that sends it to the customer.

Job board with status per project
Custom builds, fit-outs, repairs: every job on the board with materials, hours and progress photos.

Invoice with materials at cost+
GST invoice with labour and materials line items, branded PDF, Stripe Pay Now. Add materials at cost plus your markup, line by line.

Simple Workflow
How OneBookPlus Works for Carpenters
From quote to payment in four simple steps, designed around a typical chippy's day.
Quote the carpentry work
Create an itemised quote for the door hang, custom built-in, deck, or fit-out: labour, timber, hardware, and finishing with GST calculated automatically. Price per door, per linear metre, or fixed-price. Send as a professional PDF with your ABN and licence number.
Schedule & complete the build
Once accepted, the job drops onto the crew calendar. Track time on-site with a tap, log timber and hardware as you pick it up from the supplier, snap progress photos, and attach receipts to the job record.
Invoice on the spot
Convert the quote to a GST-compliant invoice with one tap. Add hourly snag-list time and any extras the customer approved, then send before you pack the ute.
Get paid faster
Customers pay online via the invoice link. Automated reminders chase overdue payments so you can focus on the next door, deck, or staircase: not debt collection.
Send a real quote the day you sign up
Who it's for
Built for every carpentry business
Whether you're a sole-trader chippy or running a fit-out crew, OneBookPlus adapts to how carpenters actually work.
Sole-trader Chippy
Running door hangs, skirting, repairs, and small renos solo. Quoting from the ute, invoicing between sites. Needs fast mobile invoicing, automatic GST, and per-door or per-linear-metre quote lines.
Custom-build Specialist
Building staircases, custom wardrobes, and joinery fit-outs over weeks. Needs detailed quoting with materials breakdown, multi-week job tracking, and progress photo records.
Multi-crew Carpentry Team
Running 3-8 chippies and apprentices across multiple builds. Needs crew scheduling, job assignment, hourly time tracking on snag days, and visibility on every active build.
Renovation / Fit-out Carpenter
Subcontracting to builders or working direct on home renovations. Needs progress billing across stages, materials markup tracking, and a job board that handles multi-week scope changes.
What a five-tool stack costs each month
Named tools, at each vendor’s own cheapest published plan, and ours underneath. Vendor pricing changes, so check each one before you decide.
Or use OneBookPlus
$29/mo
Everything in the list above, on one bill.
Start freeNo credit card · Free forever · Cancel anytime
Example walkthrough
Thursday, a fit-out measure and a materials run
An illustrative walkthrough of a typical carpentry day
You start the day checking the week view: three internal door hangs this morning, a custom wardrobe measure-and-quote at midday, an hourly skirting repair mid-afternoon, and progress photos to upload from a deck build.
At the first job, you log each door against the quote, six pre-hung internal doors at your per-door labour rate, with hardware at cost plus your markup. The hardware run on the way over, hinges, latches, packers, gets its receipt photographed and lined against the job. Doors hung by 11am, quote converted to invoice with one tap, sent before you head to the next job.
The wardrobe quote: you measure the alcove on your phone, build line items for the carcass, sliding doors, internal shelving and labour, and price it plus GST. The customer takes the link to discuss with their partner; you get a notification when they accept that evening.
The skirting repair is quick, replacing a damaged section around a fridge alcove. You start the timer on your phone, work for 90 minutes, stop the timer, add the timber from the ute as a line item, and bill it at your hourly rate. The invoice is emailed before you leave the property.
Back at the deck build: you upload four progress photos against the job card, move it from In Progress to Snag List, and note the merbau decking delivery arriving Friday.
End of day: four jobs touched, about a day's takings invoiced, two payments already received, and your quote win rate visible on the dashboard. Come BAS time, the GST summary exports in one click.
How we compare
OneBookPlus vs carpenter software
See how we compare to the tools carpenters typically use.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Xero | ServiceM8 | Tradify |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GST invoicing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Per-door / per-linear-metre quote lines | Yes | No | No | No |
| Materials markup tracking | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Job board for multi-week fit-outs | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Crew scheduling & week view | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hourly rate billing alongside fixed-price | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CRM & client repeat-work history | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Online bookings for free quote | Yes | No | No | No |
| BAS-ready tax reports | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Free plan available | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | $37+/mo | $29+/mo | $48+/mo |
Built for Australian Carpenters
1 tap
Convert an accepted quote to a GST invoice
$0
Free plan, no monthly fees to get started
$29/mo
Starter plan, unlimited invoices and quotes
100%
GST & BAS compliant for Australian carpenters
Carpenter savings calculator
What does your current carpenter software stack cost you?
Adjust the numbers below to match your real monthly spend. The total updates live, and so does what you'd save by replacing the lot with OneBookPlus.
Accounting (Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks)
Xero's cheapest published plan
Jobs & quotes (Tradify, ServiceM8, Fergus)
ServiceM8's cheapest published plan
Website + hosting (Squarespace, Wix)
Squarespace's cheapest published plan, billed monthly
Bookings (Calendly, Acuity)
Calendly publishes US$10/mo. Type what you pay in Australian dollars.
CRM (HubSpot, Pipedrive)
HubSpot publishes US$20/mo. Type what you pay in Australian dollars.
Email marketing (Mailchimp, Klaviyo)
Mailchimp publishes no ongoing price. Type what you pay.
Rows open at the cheapest plan Xero, ServiceM8 and Squarespace publish, verified 2 August 2026. Calendly and HubSpot publish in US dollars and Mailchimp publishes no ongoing rate, so those three rows open at zero for you to fill in rather than carry a converted figure.
Your current stack
$90/mo
= $1,080/year
With OneBookPlus Starter
$29/mo
Replaces everything in the list. One bill.
Free plan available · No card required · Cancel anytime
One day, written by itself, an illustrated day of an Australian carpentry business run on OneBookPlus
An illustrated day, not real customer data. Scroll through it from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a review invite is queued for the next daily run, and the day closes with the ledger already written.
6:55am
While you're loading the ute
The two-doors call you'd have missed.
A Newtown landlord has two doors that won't latch. He calls the first carpenter on Google, you.
AI Receptionist
Answered before the ute was loaded.
The AI answers in two rings, books 10:00 am, and texts a confirmation, before you've left the driveway.
On the job
Door notes and access, already on the card.
Job card on your phone: address, door notes, access. The quote's pre-filled at your per-door rate.
From the ute
Invoiced at the per-door rate, from the ute.
One tap converts the job to a GST invoice with a pay link. No laptop, no evening paperwork.
While you're on the next job
Paid, and the timber is costed to the job.
Card payment lands, the books update themselves, and $43.64 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
The review ask, once the doors latch.
After payment clears, the AI texts Kurt an invite to leave a review, timed to the delay you set. No chasing, no awkward ask.
The day closes itself
Two doors hung, a wardrobe quoted.
You hung two doors and quoted a wardrobe. The book did the rest.
$0
collected
0
admin tasks done by AI
0
evenings lost
An illustrated day, not real customer data. AI Receptionist is a $79/mo add-on that needs AI Companion ($25/mo, included on Growth), and AI Companion is what sends the review invite as well. The rest of the day is the app itself.
Carpenter pricing
Four plans. All built for chippies.
Start free, upgrade when the jobs justify it. No contracts, no setup fees, no per-chippy tax. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Quote your first door hang today, no credit card.
- 10 invoices/month
- 5 quotes/month
- Per-door & per-linear-metre quote lines
- GST + ABN + licence number on every doc
- Branded free measure-and-quote booking page
- Mobile PWA (works on-site, off the ute)
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces Tradify + Xero + Calendly + your website builder.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited invoices, quotes & jobs
- Materials markup tracking (Bunnings, Bowens, Dahlsens)
- Job board for multi-week fit-outs
- Hourly snag-list timer billing
- Stripe online payments + reminders
- Accounting, P&L & BAS reports
- 3 team members (1 owner + 2 chippies)
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Plus
$49/mo
Outgrowing the basics, unlimited contacts & bookings, advanced reporting.
- Everything in Starter
- Unlimited contacts & bookings
- Advanced reporting & analytics
- Batch invoicing
- Budget tracking
- 5 team logins
- 10 GB website media storage
Growth
$69/mo
For fit-out crews running 3+ chippies with marketing on the side.
- Everything in Plus
- Unlimited contacts + bookings
- Progress billing across build stages
- Paid add-on: Google Ads dashboard, $99/mo
- SMS marketing to your customer list
- Reputation Engine (auto Google reviews)
- 10 team members
Prices in AUD inc. GST. Online card payments carry Stripe processing fees (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards) plus a 2.5% OneBookPlus platform fee. See the full plan comparison
Already on another tool?
Switching from ServiceM8, Tradify or Fergus?
Switching is designed to fit in a single evening. Export your clients and jobs as CSV from your current tool, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and you're quoting the next built-in before tomorrow's first cut.
- 1Export clients + jobs CSV from ServiceM8, Tradify or Xero (5 min)
- 2Upload via the bulk importer, contacts, addresses and job history auto-map (10 min)
- 3Set your hourly rate, per-door rate, markup % and supplier list (15 min)
- 4Cancel your old subscriptions tomorrow morning, smoko in hand
Switch from
Built-in AI
Can’t get to the phone? Your AI can.
You're under a sink or up a ladder, you can't stop the job to grab the phone, and every missed call is work that goes to the next tradie on Google.
OneBookPlus
AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Burst pipe in the laundry, can someone come today?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it, Emergency call-out · today 2:00pm, and texts a confirmation.
Extend Your Toolkit
Apps for Carpenters
Add advertising, tax lodgement, booking pages, and more to grow your carpentry business.
Australian Owned
Built in Melbourne, AU
GST Compliant
ATO-ready from day one
Encrypted & Isolated
TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, tenant isolation at the database layer, read the security page
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about invoicing and job management software for carpenters in Australia.
Is OneBookPlus free for carpenters?
Yes, our free plan includes 10 invoices and 5 quotes a month and up to 250 contacts. Perfect for sole-trader chippies just getting started. Upgrade to Starter ($29/mo) for unlimited invoices and quotes as your carpentry business grows.
Does carpenter invoicing software handle GST and BAS?
Every invoice automatically calculates 10% GST, displays your ABN and licence number, and meets ATO requirements. At BAS time, export a GST summary in one click, collected GST on sales and paid GST on timber and hardware purchases already tallied.
Can I quote per linear metre or per door in OneBookPlus?
Yes. Build line items priced per door, per linear metre of skirting or trim, per square metre of decking, or fixed-price for custom built-ins. Mix unit-priced and fixed-price items on the same quote so the customer sees a clear breakdown.
Can I track timber and hardware markup against jobs?
Absolutely. Log purchases from Bunnings, Bowens, Dahlsens, or any supplier at cost, then apply your standard markup automatically when it appears on the invoice. Snap a receipt photo and it attaches to the job record so you see real margin, not just revenue.
Does OneBookPlus suit multi-week fit-outs and custom builds?
Yes. The job board is built for multi-week work, wardrobes, staircases, deck builds, full fit-outs. Move cards through Quoted, Materials Ordered, In Progress, Snag List, and Invoiced. Track progress photos, hours, and supplier runs across the whole build.
Can I record AS 1684 wind classifications and framing specs against a job?
Yes. Frame and pergola jobs in Australia must be built to AS 1684 (Residential Timber-Framed Construction) using the site's wind classification, N1 to N6 in non-cyclonic areas or C1 to C4 in cyclonic regions, derived per AS 4055 or AS/NZS 1170.2. Store the engineer's wind classification, span tables used, tie-down details and timber stress grades against each job, plus photos of bracing and fixings, handy for the building surveyor's frame inspection and your own warranty records.
Can I turn a set of measurements into a carpentry quote?
Yes. Describe the job, a deck, a wardrobe, a full fit-out, and AI drafts a sectioned estimate priced from your own cost catalogue. Or upload a plan and AI reads the measured quantities (deck area, wall runs, opening counts) off it into a review queue. A separate AI reviewer checks your drafted estimate for missing items before it goes out. You review and adjust every line; the AI does the first draft, you make the call.
Does OneBookPlus do estimating and takeoffs like Buildxact?
Yes. Build estimates from a cost catalogue and reusable recipes (assemblies), priced per door, per linear metre, or per square metre of decking, with markup or margin and wastage, then convert an accepted estimate straight into a job. You can also upload a plan and have AI read the quantities off it. Unlike a standalone estimating tool, the quoting, invoicing, online payments and GST accounting all live in the one platform.
Do site photos attach to the job for the client to see?
Yes. Photograph the work as it progresses and AI reads the photos against your job's schedule of values, suggesting a percent complete for each stage, framing, fit-out, finishing, with a short reason for each. It drafts the claim; you review and adjust every stage, and nothing is billed until you send it. The claim materialises as a GST-compliant progress-claim invoice (with retention withheld if you use it) that your client can pay online.
How does OneBookPlus compare to Buildxact for carpenters?
Buildxact is a capable estimating and job-management tool, but it has no built-in payment collection, a tax-exclusive-only engine, and its AI estimating is a paid add-on. OneBookPlus builds the estimating, AI plan takeoff, progress claims with retention, variations and GST-ready accounting into one platform, with the AI included in the plan price and clients able to pay progress claims online. A few things Buildxact can't do: tap one symbol on a plan and have AI find and count every other one (their counting is click-by-click), turn site photos into a drafted progress claim, and calibrate estimate pricing to your own recent supplier costs, so your framing, fit-out and deck estimates reflect what you actually pay Bowens or Dahlsens. You can export your data any time, so there's no lock-in.
About the author
Bishal Shrestha
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal spent a decade running digital projects for Australian small businesses before founding OneBookPlus. He writes and maintains these pages, and publishes what OneBookPlus does not do alongside what it does.
Read the founder bioHow this page was researched
The compliance and licensing statements above are taken from the bodies this page links to, including Standards Australia, training.gov.au and NSW Fair Trading, so you can read the rule rather than take our word for it. Plan prices come from the OneBookPlus price registry, so the page and the checkout cannot disagree. Everything said about OneBookPlus describes what the product does today, and the page says so where it does not do something.
How OneBookPlus Works for Carpenters
Running a carpentry business in Australia means juggling more admin than most chippies signed up for. You're quoting custom built-ins from the ute, scribbling materials lists for Bowens runs, and then coming home to reconcile job cards against Xero invoices. Many carpenters pay from $29/mo for ServiceM8 or Tradify, from $37/mo for Xero, and a third bill for a booking page and CRM, yet none of these tools were designed to work together for the way carpentry actually flows. You end up double-entering data, chasing receipts between systems, and spending Sunday nights on BAS prep instead of with the family.
OneBookPlus replaces that patchwork with one platform built for how Australian carpenters actually work. Create detailed quotes priced per door, per linear metre, per square metre, or fixed-price right from your phone. Track every Bunnings, Bowens, or Dahlsens run against the job at cost plus markup so you see real margin, not just revenue. Convert accepted quotes to GST-compliant invoices with a single tap, with your ABN and licence number printed on every document. Run a job board for multi-week fit-outs, custom wardrobes, and staircases so nothing falls through the cracks. And when BAS time rolls around, your GST summary is already waiting.
Your Daily Workflow
It's 6:30am and your phone buzzes: a homeowner has booked a free measure-and-quote through your OneBookPlus booking page for a custom wardrobe. You glance at the week view: three internal door hangs in the morning, the wardrobe quote at midday, an hourly skirting repair after lunch, and progress photos to upload from a multi-week deck build. At the door-hang job, you log six pre-hung doors against the quote at $95 each, snap a Bunnings hardware receipt, and the markup applies automatically. Job done by 11am, quote converted to invoice with one tap, sent before you leave the driveway. Your apprentice, working a snag-list day across town, runs his own timer for hourly billing, so you can see exactly where he is and what he's logged from your phone.
Expenses & Accounting
Record the wardrobe customer's deposit against the outstanding invoice and the balance owing updates on the spot. Snap or drag in the docket from Bunnings, Bowens, Dahlsens or your local hardware supplier and the scanner reads the supplier, date, GST and total, so the purchase lands as a materials expense against the right job and you see true gross margin per build. Ute fuel, public liability premiums and tool purchases sit in their own categories. Come BAS time, your GST collected on sales and GST paid on timber and hardware are already tallied. Export the summary in one click and forward it to your accountant, or lodge it yourself through your usual BAS channel in minutes.
Getting Started
Sign up free. No credit card, no lock-in contract. Select “Carpenter” as your business type and OneBookPlus pre-configures your account with carpentry service categories, typical job types (door hangs, skirting, decks, custom built-ins, fit-outs, repairs), and invoice templates that include your licence number. Import your customer list via CSV from ServiceM8, Tradify, or a spreadsheet. You can have your first quote sent the day you sign up, and your hardware runs logged against jobs by the end of the first week. The switch from ServiceM8 and Xero is designed to fit in a single evening.
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Authoritative sources
Where the licensing, standards and tax facts on this page come from
Australian carpenters work under state-based licensing schemes, the national building and construction award, residential timber-framing standards, and ATO GST rules. We cite the primary bodies for the claims on this page so you can verify directly.
- training.gov.au, Certificate III in Carpentry (CPC30220) , The national qualification most Australian carpenters hold.
- NSW Fair Trading, Building & carpentry licences , Licence categories and thresholds for carpentry work in NSW.
- QBCC, Carpentry licence classes (QLD) , Queensland Building and Construction Commission licensing for carpenters.
- AS 1684, Residential Timber-Framed Construction , Span tables, bracing and tie-down for framing and pergola work (with AS 4055 wind classifications).
- Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020 (MA000020) , Modern award covering carpenter and apprentice employment conditions.
- ATO, GST in the building and construction industry , How GST applies to carpentry labour, materials and BAS reporting.
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