Free tools, comparisons and working documents
- BeadInvoice compared with the tools designers already useEvery option below can send an invoice, so the real question is which one knows what a gram of alloy and an hour at the bench are worth.
- BeadInvoice vs HoneyBookHoneyBook is built for creative service businesses that run projects with clients, while BeadInvoice is built for the specific arithmetic of a ring quoted from grams, stones and hours.
- BeadInvoice vs SquareSquare is a payments and point of sale platform for any small business, while BeadInvoice exists to work out what a custom piece should cost before anyone pays for it.
- BeadInvoice vs The EdgeThe Edge is a full jewelry store management system for retailers with inventory, staff and a repair counter, while BeadInvoice covers only the commission side of an independent bench.
- Free calculators for commission pricing and bench capacityBoth of these answer questions designers usually settle by feel, and feel is what leaves a month of setting work unpaid.
- Commission Quote CalculatorEnter the weight, the metal cost, the stones and the hours, and see the quote and the deposit before you say a number out loud.
- Billable Bench Hours CalculatorStudio hours are not bench hours, and the difference decides whether your shop rate covers the year or only the part of it a client pays for.
- Resources for designers who quote custom workEverything here is built for a studio where the price of the job is decided by grams, stones and hours rather than a price tag on a case.
- Commission Intake and Approval ChecklistEvery commission dispute a designer ever has traces back to something on this list that nobody wrote down.
Home / Site map
Site map
Every page and section of BeadInvoice
A plain list of everything published here, with a line on what each destination covers, so you can go straight to the part you need.
Main pages
- Home: the full product story, from the quoting engine to pricing and the request form.
- About the author: who builds and maintains BeadInvoice, and how to reach him directly.
- Site map: this page.
Home page sections
- The bench problem: where margin leaks out of a custom commission book, with the cost of each leak.
- How it works: the four steps from metal weight to a funded job card.
- Features: the metal feed, stone ledger, bench hours, deposits, approvals and margin reporting.
- Outcomes: the numbers studios report after they stop quoting from memory.
- Types of work: bridal, remounts, fabrication, cast pieces, repairs and trade accounts.
- Inside the job card: what the money side, the bench side, the record and the client view contain.
- Designer references: named testimonials and the results strip.
- Pricing: Solo Bench, Studio, and Studio and Retail, billed monthly in US dollars.
- Getting started: what your first week of setup looks like, day by day.
- FAQ: six answers on quoting, migration, data, integrations, cancellation and client reaction.
- Request a demo: the form that reaches the publisher's inbox.
Legal and policy
- Legal notice: publisher, hosting, intellectual property, liability and applicable law.
- Privacy policy: what the contact form collects, how long it is kept and your rights over it.
- Terms of service: subscription, billing, cancellation, data ownership and liability terms.
Contact
- jimenezjulien42@gmail.com: direct email to the publication director.
- Bench walkthrough request: bring one badly priced commission and we rebuild it live.
The Bench Ledger
Magazine
- The Bench Ledger, the magazine indexThe Bench Ledger index page, listing all nine commission and pricing guides.
- How do I price a custom engagement ring when the gold market moves every single day?Metal is the one line on your quote that changes hourly.
- Should I take in a client's heirloom gold for melt, or quote new casting grain instead?Reusing a grandmother's ring feels generous and sells the story, but old metal carries porosity, unknown alloys and liability.
- What goes wrong when a commission has no written stage approval before the stones are set?Most commission disputes trace back to one skipped signature.
- Do I need to give a client a treatment and origin disclosure on a custom diamond commission?US sellers face FTC jewelry guides, warranty statements on invoices and lab grown disclosure rules.
- How did one designer rebuild her remount business around a fifty percent deposit policy?A studio taking heirloom remounts moved from handshake starts to a signed deposit at intake.
- Is the shift toward lab grown center stones changing what I should quote for bench labor?When the stone costs a fraction of what it once did, the labor line becomes the visible number.
- What should I check before I accept a client's stone across my bench for a remount?An intake done badly turns a chipped girdle into your problem.
- How many billable bench hours can I actually get out of a week running my own studio?Consultations, sourcing, CAD revisions and shipping all eat the day.
- What is it really like to take a rush wedding commission with six weeks until the date?A week by week account of a compressed custom build, where the schedule broke, what the rush fee had to cover, and the decisions that kept the ring on the finger in time.