Articles tagged flat-glass

Deposits on Made-to-Order Glass
Updated 3 hours ago

Ask for a deposit when a customer approves a glass estimate, hold the order until it's paid, and take it off the final invoice automatically. Which jobs it applies to, how to waive or change it, and what the customer see...

Designing a Shower Enclosure
Updated 35 minutes ago

The shower designer turns three wall-to-wall measurements, a layout and your hardware system into sized glass pieces with their edges, hinge cutouts and hardware kit. How to measure for it, how to set up your hardware sy...

From First Call to Paid: A Flat Glass Job
Updated 35 minutes ago

Every step of the guided Flat Glass job: openings and measuring, the piece builder, quote options, who pays, approval and the deposit, where the glass comes from, the shop, scheduling, the install, remakes, and the final...

Online Glass Quote Requests
Updated 35 minutes ago

Put a glass quote form on your website: customers list their openings with rough sizes and send photos, the request lands in an inbox on the Flat Glass board, and one click turns it into a job with the openings and photo...

Remakes: When a Piece Has to Be Made Again
Updated 35 minutes ago

A glass piece arrives chipped, breaks on the cutting table or doesn't fit the opening. How to record a remake: why it happened, who pays, the vendor return for the fabricator's mistakes, and billing the customer when the...

Setting Up Your Glass Price List
Updated 3 minutes ago

How Flat Glass prices glass from your own price list: glass types priced per square foot (price and cost), the starter catalog, minimums and rounding, united-inch brackets, edgework and labor items, cut-in-shop and safet...

The Shop Cut List and Remnant Rack
Updated 35 minutes ago

How glass you cut yourself is tracked: sheet stock counted in square feet, receiving by the sheet, the cut list every job feeds, cut, edged and ready, keeping remnants and using them first, and writing off scrap.