Why Building Materials distributors choose Quotery
AI-powered takeoff import, commodity pricing, and multi-branch inventory for lumber yards and building material distributors.
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Supplier Catalogs That Stop Being Your Problem
A lumber yard stocks dimensional lumber, engineered wood, plywood, OSB, drywall, insulation, siding, decking, roofing, windows, doors, millwork, concrete, and hardware. Weyerhaeuser sends price updates one week. James Hardie the next. Simpson Strong-Tie whenever they feel like it. Georgia-Pacific drops a 90-page PDF on a Tuesday morning and your purchasing manager stares at it like it insulted her family.
Quotery reads every supplier price sheet as PDF, Excel, or CSV and maps each line to your catalog. A 40-page supplier file that used to eat someone's entire morning finishes in under a minute. Every match links back to the original document so you can spot check it. The system knows the difference between a 2x4x8 KD HT SPF stud and a 2x4x8 KD HT SPF #2 and better, because your margin depends on the difference.
Your catalog stays current. Your sales team quotes off real cost. Nobody spends Tuesday retyping a Weyerhaeuser price sheet.
Random Lengths, Board Feet, and Units That Actually Make Sense
Lumber quoting lives in units most software does not handle. Board feet. Lineal feet. Random lengths with tallies. Squares for shingles. Sheets for plywood. Packs for engineered lumber. Linear feet with specific length cuts. A 50,000 board foot framing package with mixed lengths, species, and grades quoted in the wrong unit is a pricing error that wipes margin on the entire job.
Quotery handles all of it natively. No forcing 2x4x8 into fractional quantities. No manual conversions that introduce rounding errors at scale. The framing package calculates instantly with the right price breaks applied, the right tallies, the right species upcharges. The salesperson builds the quote. The math takes care of itself.
Your quotes are accurate to the board foot. Your margin is accurate to the penny. Your customers stop calling to ask why the invoice does not match the quote.
Commodity Pricing That Updates Before It Hurts You
OSB can swing 40% in a quarter. Framing lumber moves on futures, tariffs, mill output, and weather. A hurricane in the Southeast pushes plywood prices up 15% overnight. Your sales team is quoting off last month's cost because the new price sheet is still sitting in purchasing. Every quote that goes out at the old cost is margin you will never get back.
Quotery processes updated supplier price sheets the day they arrive. It flags every line where the new price differs from your current cost. Margin analysis shows the impact on your most-quoted products, sorted by open quote volume. You decide which increases to pass through and which to absorb, line by line.
Historical pricing stays preserved. Every cost change. Every SKU. Every effective date. When a builder pushes back on a price increase, you have the mill invoice to back it up.
Multi-Branch Inventory Without the Phone Calls
A lumber yard with three locations and a truss plant has inventory spread across four places. A contractor at the counter needs 50 sheets of 3/4 CDX. Branch A has 20. Branch B has 35 but nobody at Branch A can see that. The counter salesperson calls Branch B. Busy. Calls again. No answer. The contractor walks out and buys from the competitor across town.
Quotery shows available stock at every location on the same screen. Branch A short on something critical. Branch B has it. The system routes the pick and the delivery goes out on time. Stock transfers between branches are tracked in the same system with a clean audit trail. No phone calls. No walkie-talkies. No lost sales because inventory visibility stopped at the building wall.
Your inventory is one pool, not four silos. Your customers get what they need from whichever branch has it.
Contractor Payments That Actually Clear
Lumber yards live on contractor credit. Net 30 terms. Progress draws on big jobs. The builder pays when the bank releases the draw and not before. Your AR aging report has accounts at 60, 90, and 120 days. You are running a bank for your customers and the interest rate is zero.
Quotery supports progress billing tied to project milestones. Payment via card, ACH, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, or Google Pay. D+2 settlement standard. Instant payout available when cash timing matters. Your AP module handles supplier bills, approvals, and payment runs from the same screen.
Every dollar in. Every dollar out. All in one place. You stop being a bank and get back to selling lumber.
Code Compliance So Your Lumber Passes Inspection
Building codes vary by jurisdiction and by application. Floor joists in one county need L/480 deflection. In the next county over, L/360 is fine. Fire rated assemblies need specific drywall types and fastening patterns. Treated lumber for ground contact is not the same as treated lumber for above ground use. Ship the wrong grade and the load gets rejected at the job site.
Quotery supports compliance tagging at the product level. Span ratings. Fire ratings. Treatment levels. Relevant code references. When a quote includes products that may not meet code for the project's jurisdiction, the system flags them. It is not a substitute for the building inspector. It catches mismatches before the load goes out.
The right lumber ships the first time. The inspection passes. The builder stays on schedule. You keep the account.
Frequently asked questions
Lumber yard quoting software handles the units, commodity swings, and multi-branch inventory that generic tools miss. Quotery reads supplier price sheets in PDF, Excel, or CSV and maps each line to your catalog, quotes natively in board feet, lineal feet, random lengths with tallies, squares, sheets, and packs, flags commodity cost changes the day new price sheets arrive, and shows stock at every location on one screen.
Yes. Quotery natively handles board feet, lineal feet, random lengths with tallies, squares for shingles, sheets for plywood, and packs for engineered lumber. There is no forcing a 2x4x8 into fractional quantities and no manual conversions that introduce rounding errors at scale. A 50,000 board foot framing package calculates instantly with the right price breaks, tallies, and species upcharges applied.
Quotery processes updated supplier price sheets the day they arrive and flags every line where the new price differs from your current cost. Margin analysis shows the impact on your most-quoted products, sorted by open quote volume, so you decide which increases to pass through and which to absorb, line by line. Historical pricing stays preserved for every SKU and effective date.
Yes. Quotery shows available stock at every location on the same screen. If one branch is short on a critical item and another has it, the system routes the pick and the delivery goes out on time. Stock transfers between branches are tracked in the same system with a clean audit trail, so inventory becomes one pool instead of separate silos.