Clearview North September 2014 - Issue 154 | Page 57

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JOINERYSOFT PROVES A WISE MOVE
FOR CHRIS SANDERCOCK
When Leicestershire-based
joinery workshop business
owner, Chris Sandercock,
examined software systems for
bespoke joinery manufacturing
three years ago, it was Joinerysoft
he selected - for its ease of use,
ability to calculate u-values and
ability to simplify the flow of
information to his growing team
of joiners in the workshop. It
proved a wise move.
Three years on, and Chris freely
admits that he and his team would
definitely not want to go back and
have to manage without it!
The 2,500 sq ft joinery
workshop, trading with the
name Chris Sandercock, provides
custom joinery throughout
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire
and Warwickshire. The company
predominately manufactures
doors and windows, but it
also produces also stairs,
conservatories, garden rooms or
fitted furniture.
The traditional workshop
employs four full-time and two
part-time joiners utilising modern
tooling but it hasn’t gone down
the route of CNC. Chris says he
has never had an actual plan for
business growth, but if customers
are satisfied, word spreads further
and wider and results in growth.
He still very much values the
hands-on time he personally
spends in the workshop and for
him, that is what it is all about.
Investment in the business has
always been a priority for Chris;
however, as computer literacy
is not a high priority for him, it
took him some time to consider
software. The catalyst came as the
business grew; employing more
joiners made it time-consuming
for Chris to communicate all job
details and manual quoting was
taking up more and more time.
Chris decided it was time to take

the plunge before he got left
behind in the technology race.
He says, “Spreading the
payments for JMS over several
months made it easier to purchase
and the two day training and
installation was with a qualified
joiner who was able to answer all
my questions and got me up and
running straight away.”
With a wide variety of work
that often includes listed
buildings, Chris says, “I am able
to change designs, section sizes,
timber, glass, and fittings quickly
and easily to suit individual
requirements. This means that I
can now offer a variety of options
for customers with itemised prices
for each variant.”
Chris believes that this has
helped him win work and
customers cannot fail to be
impressed with the professional
quotes automatically generated by
JMS, which include diagrams of
each item in the job.

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Chris’s wife, Colette, who is a
full partner in the business and
responsible for bookkeeping,
accounting and generally
keeping the business on track,
has noticed even more time
savings in her workload than
Chris. Chris comments, “I am
now able to do all the quoting
myself without Cole