A kitchen is paid on the drawings, again when the carcasses are cut, and last on the day it goes in — against a price fixed before anyone measured the worktop or knew the install would run four days. Ordamo holds those three stages on one job and shows what is left of the price once every cost has been paid out again.
A deposit now, the balance later
Three stages, not two — and the middle one is owed at a moment with no document attached to it.
Weeks between the sale and the delivery
Fourteen weeks, most of them after the customer has paid you 80% and is waiting to see something arrive.
A price agreed before the cost is known
The worktop is templated on site, weeks after the price was signed. So is the fourth day of install.
An order that started in a chat
A kitchen starts as a plan, a site visit and a quote by email. Never as a checkout.
A fitted kitchen, signed off from drawings in January. Fourteen weeks from the signed drawings to the last day of install. The figures are invented; the shape is not.
Money in — $23,500 agreed
Money out — quoted at $13,600
The quote implied $9,900 (42.1%). The invoices left $9,030 (38.4%) — $870 less than the job was priced to earn. The stone was templated after the carcasses went in and came back over, and the install ran a fourth day nobody had priced.
Can I take payment in three stages rather than a deposit and a balance?
Yes. An order holds what has been paid and what is still owed, with dates, and a payment is recorded when it arrives rather than on a schedule Ordamo runs. Three stages, four, or a deposit and a balance are the same object: money in against one job, and a figure still outstanding you can read without adding it up.
What did the kitchen earn once the fitters are paid?
Every cost tagged to the job — sheet goods, the stone, the ironmongery, the fitters' days — comes off the agreed price on the job itself, so the margin is after the install rather than the one you quoted with. Parts bought as one run for several kitchens are split across them in proportion to their estimates rather than guessed at.
The customer keeps asking when the fitters are coming. Does Ordamo tell them?
Every order has a page they can open with a link: what they have paid, what is still owed, the date it is expected. The same figures you are looking at, so the answer stops depending on you being at your desk. Nothing is sent automatically — Ordamo does not chase — but the page is live from the day the order is taken.
Named plainly, so you find out here rather than in week two.
No site scheduling
No fitters' calendar, no day-by-day plan, no crew assignment. An order has a date it is expected, not a slot in a diary.
No variations as a document
A variation is a change to the price on the order, not a signed change-order with its own numbering. No retentions held back automatically.
No invoices
No invoice document, no legal numbering, no VAT return. The job carries the figures; your invoicing tool issues the paper.
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
Not quite your work?
Ordamo is built by Marat and Nikolai in Buenos Aires, who run their own made-to-order furniture brand on it every day. If something here is wrong about your trade, write to marat@ordamo.app and it gets fixed.
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