How Does Scaftra Manage Countertop Work?

How do you run countertop work from field measure through templating to a ready-for-install slab?

Scaftra runs the countertop trade per room through field measure, ordering and templating, production, and install, so the slab is cut off measured reality and tracked to ready for install.

The problem it solves

Countertops are a templating trade: after the cabinets are set, someone field-measures, the shop templates, the slab is fabricated, and a crew installs. The countertop order moves through ordering, waiting on template, template scheduled, template complete, in production, and ready for install. When this lives in texts and a whiteboard, nobody knows whether a slab is templated, in production, or ready, and a crew gets dispatched to an empty room.

Why it matters

Each countertop room is a multi-stage vendor coordination problem before install even starts. Getting the field measure or the template wrong means a re-cut slab, the most expensive mistake in the trade. Tracking the order through its real stages, per room, off an as-built field measure, is what keeps the slab cut to fit and the install scheduled for when the slab is actually ready.

Common mistakes

How it works

1. Field measure the room

   Capture the as-built dimensions in the specific room, usually after the cabinets are set.
2. Order and template

   The countertop order moves through ordering, waiting on template, template scheduled, and template complete.
3. Produce the slab

   The order moves to in production and then ready for install as the shop fabricates.
4. Install when ready

   An install record sets the slab and drives the room to install complete.

How Scaftra does it

Scaftra runs the countertop trade per room. The countertop field measure is bound to its room and required, and the countertop order tracks the pre-install vendor coordination through ordering, waiting on template, template scheduled, template complete, in production, and ready for install. The order is explicitly pre-install coordination only; the physical set is driven by the install record, which advances the room from install started to install complete. Every countertop record is scoped to a room that belongs to the project and is bridged to the dispatch board. Countertop trade writes flow through a controlled per-trade write path that proves company ownership and active project membership. This is built and live.

Key capabilities

• Per-room countertop workflow: Field measure, order, templating, production, and install are tracked per room.
• Order stage tracking: The order moves through templating and production stages to ready for install, so the slab's status is visible.
• Measure-driven templating: The order is fed by an as-built field measure bound to the room, not the bid estimate.
• Bridged to the schedule: Countertop records bridge to the dispatch board so the trade shows on the company schedule.

Benefits

• Slabs are templated off measured reality, so fewer are re-cut.
• Install is scheduled for when the slab is actually ready, not before.
• Each room's order stage is visible instead of living on a whiteboard.

Who it's for

• Countertop contractors.Shops running templating and fabrication across multiple rooms who need per-room order status.
• Project managers on countertop work.PMs coordinating template, production, and install timing per room.

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