From quote to shipment. One system that speaks your shop's language.

Instant quoting, visual scheduling, and automatic material checks, built for a 10-person shop, not a 500-person factory.

of total project budgets lost to estimation errors

THE PROBLEM

Production scheduling and inventory visibility.

Small shops (10–50 employees) drown in disorganized scheduling, inventory shortages, and manual order management. Most use spreadsheets for quoting, production planning, purchasing, and invoicing. When a rush order comes in, there's no way to see material availability, machine capacity, and delivery dates in one view.

THE SOLUTION

Quote-to-Ship Command Center

Instant quoting from saved configurations, one-click conversion to production orders with automatic material checks, visual shop floor scheduling, and shipping/invoicing triggered by job completion. Built for a 10-person shop, not a 500-person factory.

•Professional company website with capabilities and certifications

•Customer inquiry portal (RFQ submission with specs and drawings)

•Quote builder with saved templates (materials, operations, labor rates)

•Production order tracking (Quoted → Ordered → In Production → QC → Shipped)

•Basic inventory dashboard (raw materials on hand, low-stock alerts)

•Job schedule board (visual timeline of active jobs)

•Customer portal (order status, delivery dates, invoice history)

•Mobile-responsive for shop floor status updates

Starting at

$5,000 – $45,000 setup + $200 – $2,500/mo

THE COMPARISON

How we compare

MRPeasy starts at $49/user. For a 10-person shop, that's $490–1,490/month. We deliver a purpose-built system at a fraction of the cost, focused on the quote-to-ship workflow that small shops actually live in.

Solution

Price

Limitation

MRPeasy

$49–$149/user/mo

Limited dashboard customization. No mobile app. Accounting module is clunky.

JobBOSS2

Custom quotes only

No transparent pricing. Legacy feel. Difficult to budget for.

Katana

$179–$799/mo

Expensive for small shops. Limited to simpler bill-of-materials structures.

Fishbowl

~$329/mo starting

Inventory-focused. Weak on production scheduling and shop floor management.

Global Shop Solutions

Custom ($10k+ setup)

Overkill for small operations. Complex implementation.

★Banana Blueprint

$200 – $2,500/mo

Full system. No limitations.

MRPeasy

$49–$149/user/mo

Limited dashboard customization. No mobile app. Accounting module is clunky.

JobBOSS2

Custom quotes only

No transparent pricing. Legacy feel. Difficult to budget for.

Katana

$179–$799/mo

Expensive for small shops. Limited to simpler bill-of-materials structures.

Fishbowl

~$329/mo starting

Inventory-focused. Weak on production scheduling and shop floor management.

Global Shop Solutions

Custom ($10k+ setup)

Overkill for small operations. Complex implementation.

Complex

Route quotes over a certain dollar amount through management approval

Setup

$399

Monthly

+$25/mo

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From quote to shipment. One system that speaks your shop's language.

Enterprise software companies build for factories with 500 employees and IT departments. You have 15 people and a whiteboard. We build for you. A system where a customer calls for a quote, you pull it together in minutes from your saved rates and operations, convert it to a production order with one click, see if you have the materials on hand, and know when it'll ship, without opening a spreadsheet, sending an email, or checking three different screens.

Or email us: bbteam@bananablueprint.com