Production scheduling built for a sign shop floor
A whiteboard tells you what's on today; it never warns you about next Thursday. Sign OS schedules every job across your departments on one timeline, so you can see a bottleneck forming days before it becomes a missed deadline — and the floor works straight off that same schedule instead of a photo of a whiteboard.
One timeline for the whole shop
Every job schedules itself onto a department Gantt timeline, worked back from its due date across design, print, cut, fabrication and install. The timeline is weekend- and holiday-aware, flags capacity overload before you commit, and marks every job green, amber or red so you can see which ones are slipping. You plan Monday with Thursday's crunch already visible, while there's still time to do something about it.
- Department Gantt across design, print, cut, fabrication and install
- Weekend- and holiday-aware capacity
- Overload warnings before a week is overbooked
- Jobs scheduled automatically, worked back from the due date
- Green, amber and red health on every job
The floor works from it, live
Released jobs appear on big-button floor tablet boards — start, finish, next — with no prices shown. QR-coded job sheets clock real time against real steps, so the schedule reflects what's genuinely happening on the floor rather than a plan nobody updated. Print, cut and fabrication queues each get their own board.
- Realtime floor kanban boards — start / finish / next
- QR job sheets: scan, step, clock
- Per-department queues for print, cut and fabrication
- Live status flows back to the office without a phone call
Dispatch and install on the same plan
Installation isn't a separate spreadsheet. Install work schedules on the same timeline as production, carries site and access details, and dispatches to a contractor portal with the job information crews need — so the person planning the week sees making and fitting in one place.
- Install jobs on the same timeline as production
- Site, access and logistics details on the job
- Contractor portal with job sheets — without your prices
- Dispatch this week surfaced on the project dashboard
Scheduling that sharpens your numbers
Because makers clock time against steps, quoted-versus-actual time is visible per job — so scheduling isn't just planning, it's feedback. Over a few months you learn which recipes under-estimate machine or labour time and tune them. Sign OS is built in Australia. Core starts from $89 a month AUD; scheduling and time keeping come with Workshop, or add either to Core on its own in Build your own. Every plan has a free 30-day trial and users included.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the schedule know our capacity?
- Jobs carry the process steps and estimated machine and labour time from their recipes, and the timeline lays that across your departments' working days — weekend- and holiday-aware. When a day or week is overbooked, it warns you, so you can rebalance before you promise a date you can't hit.
- Does the floor have to learn complicated software?
- No. The floor works from big-button tablet boards — start, finish, next — and scans QR job sheets to clock time. There are no prices and no menus to dig through; it's built for gloves-on use on the shop floor, not for an office.
- Does it schedule installation, not just production?
- Yes. Install work sits on the same timeline as making, carries site and access details, and dispatches to a contractor portal — so one plan covers both what's being made and what's being fitted this week.
- What does it cost, and is there a trial?
- Launch $89 for 3 users, Workshop $169 for 10 users, Scale $249 for 20 users, Signature $349 for 30 users per month AUD. Users are included up to each plan’s limit; extra users cost $10 per ten a month. Yearly billing saves 10%: Launch $960, Workshop $1,824, Scale $2,688, Signature $3,768 AUD paid yearly. See Pricing for package inclusions and Build your own.