[01] Problem
Slabs are tracked in three spreadsheets
Receipts on paper, inventory on Excel, sales on the WhatsApp group. By the time you know a slab is gone, it's already promised to two customers.
[ Industry · Stone retail ]
Australia · Germany · India
SLAB IN → QUOTE → DISPATCH
One system for slab inventory, quotes, fabrication and the books.
Built with stone, marble and granite retailers, the way you'd build it if your day-job wasn't already selling slabs.
[ TL;DR ]
Bluematter builds slab-level inventory, counter quoting and fabrication-tracking software for stone, marble and granite retailers. Replaces six spreadsheets and a WhatsApp group with one system; sits on top of Xero / MYOB / DATEV / Tally rather than replacing them.
- Slab tracking
- QR-coded at receipt · block/lot/origin/yard location/reserved status
- Quote turnaround
- From ~1 hour to ~60 seconds at the counter
- First showroom live
- 8–10 weeks · multi-location adds 2 weeks per site
- Pricing
- Fixed-price · scoped after a 30-min brief
- Integrates with
- Xero · MYOB · DATEV · QuickBooks · Tally · Shopify · WhatsApp
- Live with
- Kohinoor Floors, Stone.Living
Practice lead: Mel George · Founder & Forward Deployed Engineer
See where margin leaks ↓ [◆]Shipped for
Live stone-industry platforms we've engineered and continue to operate.
[01]Where margin leaks
Four problems every yard, every showroom, every fabricator hits.
[02] Problem
Quotes take an hour each
Sales staff measure, look up rate per sqft, factor wastage, add fabrication, then hand-write or retype into Word. Customers walk while waiting.
[03] Problem
Fabrication & dispatch fall through the cracks
Cutting, polishing, edging, delivery, every stage is a phone call. No one knows where a job is without walking to the workshop.
[04] Problem
Accounting & GST are a month behind
Bookkeeper reconciles from photos of invoices. BAS / VAT is reactive. You can't see margin per slab until quarter-end, when it's too late.
[02]The system
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Slab-level inventory
Every slab gets a QR code at receipt. Track block / lot / origin, dimensions, location in the yard, reserved status, and sale price. Photograph once, view from any phone.
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Quote builder for retail counter
Sales staff scan the slab, enter project dimensions, the system applies your rate-card + fabrication + delivery + GST/VAT. Branded quote PDF in 60 seconds.
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Fabrication & job tracking
Drag jobs across stages, cut, polish, edge, ready, delivered. Customers get a WhatsApp link with live status. Workshop foreman gets a tablet with the queue.
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Accounting & margin agent
Sales push to Xero / MYOB / DATEV automatically. Daily WhatsApp digest with sales, top margin slabs, and slow-movers, so you stop carrying dead stock.
[ Stack we integrate with ]
- Xero / MYOB / DATEV
- QuickBooks
- Tally
- Shopify (showroom-to-web)
- WhatsApp Business API
- Zoho Inventory
- Stripe / Razorpay
[03]Talk to us
Send a photo of your slab register and we'll write back with the smallest first build that pays for itself.
Or skip the form: [email protected] · WhatsApp +61 419 395 267
[08]FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
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[01] We already use Tally / Xero / DATEV. Do you replace it? +
No, we sit on top of it. Your accountant keeps the books exactly where they are. We add the slab-level inventory, quoting and job tracking layer, and push the finished sale into your existing accounting system automatically.
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[02] Our staff aren't very tech-savvy. Will they use it? +
The system is designed around a phone scanning a QR code and the existing showroom counter, not a desk and a manual. We embed alongside your team during rollout so adoption is the engagement's main metric, not an afterthought.
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[03] Can it handle imports. Italian marble, Indian granite, Turkish travertine, with different units? +
Yes. Each batch carries origin, supplier, currency, shipping cost, and unit (sqft / sqm / linear m). The system landed-costs each slab so your margin calc is honest from day one.
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[04] How long does it take to roll out across a single showroom? +
First showroom in production in 8–10 weeks. Multi-location rollouts add 2 weeks per site after that, usually with shared inventory and per-site sales reporting.
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[05] What about AI? Where does that fit? +
Two places matter for stone retailers right now: (1) a sales agent that drafts quotes and follows up on stalled leads via WhatsApp, and (2) a margin agent that flags overstocked patterns and recommends discount thresholds. We add these in the second sprint once core inventory is in.
Stop losing slabs in spreadsheets.
30 minutes to scope the first build. Free, no pitch deck.