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Specification and procurement software for interior-design studios

The specification schedule runs everything.

Rulework makes interior-design schedules beautiful to build — and beautiful to send.

See a live example
A sitting room: a pair of rippled-glass wall lights on the panelling, a burr-walnut console beneath them, a wool-herringbone curtain at the window and a re-upholstered armchair beside it.

Marlowe & Vaughan

Example design studio

Ashcombe House · Specification schedule

01 · Sitting room

01.1Wall light, a pair2£288.00
01.2Console table1£4,320.00
01.3Curtain14.5 m£1,392.00
01.4Armchair, re-upholstered2TBC
01.5Lime plaster42 m²£1,859.55
01.6Engineered oak18.4 m²£2,060.80
01.7Skirting, ogee16.2 m£558.90
01.8Sash refurbishment1£1,240.00

Sitting room, specified

£11,719.25

£0.00

16 rooms · 281 lines · £105,031.80

Each piece is a line, and this is what a line carries.

Wall light, rippled glass
01.1

Wall light

Supplier · Ferrand Atelier

Quantity2
Unit rate£144.00
Markup20.00%
Charged£288.00
Console table, burr walnut
01.2

Console table

Supplier · Hallam & Speight

Quantity1
Unit rate—
Markup20.00%
Charged£4,320.00
Curtain, wool herringbone
01.3

Curtain

Supplier · Brayfield Weaving

Quantity14.5 m
Unit rate£96.00
Markup20.00%
Charged£1,392.00
Armchair, re-upholstered
01.4

Armchair

Supplier · Pell Workshop

Quantity2
Unit rate—
Markup—
ChargedTBC

Build it

Your columns, your sections, your markup.

Set a standard markup for the studio, then adjust individual lines when needed. Add your own columns and they behave like the ones built in — sorted, filtered, pinned, and on the client document if you want them there.

Your own columns

Lead timeFinishFabricInstaller

Installer is on the client document as well.

Markup

20.00% is the studio’s standard, set once in settings.

Line 01.5 carries its own rate of 15.00%.

Issue it

The same line, told two ways.

Ten documents are issued from one schedule — the client estimate, the contractor specification, the supplier enquiry, the purchase order. You decide what each reader may see, and the decision holds: a forgotten column cannot put your trade price in front of a client.

All from the same lines

Detailed estimateSummary estimateClient scheduleOffice worksheetContractor report
Supplier enquirySupplier purchase orderOffice purchase sheetDelivery noteSpecification sheetImage gridLine specifications

The client estimate sets out the proposed costs. The client schedule presents the specification, section by section.

Every issue is kept, so there is always a record of what you sent and when.

Client estimate01.1

Wall light

Rippled, translucent clear glass on an antique-brass backplate, casting a soft diffused glow across the panelling.


2 at £144.00£288.00
Office worksheet01.1

Wall light, rippled glass

Ferrand Atelier · FA-4402


Item cost
£120.00
Markup
20.00%

Share it

Beautiful to open. Simple to respond.

Send your client a link to a beautifully presented estimate. They can review it, approve it or ask for a revision, and add a comment in the same place. Their response stays with the exact version they saw.

Marlowe & VaughanClient estimate · Revision 02
Wall light, rippled glass

Ashcombe House

01.1

Wall light

Rippled glass. Antique brass. A soft glow on either side of the fireplace.

Quantity
2
Total
£288.00
Open the link to read. Sign in to respond.

Example client response · Try the choices

Your decision

Comment

Happy with the estimate. Please go ahead.

Let’s hold this estimate for now.

Could we see a warmer finish for the wall lights?

Kept with Revision 02, with the client’s name and time.

The studio is notified. The issued estimate stays unchanged.

Reconcile it

What you specified against what you were invoiced.

Orders, deliveries and supplier invoices land back on the lines they came from. When a figure moves, the variance is on the line that moved, not buried in a month-end total — and it reaches Xero already reconciled.

Where the £84.00 came from

  1. Order PO-0114 issued to Hallam & Speight12 Jun
  2. Delivered in full, signed for on site04 Aug
  3. Invoice INV-2291 includes two-man delivery07 Aug

Accept the variance and the client price followsAccept

Designed and built in a working interior design studio — and used there every day.

Rulework · specification and procurement for interior-design studios

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