Software for facade firms at the small end — shopfronts, cladding repair and maintenance

The work is measured in square metres and panels: cladding replacement by the m² with the system named (ACP, HPL, stone, glass), shopfronts by the opening with framing and glazing as separate lines, maintenance by the elevation and the visit. Access is the line that decides profit — cradle, mast climber, rope access or scaffold — and it belongs in the quote as its own priced element, not buried in a rate where the client can negotiate it away.

A price book built from your own system rates and access costs lets each elevation price consistently, and variations — the extra elevation, the changed panel system — price from the same lines.

Where the client is a main contractor or an FM company, facade packages run on progress claims with retention, measured per elevation or per percentage of the package — the standard claims machinery. Panel procurement front-loads cost the way solar equipment does, so deposits and delivery milestones on private work, and honest advance terms on package work, protect the cash shape.

Civil Defence material approvals on cladding replacement are a live compliance thread in the UAE — this page states the paperwork fact plainly: the approved-material documentation belongs in the job file, and InstaJack holds it there; the approval itself is the authority's, through its own process.

Elevation surveys with panel-by-panel condition photos, access plans and permits, inspection reports per elevation, and warranty records per system installed. Maintenance contracts renew on the strength of the last report — a firm whose elevation file is complete wins the renewal conversation before price is discussed.

Filed against the building and the job in InstaJack, the survey photos and reports stay retrievable by building name across years and technicians — the difference between a maintenance firm and a series of disconnected visits.

Facades is not one of the eighteen core trades, so there is no starter book and no borrowed rates: your systems, your panel suppliers, your access costs form the book, built once and reused per elevation. The surrounding machinery — measured quotes, claims, retention, AMC invoicing and the building-by-building record — is the product, and it works from the first job.