Materials Management Made Efficient & Easy for Trades
Stop wasting time digging through price books, guessing margins, or re-entering the same labour charges job after job. iTrade’s materials management feature keeps all your supplier pricing, labour items, and kitsets in one place – so quoting and billing stays fast, accurate, and profitable.
Import as many supplier price books as you need, control margins by supplier or category, and make sure your team is always using the right materials (with the right pricing) in the field.
Keep Your Pricing Clean (and Your Margins Protected)
Materials add up fast – and small pricing mistakes can wipe out profits. With iTrade, you get full control over how materials are priced, shown, and billed across your business.
What You Can Do With iTrade Materials Management
Import Supplier Price Books Fast
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Lightning-fast setup
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Import any number of supplier price books with ease
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Filter which materials show in the app
Control Margins Your Way
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Margin control by supplier, product, or category
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3 custom price levels
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Per-customer pricing options
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Show/hide pricing per field worker
Faster Billing With Kitsets + Smart Charging​
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Create your own kitsets for quick billing
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Auto-add materials to new jobs
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Unlimited time charges (labour rates)
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Sell by Height x Width (perfect for glaziers)
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Metric glazier options
Better Tracking + Reporting​
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Stock usage reporting
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Assign product images to your materials
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Optionally modify general ledger codes per item
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Admins can review and edit entries when needed
Why Use Our Materials Management Software?
Because materials shouldn’t be the part of your job that slows everything down.
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quote faster
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bill more accurately
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keep pricing consistent across the team
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protect your margins
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reduce admin around suppliers and stock
It’s built for real trade businesses and tested in real workflows, so it works out of the box, but still gives you plenty of flexibility when you need it.
How iTrade Job Scheduling Software Works
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Import your supplier price books
Upload as many supplier price books as you need and get your materials list set up fast.
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Build kitsets and labour charges
Create your own kitsets for common jobs and set up unlimited time charges — so quoting and billing is quick and consistent.
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Track usage and stay in control
Use stock usage reporting to see what’s being used across jobs and keep materials management tidy as your business grows.
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Set your pricing rules
Control margins by supplier, product, or category. You can also set different price levels or customer-specific pricing if needed.
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Control what field workers can see
Choose whether pricing is visible to specific team members, and filter which materials show in the app.
Materials Management Timesheets FAQs
What is materials management software?
Materials management software helps you organise and control your materials list, supplier pricing, margins, and labour items – so quoting and billing stays accurate, consistent, and profitable.
Can I import supplier price books into iTrade?
Yes. You can import as many supplier price books as you need, and iTrade makes the setup quick and easy.
Can I control margins and markups?
Definitely. You can set margin rules by supplier, product, or category, and you also have multiple price levels for flexible pricing.
Can I set different pricing for different customers?
Yes. iTrade supports per-customer pricing options, so you can tailor your pricing for trade accounts, preferred customers, or contract clients.
Can field workers see pricing in the app?
It’s up to you. You can choose to show or hide pricing for specific field workers, so you stay in control of what’s visible.
What are kitsets and how do they help?
Kitsets are pre-built bundles of materials and charges you use often. They speed up quoting and billing because your most common items can be added in one click.
Can I track stock usage?
Yes. iTrade includes stock usage reporting, so you can see what materials are being used and where.
Can I add images to materials?
Yes. You can assign product images to materials, which makes it easier for your team to find the right item quickly.
Does iTrade support glazier-specific charging (Height x Width)?
Yes. iTrade includes options to sell by Height x Width and supports metric glazier setups.
Start Your Free Trial
Want to see how much quicker it gets when all your materials, labour rates, and pricing rules are in one place? Try iTrade free for 30 days – no credit card required.
Contact us for further support
If you ever need help, iTrade’s free support team is always available at support@itrade.net. Every new trial is entitled to a free 1-hour screen-sharing training session. If you haven't already taken advantage of this, please email us to arrange a suitable day and time.
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DISPATCHING OPTIONS
With iTrade you choose how many jobs your guys will see on their mobile devices. You can select one at a time, two, three, full day or every job in the system booked for them. It’s your choice.
FIELD INITIATED JOBS
Need to let your field workers create jobs in the field themselves? Or do you have someone ‘On-call’ for emergencies? No problem. Your mobile workers can select from your ‘existing customers’ list or create a new customer directly on their mobile device. In our view, job management software for tradesman needs to handle the basics as well as the more advanced features.
SIGNATURE CAPTURE
Need to capture client signatures on completed jobs? No problem, iTrade allows your clients to sign ‘onÂscreen’ and saves the signature within the job for seven years.
INTERACTIVE MAPS
Every job sent to your field workers includes an interactive map automatically zoomed in to show their current location and their destination say goodbye to map books.
PRINTABLE JOB CARDS
There are two reasons that we designed really nice-looking printable job cards. Firstly, you may, from time to time, use a subÂcontractor without an iPad (yes it does happen) so he can either pick up his jobs, or you can email them to him the night before.
WORKER ANALYSIS REPORTING
GPS JOB REPORTS
See the turnover and profit for each individual within your business.
See the turnover and profit for each individual within your business. With iTrade you will have access to GPS stamped job reports for every job completed by your guys  and it shows maps of where you were when you ‘Started’, arrived ‘Onsite’ and ‘Completed’ each job. iTrade automatically changes the job from ‘Started’ to ‘Onsite’ when you are within 50 metres of the destination.
REDUCED SLIPPAGE
Business owners hate slippage, Âso does iTrade. By entering job details and materials used before leaving the job site, there’s a lot less forgetting and leaving items off the paperwork. And because iTrade shows a timer running on all jobs, when it comes to adding their hours on the job, your guys are going to have to come up with some pretty good excuses for why they don’t match!
CERTIFICATES
Electricians and Gas Fitters can easily and quickly produce Certificates of Compliance from within a job and most of the fields will be pre-Âpopulated saving time. Certificates can be emailed from the workers mobile device or at any time from the server and they will be saved in the customers main account for seven years.
CUSTOM FIELDS
Create unlimited Custom Fields to suit your business for tracking installations, site info, or what have you. These can be made compulsory on jobs so that vital data is not forgotten, and this information is gathered in each customer’s account.
MARKETING SOURCES / CUSTOMER TYPES
Create unlimited Custom Fields to suit your business for tracking installations, site info, or what have you. These can be made compulsory on jobs so that vital data is not forgotten and this information is gathered in each customer’s account.
JOB OPTIONS
Recurring Jobs – Create for any interval and include notes and assign to a worker or leave unassigned.
Job Templates – Create as many as you like, include job notes and make various custom fields compulsory.
CURRENCY
iTrade currently supports $US, $CA, $AU, $NZ, Pounds, Euro's and Rand. (South African users will be billed by us in US dollars)
FULLY AUTOMATED MAINTENANCE
Send automatic email reminders based on installation date or maintenance due date. See when each customer’s next email will be sent or when their last email was sent. Built-in unsubscribe and choose which contacts receive these emails.
BACK UPS
We do it all for you, Âso you can get back to fishing. For your security and piece of mind iTrade’s servers are hosted by Amazon web services (one of the largest cloud providers in the world) and we have mirrored northern and southern hemisphere located servers for disaster recovery purposes as well as a complete system backup taken every 24 hours and held in a non-AWS location in a 3rd country.
BOOKING CONFIRMATION
Send Text or Email job booking confirmations to your customers or staff. Texts can be sent automatically one, two or three days in advance and your customers replies are imbedded directly into the job notes section along with popup notifications and optional emails.
VAN RESTOCKING PRINTOUTS
The last thing you want is for you, or one of your guys, to turn up to a job without basic materials. iTrade’s Van Restocking report allow you to print out or email a list of materials used for each of your guys. Fax or email this as an order to your supplier for delivery and have it waiting for them next time they’re in how cool is that?
BOOKING CONFIRMATION
Send Text or Email job booking confirmations to your customers or staff. Texts can be sent automatically one, two or three days in advance and your customers replies are imbedded directly into the job notes section along with popup notifications and optional emails.
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