Built by a manufacturer who got tired of paying for an MRP

Purchase orders, real job costs, and quotes your customers can accept online.

ForgePO is the operations tool for small shops and independent makers: send professional POs, know your true shop rate — equipment and overhead included — and quote with margins you can trust. Without the inventory modules you'll never open or the per-seat fees that grow with your team.

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30-day free trial, no cardUnlimited usersFrom $49/mo per company
forgepo.com — Dashboard
ForgePO dashboard showing open POs, committed spend, quotes pending, win rate and average margin
4 modules — pick what you need Portals & reports included in every module Katana / CSV import in an afternoon Flat pricing from $49/mo — no add-on paywalls
Sound familiar?

Most small shops are paying for an MRP and using a third of it.

The tools built for 200-person factories don't fit a 3-to-30-person shop. ForgePO does the part you actually use — and nothing else.

"Our MRP is $700+ a month and we live in two tabs."

Inventory bins, MES scheduling, batch tracking — features you never open, but pay for every month. Then a feature you did use moves behind a $249 add-on.

→ POs, costing, quotes, CRM. Flat price. That's it.
"Overhead is a number someone guessed years ago."

One blended hourly rate hides whether your labor-heavy jobs are subsidizing your material-heavy ones — or the other way around.

→ Overhead pools turn rent, insurance and equipment into a real $/hr.
"We email a PDF quote and hope."

No idea if the customer opened it. No signature. A phone call to find out if it's a yes.

→ A live link they open, e-sign, and accept — you see every view.
"Every teammate is another seat fee."

$50 a month so someone on the floor can look at an order? So you share one login, and lose track of who did what.

→ Unlimited users with real roles and permissions.
The product

Everything between "we need material" and "the customer said yes."

Four connected pieces. Each one is useful alone; together they close a loop most small shops have never had.

Purchase orders

POs that know what things actually cost you.

Build a PO from your materials list, email it as a letterhead PDF, and give the vendor a link to acknowledge it. Every line shows landed cost — unit price plus its share of freight and surcharges — so the number that feeds your pricing is the real one.

  • Approval workflow: members submit, admins approve, everyone gets emailed
  • Vendor acknowledgment portal with view tracking and typed e-signature
  • Partial receiving with receipt history and QuickBooks bill export
  • "Last purchased" hints and vendor price-change alerts on every SKU
Edit Purchase Order — PO-2026-001
ForgePO purchase order editor with line items, landed cost column and receipt history
Pricing & job costing

Know your true shop rate. Then quote with confidence.

Material + labor + overhead → cost → sell price at your target margin. ForgePO shows a simple overhead % and a real overhead-pools rate side by side, so you can see exactly where the quick math is under- or over-charging a job.

  • Overhead pools: rent, salaries, insurance, equipment depreciation → $/labor-hour
  • Bills of materials pull live landed costs from your POs
  • Industry margin benchmarks across 27 sectors to sanity-check your target
  • Customer price lists: blanket rules plus per-product overrides
Pricing Calculator
ForgePO pricing calculator comparing simple overhead percentage against overhead pools for a 10-piece job
Pricing health

Catch margin erosion before it costs you a quarter.

When a vendor raises a price, every product that uses that material drifts off target. Pricing Health flags them the moment it happens — below target, above target, or on target — with a one-click Reprice that snaps the list price back to your margin.

  • Automatic flags when material or labor cost moves
  • See cushion above target — hold price or sharpen a bid
  • Inventory count & valuation in whatever unit you count in
Pricing Health
ForgePO Pricing Health page flagging items above and below target margin with a reprice button
Quotes, orders & the customer portal

Send a link, not a PDF. Watch it get accepted.

Quotes pull list prices (or the customer's price list) straight from your catalog, run an internal margin check the customer never sees, and go out as a branded PDF or a live portal link. The customer opens it, types their name, and accepts — and the quote becomes an order automatically if you want it to.

  • Customer card with contact, terms, price list and a per-quote shipping address
  • Open/view tracking and e-signature capture on every quote
  • Accepted quote → sales order → QuickBooks Online invoice in three clicks
  • Shop-floor Manufacturing Order print: scaled BOM, pull list, no pricing
Edit Quote — Q-2026-001
ForgePO quote editor showing customer information card, editable shipping address and internal margin check
What your customer sees

Clean. Branded. One green button.

No login, no app to download. Your customer gets a secure link, sees exactly what you'd have printed, and accepts or declines with a typed signature that's timestamped on your side. Vendors get the same experience for acknowledging your POs.

forgepo.com/portal
The customer-facing quote portal with Accept and Decline buttons
How it works

One closed loop from vendor price to customer invoice.

This is the part nobody else does. What you pay a vendor flows into what a product costs you, which flows into what you charge — automatically, with an approval step wherever money moves.

1 · Buy
Send a POVendor acknowledges online. You receive it — partially or in full.
→
2 · Cost
Landed cost updatesPrice + freight share lands on the material. You approve the change.
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3 · Price
BOMs recalculateEvery product using it drifts — Pricing Health flags it. One click to reprice.
→
4 · Sell
Quote & acceptCustomer accepts via portal. Quote becomes an order.
→
5 · Bill
Push to QuickBooksOrder → invoice with SKU-level lines. No double entry.

Katana, MRPeasy and Fulcrum all make you type quote prices by hand. ForgePO's quotes are downstream of your real costs — so a vendor's price increase on Monday shows up in your margin flags on Monday, not on next quarter's P&L.

Modules

Four modules. Buy the ones you need.

Every module ships with its own reports and its own customer- or vendor-facing portal link — none of that is sold separately.

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Purchase Orders & Vendors

Buy smarter, with a paper trail.

  • PO editor, PDF & email
  • Approval workflow
  • Partial receiving
  • Landed cost
  • Vendor portal
Includes PO reports + vendor acknowledgment portal
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Pricing & Job Costing

Know what a job really costs.

  • Overhead pools & shop rate
  • Pricing calculator
  • BOMs & product variations
  • Price lists
  • Pricing Health alerts
Includes margin & inventory valuation reports
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Sales & Quoting

From quote to invoice without retyping.

  • Branded quotes, PDF & email
  • Live accept/decline portal
  • E-signature & view tracking
  • Orders & shop-floor MO print
  • QuickBooks Online invoices
Includes sales reports + customer quote portal
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CRM

Just enough CRM for a shop.

  • Customers, contacts, timeline
  • Pipeline board with owners
  • Tasks & follow-ups
  • Team chat & assignments
  • Website lead sync
Includes pipeline & win-rate reports

Plays nicely with what you already use.

ForgePO isn't accounting software and doesn't want to be. It hands clean data to the tools that are.

QuickBooks Online WooCommerce / B2BKing CSV import (Katana-ready) Gmail & Outlook Stripe deposits — coming

Your whole team, no seat math.

Invite everyone. Give each role exactly the pages and powers it needs — production sees orders without prices, sales sees quotes without POs, admins see it all. Built-in team chat and task assignment keep it in one place.

AdminSalesProductionMember+ your own roles
Pricing

Flat. Predictable. Nothing moves behind a paywall later.

Pick the modules you need. Every price is per company per month with unlimited users — reports, portals, PDFs, email and QuickBooks are included in each module, never sold as add-ons.

Buy
Purchase Orders & Vendors
$49/mo
or $490/yr — 2 months free
  • PO editor, letterhead PDF & email
  • Approval workflow
  • Partial receiving & landed cost
  • Vendor acknowledgment portal
  • QuickBooks bill export
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Price
Pricing & Job Costing
$59/mo
or $590/yr — 2 months free
  • Materials, products & BOMs
  • Overhead pools & true shop rate
  • Pricing calculator & price lists
  • Pricing Health margin alerts
  • Inventory count & valuation
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Sell
Sales & Quoting
$59/mo
or $590/yr — 2 months free
  • Quotes, customers & orders
  • Customer portal: view tracking + e-sign
  • Auto-convert accepted quotes
  • Shop-floor Manufacturing Order print
  • QuickBooks Online invoices
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Best value · 24% off
Complete
All four modules, fully linked
$196 $149/mo
or $1,490/yr — 2 months free
  • Buy + Price + Sell + CRM
  • PO landed cost → BOM → price flags → quote → invoice
  • Pipeline, tasks, team chat, lead sync
  • Every report and every portal
  • Unlimited users, cancel anytime
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+ CRM add-on — $29/mo on any plan: pipeline board, tasks & follow-ups, activity timeline, team chat & assignments, website/B2BKing lead sync. Included in Complete.

Founding customers: 30% off, for life.

The first 15 companies to join lock in founder pricing for as long as they stay — Complete for $104.30/mo, single modules from $34. Every account starts with a 30-day free trial of the full product, no card required, and is set up personally.

  • Unlimited users — shop floor, sales, bookkeeper, all of them
  • No onboarding fee, no implementation consultant
  • Free CSV export of everything, always — your data is yours
  • Month-to-month; annual is a discount, never a requirement
What a 5-person shop pays elsewhere
Katana Core + Manufacturing$498/mo
MRPeasy Professional ×5$345/mo
Jobber Connect + 4 users$255/mo
shopVOX Express + 4 users$225/mo
QuickBooks Online Plus$140/mo
ForgePO Complete, unlimited users$149/mo
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Why this exists

ForgePO was built inside a real manufacturing company. It's still run from one.

WieBad, a Texas manufacturer of shooting bags and tactical gear, was paying every month for an MRP suite and using half of it. The half it did use — purchase orders and pricing — was clunkier than it needed to be, and the pricing kept changing.

So we built the tool we wished existed, moved WieBad's purchasing and pricing onto it — 300+ raw materials, 5,000+ products, 70+ dealers — and are switching the MRP off. WieBad is customer #1. Every feature on this page runs a real shop first.

"I pay for it every month, but only use half the features. It's more clutter than anything else. I want to send POs and do simple pricing based on raw material, labor and overhead — and then let similar companies use it too." — Robert, owner, WieBad · the note that started ForgePO
Questions

Quick answers

Is ForgePO an MRP or inventory system?
No — deliberately. It tracks raw material counts and valuation so your pricing is right and your shop floor knows what's short, but it isn't a warehouse system with bins, lots and scheduling. That absence is the product.
Can I bring my data over from Katana or a spreadsheet?
Yes. Setup → Import Data has downloadable templates for materials, vendors, products, BOMs, operations and customers, and Katana's export headers are pre-mapped. Most shops are running in an afternoon.
Is my company's data separate from other companies?
Completely. Every company is its own private account. The only shared space is the optional Community forum, which shows first name and company — never your business data.
How do I get in?
Click Request access, tell us your company name and email, and pick a password. We review every request personally and email you when you're approved — usually quickly. You'll land in an account pre-loaded with sample data so you can explore before touching real numbers.

More in the FAQ, the Knowledge Base, or ask the Community.

Stop paying for the two-thirds you don't use.

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