Interior fit-out & joinery — Saudi Arabia
Fit-out and joinery work in Saudi Arabia lives or dies on the quote. Price the MDF, veneer, hardware, site labour and installation wrong and you carry the loss through a three-month project. Tallium AI gives your workshop one app for quotations, purchase orders, live material stock, VAT-ready accounting and FATOORAH e-invoicing records — with unlimited users, so your estimator, storekeeper, site supervisor and accountant all work from the same numbers.
From $99/month per warehouse · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
Most joinery quotes in Riyadh and Jeddah start as a spreadsheet copied from the last job. Someone edits a board rate, forgets to update the ironmongery line, and the client sees a number that no longer covers cost. When the client asks for a revision three weeks later, nobody is sure which version was actually sent or what margin it carried.
Plywood, laminate, solid surface, aluminium profiles and imported hardware all shift in price. A quote priced on last quarter's supplier rate goes out the door, gets accepted, and only when the purchase order lands do you discover the real cost. Without a live cost list behind the estimate, every accepted quote is a gamble on the supplier invoice.
Sheets get cut for one job and quietly used on another. Hardware boxes go to site with a fitter and never come back. By the time the project closes, the store shows quantities the racks don't have, offcuts are unaccounted for, and you cannot say which job actually consumed the material or what it truly cost you.
Fit-out projects bill in stages — advance, milestones, retention — and each stage needs a compliant tax invoice with the right VAT treatment. When quotations, delivery notes and invoices sit in different files, preparing the VAT return (ZATCA) becomes a weekend of chasing paperwork, and the e-invoicing records that ZATCA expects are the last thing anyone has time to organise.
Build each quotation in Tallium AI from your own material and labour cost lines, with the margin visible as you type. Every revision is saved against the client, so you can see exactly what was quoted, when, at what price and by whom. Approved quotes convert straight into a sales order and then an invoice, so the number the client agreed is the number you bill.
Purchase orders, supplier bills and AI receipt scanning keep your material costs current inside the same app. When board or hardware prices change, your next quotation reflects the real landed cost instead of a figure someone remembered. You quote with confidence, and you can compare quoted cost against actual spend once the job is running.
Track sheets, edging, hardware, adhesives and finishes as real stock with locations, so the workshop store and site deliveries are recorded rather than assumed. Issue material against a job, see what remains, and use loss-prevention reporting to spot the shrinkage patterns before they eat a whole project's margin.
Tallium AI keeps VAT on sales and purchases recorded as you go, so the figures for your VAT return (ZATCA) are ready rather than reconstructed. Invoices carry your VAT number and the details Saudi tax invoices are expected to show, and your records stay structured for FATOORAH e-invoicing. Confirm current rules with ZATCA or a local tax professional before you file.
Build priced quotations with visible margin, save every revision, and convert the accepted version into a staged tax invoice without retyping a line.
Raise POs to your board, laminate and hardware suppliers, match them to bills, and see quoted cost against actual cost on every fit-out job.
Track sheet goods, edging, ironmongery and finishes with real quantities and locations, and issue material against the job that consumes it.
Project income, supplier bills, wages and site expenses in one ledger, with AI receipt scanning so fuel and delivery slips stop piling up in the van.
Record VAT on every sale and purchase as it happens so your VAT return (ZATCA) figures and FATOORAH e-invoicing records are ready when you need them.
Build your plan in a minute — pay only for the parts of your business you run. From $99/month per warehouse.
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