Interior fit-out & joinery
Fit-out and joinery work in the UAE lives or dies on the quote. Price the MDF, veneer, hardware, glass, labour and site hours wrong at tender stage and the profit is gone before the first panel is cut — and then the same numbers have to reappear on a VAT-compliant tax invoice weeks later. Tallium AI puts quoting, material stock, purchase orders, invoicing and VAT-ready accounting in one app, with unlimited users, so your estimator, storekeeper and accountant all work from the same live figures.
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Key takeaways
Every estimator keeps their own file. Board rates, ironmongery prices and labour hours are pasted from an old job, margins get typed over by hand, and when a client asks why the price moved on revision 3 nobody can explain it. By the time the job is awarded, the sheet that won it has been emailed around four times and no one is sure which version is the real one.
Plywood, laminate, aluminium profiles and imported hardware change price between the tender and the site start. If your quote is based on last quarter's supplier costs, you find out at the purchase order stage — after the client has already signed at the old number. Fit-out margins are thin enough that a few dirhams a sheet across a full villa or office floor wipes out the job.
Offcuts, half-used boxes of screws, leftover veneer and site returns pile up in the store and never make it back into a system. Buyers re-order material you already own, project managers stall because a batch has quietly gone to another site, and at year end the stock figure in the accounts is somebody's honest estimate rather than a count.
Progress invoices, advance payments, variation orders and retention all have to reconcile, and each tax invoice needs your TRN and the right VAT treatment before the VAT return (VAT201) is due. With costs scattered across supplier WhatsApp messages, petty cash slips and site photos, the accountant spends the filing week chasing paperwork instead of checking numbers.
Build a quotation line by line from your actual item list — boards, edging, hardware, glass, finishes, labour allowances — using the cost prices already sitting in Tallium AI. Set the margin per line or per quote and see the gross profit before you send it. Every revision is kept, so you can show a client exactly what changed between version one and version four.
When the client signs, turn the quotation straight into purchase orders for your suppliers and into progress invoices for the client without retyping a single line. The link stays intact, so you can open any job and compare what you quoted against what you actually bought and billed — while the project is still running, not after it closes.
Track boards, sheets, profiles, hardware and consumables by location so the workshop store and each active site are separate balances. Issue material to a job, book returns back in, and let your buyer see true free stock before raising an order. AI insights flag slow-moving material sitting in the store so cash stops sleeping on the racks.
Snap supplier invoices and site expenses with your phone and let the AI read, categorise and post them. Tax invoices carry your TRN and the correct VAT treatment, and your VAT return (VAT201) figures build up as you work instead of in a panic at the deadline. Please confirm current rules with the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) or a qualified local tax professional.
Costed, revisable quotations that convert into progress invoices and credit notes, with TRN and VAT shown correctly on every tax invoice.
Raise supplier POs straight from an accepted quote, record partial deliveries, and match supplier bills to what was actually received on site.
Live balances for boards, veneers, hardware and consumables across workshop, store and site, with issues, returns and stock counts.
Full double-entry books, supplier and customer ledgers, bank reconciliation and job-level profit — no separate accounting subscription.
VAT tracking on sales and purchases with figures ready for your VAT return (VAT201) and records kept for the UAE E-Invoicing System (Peppol).
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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