Websites for metal fabricators

A metal fabrication website built to turn a sketch or an idea into an inquiry you can quote.

Show the railings, repairs and fabrication your shop takes on. Let customers send a drawing or describe an idea, with the finish and installation details you need to quote.

Ten to thirty minutes to answer. A preview in 48 hours once we have your answers and payment.

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$40 a monthFive edit requests a month included.

More about your website

A homeowner may have a photo of a railing. A contractor may have a revised drawing and an installation date. Give both a useful way to start, and explain what must be settled before you cut steel.

blackforkfab.example Black Fork Fabrication, the sample website, on a desktop Explore Black Fork’s demo ↗
The Console comes with it. The Black Fork Fabrication sample Console, on the Board

Black Fork’s is a written example. Yours starts with your business.

This is how we build your site

Your questionnaire gives us the services, photos and business details to write and build your site, on your own domain.

STYLE
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Explore the services, prices and request form.

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A sample business. Black Fork Fabrication is fictional. Its prices, reviews and job stories are examples. We build your site with your business details, photos and genuine customer reviews.

What we build into your website

Your site shows finished work and the scope behind it. The request form separates drawings from ideas and repairs, then asks about dimensions, finish and where the piece attaches. Customers can see which work you fabricate, install or refer elsewhere.

Tell us which qualifications you’d like customers to see. We can include certifications, licenses and insurance details you provide.

Black Fork’s materials, example rates and lead times would be replaced with yours. Tell us what you build, who handles the finish and installation, and which drawings you need before quoting. Send me the questions ›

Where the job goes after the call comes in

Your Console keeps customer messages and job details together. Try Black Fork’s sample below. The workflow tools draft texts for you to review, then send from your own phone.

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We build your website with the Console and workflow tools included. We’ll help you set up the tools that fit your work.

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$40/mo

Your website, Console and workflow tools. Writing, hosting and upkeep included.

48 hrs

Your first preview after your questionnaire and payment. Complete the launch checklist, then ask us to launch.

Cancel anytime

No exit fee. Your site stays up through the period you’ve paid for.

Or $400/year. Save $80 on twelve monthly payments.

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Your domain is registered in your name and billed at cost, about $11 a year.

Your mobile plan and optional voice line

The tools draft the message; you review it and tap to send on your phone. Texts use your carrier plan, with no per-message fee from Plainsmith.

The optional front desk answers calls you forward when you can’t pick up and prepares a text reply. We check forwarding on your number during setup. Its Twilio voice line costs about $1.15 a month plus about a cent a minute, billed to your own account. See provider costs.

Cancellation and refunds

Cancel from your account. Your website comes down and workflows stop at the end of the month or year you paid for.

You have 14 days to request a refund, starting when we send the finished website for review. We return your full website payment, including $400 if you paid annually. Domain registration is nonrefundable; you keep the domain.

Your Console stays open in read-only mode, free, so you can download your contacts, messages and appointments.

Buying the website to host elsewhere

Your domain, words, photos and logo belong to you from the start. The website’s design and code cost $499 less your plan credit to buy.

Monthly: this month’s $40 comes off. Annual: we credit $400 divided by 12 for each unfinished month, including the month you’re in. Your account shows the exact price.

Your files and hosting setup arrive within seven days. You take over hosting, updates and renewals. After a buyout, hosting and workflow service finish with your current billing month. Read the ownership terms.

What your site will know about metal fabricators

We’ll ask about these details so your pages describe the work you actually offer.

A length doesn’t describe an installation

A straight deck rail and a stair rail may have the same footage. The angles, mounting surface and access can make them very different jobs.

Site photographs

Ask for a view of the whole run and the surface it will attach to. Say when you need to measure it yourself.

Drawings and revisions

Give contractors a place to identify the drawing, revision and required date. Make it clear who supplies engineering when the job needs it.

Name what goes on the steel

“Powder coated” doesn’t tell the customer how the metal was prepared. Your quote can name the preparation and finish as well as the color.

Outdoor work

Explain the finish system you specify for the location and what maintenance it needs. Don’t promise a lifetime without naming the terms behind it.

Time at the coater

If another shop handles finishing, include that step in the schedule. A piece ready for coating isn’t ready to install.

Agree the work before it reaches the bench

Customers need to know whether the price includes a drawing, removal of the old piece and installation. Put those answers in the quote.

Changes after approval

Explain how revised dimensions or a different finish affect the price and date. Get agreement before building the change.

Work you decline

Name the jobs outside your scope. Fabricating to an engineer’s drawing is different from offering engineering yourself.

Show the work your shop wants next

A gallery of gates alone can hide the repair and contractor work you do.

Homeowner requests

Let people start with a photo and rough dimensions. Explain what comes back before they commit to the build.

Contractor work

Show relevant projects and the documentation you supply. Publish qualifications only with the code and scope you actually hold.

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Send us the change.

After your site goes live

Send the hours, photo or wording you want changed. We make the edit.

5Edit requests included each month

Most go up the same day.

Put your changes in one message. Everything in that message counts as one request.

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Your direct line

Edit request
Your request

Can you change Saturdays to appointment only? I’m keeping weekdays the same.

Plainsmith makes the edit
Plainsmith✓ Done

Saturday now shows “By appointment” in your contact section. The weekday hours are unchanged.

Your request and our reply stay together in your account.

Sample conversation. These examples don’t send a request or change a website.

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Edit allowances and how to reach us

From your account, from your phone, in a sentence, and it lands on our phones the second you hit send. The two of us read every message that comes through your account; you meet us at the bottom of this page. We work through edit requests in the order they arrive. Most go up the same day. Five edit requests a month are included, and how much goes into each one is up to you — everything in a single message counts as one, so send them together. A sixth queues for next month, or $10 puts it up now.

What happens when the drawing changes

A customer wants a wider gate after approving the first drawing. Keep the new scope and price with the job, get their agreement, then book the work.

Change orders

Write the revision and price for the customer to approve. Keep that agreement with the job.

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Quote follow-ups

Review a draft for an unanswered fabrication quote and send it from your phone.

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Invoice reminders

Prepare a reminder for an unpaid invoice, check the amount and send it when appropriate.

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Your plan includes these workflow tools. You review the text and use your phone to send it.

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Try the estimator

Try Black Fork Fabrication’s example prices below. Your website uses the rates and minimum you choose.

The estimator uses your rates. We also explain common problems and how you handle them, using details you confirm. Keep estimate visits in your Console calendar.

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Fair questions

Can someone ask for a quote without a drawing?
Yes. Give them a route for an idea or repair, with photos and rough dimensions. Explain when a measured drawing or engineering is needed before the work can be priced.
Can the site show contractor work and home projects?
Yes. A contractor can start with a drawing and required date; a homeowner can describe the piece and where it will go. Both routes reach your business.
Should I publish railing prices by the foot?
A range can help when it states the material, finish and installation assumptions. Stairs, unusual mounting surfaces and access still need your assessment.
How do we describe welding qualifications?
Send the qualifications you hold and the work they cover. We won’t turn a welder qualification into a claim that the whole shop or every job is certified.
Can search engines and AI tools find my business?
We describe your services and location on the page and in the information search engines read. This helps them understand your business. We can’t promise a ranking, recommendation or number of inquiries.
Is Plainsmith right for a small fabrication shop?
Yes, if you still work on the jobs and take the calls yourself. We handle the website, and the included workflow tools help you prepare follow-ups and reminders. Tell us if you need dispatch, payroll or accounting integration so we can check the fit.

Ten to thirty minutes of questions. Then we build.

You answer plain questions about what you fabricate, what you install and how you quote the work. We read your answers, write the pages and build the site. It publishes only after you’ve reviewed it and told us to publish.

The “we” is Jason Walls and Tadar Puakpaibool. Jason came to software from four trades — drilling, roofing, cabinets, machining — and started Plainsmith from Golden. He is responsible for your website build and custom tools, and handles technical problems when you contact us. Tadar is the marketer: fifteen years of campaigns and launches for brands including Red Robin and Procter & Gamble, and what each page says, top to bottom, is his call. Here’s our story.

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