Built from a real shop floor.
The story behind TimberCloud: software for the way woodworking shops actually sell, price, and build to order.
You're running a custom woodworking shop on software built for somebody else's business: a Shopify store, a job shop, a 50,000-SKU distributor. We grew up in this industry, got tired of watching shops like yours fight that fight, and built the software we wished we always had.
Why we exist
Custom shops have been buying around their actual business for decades. Generic e-commerce platforms bolted to generic ERP bolted to generic CRM, either completely disconnected or barely ducttaped together.
We're building the operating system those shops should have had ten years ago: one place to quote, sell, build, ship, and bill, built the way custom work actually moves through a floor, and priced so a $2M shop can run on it without a board meeting.
Built by a developer raised in a wood shop
Justin Romanos | Founder & CEO
I grew up in my family's custom door shop, Porta Door, in Connecticut. Experienced the floor for nearly three decades before I wrote a single line of code.
I watched my dad pay for, glue together, and personally hold up software stacks that were never going to fit a custom-manufacturing shop. The configurator that didn't know what a stile was. The inventory tool that thought every SKU was the same. The "ERP" with a six-month implementation budget for a $4M shop.
TimberCloud is the system I wanted my family's custom shop to have. Now Porta Door runs on it, and your shop can, too.
Steph Kaufman | Co-founder & CMO
Steph has spent over a decade building and scaling brands – including UPBEAT, her own boutique growth agency. She knows how to turn a good product into a brand people actually recognize, and how to build the full-funnel engine that grows it.
When Justin showed her what he'd built, she got it immediately: real software, built by someone who'd lived the problem, for an industry that had been handed clunky tools for far too long. She joined to give TimberCloud the story it deserved, and to bring modern software to a trade that's been overdue for it for a long time.
Software for custom manufacturers should be opinionated about custom manufacturing. Most isn't. Most is a generic e-commerce tool with a configurator bolted on, or a generic ERP with a Shopify connector. Neither one knows what a stile is.
You shouldn't have to rebuild the order five times. Email to quote to cut sheet to CNC to invoice, every hand-off is another chance to mistype a dimension and eat a rebuild. TimberCloud takes the order once and carries it all the way through. Enter it right, once, and it stays right.
We don't get a raise when you grow. Commerce transaction fees run 0–1% depending on plan, so the floor stays low for shops that need a low floor. Every tier above it is flat, forever. If your revenue triples, our invoice doesn't.
Your shop should be live in weeks, not months. Most shops are running on TimberCloud within two weeks of signing. If we think it may be longer, we'll tell you on the demo, not three months into an implementation.
AI built in beats AI bolted on. Our AI extracts line items from POs and emails, writes pricing formulas from plain English, and turns catalog PDFs into structured products. It isn't a chatbot-in-the-corner afterthought.
We serve customers across the US and Canada. Mostly cabinet shops, door manufacturers, custom furniture makers, and millwork & trim shops in the $1M–$15M range.
If you're one of those shops (or you want to be) we want to hear what you're fighting and what you wish your software did. The roadmap is built out of those conversations, not out of our heads.