NextMinute helps carpenters quote faster, schedule the crew, track time and costs, and invoice with confidence. Everything stays recorded against the job, so you can stay organised without admin chewing up your nights.
NextMinute helps you take control of your carpentry business, cutting down on admin headaches so you can spend more time on the tools.
Designed specifically for tradies, NextMinute has everything a carpenter needs to keep jobs and cash flow under control.
Quote a job, set up tasks, assign work to the crew, track hours and expenses, and send invoices—all in one place. You’ll get a clear view of where every job’s at, from first quote to final payment.
NextMinute lets you fire off emails and instant messages to clients and crew, keeping everyone on the same page.
Whether you’re on-site, in the ute, or at home, NextMinute works across mobile, desktop, or tablet—wherever the job takes you.
Import your price books and use templates to save hours on quoting. Send to clients and get approval with one click.
Use your takeoff software or QS of choice, and quickly import takeoffs to NextMinute to start planning the job.
Easy-to-use Gantt chart for planning jobs. Assign jobs and tasks to crew to reduce confusion and get on with the job.
No more chasing timesheets or payroll errors. Talk-to-text notes, attach photos, and log time + expenses.
Your team can easily view plans on site. Ditch the paperwork and have less mistakes and confused tradies.
Crew can save photos to jobs so you have a leg to stand on and can keep the customer up-to-date.
Crew can easily log notes and photos against jobs and tasks to keep you & your client informed.
Manage your jobs from on-site or in the ute with ease. Plus, your crew can view jobs and tasks, and log time with ease.
With all your job costs in one system, you can easily send accurate progress or final invoices with a few clicks.
No more handshake agreements and client disputes. NextMinute makes managing and tracking variations a breeze.
Report on actuals vs estimates in real-time by job and stage. Spot blow outs early to protect your profit.
Set custom buy/sell rates for machinery and have your crew log the hours.
Easily add in job expenses to keep track of your actuals vs. estimates.
Easily send SMS, email, and in-app messages straight from NextMinute.
NextMinute keeps your jobs and your accounts talking to each other. Contacts, invoices, timesheets & payments stay in sync, so you’re not re-entering info or cleaning up mistakes later.
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""I have been using NextMinute software for the past 4 years it has really help me transform my Kitchen business, and stay on top of my projects. Its allowed me to grow my team. the best part is knowing where i stand on my projects at the click of a button. The integration with Xero is awesome and the staff find it super easy to do their time sheets..."
Bryan Steinhardt
Waterfall Kitchens
Coordinate your projects and crew from anywhere, anytime. NextMinute takes the hassle out of your day by making task planning, scheduling, and job management simple and stress-free.
Get your quotes and estimates out faster with NextMinute, so you can lock in more projects and keep the crew on the tools.
With our easy-to-use mobile app, your team can log their hours on a job or specific task in seconds. No more chasing timesheets over the weekend or stressing about missed billable hours!
Generate accurate invoices for your clients in just a few clicks. Get paid faster and keep your cash flow steady, without the usual invoicing hassles.
Learn about InvoicingKeep your carpentry project on budget and profitable. NextMinute enables you to easily report on your job or job stage costs vs. your initial estimate.
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Sales Manager
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Mat
Former Plumber & NextMinute Pro
Mat’s a plumber, not a software guy. He’s been on the tools and shows you how to run jobs without the admin headaches.
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We’ve answered the ones we hear most from carpenters.
Yep. Two-way integrations with Xero, MYOB, and QuickBooks mean every invoice and timesheet you raise lands straight in your accounting system. GST returns and end-of-month reports stay accurate without anyone re-keying numbers, and your accountant gets clean data instead of chasing you for receipts.
The site diary in the mobile app lets the crew drop notes, weather hold-ups, and photos as they go. Everything ties back to the job, so when a council inspection comes up — or a defect query lands six months later — there's a full timeline of what happened, when, and who was on-site.
Yes. Break the job into stages, and progress claims pull from the tracked hours, materials, and expenses on each one. Invoicing stays tied to the actual data, so claims are accurate and easy to back up if a client asks for the breakdown — which keeps long jobs cash-positive instead of cash-strapped.
Plans, consent documents, and reference PDFs all live against the job and are one tap away in the app. Saves you forwarding the same file every time someone needs to check a detail, and means an inspection visit doesn't turn into a phone-call scramble.
Log the variation against the job, flick the client a quick written quote for the extra work, and get sign-off before anyone starts. The change then flows into your invoice at the end of the stage, separate from the original quote — no awkward "did we agree on this?" conversations later.
Back costing reports compare your actual spend against your original quote, broken down by stage. You can see exactly where labour or material costs are starting to slip — early enough to either pull things back or factor it into your next quote so you're not eating the loss.
It sure does. Plenty of three-person crews run their whole operation out of NextMinute — quoting, scheduling, timesheets, and invoicing without paying for seats they don't need. The pricing scales with the size of your team, so it stays sensible as you grow.
Timesheets live in the mobile app. The crew pick the job, tap to start a timer or punch in hours at the end of the day, and add voice notes or photos if there's something worth flagging. Hours then flow straight through to payroll, so nobody's transcribing scribbled paper at the desk on Monday morning.
NextMinute was built in New Zealand, and the platform has grown alongside the customers using it — so it tends to fit the way crews already work rather than forcing a new process onto them. Local support out of Auckland also means questions get answered by people who actually understand the trade, not a queue overseas.
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