Watch Casting in WJewel

About a minute and a half, recorded in the program with a demo customer: karat pricing, customer gold, a job bag weighed at every station, and an invoice by job bag.

Pricing by Weight, Karat and Metal

The price of every line is worked out from what it weighs and what it is made of.

Every karat and metal. 10K, 14K, 18K and the rest, platinum, silver, sterling, cobalt and other metals, each with its own karat factor, so 14K is priced as 14/24 of the gold price.

The day's metal price. Enter today's gold, silver, platinum and palladium once. The invoice's Gold Lock Date picks the day, and those prices stay on the invoice.

Your price levels. Nine levels, each with its own labor per piece, labor per gram or pennyweight and metal markup for every karat. Give each customer a level, and add a gold loss % or a gold surcharge where you charge them.

Our gold or the customer's. On an invoice with the customer's gold, the metal is labor only and the fine gold comes off their metal balance. With ours, they pay for the metal.

From Job Bag to Invoice

  1. Create the job bag. Customer, style, metal, size, quantity, due date and notes. It prints with a barcode.
  2. Give it out. Scan the bag, enter its weight and give it to a person or station: CAD, casting, polishing, setting, QA, whatever your shop calls them.
  3. Take it back. Each station weighs it back in. The job's history shows every step with the weight given and received, and the loss.
  4. Split it if you need to. Divide a bag into two by pieces and weight, and keep going with both.
  5. See the whole floor. The Jobs Service Queue shows each station with its jobs as cards, with the photo and due date, and moves a job to the next station.
  6. Invoice by job bag. Scan the finished bags onto the invoice. Each line fills in its metal, pieces and weight, and is priced from the customer's level and the day's metal price.

Casting Software Features

Built for shops that sell metal by weight and labor by the piece.

Invoices

  • Invoice by job bag: scan the bags and the lines fill in
  • Casting invoice for work without job bags, or one all-in price per pennyweight
  • Priced by the gram or the pennyweight, with totals by karat and the fine gold
  • Casting returns, and the usual statements, cash receipts and credits

Job Bags and Stations

  • Weight given and received at every step, by person and date
  • Stations that will not take a job without its weight
  • Give many jobs to one person, or take many back at once
  • Open jobs by person, jobs done by person, and job tracking by style

Metal Loss

  • Weight out minus weight back for every job
  • Loss by department or by person, for any dates, with totals
  • House metal stock, metal used for job bags and the history of your fine gold and silver

Customer Gold

  • Log gold, silver or platinum a customer sends, by karat, in kilos, grams or pennyweight
  • Fine weight worked out and a receipt printed
  • Each customer's metal balance and history, and every customer's balance on one report

Customer Stones

  • Log the stones a customer leaves with you, by type and carats
  • Record the stones used for each job bag
  • Stone balances and history for each customer

Vendors, Castings and Reports

  • Casting orders to an outside caster, received in full or in part
  • Metal received from vendors, with vendor metal balances
  • Total gold and labor, metal delivered by karat, and total labor by customer

Casting and the Rest of Your Business, in One Program

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Jewelry Casting Software FAQ

How does WJewel price castings by weight?

Each karat and metal has its own line: 10K, 14K, 18K and so on, platinum, silver, sterling and other metals. WJewel takes the day's metal price, adjusts it for the karat, adds your markup and your labor per gram or pennyweight for that customer's price level, and multiplies by the weight. Labor per piece is added on top. Add a gold loss % and a per-customer gold surcharge if you charge them.

Grams or pennyweight?

Either. Each invoice is priced by the pennyweight or by the gram, and each customer can default to pennyweight. Metal you receive can be entered in kilos, grams or pennyweight.

Which metal price does an invoice use?

Enter the day's prices for gold, silver, platinum, palladium and your other metals once, and WJewel shows the 10K, 14K, 18K and 22K equivalents. If there is no gold price for today it offers to get one from the web. On the invoice, the Gold Lock Date picks which day's prices to use, and those prices are saved with the invoice, so editing it later does not reprice it.

What if the customer sends their own gold?

Log it in when it arrives: the metal, karat, weight and any discount. WJewel works out the fine weight, prints a receipt, and keeps a running metal balance for that customer. On the invoice, choose Cust Gold and the customer is charged labor only, while the fine gold in the work comes off their balance. Choose Our Gold and they pay for the metal. The same works for silver and platinum.

Can I see how much metal is lost at each step?

Yes. Every time a job bag moves, it is weighed out and weighed back in, and departments can be set to refuse a move without a weight. List Of Completed Jobs shows the weight given, the weight received and the loss for each job, by department or by person, with totals. WJewel tracks the loss per job; it does not track gold dust or filings recovered from the shop.

Can I split a job bag?

Yes. Split A Job divides a bag into two, by pieces and weight, and prints the new bag numbers. The job's history shows what it was split into.

Do you keep track of the customer's stones?

Yes. Log the stones a customer leaves with you, by type and carat weight, record the stones used for each job bag, and WJewel keeps each customer's stone balance and history.

Run Your Casting House on WJewel

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