Crate Pro
Design & Costing Software

Make Crates. Enjoy Life.

THERE IS A BETTER WAY

Most people don't know there's a better way until someone tells them. Now you know! So why would you keep doing things the old way?

Crate Pro doesn't change how you make crates - it helps you do it the way you do now only faster and more consistently. Through intelligence augmentation Crate Pro distribute the knowledge you already have while increasing your profit. 

Start using Crate Pro and things will never be the same.

Man pushing large wooden box up ramp into box truck
Happy crate designer sitting at computer

DESIGN FASTER

Crate Pro's structured data model allows you to create new designs fast! Even faster over time! As you build Design Templates of your common crate styles, even your newest office staff can put production orders out to the floor in minutes. Experienced users find their design time cut in half or more!

After Crate Pro is setup with your unique company settings, you can have new order cut sheets to the floor in as little as one minute! More complex designs may take 5 to 10 minutes!

ACCURATE QUOTES
in a fraction of the time

See highly accurate material and labor estimates in the same time it takes to create a design. Selling rates are accurately calculated based on your own company's parameters. Multiple units are priced using Economies of Scale and Scope.

Crate Pro accurately calculates every cut of every piece of wood. Even every fastener is calculated based on the surface area or junction to be fastened! Selling price, dimensions, weights, and even labor and material requirements are all included!

Crate estimator relaxing at his desk

TO KNOW CRATE PRO IS TO LOVE CRATE PRO

  • “Crate Pro saves a lot of administrative hours. I'll never give up the basic funtions of cost calculation, cut sheets, assembly sheets; the stuff that lets you build crates and generate pricing. Everything else is just frosting.”

    Rick P.
    President
  • “Switching from spreadsheets to Crate Pro took all the headaches out of building crates.”

    Al T.
    Owner / General Manager
  • “If you know basic styles and dimensions, you can do it. New sales reps shadow others so they can use Crate Pro too.”

    Ray K.
    Lead Wood Packaging Designer
Cut-off saw being pulled through multiple 2x4 lumber

BUILD AND BUILD AND BUILD...

From cutting to assembly to packing, Crate Pro understands the entire process. How long to crosscut 3 each 4x4's? Got it! Stitch 500 linear feet of 1x4? No problem! Assemble a crate with 3" nails then close it with cam-locks? It does that too!

To help you get started, Crate Pro comes preconfigured with industry standard time values for each saw and process. From there, you can adjust and fine tune values right down to considering the size of your shop and the capacity of your forklifts.

INCREASE PROFIT
and reduce costs too!

Estimating selling prices can result in lost orders or lost profits. Inconsistent processes can result in costly errors. Not applying correct customer discounts can result in delayed payments. Cube tables and spreadsheets can make problems that you never even see! Crate Pro helps you set the right price for any size order or container; for every customer; for every situation. And it does it the same way... the right way... over-and-over.

Man optimizing profits on spreadsheet in warehouse

MADE FOR THE CUSTOM CRATING INDUSTRY

Crate Pro isn't for cabinets, furniture, decorative boxes, or building houses.

Rows of frame crates

DO IT OVER AND OVER

Any design can be located and duplicated in an instant. All your materials, times, weights, costs and even special pricing will carry over into the new design record. Fixed price, market price, on-site, overtime rush order... no matter, Crate Pro can handle it!

LOCALIZATION:
METRIC OR IMPERIAL

Crate Pro is equally at home anywhere! When you start using Crate Pro you select if your company primarily uses metric or imperial dimensions, and select your currency format. That's it!

There is a little more... Of course Crate Pro outputs weights in both metric and Imperial. Also you can start a new design by entering either type of dimensions. Hovering over many key dimension fields will display the alternate values.

Shipping container door showing imperial and metric
IPPC ISPM15 Certification Stamp

ISPM15

Crate Pro assists in the identification and tracking of Wood Packing Materials (WPM) and Dunnage (DUN) for ISPM15 reporting.

When creating a new Design, simply select that eradicated materials are required. Crate Pro even lets you identify materials that are not part of the container as either WPM or DUN.

Given permissions, the Foreman or Sawyer can select the wood materials being used at the time.

PUT YOUR BUSINESS BACK
INTO YOUR HANDS

Crate Pro puts you back in control. You and each of your employees can instantly access the data you need to keep your operations running and to make important business decisions.

(You can limit employees privilges based on their company role.)

Man holding miniture wooden crate in his hands

HARMONY

Crate Pro Runs on Windows & macOS at the Same Time
With or Without a Server

Runs on Windows

Microsoft Windows

Runs on Windows 64-bit

Apple macOS

Runs on macOS

Linux
as a Server

TAKE TIME OFF!

Overcome Management by Tribal Knowledge - Important standards and policy information is available to be shared with authorized users within your company, even when you're gone. Take a vacation! While you're out exploring the world, you can still access Crate Pro to assure orders are flowing and everything is on track. (Internet access and Crate Pro authorized device required.)

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CONTACTS
Contact Us
Email: sales@cratepro.com
Phone: +1 800-577-2447