Laser Engraving Tracker

You quoted the job at a profit. Did it stay that way — after the second sheet, the mis-cut remake, and the forty minutes of machine time nobody wrote down? This tracker answers that for every job, in one Google Sheets file, 7 tabs. Machine & Material Setup holds your real costs once — the machine rate build-up, your design labor rate, sheet costs — and the Quote Builder prices every job from them, with your margin and failure % built in, down to a per-piece price. The Job Board walks each job from Quoted through Approved, Cutting/Engraving, Finishing and Shipped/Delivered to Paid, and the Material Inventory & Yield Log tracks sheets used against pieces expected and pieces good, so stock counts and yield grades update themselves and a sheet running low flags itself.

The Profit Dashboard is where quotes meet reality: log the sheets, machine minutes and design minutes a job really used — remakes included — and it grades the job against its quote. The fictional sample shop, Ember & Beam Laser Co., finished 8 jobs that quoted $550.96 of profit and realized $444.99 — and almost the whole gap is two jobs. A rush walnut wedding sign quoted at $73.19 of profit took 3 sheets and two mis-cut remakes and realized a $41.43 loss; a keychain run yielded 100 good pieces from sheets that should have given 120, landing 20.7% under quote. The other six jobs all met or beat their quotes. A pricing and organization tool — it does not promise any income or result.

Transparency note: this spreadsheet was designed with AI assistance, then hand-built and formula-tested by our shop.

What you receive is the finished spreadsheet file, delivered instantly at checkout as a PDF containing your Google Sheets copy link. Open it, choose "Make a copy," and the file is yours. It runs in Google Sheets on a free Google account — nothing to install — and the sample data is included so you can see the formulas work. If a file ever breaks, you receive a corrected copy of the file free. This is a digital product — no physical item will be shipped.