Setting Up Shop Defaults

Shop Defaults are your shop's global configuration. Set them once and they pre-populate every new project automatically — so you're not re-entering your labor rates, material prices, or hardware costs every time.

Go to Shop Defaults from the left sidebar of the dashboard.

Sheet Goods

Your sheet goods library is the list of panel materials your shop stocks. Each entry in this list becomes available as a material option when you're editing cabinet boxes.

How to add a sheet good:

1. Click + Add Sheet Good.
2. Fill in:
   • Name — e.g., "¾″ Paint Grade Ply" or "¾″ Baltic Birch"
   • Thickness — in inches (e.g., 0.75)
   • Sheet size — width × height in inches (typically 48 × 96)
   • Core type — Plywood, MDF, Particleboard, or Melamine
   • Cost per sheet — your actual cost, not retail
   • Use tags — mark what this material is used for: Carcass, Back, Drawer Box, Shelf. Cabora uses these tags when calculating material quantities.
3. Click Save.

The sheet good is now available in the Material dropdown on every cabinet.

Tip: Add your most-used sheet goods first (¾" and ½" plywood for carcass and back), then add any specialty materials (MDF for paint-grade doors, melamine for drawer boxes) as needed.

Solid Stock

Solid stock is used for face frames, molding, fillers, and any solid wood parts. Each entry becomes available as a material for those components.

Fields:

• Species — e.g., Poplar, Hard Maple, Red Oak, Cherry, Walnut
• Thickness — in inches
• Board width — in inches
• Board length — in feet
• Cost per board foot — your actual cost

Edgebanding

Edgebanding is applied to exposed plywood edges. Each entry defines a band type available for selection on cabinet edges.

Fields:

• Name — e.g., "0.5mm PVC – White" or "Real Wood Veneer – Oak"
• Thickness — in mm (typically 0.5mm PVC or 2mm wood)
• Width — in mm
• Cost per linear foot — your actual cost

Moldings

Molding profiles define what your shop offers for crown, light rail, sub-rail, toe kick, and scribe strips. These become the catalog available when you configure molding on a cabinet or a run.

Molding types:

How to add a molding profile:

1. Click + Add Molding Profile.
2. Set:
   • Name — e.g., "Ogee Crown 3.5"
   • Type — Crown, Light Rail, Sub-Rail, Toe Kick, or Scribe Strip
   • Height — in inches (the profile's height/width as installed)
   • Projection — in inches (how far it projects from the cabinet face or side)
   • Material — e.g., "Poplar" or "¾″ Solid Poplar"
   • Cost per linear foot — your actual cost
3. Click Save.

Setting the default scribe strip: The scribe strip profile marked as active is what gets auto-added when you drag a cabinet next to a wall. To change the default, go to your scribe strip profiles and mark the one you want as the active scribe.

Hardware

The hardware section is where you set your actual per-unit costs for the components that go into every cabinet.

Hinges

Set the name, brand, and cost per hinge for the door hinges you stock. The default is a Blum 110° soft-close hinge. Add alternatives (e.g., full-overlay, clip-top, push-to-open) if your shop uses multiple types.

Drawer Slides

Set cost per slide pair for the slide type(s) you stock. The default is Blum Tandem Plus Blumotion. Add variants for different weight ratings or undermount vs. side-mount.

Pulls

Set the name and cost per pull. If you carry multiple pull styles or sizes, add them all so you can select the right one per project.

Shelf Pins

Set the name and cost per pin. Typically a 5mm or 7mm standard pin.

Fasteners

Set the name, price per box, and units per box. Used for confirmat screws, wood screws, pocket screws, and other fasteners.

Ordered Parts

Add any custom-ordered components (specialty inserts, glass panels, etc.) with their name, thickness, and cost each.

Finishing

Configure your finishing products — paint, stain, sealer, topcoat — with their cost per unit and coverage rate. Cabora uses these when calculating finishing labor and material costs for paint-grade jobs.

Construction Standards

These settings define how your cabinets are built by default. You can override any of these on a per-cabinet basis.

Labor Rates

Set your shop's hourly rates. These feed directly into the costing engine on every project.

If you only set the blended shop rate, Cabora uses it for every labor line item.

Markup & Margin

Project Pricing

Units

Set the units used across the app:

After setup

Once your Shop Defaults are configured, every new project will inherit these rates and materials automatically. You can still override any value on a per-project basis from the Costing tab inside a project — the project-level settings take precedence over Shop Defaults without changing the defaults themselves.