Your yard gets its own Pilebase: your own web address, your own database, running on our servers. Tell us about the yard below, one of us builds it, and one email comes back with one link. From there you load it from the price sheet you already have — or we do that part on a call, which is the second button.
Your yard gets its own Pilebase: your own web address, your own database, running on our servers, and you set it up yourself from the price sheet you already have.
And put your yard's Pilebase on your staff's phones. It is a website first — every screen works in any browser, on any device, with nothing added. Adding your own address to a home screen only makes it quicker to open.
Your catalogue
Upload the spreadsheet, or photograph the sheet on the counter.
Check the rows before anything is saved.
Everything works in the tab you already have open. A home screen icon is a shortcut, not a requirement.
Pilebase for buyers is on pilebase.io: homeowners and contractors shop there across every yard on it, yours included, so a contractor never needs one app per yard. Pilebase for your yard is on your own address — the counter, dispatch, the driver's route — and it is for you and your staff. A browser can only install the site it is actually on, so yours installs from your web address and not from this one. Neither is in an app store, and neither has to be installed to be used.
It installs from your address rather than from this one, because a browser can only install the site it is actually on. Open yours on the counter computer, a tablet in the yard or a driver's phone, and it offers itself there. No store and no account needed for the install itself.
In Safari, tap the Share button in the toolbar, scroll down the list and tap Add to Home Screen. Apple gives no button that can do this for you, which is why these are directions rather than a prompt.
Chrome puts up its own install prompt once you are on your address. If it has not appeared, the menu at the top right has Add to Home screen.
Chrome and Edge show an install icon in the address bar. Firefox and desktop Safari have no such thing, and on those the site in a tab is the whole product with nothing missing.
The software is free. The only fee on an order the marketplace brings you is 2%, or 2.5% if you run Complete, taken at checkout and shown on the order.
The counter, your own ordering page and delivery pricing; and on Complete the loader queue, dispatch, the driver's phone, stock that cannot be sold twice, and the books. What each one does.
There is no card field on the form below and no trial with a date on it. If the marketplace never brings you an order, no fee is ever charged.
It comes out of the payout for that order and the order says what it was. Your buyer pays your price; there is never a markup added on top of it. The pricing page sets out both rungs.
The software is free, so there is no invoice and nothing to stop paying. Everything you put in exports in one click, any time, in a format you can open.
The demo is a walkthrough on a call, on a yard loaded with somebody else's day, and it is worth half an hour of yours. This is a different door: your own install, empty, waiting for your price sheet.
Five fields now, and one afternoon with your price sheet later. That is the whole of it.
Your yard's name, your name, an email, a business phone, and what you'd like the web address to be. That's the list. We send a link to the email and a code to the phone, and nothing is built until both come back. No password either: you make your own login on your own install, and nobody here ever sees or sets it.
A spreadsheet, an export, or a photograph of the laminated sheet on the counter. You approve every row it reads before a single one is saved.
Optional, and the one thing most worth digging out. It is what the forecasting is fitted on, and without it the software has to trade its way to the same answer.
We went looking for something to plug into and mostly did not find it. So Pilebase does not connect to your system: it reads what your system already puts on paper.
Whatever your columns are called. “Material / Unit / Retail / Contractor” and “Product, UOM, Price Per Unit, Wholesale, Bin” go in the same door, and the screen shows you which of your columns it thought was which before anything is saved.
A QuickBooks sales-by-item report, a POS export, a dispatch log somebody has kept in Excel for nine years. The catalogue, the sales history and the delivery history each have their own reader.
The laminated price sheet on the counter and the delivery rate card beside it. Photograph them with your phone. Nothing is ever written off a photograph on its own, and you approve every line it read.
Across the fifteen states we read yard by yard, we found one yard running software another program could talk to at all. A plug for one vendor's system would serve almost nobody and have to be maintained forever for them.
You review everything. A column-mapping that is wrong about “Wholesale” versus “Contractor” would price your whole catalogue wrongly, so nothing imports until a person has looked at it. That is a rule in the code, not a setting you can turn off.
This is the part worth the afternoon. Upload the tickets you already have (a season, two years, whatever you kept) and the forecasting is fitted on your yard from day one instead of trading its way to the same answer.
Under eight weeks of observation a forecast shows you a figure and marks it low-confidence, and purchasing refuses to size a reorder from it. An import of last spring clears that on the first afternoon.
To say that April is not February it wants half a year of span across four distinct months. Two years of tickets has that. Twelve weeks of trading does not.
The screen says what you actually bought: how many weeks are behind the forecast now, and whether that is enough yet. A thin sheet is told it is thin rather than flattered.
No machine builds your yard while you wait, and this page is not going to pretend one does.
Your request is written down, and that is all it does. Nothing is started and no money is spent by the act of asking.
Us, by hand, on purpose — so if the web address you asked for needs changing we ask you before building it rather than after. You hear from a person either way.
It opens your yard's own Pilebase. The first screen names the business and creates the owner login; the second asks for your price sheet.
Four steps once that link opens, and you can stop after any of them. A yard that loads its catalogue and walks away has a working storefront that evening; the rest waits for you.
Name, address, phone. The address is where every delivery distance is measured from, so it is the one worth typing carefully.
Spreadsheet, export or photograph. Review the rows, import them, and you can take counter orders.
Last season's tickets. It comes after the catalogue because the history attaches to materials, and a material that does not exist yet has nothing to attach to.
Zones off your rate card, or per-run pricing from real road miles, and the windows customers may book with how many fit in each. Leave it and your own dashboard says so rather than quietly quoting nothing.
Plenty of yards would rather have somebody on the phone the first time, and that is a perfectly good way to buy software. Twenty minutes, your real price sheet loaded live on the call, and you end it with the same install you would have built yourself.
Or tick “I'd like a hand with the setup” on the form below and you get the install and the call. The install is built either way.
We build your install and email you the link. Nothing is charged.
The software terms and the acceptable use policy are published for you to read and are not in force. When they are, accepting them will be a step in setting your yard up, on a screen that shows you each document in full. Sending this form accepts nothing.