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This calculator vs. Moraware CounterGo
Two different shapes: CounterGo is an account-based platform for drawing, quoting, and cut-listing a stone shop's jobs across its whole production floor. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this job cost, before you draw it or quote it.
What each tool is for
Moraware CounterGo is drawing, quoting, and cut-layout software built specifically for countertop and stone fabrication shops, from single-shop operators to multi-location fabricators. Shops use it to draw a room's actual counter layout, generate a customer-facing quote from that drawing, and lay finished pieces out on slabs so the shop floor knows what to cut. Moraware sells CounterGo on an ongoing, account-based subscription and also offers a separate product, Systemize, for tracking a job through templating, fabrication, and installation, which shops commonly run alongside it. Moraware's own site does not publish specific plan names or dollar pricing, so no figure for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category are stated, and no dollar amount for CounterGo appears on this page. Public descriptions of that software describe drawing a room and laying cut pieces out on slabs the shop has already bought; none describe estimating, from a rough takeoff of finished square footage, cutouts, edges, and waterfalls alone, what the whole job should sell for before a drawing exists — which is the one thing this calculator does.
This calculator does none of what CounterGo does. It does not draw a room, store a customer record, or lay finished pieces out on a specific slab for the saw. It takes one job's finished square footage, its layout shape (straight, L, U, or island) and the waste percent that shape implies, sink and cooktop cutout hours by mount type, edge profile, backsplash length, and waterfall ends, plus fabricator wage, payroll burden, and target margin, and turns that into the slabs the takeoff actually consumes, the price per finished square foot, the bid price, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money — plus, if you already have a number on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a printable customer proposal. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I need to draw a room's actual layout, quote from that drawing, and lay finished pieces out on slabs for my shop floor. | CounterGo, or a comparable stone-shop platform — drawing and cut-layout is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this job, given its footage, layout shape, cutouts, edges, and waterfalls, before I open a drawing tool? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How many slabs does a small waterfall island really consume next to a bigger galley with no splash? | This calculator's slab count from layout waste and waterfall stone, not a blended per-square-foot guess. |
| Is the price I'm about to send still above my walk-away cost? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I already draw every room and need one system tracking quotes, templates, and slab layout through production, across many jobs. | CounterGo (often paired with Moraware's Systemize) — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a per-job countertop price actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. CounterGo is used through a paid account. |
Most stone fabrication shops get different value from each: CounterGo (or a comparable stone-shop platform) for drawing every room, quoting from that drawing, and running templates and slab layout through production as an account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login gut-check on what a job should cost from a rough takeoff before a drawing exists. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a signed proposal, an invoice, or a fabrication guarantee.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Moraware CounterGo?
They do different jobs, and a stone fabrication shop of any size will likely end up touching both. Moraware CounterGo is drawing, quoting, and cut-layout software used by countertop and stone fabrication shops, sold on an ongoing per-user account basis, often alongside Moraware's separate Systemize product for tracking a job through production. It is built to draw a room's actual layout, generate a customer quote from that drawing, and lay the pieces out on slabs for the shop floor. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from finished square footage, layout waste by shape, sink and cooktop cutouts, edge profile, backsplash, and waterfall ends, it turns that into the price per finished square foot, the whole slabs the takeoff actually consumes, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money, before you have quoted or drawn anything. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A shop that already draws every room and needs one system tracking quotes, templates, and slab layout through production is better served by CounterGo or a comparable stone-shop platform; a fabricator who wants an instant, private gut-check on what a job should cost from a rough takeoff, before opening a drawing tool, is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Moraware?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Moraware or its CounterGo and Systemize products. Moraware and CounterGo are trademarks of their owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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