Systems · for contractors·Arabella×Zorah

Price it. Win it. Build it. Get paid.

One thread from the enquiry to the margin, for building and civils contractors. Built by Zorah, run through the Arabella panel.

Marula Construction, the morning screen
01·One job, start to finish

From the inbox to the number, in six screens.

01

An enquiry lands

Site, scope and the person to call are already on it. One button prices it.

An enquiry from Johan Erasmus for a warehouse floor repair, read into a scope with the client and site attached
02

Priced off your own rate sheet

Sections, items from the rate sheet, a live total. What it makes is on the screen before you send it.

The quote builder: roof replacement, blocks A to D, priced in sections off the rate sheet, with the margin shown
03

Sent as the client sees it

The quote the estimator built, not a retype of it.

The quote as the client receives it
04

Accepted, it becomes the job

The sections become the programme. Crew, bakkies, materials and photos sit on the same record.

Job JOB-2026-014, roof replacement, 64% complete: programme stages ticked off, the crew and vehicles on it, money in and margin so far
05

Bill what has been built

The claim follows the progress. Nothing is typed twice between the site and the invoice.

Invoice INV-2026-101 raised against the roof replacement job for the work built to date
06

Know what it makes, today

Priced cost against real cost, on every job, while it is still running.

Analytics: margin by job, quotes won, money owed
02·The platform

Everything else the office runs on.

The morning screen: on site, ready to bill, overdue, out for decision, and what needs you.

Today: jobs on site, money ready to bill, overdue invoices, quotes out for decision
03·Questions

What contractors usually ask.

01Do we have to abandon our estimating spreadsheet?

No. The rate sheet is built from it, so the rates you trust get a cost and a price behind them. The first quote on the system is usually a job you have already priced, compared line by line.

02What does the site foreman have to do?

Tick the stage off and post a photo from a phone. The progress bar, the claim and the dashboard all move from that.

03Does it replace our accounting system?

No. Invoices raised here post to Sage or Xero and payments come back. Quotes, jobs, progress and margin live here because nothing you run today holds them.

04We work through Arabella's panel. What changes?

Enquiries that come through the panel arrive already scoped, and your quotes go back through the same record, so the client sees one number and one contact.

05How do we start?

A demonstration on your own business: a live enquiry, your rate sheet and a job in progress, running with your numbers in it. If it earns its place, a plan follows. Nothing is paid before that.

Arabella×Zorah

The systems that stop capping your capacity.

Arabella holds the panel and the work. Zorah runs the system. Start with a demonstration on a job you have already priced; a plan follows only if it earns its place.