What is the best cabinet pricing software for contractors?

The best cabinet pricing software for contractors depends on who does the pricing, and for a kitchen and bath showroom that sells cabinets to contractors it needs a contractor price tier, a standing discount per contractor and a way to give contractors prices without a phone call. KitchenDEV's Kitchen & Bath Retailer Suite is showroom software that prices contractors as their own customer type, applies a contractor's default discount to every new proposal and can give a contractor a limited login with ordering turned off.

Contractor pricing, in a kitchen and bath showroom, is a separate selling price for remodelers and installers who buy cabinets one job at a time, set as its own multiplier on the cost of each vendor's catalog.

Why do showrooms price contractors separately?#

Showrooms price homeowners, contractors and builders differently. One showroom on a KitchenDEV call described it as "different ranges for builders, different ranges for retail."

Contractors also ask for prices more often than homeowners do. A showroom owner on a 2025 KitchenDEV demo wanted contractors able to price his stock lines themselves, "because I get so many calls all the time." A remodeler on a February 2026 demo asked for each contractor's standing discount to follow that contractor: "every time this contractor comes, his 30% pops up." KitchenDEV's quoting software for kitchen and bath showrooms covers both requests.

How does KitchenDEV's Kitchen & Bath Retailer Suite price contractors?#

• Contractor as a customer type. KitchenDEV's Kitchen & Bath Retailer Suite has five customer types: Homeowner / Retail, Contractor, Builder, Designer / Trade and Architect. Since July 2026 each type carries its own multiplier, with a style-level override.
• One contractor's negotiated price. A single customer can have a multiplier override, whatever the type.
• A standing discount. Since March 2026, a customer's Default Discount, once set on the customer record, applies automatically to every new proposal for that customer.
• One job. A proposal can take a custom multiplier for one job without changing the catalog or the contractor's standard pricing.

The arithmetic behind a selling price at a target margin, with a calculator, is in pricing a cabinet job to hit a target margin.

Can a contractor price a job without calling the showroom?#

Yes, with a limited login. A showroom can give a contractor a login in KitchenDEV's Kitchen & Bath Retailer Suite that is scoped to proposals with ordering turned off, so the contractor builds the proposal and the showroom reviews it and places the order. Administrators can also hide cost and profit from that user. The login is built from existing permissions, with no named preset for it, and KitchenDEV does not bill per user.

A contractor cannot order cabinets on the showroom's own website. KitchenDEV's Kitchen & Bath Retailer Suite is built for the showroom and its users, with no public storefront.

What about a contractor who designs and installs kitchens?#

A design-and-install contractor can price and sell the cabinets himself once he has dealer accounts with the manufacturers. On a 2025 KitchenDEV call, a contractor who draws the design and does the installation said he tells the customer to go buy the cabinets elsewhere and is "really not making any money from it." He named the order of steps himself: sign up with the vendors first, then set up the software.

A cabinet distributor that sells to contractors through a trade or wholesale program is pricing a dealer network, which is covered in giving each dealer its own pricing online. Contractors comparing several cabinet lines for one job are covered in pricing several vendors' catalogs in one place.

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