What is Shedmate and how does it work?

What is Shedmate?

We are the first BIM software specific for the Shed Industry, helping shed businesses in Australia to iterate, design, quote, engineer, and document steel shed projects in real-time from any device. This significantly reduces time, costs, and human error associated with traditional methods.

What is the mission of Shedmate?

Through digital transformation, engineering services and software solutions, we empower companies and governments to efficiently iterate, design and fabricate steel structures in real time.

How does Shedmate work?

Shedmate empowers your business from Enquiry to Fabrication. We work with cold-formed and structural steel designs, including gable and skillion sheds, and we have many modules that can work independently, which means that we have a solution for each business regardless of the size, needs, and methods used.

Our main modules include:

2. SHED EDITOR 

3. SITE PLAN MADE EASY: Simplifying Planning Approvals

With Shedmate, creating professional site plans has never been easier:

• Automatic Site Detection: Simply enter the site address, and Shedmate will instantly detect block boundaries and overlay your shed design onto high-resolution imagery powered by Metromap.
• Easy Positioning: Move and rotate the shed to the perfect spot, ensuring an accurate layout.

• Add Site Elements: Include additional site features with ease to create a complete and professional plan.
• Instant Export: Generate and export your professional site plan in just one click—perfectly formatted for planning approvals.

Avoid unnecessary delays and streamline your project workflow. Shedmate doesn’t just help you design—it ensures your documentation is ready to keep your projects moving forward.

4. PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING SYSTEM: Smarter, visual engineering made easy

Experience a flexible and intuitive preliminary engineering system powered by finite element analysis (FEA). Shedmate’s visual tool ensures your shed designs are accurate, efficient, and cost-effective.

• Automatic Frame Updates: Define your building class, wind region, terrain category, and importance level. As you modify your shed design, Shedmate automatically adjusts all framing to meet these parameters.

• Visual Accuracy Checks: Frames included in the preliminary analysis are highlighted in green. Shedmate also alerts you to potential overdesign (blue) or underdesign (red) issues, so nothing gets missed.

• Full Control and Customization: Override frames at any time, with immediate feedback on design efficiency.

• Integrated Cost Analysis: Seamlessly integrate preliminary engineering with instant quoting. See real-time cost impacts as you make design adjustments, such as comparing the price of 3m, 4m, or 5m bay lengths.

With Shedmate’s Preliminary Engineering System, you’ll design smarter, save time, and gain confidence in your designs while staying on budget.

5. POINT OF SALES - INSTANT QUOTING MADE EASY

• Generate Professional Quotes Instantly: Export polished, professional quotes and documents with a single click.

6. VISUAL QUOTING: Comprehensive bill of materials (B.O.M) at your fingertips

Take control of your quoting process with Shedmate’s Visual Quoting Bill of Materials feature:

• Detailed Breakdown: Audit every item in your quoted price, including units, quantities, price per unit, item totals, markups, discounts and overall costs.

• Visual Clarity: Easily see which elements contribute to each individual pricing item in the list with a click.

• Sort and Analyze: Organize items by cost—from highest to lowest—and review material formulas used in the calculations.

• Export with Ease: Download your Bill of Materials directly to Excel for further analysis or sharing with your team.
• Maximized Transparency: Ensure accuracy and confidence in your pricing by having every detail laid out visually.

With the Visual Quoting Bill of Materials, you’ll streamline audits, improve accuracy, and gain deeper insights into your quotes—empowering you to make smarter decisions and impress your customers.

7. SITE SPECIFIC ENGINEERING

Shedmate streamlines the process of obtaining site-specific engineering certificates, ensuring efficiency and compliance for your projects. Here's how it works:

• Review Project Details: Check the building class, address, council jurisdiction, and specific shed and engineering parameters.

• Seamless Payment: Pay the associated fee directly through the platform.
• Professional Certification: Our independent engineering team will review and promptly provide stamped architectural plans, site plans, site-specific wind analysis reports, structural engineering plans, and certificates of compliance for development approvals.

8. EXPORT SHED PERMIT, FABRICATION AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS IN REAL-TIME

Shedmate streamlines your workflow by allowing you to export construction and fabrication plans in real-time, tailored to your subscription level. Say goodbye to costly delays, tedious back-and-forth with designers, and reworking CAD files—Shedmate does it all for you.

• Architectural Plans Made Easy: Generate detailed 3D views, floor plans, and elevations in just a click.

• Comprehensive Construction Plans: Create concreting plans, structural marking plans, cladding layouts, and more—all instantly available.

• Seamless Fabrication Plans: Shedmate’s bracket system automatically updates your design to include brackets, cleats, and base plate connections tailored to your company’s specifications. This ensures that frame fabrication documentation is generated effortlessly and with precision—saving you time and ensuring accuracy in every project.
  • Export frame fabrication plans in PDF or directly in CSV format, ready to be fed into your roll-form machinery for cutting and punching.

• Save Time and Money: Reduce external designers and avoid communication headaches. Shedmate empowers your team to handle everything in-house, saving your company hundreds of thousands annually.

With Shedmate, you’ll produce professional construction documents faster, reduce errors, and maximize efficiency. It’s the all-in-one solution your business needs to stay ahead.

9. STREAMLINED ORDERING SYSTEM FOR EFFORTLESS PROCUREMENT

Shedmate simplifies material ordering with its built-in ordering system, designed to save you time and reduce complexity when managing suppliers.

• Customizable Orders: Select specific categories and items from the material list to include in each order. Easily handle multiple suppliers by assigning items to different orders.

• Wide Range of Categories: Choose from categories such as flashings, gutters, pipes, concrete reinforcement, openings, roller door accessories, iron cladding, bolts, plates, turnbuckles, frames, and more.
• Flexible Delivery Options: Define the delivery address notes for each order—whether it’s the client’s address, your business location, or a custom address you specify. Important: Shedmate does not offer material supply or deliveries, we just help you with documentation to do your own procurement. 
• Company-Specific Templates: Use the provided ordering template or customize it to align with your company’s standards.

• Easy Export: Download orders to Excel for quick manual adjustments or print directly using Microsoft Excel.

This system works best with Shedmate’s cold-formed solutions, which are perfectly matched to bracket designs and construction methods, ensuring a seamless process from design to ordering. 

Why Choose Shedmate?

Unlike competitors Shedmate offers greater flexibility and real-time control over your design, quotes, documentation, engineering and ordering workflows. With its intuitive design, you can tailor the system to fit your business needs, ensuring seamless procurement and eliminating the hassle of manual coordination.

Take the guesswork out of quoting, engineering and ordering and manage your procurement process with confidence using Shedmate’s efficient systems.

Other benefits and features: 

Shedmate File Storage System: Your Cloud-Based Single Source of Truth

With Shedmate, all your design, quote, and project files are securely stored in the cloud, giving you instant access anytime, anywhere. Say goodbye to lost files and outdated workflows—everything you need is just a few clicks away.

• Access Anywhere, Anytime: Work seamlessly from the office, on-site, or at home. No more “I’ll send it when I’m back in the office” notes—your files are always at your fingertips.
• Effortless Sharing: Quickly share files with customers or team members in just a few clicks, ensuring smooth collaboration and communication.
• Full Transparency: Track every file with ease. See who created it, when it was made, and stay on top of project updates with a clear audit trail.
• Secure Cloud Storage: Enjoy peace of mind knowing your files are safe, organized, and easy to retrieve when you need them.

Shedmate’s File Storage System ensures you stay organized, efficient, and professional—eliminating the headaches of lost files and delayed responses.