The reading board
What has to be true before anything is laid.
Zaras for Flooring
Moisture readings, acclimation, and an install date the subfloor decides.
Crew months swing six point eight percent across a flooring year — the work is indoors, and the only real seasonality is whether the room is empty. The reading is what governs the install, not the month: moisture matched between the material and the subfloor, taken across the room and averaged rather than sampled once by the door.
What carries job to job: the readings the site conditions the transition detail.
A slab tested across the room, an acclimation check held to the match rather than the calendar, and a punch walk against the transitions and trim — three different jobs, one operating record.
Acclimation checked
Material and subfloor compared, with the install held until they match.
Transitions set
Thresholds and trim on a finished job, the detail that decides whether anyone calls back.
What has to be true before anything is laid, and the other gate that belongs to the customer — the empty window gets booked before anyone reads the slab, and the reading is what says whether that window was ever real. Zaras runs both from the same record.
What has to be true before anything is laid.
The other gate, which belongs to the customer.
The record, not the clipboard — every install from the estimate to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Slab and subfloor readings recorded by location — every reading logged against the room, not a single spot by the door.
Acclimation tracking — matched moisture content between material and subfloor, tracked until the install is cleared.
Site condition records — temperature and humidity held before and after, on the job's own record.
Material orders tied to the job — the flooring itself, tracked from order to delivery.
Tear-out and furniture scope — what moves, who moves it, priced before the crew shows up.
Transition and trim detailing — thresholds and trim on the finished job, the detail the callback is usually about.
Deposits and scheduling — one estimate carries the job to the crew, no separate booking to keep straight.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — the final invoice reconciles the job, no separate spreadsheet to keep straight.
Estimate → read → acclimate → install → punch → paid — every floor, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, moisture readings, and open install dates come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — commercial and property-manager flooring work with per-unit records and NET-terms billing lives on the same record as your residential book.
Flooring contractors running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for Flooring — readings, acclimation, site conditions, transitions, scheduling, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.
$49/ month
One office, one reading board. Log every slab and subfloor reading across the room, track acclimation as matched moisture instead of elapsed days, and hold the install until the room schedule and the reading board agree — the record keeps both straight.
from$149/ month
The reading board and the room schedule, run from one record. Every install walking in with its own readings already logged.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.