Industries: kitchen fitters and fit-out
A kitchen fitter website that brings in kitchens worth fitting
Enquiries that arrive with room sizes, photos and a budget, a job file per kitchen from design to aftercare, and a quote ready while the customer is still in the showroom.
Kitchen fitting is a showroom, a workshop and a van
A kitchen fitter website is where most of your kitchens start, long before anyone visits the showroom. Take a Tuesday in Nottingham. At eight a fitter is on day two of a kitchen in West Bridgford, at ten a couple sits in the showroom with photos of their old kitchen and a sketch on squared paper, after lunch you measure a fitted wardrobe in Beeston, and at four a customer from last year rings about a hinge. Meanwhile the worktop supplier emails to say the quartz is a week late.
At most fitting firms that lives in a design program, a spreadsheet of prices, a folder of supplier orders and the owner's phone. Measurements go on paper and get typed up at night. Enquiries arrive as "how much for a kitchen?" with no sizes. We build the website that asks the right questions, and the software that runs the job after the customer says yes, around how your firm designs, orders, fits and looks after its customers.
Day two of a kitchen fit, on the fitter's phone
- The template goes straight to the worktop makerWorktop sizes sit in the job file the moment the units are in. Nobody retypes them in the evening.
- Appliances per kitchenWhich oven, hob and extractor go in which housing, with the fitting instructions on site.
- Snagging with a photoA door out of line or a sticking drawer: photo, part ordered, and the customer gets a date.
An example with made-up kitchens and addresses; you choose what a fitting sheet asks for.
Where a kitchen job loses a day
A kitchen fitter or fit-out firm works in three places at once. You sell in the showroom, prepare in the workshop and fit on site. Each place has its own paper, and that is where the days go:
| Moment | What goes wrong now | What your own system does |
|---|---|---|
| The enquiry | "How much for a kitchen?" with no sizes or photos | The form asks for room size, photos, budget and timing |
| Survey | Sizes on paper, typed up at night, a 20 mm error found on fitting day | Sizes on the phone with photos of pipes and sockets, straight into the design |
| Ordering | Units, appliances and worktop from three suppliers, delivery confirmed by email | One order list per kitchen with the delivery date of every part |
| Fitting | The fitter finds a missing wall unit on site | The fitter sees before leaving what is delivered and what is still due |
| Worktop | Templated after fitting, a second trip, a week of waiting | The template is on the job sheet and goes to the supplier the same day |
| Aftercare | A complaint through a missed call | The customer's question lands in their job file, next to the fitting photos |
None of those steps is hard. The trouble is that they sit across four people and five programs, while the customer keeps ringing to ask when the worktop comes.
Every kitchen as a job file, from design to aftercare
Customer link: design, schedule and invoices, no login needed
An example of what we can build, with made-up names and amounts. You choose the stages and the payments.
Deposits, deliveries and variations in one job file
A kitchen of eighteen thousand pounds runs three to four months from the first chat to handover. Along the way you take a deposit, order from suppliers, a delivery slips, and the customer wants an extra drawer in the island at the last minute. A job file per kitchen puts that on one screen:
- Stages you chooseDesign, survey, order, fit, worktop, appliances, aftercare. Or others, if you also do fitted wardrobes, bathroom furniture or shopfitting.
- Money against the quoteThe deposit at order, the payment on delivery, the balance at handover. What is paid and what is due, without opening the accounts.
- Variations with a signatureAn extra drawer, different handles, a socket that has to move: the customer signs on the fitter's phone and it goes on the next invoice.
- Certificates in the fileThe electrical certificate when a new circuit goes in, the gas engineer's paperwork for the hob, the appliance guarantees. The customer downloads them from the same link.
How a job file fits into wider building software is on software for construction companies; for planning fitters and deliveries, see construction scheduling software. A link where customers follow their own job is a client portal, and we build them as client portals.
A couple searches for a kitchen fitter near them
New request
Kitchen with an island in a 1980s semi, sketch and six photos attached
Hannah, Beeston, today 20:14
- A page per job: kitchens, utility rooms, wardrobes
- Photos of finished kitchens on your Google profile
- A form that asks for sizes, wishes and a sketch
An example with made-up kitchen fitters and reviews.
Kitchen fitter websites that get shortlisted
Nobody buys a kitchen from a search alone. But almost every customer searches first, looks at photos and then picks the three firms they will visit. If you are not in that three, you are not at the table. A kitchen fitter website that gets you there has these parts:
| Part | What it does | Why a fitter needs it |
|---|---|---|
| Real fitted kitchens with photos | Each job with the town, what the customer wanted and what you did | Customers buy the work they can see, not a stock photo |
| A page per type of work | Kitchens, fitted wardrobes, utility rooms, bathroom furniture, shop or surgery fit-out | Someone searching for fitted wardrobes lands on the right page |
| Areas you cover | The towns you work in, with jobs from each | Kitchen fitter near me is how most searches start |
| An enquiry form that asks | Room size, photos, budget, timing, supply and fit or fit only | You prepare the first visit and skip the price shoppers |
| A live Google profile | Recent fits, reviews after handover, showroom hours | The map is the first thing people see |
| Fast on a phone | Photos that load, a form that works with a thumb | Most kitchen searches start on a phone in the evening |
A website with that enquiry form starts from EUR 1,500. To get the map working, read the guides on your Google Business Profile and getting more Google reviews, and see local SEO. What a trade site needs beyond that is on website for contractors and marketing for construction companies. If you want a figure for your own site first, try the website cost calculator or read website cost in the UK.
A sketch with sizes becomes a first quote
An example: the AI works from your own board prices and hardware, you decide.
The quote that used to take an evening
After a showroom visit the customer wants a price quickly. You want to design and survey first. AI can sit in between: from a sketch with sizes, a few photos and what the customer said, it lays out the items of a first quote. Units by type and width, doors, handles, the island, lighting, appliances from your own list, fitting. It keeps the worktop separate, because you price that after the template.
You check, adjust and send. The customer has a guide price before they walk into a competitor's showroom, and you have not lost an evening on a quote that may not go ahead. The same AI can read supplier confirmations and put the delivery date in the right job file.
How AI prepares quotes in general is on AI quote generator and AI for construction. If you also want AI on your inbox and paperwork, see AI automation.
Finding a kitchen fitter on your own site
An example with made-up names; you choose what the form asks a fitter, from experience to a driving licence.
Good fitters choose the firm with tidy jobs
A good kitchen fitter is accurate, polite in a customer's home and can scribe a unit to a wall that is not straight. Those people are scarce, and they look at your work before they apply. A vacancy on your own site tells them what they want to know: fitting only or workshop too, a steady team or not, which van and tools, who pays for the training. Applying takes three taps on a phone, and the office sees who applied and where each candidate stands.
What you show as an employer is called employer branding. Once people work for you, plan them with staff scheduling software.
One fitter or a firm with a showroom and four teams
A sole trader fitting kitchens does not need an ERP. A firm with a showroom, a workshop and four fitting teams needs more than a diary. This is what we would build at each size:
| Size | What you need | What you do not need (yet) |
|---|---|---|
| Sole trader | A website with fitted kitchens and an enquiry form, a Google profile, a quote and invoice from a template | A planning board, roles and permissions |
| Team of five | A job file per kitchen with deposits and variations, the survey on the phone, a customer link | Links with every supplier |
| Firm of 20 to 50 | Planning for workshop and fitting teams, orders per supplier, job costing, AI for first quotes | An ERP the showroom and fitters never open |
| Larger company | Links with accounts, design software and machines, reports per showroom, access for builders who order kitchens from you | A second system next to what already works |
When an ERP starts to make sense, and what it costs, is in ERP cost and Odoo or custom software. If you plan in Excel today, start with Excel scheduling or planning software.
Part P, VAT and CIS: the rules around a kitchen
These are the rules that most often end up in a kitchen fitter's job file, as they stand on 31 October 2026. They cover England; Wales has its own building regulations.
| Rule | What it asks | What the software does |
|---|---|---|
| Part P electrics | A kitchen is not a special location; the work is notifiable only with a new circuit or a new consumer unit, unless a registered competent person does it | The survey asks whether a new circuit goes in; the certificate goes in the job file |
| Building Safety Act, Part 2A | Since 1 October 2023 dutyholder and competence duties apply to all building work under the regulations; with more than one contractor the client appoints a principal designer and principal contractor | Who holds which role is recorded per job |
| CDM 2015 | Applies to domestic work too; a construction phase plan before setting up the site, with an induction for every worker | A short plan template per job, signed before day one |
| Asbestos | Assume asbestos in buildings from before 2000; ripping out an old kitchen can need a refurbishment survey first | No strip-out on the board without the survey or a recorded check |
| Waste carrier | Taking construction waste to the tip, even your own, means upper tier registration; a new registration is £191.02 | The registration number sits on the firm's profile and the waste note |
| VAT | Renovating an occupied home is standard-rated at 20 percent, materials included; 5 percent can apply to a home empty for 2 years | The quote shows the rate and the reason |
| CIS | Pay subcontracted fitters with 20 or 30 percent deducted unless they have gross payment status; monthly return by the 19th, payment by the 22nd; nil returns back since 6 April 2026 | Deductions per payment and a reminder for the return |
| MTD for Income Tax | Sole traders over £50,000 from 6 April 2026, over £30,000 from April 2027 | Income and costs ready per quarter |
| Right to work | Checks now extend to individual subcontractors, up to £60,000 per illegal worker | The check is a step before a fitter's first job |
For the schedule that goes with a larger refit, see the guide renovation schedule of works. Fitters who work inside full refurbishments will find more on renovation.
Forty kitchens a year, counted in hours
| Per kitchen | Spreadsheet, email and paper | Your own system |
|---|---|---|
| Quotes, 3 per kitchen sold, 2 hours each | 6 hours | 3 hours |
| Typing up and checking the survey | 1.5 hours | 0.25 hours |
| Chasing supplier orders | 2 hours | 0.75 hours |
| Keeping the customer updated on deliveries and the worktop | 1.5 hours | 0.5 hours |
| Total per kitchen | 11 hours | 4.5 hours |
That is 6.5 hours per kitchen, or 260 hours a year: £11,700 of the owner's time in this example. An example, not a promise. What it is for you depends on how many quotes you write before a kitchen goes ahead, and on how you order today.
Fitting firms start with one kitchen on the table
- We walk through one kitchenFrom the first enquiry to the last invoice: where the sizes live, who orders, how the customer hears what is happening. One kitchen that went well and one that did not.
- A fixed price for the first partWe pick together where you lose the most time and give a fixed price per project. A website with fitted kitchens and an enquiry form starts from EUR 1,500; software gets a price after the conversation.
- One team fits with it firstOne fitting team and whoever plans use the first version on real kitchens. What does not work on site, we change before the showroom and workshop join.
A kitchen rarely stands alone. In a renovation a builder moves the walls and pipes before you arrive, a tiler does the splashback and the joiners may make the doors. How we build websites is on website design, and you can talk to us through contact. For SN Group, a building company in Ghent that also fits kitchens, we built a two-language site with a step-by-step cost calculator: SN Group.
Kitchen fitters ask us this
What should a kitchen fitter website show first?
Real kitchens you fitted, with the town and what the customer wanted, and an enquiry form near the top. Customers shortlist on photos, then on how easy you are to ask.
Can the enquiry form tell supply and fit from fit only?
Yes. The form asks it, along with room size, photos, budget and timing. Fit-only enquiries can go to a different list or get a different reply.
Can the fitter record the worktop template on the phone?
Yes. They enter the sizes on the job sheet, take photos of corners and cut-outs, and the job file sends the template to the supplier. No second trip, no typing up.
Does it work with my kitchen design software?
That depends on the program. Many export a parts list or a file with sizes, which we read into the job file. We look at what yours can do in the first conversation.
Do I have to build everything at once?
No. Most firms start with one part: the website, the job file per kitchen or the survey on the phone. The rest follows once the first part runs.
Website design
How VBS helps you with this
We build your site from design to copy, imagery and code, in one team, so that Google and your buyers find it and get in touch.
- Design and copy built on your buyers' questions
- Fast, multilingual when you need it, at a fixed price
- Forms, cookieless analytics and hosting on AWS
How we approach it is on our page about Website design.
More kitchens worth fitting, and fewer evenings on quotes?
Tell us how a kitchen runs at your firm, from the first enquiry to aftercare. We will show where we would start and what it could save you.
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