For saw and tool sharpening shops
Sharpening shop software for saw blade sharpening services
SharpRoute is sharpening shop software for saw blade sharpening services that logs every customer blade and bit on an intake ticket, records the work and teeth replaced at the grinder, and prints the pickup and delivery list for each route day.
Birch Lane Cabinetry · route pickup · PO 5521
- SR-20410 in 40T ripSharpen
- SR-21110 in 80T crosscutSharpen, 4 teeth
- SR-1181/2 in roundover bitSharpen
- —12 in planer knives (3)Sharpen
SR-211 has been sharpened 9 times.
From the van to the grinder and back
What happens to a tote of dull tooling
- Step 1
Route day
The van comes back with a tote of dull carbide from six cabinet shops. The driver opened a pickup ticket at each stop, so every piece already has a customer.
- Step 2
Intake
A filer adds each blade and bit to its ticket by tag: 10 in 40T rip, 1/2 in roundover, a set of 12 in planer knives. Untagged blades get the next number from your prefix.
- Step 3
At the grinder
Each piece gets its service: sharpen, teeth replaced and how many, retip, hammer and tension, straighten, bore change. The tool's sharpening count goes up when it's marked done.
- Step 4
Ready
A ticket can't be marked ready while one piece on it is still waiting, so a blade never goes back with its mate still on the bench.
- Step 5
Next route day
The route day list shows each stop in order, what's going back, and space for what comes off the dock. Print it for the clipboard or run it on the driver's phone.
- 1Birch Lane CabinetryBack: #1182 · 6 piecesUsual pickup: Rip and crosscut blades
- 2Hollis MillworkBack: #1176 · 3 piecesUsual pickup: Shaper cutters
- 3North Fork SawmillBack: Nothing readyUsual pickup: Band saw blades
Pickup and delivery
The van's clipboard, printed from the tickets
Customers sit on a route day in stop order. On the day, the list shows what is ready to go back to each cabinet shop or mill and leaves room for what comes off the dock. Drivers open a pickup ticket at the stop, so tooling reaches the bench already on a ticket.
Driver logins come with the Route and Shop plans. On Bench, print the list for whoever drives.
Inside SharpRoute
Intake tickets, tooth counts, blade history and route lists
Intake tickets for route pickups, walk-ins and shipped tooling
Pick the customer, add each blade or bit by its tag, and print the ticket with a cut-out tag per piece. Tickets number themselves, or use the numbers on your carbon-copy book.
Tooth repairs and service on the record
Filers record what was done to each piece: sharpen, tooth replacement with the number of teeth, retip all, hammer and tension, straighten or bore change, plus a condition note and a price note.
Sharpening history for every blade
Each tagged tool keeps a count of times sharpened, the last date, total teeth replaced, and every ticket it has been on. Add sharpenings from before SharpRoute so the count starts right.
Bring your customer list, take your tickets with you
Import customers from a spreadsheet with their route and stop number. Export tickets, tools and route lists to CSV any time.
Route day lists for pickup and delivery
Put each customer on a route day with a stop number. The list shows the stops in order with address and phone, the ready tickets going back, and a stop log of what was picked up.
A customer view for cabinet shops and mills
On the Shop plan, invite a contact at each customer to see their own open tickets and each blade's history, instead of calling you to ask.
Tool sharpening business, without the paper
Where carbon-copy tickets and wire tags let you down
A wire tag falls off in the tote, and three shops run the same 10 in 60T crosscut.
The tag number is tied to a customer, with diameter, tooth count, bore and maker on file, so the blade is matched before it goes on the grinder.
Tooth counts scribbled at the grinder get retyped for the bill, and the customer disputes eight teeth.
The filer records teeth replaced on the piece itself, and the customer can see the same count on their ticket.
Nobody can say how many times a blade has been sharpened until it fails in the cut.
Each tool counts its sharpenings from finished work, and the dashboard lists the ones past the wear limit you set.
Plans
Priced by how many customers you sharpen for
Try any plan free for 14 days without a card. Yearly billing costs ten months' worth.
Bench
$29/month
or $290 a year
150 customers on file, up to 3 filer logins, printable route day lists. Tickets, tool history, CSV import and export included.
Start trial- For shops with a van
Route
$59/month
or $590 a year
500 customers on file, up to 8 filer logins, up to 4 driver logins with route day lists. Tickets, tool history, CSV import and export included.
Start trial Shop
$99/month
or $990 a year
Unlimited customers on file, unlimited filer logins, unlimited driver logins with route day lists, read-only logins for your customers. Tickets, tool history, CSV import and export included.
Start trial
Logins
Owner, filers, drivers and your customers
| Login | What it does | Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Sets up customers, routes and the team; sees every ticket, tool and stop log; the only login that deletes. | Every plan |
| Filer | Opens intake tickets, registers tools, looks them up by tag, records service and teeth replaced, marks tickets ready. | Every plan |
| Driver | Sees only their own routes and those stops, opens a pickup ticket at each stop, logs the stop, marks tickets delivered. | Route and Shop |
| Customer | A contact at a cabinet shop or mill: read-only, their own tickets and blades with times sharpened. | Shop |
Before you set up the bench
What sharpening shops ask about SharpRoute
- Is SharpRoute a POS or invoicing system?
- No. It doesn't take payments or send invoices. It's the shop floor record: what came in, what was done to each piece and how many teeth were replaced, and when it went back. The price note on each piece and the ticket CSV export make billing in QuickBooks or your current system quick.
- How do we log a set, like a dozen band saw blades or three planer knives?
- As one piece with a description such as “12 resaw bands” or “set of 3 planer knives”. Tag a piece only when you want its own sharpening history; sets and one-off jobs can go untagged.
- What counts as a sharpening?
- A piece marked done with sharpen, tooth replacement or retip all. Hammer and tension, straightening and bore changes are on the history but don't add to the count. Pieces marked not repairable never count.
- What happens to a blade we can't save?
- Mark the piece not repairable with a condition note like “cracked plate”. It goes back on the ticket that way, the ticket can still be marked ready, and the owner can retire the tool so its tag is free for a new blade.
- We don't run a route. Is it still useful?
- Yes. Walk-in and shipped tooling go on tickets the same way, and the Bench plan has no route drivers. Routes are there when you start one.
- Can our customers see prices or our notes?
- Customer logins see their own tickets, pieces, services, teeth replaced, price notes and blade history. They never see your notes on their account, internal ticket notes, routes or other customers.
- How do promised dates work?
- Set a promised date on any ticket. Open tickets promised within the next week, or late, show on the dashboard, alongside tickets for customers whose route runs this week.
Your first afternoon with SharpRoute
You can be logging real tickets the same day. The trial runs 14 days on the Bench plan, with no card.
- 1Import your customer sheet with each shop's route and stop number
- 2Open tickets for whatever is on the shelf right now
- 3Register the blades you sharpen most, with their past sharpenings
- 4Print Tuesday's route day list for the van
Updated October 13, 2026