For the owner of a 2 to 150 person fab shop
Stop waiting on paperwork to get paid.
If your contract holds the final payment until the client accepts the record book, every day the book takes is a day your money sits in someone else's account. WeldLog builds the book while the job runs, so it goes out with the steel.
Fill in your own numbers. I'm not going to guess them for you.
The steel left on Tuesday. The client wants the record book by Friday. You know how this week goes.
places one job's record ends up
The traveller off the floor, the shared drive, an inbox with the RT report in it, and whatever your QC coordinator remembers. Building the book means stitching all four back together.
held until the book lands
Plenty of contracts tie the final payment to the client accepting the MRB. The steel is on site earning nothing while the paperwork catches up. Check your last three jobs.
person who knows where it all is
When they're off, nobody can build the book. When they leave, the record leaves with them. A missing WPQR found at handover costs a re-test or a concession.
The welding was never the slow part.
Handover week, before and after WeldLog
- MonRing the NDT house for the report they sent three weeks ago.
- TueMatch smudged heat numbers on the traveller to the mill certs.
- WedFind out weld 14 was done to Rev C and the folder has Rev B.
- ThuRebuild the weld map in Excel. Chase a WPQR nobody can find.
- FriSend 200 pages at 6pm and hope.
- MonLast weld signed off on the tablet. NDT result already against each weld.
- MonPress build. WeldLog flags anything missing: a cert with no number, a WPS with no WPQR.
- TueRead the book through. Send the client a link. They comment or accept online.
- TueInvoice goes in with the steel.
- WedStart the next job.
How it works
The record gets captured while the work is done. The book builds itself from it.
The whole job in 68 seconds, from the first drawing to the record book. Pick a chapter to jump to it.
Drop the welds onto your drawing
Upload the PDF your client sent. Number the welds on it and assign the WPS. Only welders qualified to that WPS are offered, and a ticket about to lapse is flagged right where you assign the job. No WPS, no release: a drawing can't go to the floor until every weld has one.
Welders log it as they go
A shared tablet in the bay. Each welder signs in with a PIN, claims the job card, runs the timer and logs batch, machine and gas against the weld under their own stamp. Nothing gets re-keyed in the office. NDT requisitions go to your NDT house as a numbered requisition with the weld map attached, and results land against each weld.
Press build. Send the book.
One indexed PDF with your logo on the cover: WPS and WPQR, welder quals, material certs, NDT reports, test certificates, the weld map, the DoP and CE label. Your client reviews it from a link and signs it off online. Every send is a numbered revision.
Getting started
Your whole quality system, moved in by the founder.
WeldLog runs your QMS, so it only works if the whole thing is in there. Onboarding and training come with every plan, and I do them myself.
Book a meeting
20 minutes on Teams. Bring your QC lead and your last record book. I show you the same job on WeldLog and what moving your system in looks like for a shop your size.
Your QMS loaded
WPS, WPQR, welder qualifications and tickets, material certs, equipment and calibration, in from the registers you keep today. If you want the quality manual and procedures rewritten to run on WeldLog, that is an optional service I do myself.
Training, then your first job
One session for the quality team, one for the floor. Then the next job goes on: drawings in, welds numbered, WPS assigned, template pack to the client before the first weld.
Three months in, this is what you're holding.
A record book that went out with the steel. Every WPS, ticket and cert where the next job can use it, with expiry dates watched for you. A floor that logs its own work, so the record no longer lives in one person's head.
Who you're dealing with
I ran a fabrication business on Teesside. The paperwork was the worst part of it.
Producing MRBs, preparing for client audits, chasing certs after the steel had gone. I built WeldLog so the record goes in while the work is done, by the people doing it, and the book comes out the other end.
I move every new shop's quality system in myself and set up their first job with them. That's why the first step is a 20-minute meeting with me.
Luke Cartwright, founder
Simple pricing. Onboarding included.
All prices ex VAT, billed annuallyLite
Steelwork shops where the office keeps the record.
- Steelwork projects only
- EXC Class 1 to 2
- Digital weld maps and docs
- Standard workflows
- Email support
Core
Steel and pipework, with the floor logging its own welds.
- Unlimited projects
- EXC 1 to 4 and Pipework
- Standard workflows
- Email inbox
- Email support
Pro
Shops working to a client ITP with hold points.
- Everything in Core
- Pressure vessel and skid packages
- Custom workflows
- ITP management
- Priority support
Want to try it first? There's a free 14-day trial, no card required. Several sites or a bigger team? Book a meeting and we'll price it properly. See full pricing.
Straight answers
What happens in the meeting?
20 minutes on Teams with me. Bring your last record book and your WPS and welder registers. I'll show you the same job on WeldLog, and what moving your quality system in looks like for a shop your size.
Excel works fine for us.
It works because you look after it. When you're off for a fortnight, the welders' entries still go in and the book still builds. On the call I'll show you the same weld both ways.
The floor won't use another system.
One shared tablet in the bay, any browser, PIN sign-in. Training for the floor is part of onboarding, and the first job goes on with me watching, so you see whether it gets used before the second one.
Does it cover our execution class?
You set it per project and WeldLog shows the fields that class needs. At EXC 2 it defaults to drawing stamps with a material and consumable pool, so you don't number every weld. EXC 3 and full pipework get a numbered weld map.
What doesn't it do yet?
You can't search a heat number and list every weld it went into; the heat and its MTC sit on the material record and go in the book. A lapsed welder ticket is flagged red, not blocked. If either matters to you, better you hear it from me now than after you've signed.
What happens to our records if we leave?
Every record book and certificate downloads as a PDF while your account is open, and I send you your weld, welder, WPS and material registers if you go. Your data sits in Cloudflare's Western Europe region, backed up nightly.
Which job starts next?
Make handover day boring.
The record is cheapest to capture before the first weld goes down. Book the meeting while the next job is still in the office.