It started with one joiner. In 1983 he wanted to produce estimates and cutting lists for sliding sash windows and doors, and Dave Turner, a self-employed programmer who had built large systems in other industries, wrote him a program. That joiner used it for more than twenty years.
In 2001 Dave's son Alan wondered whether other bespoke joiners would want the same thing. They did. Nothing on the market worked for custom and heritage work, because conventional software wanted a catalogue and joiners don't have one. So the company was built around a simple rule: you should need joinery knowledge to run it, not computer knowledge.
JMS Windows launched in 2004. Sliding sash, doors and frames, screens, stairs and bill of materials followed, then links to CNC machines, and more than a hundred features that customers asked for along the way. Joinerysoft was founded as a company in 2006.
JMS 3D Pro came next, with a solid 3D modelling engine we wrote ourselves, so a workshop can cut any item open on screen and see how it's made. In 2020 we launched JMS Cloud, which puts the office and the workshop on one record, on any device. It's been shortlisted for the BWF Innovation Award three years running.
Today we're still a family business, employing around twenty people. Our software runs in joinery workshops across the UK and Ireland, and in South Africa, Canada, the USA, Australia and New Zealand.
