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Whether you run a shop, manage a lab, sell chemistry, or troubleshoot lines — PlateMastr is the plating shop software that puts your entire operation in one place.
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Most plating shops track quality in spreadsheets. Or worse — notebooks.
Lost paper trails
CA forms buried in a filing cabinet no one opens.
No SPC visibility
Bath parameters drift before anyone notices.
Disconnected records
Defects, CAs, and lab results in three different places.
Audit scrambles
Days spent reconstructing records for ISO or AS9100.
No follow-through
Corrective actions opened. Never closed.
One person knows everything
And they just gave notice.
Three tiers. One platform.
Start at the reference desk. Grow into the full laboratory.
* Nadcap and eAuditNet are trademarks of the Performance Review Institute (PRI). PlateMastr LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PRI. PlateMastr helps you prepare for accreditation audits; it does not grant or represent accreditation.
One connected quality loop.
From the moment a bath drifts to the moment the corrective action closes — every step is linked.
Ask PlateMastr Anything — and It Acts
A built-in AI assistant that speaks plain English and lives on every screen. Ask it why a bath is running dull, where a record lives, or how to do something — and it doesn't just answer, it can take the action: open the right guide, start a defect log, draft an SOP, kick off an RCA. Anything you can do in PlateMastr, you can ask the assistant to do for you.
One Connected Quality Loop
This is the heart of it. The moment a bath drifts, Western Electric Rules catch it — the same SPC standard automotive OEMs use. That out-of-spec reading becomes a defect, tied to a specific line and tank. The defect launches a corrective action in one click. The CA drives a guided root-cause analysis. And when an excursion touches product, a Process Deviation record captures the affected jobs and lots, the disposition, and the customer-notification decision — the exact loop Nadcap and AS9100 auditors walk. Every link in the chain is connected, and every step leaves an audit trail. Nothing falls through.
RCA That Actually Gets Done
Guide your team through 5 Whys, Fishbone, or 8D — then export a professional PDF report. The defect that started it, the lab result behind it, the line and tank it happened on — all linked, all in the report. Quality managers love this.
Farm-to-Table Lot Traceability & Recall
Every finished drum traces back to the batch that made it, the raw lots that fed that batch, and the vendor those came from — with hard links, not string-matching. When a raw material goes bad, one click lights up every affected batch, every container, every customer, and every Bill of Lading. Genealogy runs both directions: trace forward from a bad lot, or backward from a customer complaint. Recall-ready from day one.
Finished Goods That Post Themselves
When a batch passes QC, PlateMastr does the rest — automatically. The finished lot lands in sellable inventory, the Certificate of Analysis is issued and attached, and the general ledger posts in the same breath. No double entry, no "export to Excel and pray," no gap between what the books say you have and what's actually on the rack. Stock and accounting stay in lockstep the instant production says "done."
Repack on the Fly, Reserve the Right Lot
Inventory is tracked by weight — the truth that doesn't drift with temperature — and volume is derived through QC-measured density, so a lot reads in both pounds and gallons with no second weigh-in. Split a tote into drums and pails months after it was made; every pound is accounted for, heel and all. Orders reserve stock first-expiry-first-out, so you always ship the oldest good lot, and your Bills of Lading derive their lot numbers and weights straight from the containers you loaded.
Quote to Cash — The Full ERP
Quotes, proformas, sales orders, and customer POs flow into production jobs, batch tickets, BOMs, and blend sheets — then out through purchase orders, suppliers, warehouse, shipments, and RMA. Invoicing, AR/AP aging, cash forecasting, and commission payroll close the loop. Fix a typo'd quantity or price right on the document — and the moment revenue posts, the amounts lock so an edit can never quietly unbalance your books. When it's time to file, your P&L, Balance Sheet, and Trial Balance export as branded, CPA-ready PDFs that foot to the penny. It's the ERP built for metal finishing: tank to truck, quote to cash, all in one platform instead of six.
Bank Feeds That Reconcile Themselves
Link your bank with a read-only feed and watch transactions code themselves to the right general-ledger category. Smart match suggestions tie payments to invoices, one click reconciles a batch, and it learns your categories so next month's are already sorted. The books that used to eat a weekend now take a coffee.
Due Dates You Can Defend
Payment terms are one standard vocabulary across every customer, quote, invoice, and sales order — Net 30 means the same thing everywhere, and CBS means paid before it ships, not "whatever the parser guessed." Migrating from an old ERP? Legacy term codes get flagged for review instead of silently corrupting your AR aging, and a one-screen review lets accounting map thousands of customers in minutes.
Engineer the Line, Export the CAD
Lay out any line tank by tank — plating, wastewater treatment, anodizing, or cleaning. Pick the line type and the builder reshapes itself: the right attribute fields and the right station palette for that process (precipitation, clarifier, and filter-press stations for wastewater; anodize and seal for anodizing). Assign chemistry, store the TDS and SDS for each station, then turn the engineering line into a live operating line your shop runs against — or export the geometry as a FreeCAD-ready CAD macro to hand to a builder. The same place you design the line is the place you run it.
Quality Dashboard
CA aging. Defect rates by line. Out-of-spec frequency. All in one place. Know your shop's quality posture at a glance — and click any number to land straight on the records behind it.
Sales Pipeline & CRM
Track every prospect from first call to closed deal. Log quotes, schedule follow-ups, and set revenue targets — so nothing slips through the cracks while you're running the lab. Targets aren't just plating baths either: track equipment, waste-water systems, lab reagents, anything you sell. Enterprise links each target to your product catalog so you can see sales by product, not just by customer.
Territory Map & Route Builder
See every customer on a live map. Build optimized routes, track open opportunities by region, and show up to every call with a plan.
Line Walk Audits
Walk the line with a structured checklist, flag issues in real time, and track pass/fail by station. Then export a polished audit PDF — pictures and all — before you've left the parking lot. Text it to your contact, your boss, your mom, your grandma… whoever you want. The point: the work is done when the audit is done. No more long nights writing up a ten-page report after a hot day on the shop floor.
Inventory That Runs Itself
Track every drum, bottle, and bucket on hand. Reorder alerts fire before you run dry, and every bath addition auto-deducts from stock — so your inventory stays honest without extra paperwork.
AI SOP Generator
Describe the task — the AI drafts a complete SOP with purpose, PPE, steps, and safety callouts. You review, refine, and publish. When a line walk audit finds a gap, PlateMastr suggests the SOP to close it. Advisory mode on Pro; Enterprise adds Controlled mode with versioning and a formal approval workflow.
QR Labels — Scan Any Tank or Tool
Export print-ready PDF labels for every tank and piece of equipment in your shop. Stick them on. Scan with any phone camera. PlateMastr instantly opens the right record — bath history, maintenance log, or a pre-filled log form. No searching, no manual navigation. Your entire plating line becomes scannable.
Share Code Collaboration
Share chemistry data with a short access code. Your service rep and your customer see the same live data — every reading attributed to whoever logged it. No scanning required — just enter the 8-character share code.
Unified Laboratory Hub
ChemStream and Sample Intake — all in one place. Receive samples with structured intake forms, full chain-of-custody tracking, and automatic status notifications to customers. And with The Bench, a lab tech sees the whole day's samples on one board grouped by customer — type results inline with live in-spec checks, sign each one off, and send every customer only their own report, all without leaving the page. Every lab tool feeds the same quality loop.
Projects — Real Project Management
Kanban boards, Gantt timelines, clickable milestones, and real team roles — built into the same platform as your quality data. Describe a project in one sentence and the AI designs the whole board: tasks with scheduled dates, dependencies already chained, milestones on the timeline. AI project health reads the board and tells you what's at risk before the deadline does. No more running the line rebuild out of a whiteboard photo.
Customer Portal
Give every customer their own branded portal — magic-link login, no passwords. They see order status, lab sample progress, appointments, and invoices, and they pay online. You stop being a human status-update machine.
Equipment Registry & Calibration
Assign a unique ID to every piece of equipment on your floor — rectifiers, meters, balances, ovens. Track manufacturer, model, serial number, and location. Upload calibration certificates, set expiration dates, and get dashboard alerts when calibrations are due or overdue. Nadcap and ISO 9001 audit-ready from day one.
Bring Your Customers With You
Switching tools shouldn't mean re-typing your whole customer list. Drop in any spreadsheet — we'll sort out the columns, spot the customers you already have, and update them in place instead of making duplicates. An empty cell never wipes out what's already there, and every new record is one click to undo. Works on every plan. On Enterprise, even a full product catalog moves in one pass — product master, pricebook, and formulas imported together, fully previewed before a single record is written.
121 Process Intelligence Guides
Search any plating problem and get a structured answer. No setup. Works on your first visit. Every guide covers root causes, corrective actions, and prevention strategies — all written by industry professionals.
Chemistry at Your Fingertips
Pick a process, enter your tank volume, and get a complete chemical shopping list in seconds — 63 processes covered. The upgraded Bath Addition Calculator now handles every way a real add is specced — a dry solid, a proprietary additive by % volume or % weight (specific-gravity aware), or a liquid of known strength — with a one-click common-chemical picker that auto-fills the numbers. For electroless lines, the MTO tracker watches cumulative metal turnover and color-codes bath health from fresh to dump, so you're never guessing when to remake.
Custom Challenges — Turn Targets Into a Game
Owners and managers spin up time-boxed competitions — most new customers this month, biggest product push, fastest lab turnaround — and PlateMastr scores them automatically from your real data. No spreadsheets, no honor system. Set the prize, pick who's in, and the whole thing unlocks on your team's dashboard like a new quest in their favorite game: a one-time glowing reveal, then an ambient pinned card that counts down. When someone falls behind or just isn't a "competition person," the built-in AI Coach quietly nudges them with real openings from their own accounts — "Northgate Plating already buys your bright nickel; they haven't been pitched the challenge product yet." Every win lands in a personal Trophy Room your reps can show off. Motivation that actually moves the board.
Shop Talk — Community Knowledge
Post troubleshooting questions, share war stories, and tap the experience of platers across the industry. Helpful answers get upvoted. Threads can nominate guides for the Process Intelligence library. The plating industry's first professional discussion forum — built into your quality platform.
Mini-Certifications
91 courses across every plating process, four levels deep — from 101 fundamentals to 401 mastery. Free earns you the Math and Chemistry 101 foundations, certificate included. Pro unlocks the full 101 and 201 catalog across every process — exams and verifiable badges, all of it. Enterprise adds the advanced 301 and 401 courses. Every badge is built on real quiz performance, not seat time, so auditors and customers know your operators know their chemistry.
Games Hub — Learn While You Play
Rack Runner challenges your electroplating knowledge in a fast-paced obstacle course. PlateShop lets you build and manage a virtual plating shop. Both games reinforce real chemistry concepts while keeping training engaging. Earn badges, compete on leaderboards, and discover that learning process chemistry can actually be fun.
Already smart out of the box.
Now make it yours.
The built-in AI is powerful and ready the moment you sign in — powered by Google Gemini, zero setup. Bring your own key to go further.
Built-in AI is included and great, with nothing to configure. Or bring your own key to run PlateMastr on your own AI account and your favorite model.
- Your provider, your pick
- Your own rate limits and quota
- Unlocks AI vision for the business-card scanner
- Always on the latest models
- Your usage stays on your account
And that’s not the half of it.
A dozen more systems working under the hood — included where you’d expect them.
Your shop's day, summarized before coffee
Customer-anchored task chains that don't drop the ball
Every action earns points — 1,200+ badges deep
TDS, SDS, certs, and contracts in one searchable place
Who buys what, top products, instant quotes
Split commissions calculated and paid right
Your data, pushed wherever you need it
The platform notices drift before you do
Second shift knows what first shift knew
Every drum traces to its batch, raw lots, and vendor — recall-ready
Bring your spreadsheets — nothing dropped: bad values get fixed or flagged for review, never silently lost
Open AR, AP & trial balance import with books that foot — review, approve, post
TOTP security on every account, free
Secure one-time email links — old sessions signed out automatically
Every change scanned for secrets, vulns & bad patterns — critical fixes in 7 days
Your whole crew works in their language
Metal finishing quality management, audit-ready.
Everything you need to walk into an aerospace, AS9100, or ISO 9001 audit prepared — assembled from the records you already keep, not a second system to maintain.
Training & Qualification Matrix
Every operator, every process they're qualified to run, with expiring qualifications flagged before the auditor asks.
Process Deviation & Disposition
Log an escape, disposition the affected product, and escalate it straight to a corrective action — customer-notification status tracked.
Evidence-Linked Self-Assessment
Load your own licensed checklist, answer each item with the record that proves it, and let the gaps escalate to CAPA.
Periodic Proof-Test Scheduler
Salt spray, hydrogen embrittlement, adhesion, thickness — each on its cadence, with due dates and on-time evidence computed automatically.
Pyrometry Survey Records (AMS2750)
Oven SAT and TUS surveys typed, dated, tied to the real equipment, and tracked to their next-due dates with a heads-up before they lapse.
One-Click Audit Readiness Binder
Assemble an auditor-ready PDF from your registers verbatim — readiness by section, trained personnel, deviations, CAPA, and management review.
PlateMastr helps your shop prepare for accreditation audits. It does not grant, issue, or represent any accreditation, certification, or compliance approval — those decisions are made solely by the relevant audit program.
Simple pricing. No surprises.
Start free. Every Enterprise plan includes a 30-day free trial— cancel anytime.
Free
Everything you need to get started.
Set up in about a minute.
- Plating calculators — tank volume, bath makeup, EN deposit, MTO tracker
- 126 searchable Quick Facts for the shop floor
- 121 Process Intelligence guides
- Periodic table reference
- Knowledge quiz with badges
- Personal notes
- Shop floor task list
- Mini-Certifications — Math & Chemistry 101 courses free (browse the full catalog)
Pro
7-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
$99.99/year ($8.33/mo) — save $19.89
Set up in about a minute.
Annual plan billed upfront. Renews at the current rate.
- Everything in Free
- Agentic AI assistant — doesn't just explain, it acts: create tasks, log activity, add customers (with a confirm)
- Chemical inventory with reorder alerts
- Bath addition logging + operator tasks
- Lab results + SPC charting
- Line builder with tank mapping + TDS/SDS document storage
- Bath make-up procedures — step builder + AI generation
- AI SOP Generator — Advisory mode
- Tank QR label export — print, stick on, scan from any phone
- Equipment maintenance log with scheduling + priority tracking
- Defect log with traceability
- Corrective actions + RCA
- ISO 9001 registers — Incident & Opportunity Log, Risk register, Continuous Improvement, and Management Review with auto-assembled inputs
- Quality dashboard + exports
- PDF reports
- CRM with customer tracking
- Shift handover log
- Line walk audits + PDF export
- Shop Talk community forum
- Mini-Certification exams — full 101 & 201 catalog, verifiable badges
Enterprise Solo
or $999.99/year — 2 months free
30-day free trial — cancel anytime.
The full ERP, one seat.
Guided onboarding for your whole team.
- Everything in Pro
- Full ERP — quotes, proformas, sales orders, customer POs
- Production — jobs, batch tickets, BOMs, blends, scheduling
- Supply chain — purchase orders, suppliers, warehouse, shipments, RMA
- Financials — invoicing, AR/AP aging, cash forecasting
- Quality — QC queue, CoA/CoC, SCARs, recalls, lot traceability
- Tank Solution-Control Record PDF — the Nadcap AC7108 tank log, one click
- Nadcap readiness self-assessments — import your accredited checklist, deep-link the evidence, export the pre-audit package
- Periodic test scheduler — salt spray, HE, adhesion on their cadences, with due-date tracking and on-time evidence
- Pyrometry records (AMS2750) — oven SAT/TUS surveys typed, dated, and tracked to their next due dates
- Laboratory — Analytical Procedure Engine, printable branded method packs, chain-of-custody intake, LOTO
- Projects — Kanban, Gantt, milestones, AI project health
- Controlled SOPs — versioning + formal approval workflow
- Customer Portal — magic-link login, order status, online payment
- Advanced 301 & 401 certification courses (expert level)
- Customer-branded reports + Morning Briefing
- 1 seat — every Enterprise feature included
Want a say in how it’s built? Join the Foundry
Enterprise
starts at 10 seats — bundles up to Unlimited
30-day free trial — cancel anytime.
10 / 20 / 30 / Unlimited seat bundles
Guided onboarding for your whole team.
- Everything in Enterprise Solo — same features, more people
- Seat bundles: 10 / 20 / 30 / Unlimited — pick the size that fits your crew
- Multi-seat org management — roles, permissions, admin controls
- Commission payroll with split commissions
- Custom Challenges — auto-scored team competitions with AI Coach
- Equipment Registry with unique IDs + location tracking
- Calibration management with cert uploads + due alerts
- QR labels for tanks + equipment — scan to log from any phone
Want a say in how it’s built? Join the Foundry
Nadcap and eAuditNet are trademarks of the Performance Review Institute (PRI). PlateMastr LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by PRI. PlateMastr helps you prepare for accreditation audits; it does not grant or represent accreditation.
The PlateMastr Foundry Program
Your current software has given you opinions. Strong ones. We’d like to hear every single one of them.
Air Your Grievances
Bring us your biggest day-to-day software pet peeves — the double entry, the seventeen-click reports, the “export to Excel and pray.” We turn them into fixes for everyone.
Watch It Actually Ship
This isn’t a survey that disappears into a drawer. Foundry feedback goes straight onto the build board — sometimes it ships the same week you said it.
Founders Badge
A permanent badge on your account marking you as one of the people who shaped PlateMastr Enterprise. Worth exactly zero dollars. Priceless anyway.
Invite-only — tell us about your shop and we’ll reach out when there’s a fit.
Built by people who’ve stood at the tank.
Designed around ISO 9001 and AS9100D quality management workflows.
SPC charting built on Western Electric Rules — the same standard used by automotive OEMs.
Corrective action workflows following 8D methodology — Ford's standard since 1987.
Calculator suite built on real-world bath chemistries — the same formulations and operating ranges used in production plating shops.
Questions, answered.
What plating shops ask before they start.
What is PlateMastr?
PlateMastr is plating shop software for electroplating and metal finishing operations. It brings bath and process tracking, statistical process control, a defect-to-corrective-action quality loop, laboratory management, a full electroplating ERP, and a CRM into one platform, so a shop runs its quality system without spreadsheets or notebooks.
Does PlateMastr help with aerospace, AS9100, and ISO 9001 audits?
Yes. PlateMastr includes an aerospace and quality audit-readiness layer: an operator training and qualification matrix, process deviation and disposition records, evidence-linked self-assessments, a periodic proof-test scheduler, pyrometry survey records, and a one-click Audit Readiness Binder assembled from the records you already keep. It helps your shop prepare for aerospace, AS9100, and ISO 9001 audits. PlateMastr does not issue, grant, or represent any accreditation or certification — accreditation decisions are made solely by the relevant audit program.
Can PlateMastr manage laboratory titrations and analytical procedures?
Yes. The plating lab management tools cover an Analytical Procedure Engine for bath titrations and control tests, printable branded method packs, chain-of-custody sample intake, and lab results that feed straight into SPC charts. It is built for both an in-house process lab and a service lab running samples for outside customers.
Is PlateMastr tied to a specific chemical supplier?
No. PlateMastr is supplier-agnostic. You define your own baths, chemistries, products, and operating ranges, so the platform works the same whether you buy from one supplier or several, and your data stays yours if you ever switch.
How much does PlateMastr cost?
There is a free forever tier with no credit card required. Pro is $9.99 per month and adds the full quality loop, SPC charting, inventory, CRM, and reporting. Enterprise, the full electroplating ERP, starts at $99.99 per month for a single seat with larger seat bundles available, and every Enterprise plan includes a 30-day free trial.
Is there a free trial or a free plan?
Both. The free forever plan gives you the calculators, Quick Facts reference, process-intelligence guides, and the foundational certification courses at no cost. Paid plans add trials on top — a 7-day trial on Pro and a 30-day trial on every Enterprise plan — so you can evaluate the paid features before you are billed.
How is my data kept secure?
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, isolated per organization with database-level tenant separation, and confidential files are served through short-lived signed links rather than public URLs. Every code change runs through continuous security scanning for secrets and vulnerabilities, and critical issues are addressed on a defined service-level timeline.
Can I connect my own AI agent to PlateMastr?
Yes. Enterprise plans include a hosted tools endpoint with more than 230 authenticated actions, so you can connect your own AI agent with a single URL and an API key — nothing to install. Your agent can create lines, log lab results, run orders, and read your numbers using your own AI subscription, and every request is scoped to your organization so sensitive values stay computed on the server.
The plating shops that win on quality don’t use spreadsheets.
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