Client
WonderfulPoly
Spray Finishing Operations Platform
Surfis gives a spray finishing business one structured place to manage jobs, pieces, paint, labels, costing, invoices, MYOB, and production reporting.
Snapshot
Project snapshot.
The fast read on what the platform is, who it serves and what was delivered.
Country
Australia
Year
2024
Platform
Web portal + iOS labeller
Scope
Jobs, pieces, paint, labels
Stack
Django, React, PostgreSQL
Scope markers
The brief
What needed to change.
The business had outgrown paper handovers and a legacy portal. Daily work depended on job details, client pricing, measured pieces, colours, paint readiness, production claims, labels, quotes, invoices, and MYOB state all staying aligned.
The brief was to turn that operating reality into one system: clear enough for office and workshop teams, structured enough for commercial control, and flexible enough to preserve the rules the business already relied on.
The brief was to turn that operating reality into one system: clear enough for office and workshop teams, structured enough for commercial control, and flexible enough to preserve the rules the business already relied on.
The challenge
What made it complex.
The hard part was not building forms. It was capturing the workshop rules and commercial edge cases without slowing the people doing the work.
Production lived across too many handovers
Jobs, pieces, paint, labels, status updates, delivery dates, and notes needed one controlled source instead of separate paper and portal steps.
Piece-level rules could not be simplified
Profile pricing, dimensions, returns, sides, minimum charges, urgent work, maintenance jobs, and delivery timing all had to be handled properly.
Commercial documents depended on production data
Quotes, invoices, payment state, email delivery, and MYOB sync had to come from the same job and costing data used by the workshop.
The old system carried real business knowledge
The rebuild had to keep the behaviours the team relied on while replacing fragile legacy implementation with a cleaner platform foundation.
What we built
The operating system delivered.
Webits built a Django and React operations platform with role-based access, job control, piece management, paint tracking, sprayer workflow, labels, quotes, invoices, MYOB review, reporting, and system settings.
Operating model
Role-based workspace
Owners, office staff, managers, sprayers, and labellers each see the navigation, permissions, shortcuts, and actions needed for their work.
Dashboard and attention queues
The dashboard surfaces production status, urgent work, due dates, invoice state, MYOB health, and sprayer productivity in one daily control view.
Production workflow
Job intake
The create-job flow captures client context, order details, delivery rules, job type, colour, paint requirements, notes, and supporting media.
Piece editor and profile pricing
The piece workflow supports profiles, quantities, sizes, returns, sides, charge rules, images, autosave, and costing data at workshop level.
Shop-floor control
Paint, labels, and sprayer workflow
Paint availability, paint orders, job claims, production status, work logs, label queues, and mobile printing connect office control to the production floor.
Commercial control
Quotes, invoices, MYOB, and reporting
Shared costing powers quotes, invoices, PDF generation, email delivery, MYOB review, paid invoice checks, reports, and activity history.
Technical foundation
The technical foundation.
Built on a stable stack chosen for longevity, maintainability, and operational control.
Backend
- Python
- Django
- Django REST Framework
- Celery
Frontend
- React
- TypeScript
- Responsive web portal
- Role-based UI
Database
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Django ORM
- Relational data model
Mobile
- React Native
- iOS and Android app
- Zebra TCP printing
- Device state handling
Integrations
- MYOB API
- SMTP email
- WeasyPrint
- PDF generation
Deployment
- Google Cloud
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- NGINX
What changed
The result of the rebuild.
The rebuild turned a paper-heavy workshop operation into a controlled production system, reducing repeat admin, making live work easier to see, and giving each role a clearer way to move jobs forward.
Production no longer depends on paper
Jobs, clients, pieces, colours, paint, labels, status, logs, quotes, invoices, and reports now sit in one operating system instead of scattered handovers.
Admin time moved from rework to review
Job setup, profile pricing, piece measurements, costing, quotes, and invoices use the same workflow data, removing repeated manual rebuilds across the office.
Less risk in quoting and invoicing
Commercial outputs are tied to production rules, piece quantities, paint details, payment state, and invoice review instead of being recreated from memory.
Work in progress became visible
Owners and managers can see active jobs, attention items, delivery pressure, production status, claims, and reporting without chasing updates through the workshop.
Labelling became a controlled workflow
The label queue and mobile labeller give staff a proper path for requesting, claiming, printing, retrying, and tracking labels tied to the right job and piece.
Every role got a cleaner view
Office staff, managers, sprayers, and labellers each work from the screens they need, while owners keep a clearer view of production and commercial activity.
A stronger foundation for growth
Critical operations moved from legacy implementation into a Django and React foundation with reporting, MYOB review, settings, and room for future workflow changes.
System Views
Visual walkthrough across the system.
The clearest screens, system states, and support visuals behind the work.
Owner dashboard
Dashboard attention queues
Jobs list
Job detail command centre
Create job client details
Create job paint details
Piece editor
Piece image and autosave workflow
Job costing section
Quotation and invoice section
Invoices list
Invoice preview
Paint availability
Label queue
Job claims
Work logs
Sprayer report
MYOB activity history
Clients list
Profiles library
Employees list
Settings and business profile
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