calepinage.com

What It Is

Calepinage is an online layout-planning tool for parquet and carrelage applications, including wood flooring, LVT, ceramic tiles, and similar installation scenarios. Its core purpose is to generate an installation plan based on the actual work area before purchasing, quoting, or laying materials, while calculating material quantities, boxes/packs, cuts, waste, allowance, and cost.

Core Features

Based on the available content, the product workflow is fairly clear: users first draw the real area to be covered, including angles, corners, cut-outs, and irregular spaces, with the option to reference a floor plan or PDF. They then enter the dimensions of the planks or tiles, coverage per box/pack, and price. After that, users can adjust laying direction, stagger patterns, joints, edge allowances, and patterns. It supports straight lay, staggered lay, diagonal lay, herringbone, and other installation methods, and can check axes, cutting positions, leftover material, and costs. Finally, it generates a Rapport de Calepinage for quotations, client approval, or on-site execution.

Pricing and SaaS Capabilities

The page does not disclose plans, pricing, a free version, trials, payment methods, or similar information, making it difficult to assess the purchasing threshold and long-term cost. As business software, it also does not show team collaboration, role-based permissions, project sharing, version management, third-party integrations, APIs, or developer support. Data security, compliance, and data hosting regions are not explained either. In terms of deployment, it can only be confirmed that it is positioned as online software; there is no visible information about self-hosting.

Pros and Cons

Its strength lies in its clearly defined vertical use case: digitizing the most error-prone pre-construction tasks, such as material estimation, layout planning for complex rooms, cutting, and waste/allowance evaluation. It is especially useful for irregular walls, complex angles, herringbone LVT, and similar scenarios, and can help reduce on-site trial laying and over-purchasing. The downside is that the public information is mostly limited to product feature descriptions, with little detail on pricing, account systems, enterprise-grade security, or support. If it is to be used in company-wide standardized workflows, further validation is needed.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is better suited to tilers, LVT installers, custom or reclaimed wood flooring teams, and contractors who need to finalize an installation plan before issuing a quote. Access from China is unknown. For domestic projects, teams may want to compare it with local construction quantity takeoff software, CAD-based solutions, manufacturer material calculators, or construction quotation tools. Until payment options and language support are clarified, teams in China should evaluate procurement carefully.