RemnantSwap is a place to buy and sell remnants with fabricators near you. You can turn your granite remnants into cash by listing them today – it’s totally free.

How to see just your own remnants

Once you list your remnants (not just granite… there’s also lots of Silestone, Corian, Zodiaq, etc.) you’ll automatically have a page with just your listings. At the top will be the name of your company, a place to search, and all of your remnants listed in alphabetical order.

You can email your page’s link to your dealers or salespeople. Or, you can add the link to your website so that it’s easy for your customers to find out what granite colors you have available without interrupting you.

Here’s a 1-minute video that shows you how it works.

Want to know more? At Moraware, we make software for countertop fabricators. JobTracker is scheduling software that helps you eliminate the time you waste looking for job folders. RemnantSwap is a place to buy and sell granite remnants with fabricators near you.

Thanks to the early RemnantSwap users who’ve already listed thousands of remnants! We’ve made updates based on your feedback, and we’re excited for more people to get connected.

What is RemnantSwap?

RemnantSwap is a place to buy and sell remnants with fabricators near you. It’s totally free because we think the paid stone broker business is broken.

How does it work?

To buy remnants: just go to http://www.remnantswap.com and search for a color of granite, quartz, or solid surface countertop material.
To sell: sign up with just your email and a way to reach you, then post your remnants.

Here’s a 2-minute video that shows how to list your remnants..

Some frequently asked questions

Q: Can I list Silestone, Corian…or any other quartz or solid surface product?
A: Yes. If it’s a countertop material, go for it!

Q: Do I have to give my address if I want to sell?
A: No. But if you want someone to buy, they need a way to reach you.

Q: Do I need to enter pricing info?
A: No. You can if you want, though.

If you haven’t already, we hope you post your remnants, too!

When you have a remnant sitting in your shop, it has 3 possible fates:

1. Use it on another job
2. Sell it to someone else who can use it
3. Let it collect dust, until you finally pay for disposal

Option 1 is the best case, and the remnants you use yourself are the most valuable.

Option 2 is pretty good, but you have to find another fabricator who wants your remnant. The value of the remnant depends on how much it costs you to sell it.

Option 3 is really bad. Not only does it cost you space to store, it eventually costs you money to dispose. These remnants have negative value.

If you want to increase the value of your remnants, you need to sell the remnants that you would otherwise dispose.

That’s easier said than done! The fact is, remnants are bought, not sold. Just because you have a particular remnant, doesn’t mean someone close by has a job that needs it.

The key to selling your remnants is to make sure that anyone nearby who needs a remnant can easily find out if you have one available. If other fabricators in your area check with you every time they need a small vanity, but don’t want to purchase a full slab, you’re more likely to sell your remnants.

How do you sell a remnant, without it costing more than it’s worth?

There are three primary costs to sell your remnants.

Cost #1: Time

If you get a phone call every time someone else needs to check on a remnant, you’re quickly going to spend more time than it’s worth to sell them.

Cost #2: Transportation

The cost of transportation can quickly make a remnant purchase not make sense. So you only want to sell to fabricators near by.

Cost #3: Transaction costs

When that magical situation happens where there’s a fabricator nearby who needs a remnant you have, the last thing you want to do is give half the remaining value of the remnant to a middleman.

That’s why www.RemnantSwap.com is fast, local, and free!

If you’re tracking your remnants in an Excel spreadsheet, or using software like Moraware JobTracker, then it only takes a couple minutes every few weeks to keep your remnants updated on RemnantSwap. That’s far less time than fielding just a few phone calls from fabricators looking for remnants. When you search in RemnantSwap, it shows you the matching remnants closest to you. And since we’re not in the business of being middlemen, RemnantSwap is free.

Playing the odds

To have the best chance of matching up a remnant with a job, you need to have as many fabricators as possible checking their jobs against your remnants. That’s never going to happen if someone has to call you to find out what’s available.

By posting your remnants on RemnantSwap, all the fabricators around you can easily search for the colors they’re looking for without wasting their time or yours. They’re much more likely to try to find a remnant if the process is easy.

That’s why we make RemnantSwap so easy for buyers to search. Buyers don’t need to sign up. They just go to the website, type in the color, and it shows them the closest matching remnant.

How do I get started selling my remnants?

1. Go to http://www.remnantswap.com/
2. Sign up for a free account
3. Copy & paste your list of remnants from Excel or Moraware JobTracker all at once. (You can add hundreds of remnants in seconds!)
4. Tell other fabricators near you that they can find your remnants on RemnantSwap

As Ted mentioned, we’re creating a place for fabricators to buy and sell remnants – RemnantSwap.  Why would we do something like this for free? 

He touched on one reason – we think that a business based on hiding information doesn’t work on the internet.  But wait, there’s more.

Build a community. 

We’ve been fortunate that our scheduling software is used pretty widely by countertop fabricators, and our customers include many movers and shakers in the industry.  But, from everything we can tell, there are 10 times the number of fabricators – we’ve never heard of most of them, and I bet they’ve never heard of Moraware.

A huge part of our success has been that our users tell their friends about us.  So we figured – we need to give countertop fabricators another reason to talk to each other.  More people talking means that there’s a chance they’ll mention Moraware JobTracker. 

Computers, schmumputers.

But, our industry is behind the times.  When we’re talking to prospects, our biggest competition is the paperwork and whiteboards that they’ve been using for the last 20 years.  This is changing…slowly.  We want to give more companies another reason to use computers. 

If selling otherwise worthless remnants helps, we’re on the right track.  Maybe we can open their eyes to the fact that using software in your business can directly impact your bottom line.  We’re sure that fabricators will benefit dramatically over the long term. 

Go big or go home.

The paid remnant brokers are stuck.  If we charged for RemnantSwap we’d get forced into their game of constantly selling a service that only pays off for the fabricator once in a while.  Paid brokers can’t grow enough to make a market that’s useful to a large number of people.

We’re going to flip that on it’s head – something that’s free, open, valuable and simple will actually get used.  The more it gets used, the more it can grow and benefit everyone.

Harry and I came up with the idea for RemnantSwap when we were at a conference in Boston. Through a series of conversations with other software business owners, we started thinking about building a site for countertop fabricators to sell granite remnants to each other.

We knew this was not a completely original idea, because we’ve seen brokers at most of the trade shows we’ve been to over the past 7 years. But those businesses have a fundamental flaw because they either:
1) Connect fabricators that are far away
2) Connect fabricators close together

I haven’t heard any fabricators who like the idea of selling granite to far away buyers, because it’s expensive to ship and prone to breaking. So you’re unlikely to have a good experience.

If the fabricators are close together, you probably already know them and have done business with them before. So why do you need a middleman? Why not go directly to the fabricator?

The only way those brokers could make money is if they stand between the buyer & seller, and don’t let each other know who they are, or what material is available. That model is not sustainable. You can only make money if information is kept secret!

RemnantSwap makes the information free, where brokers try to keep it secret. I don’t know if RemnantSwap is going to be the site that takes over the market, but it seems inevitable that something like it will.

Is there some value these brokers provide that I’m missing? I’d love to hear what else they do to make it worth paying for.

We’re really excited to show off our latest creation… RemnantSwap!

What is it?

RemnantSwap is a place to buy and sell granite remnants with fabricators near you.  We don’t charge for the service, and we don’t take a cut of the transaction.

Free?  You must be kidding.

We think this will be really great for our customers, and the whole countertop industry.  We’d like to make RemnantSwap so valuable that every countertop fabricator has a new reason to use a computer in their business.

How does it work?

To buy remnants, just go to http://www.remnantswap.com/ and search for a color in a location near you.  To sell, sign up for an account, and post your remnants.  Here’s a 2-minute video that shows how to get started.