The platform
Thirteen modules that already know about each other. Every screenshot below is the real product running a seeded demo workspace — desktop and phone, no mockups.
Chapter one
Training, credentials, and machine access are one chain rather than three disconnected systems. Pass the course, the credential lands, the machine turns on.
From first lesson to badge-in
A built-in LMS for safety and equipment training. Build courses in-app with slide, video, and quiz lessons — or import existing SCORM 1.2 content — then chain prerequisites and run in-person sessions with waitlists. Completions roll up into the credentials that unlock machines. Ideal for academic makerspaces running hundreds of students a semester.
The right people on the right machines
Roles and permissions for members, students, staff, and technicians. Equipment access follows credentials automatically — pass the training, get the machine; let a certification lapse, and access pauses with it.
The credential is the key
Connected controllers on the machines themselves. Members check in with a session QR code right at the machine, staff can enable or disable any machine remotely, and instructors can open a bank of equipment for a class. Controllers report their health live and take firmware updates over the air — and if the network drops, the machine fails safe.
iOS & Android
The companion app is not a cut-down viewer. Staff run maintenance sweeps, approve purchases, and manage the rota from the floor; members badge in, take training, and check what is open — from the same app, with the interface each of them actually needs.
Staff & technicians
Fleet maintenance sweeps, dictated service logs, purchasing approvals, shift rota and swaps, task lists.
Members & students
Rotating credential QR, machine check-in, training and prerequisites, open hours, event signups.
Included in every plan — no separate mobile licence.
Chapter two
Bookings, shifts, approvals, and purchasing — the day-to-day traffic of running a space, with a record of who decided what.
Appointments, queues, and shifts in one place
Book time with the people who run the floor. Members request training or assisted machine time, requests land in a queue staff actually work through, and the staff schedule itself lives right alongside — with drag-and-drop shift planning and swaps.
Requests move, instead of piling up
A structured workflow for the things that need a yes. Members and staff file purchase requests, approvers work one queue, and every approve or reject is logged — so requesters always know where things stand.
Vendors and part numbers in one place
Keep supplier records next to the inventory they feed. Contacts, websites, part numbers, and notes stay attached to the parts and materials you actually order.
The whole floor at a glance
Live dashboards for daily operations: open tasks, maintenance coming due, the purchasing queue, and who is in the building right now. An audit log keeps a record of every change, and event signups export to CSV when you need the list.
Built for procurement, not credit cards
Billing that fits how institutions actually buy: one organization plan with clear staff-seat, device, and storage limits, paid by purchase order and invoice. Usage against your plan is always visible, and internal spend runs through the purchase-request workflow — so there is a paper trail end to end.
Chapter three
The outward-facing half: a public catalog of your capabilities and event pages people can sign up for without an account.
Show the world what your space can make
A public-facing catalog of your equipment and capabilities, plus public event pages people can actually sign up for. Prospective members browse what is on the floor before they ever walk in — and RSVP to open houses, classes, and training sessions without creating an account.
Chapter four
Every machine, every consumable, every room — modelled the way your space is actually laid out, so a question about a machine has one answer instead of five.
Every machine, its whole history
Track every asset on the floor — from a single laser cutter to a fleet of CNCs across buildings. Preventive maintenance schedules, service tickets, and downtime logs live on the machine record, so nothing depends on whoever happens to remember.
Know what you have before you need it
Consumables, stock, and materials tracked where they live, with usage guidance on the items themselves. Set reorder points so filament, bar stock, and safety supplies get flagged before they run out — and let members ask what to use for a job, answered only from what you actually stock.
Scan the tool, scan the badge, set a due date
Hand tools, meters, kits, and consumable stock that leave the building get a custody record instead of a sticky note. Staff scan the tool's QR or NFC tag and the member's badge in the app, set a due date, and the loan is live; each asset carries its own policy — not loanable, staff checkout only, or self-serve. The front desk sees who has what and what is overdue from one page.
One system, every room and site
Model your real footprint — buildings, rooms, zones, satellite shops. Equipment, inventory, and access rules are all location-aware, so a multi-site operation runs from one place instead of five spreadsheets.
Open by default
No campus replaces everything at once. MakerOps is built to sit inside an existing stack — a documented REST API, campus single sign-on, outbound webhooks, and connectors for the on-prem hardware that will never speak to the internet.
Token-authenticated REST over every core resource — equipment, inventory, tasks, purchasing, members, credentials, sessions. Sync-friendly lists, cursor pagination, and an OpenAPI description. Plus signed outbound webhooks and a long-poll connector channel for systems behind your firewall.
Read the API referenceTen years of spreadsheets, a Monday board, an Access database, a retired system nobody maintains. We take the extract, map it, load it into a staging workspace you can inspect, and cut you over — as a scoped engagement, not a pile of CSV templates.
See how migration worksTell us what your space runs on and we will build the demo around it — equipment fleet, training pipeline, billing model, all of it.
