For CAD design centers and outsourced design teams

Your Designers See Their Cases.
Not Your Prices, Your Invoices, or Anyone Else's Work.

When design is the product, the people at the screens need the file, the prescription and the due date — and nothing about what the case is worth. SimpleLabOS seals that off in the database, not just in the menu.

SimpleLabOS is cloud dental lab software with a Designer role that is limited to the cases assigned to that designer: no prices, no invoices, no product or price list, no other designer's queue. STL, PLY and OBJ files preview in the browser up to 100MB, a whole case downloads as one ZIP, the CAD-design items can be added to the QC checklist, and each account is billed per unit with one monthly bill — from $29/month with $0 setup and no annual contract.

From $29/mo • $0 setup • 14-day free trial • Cancel anytime

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A Design Center Has a Problem Most Lab Software Ignores

Your designers are often contractors, often remote, and often work for more than one account. What they can see is the whole question.

How It Usually Gets Handled

Files go out over shared drives and chat, the prescription is pasted into a message, and the only thing stopping a designer from seeing your prices is that nobody has clicked that tab yet.

  • Files in a shared folder anyone with the link can open
  • Prescription details retyped into chat, then out of date
  • One login shared across the design team
  • Prices and invoices one menu click away from everyone
See how a small lab runs the rest of it

How It Works in SimpleLabOS

Each designer gets their own login with the Designer role. They see the cases assigned to them, open the files, and move the work forward. Everything commercial is invisible — enforced by database rules, not by hiding a button.

  • A designer's case board contains only their assigned cases
  • No price on the card, no price on the case, no invoices, no price list
  • A designer can move a case to In Production, QC or On Hold — never to Ready or Shipped
  • Files open per case, and access is re-checked on every single file
See the designer's desk

What a Design Center Actually Needs

The Designer Role, Sealed

A designer sees their assigned cases and nothing else. Prices, line items, invoices, payments, the product and price list, and the QC and history tab are all closed to them at the database level, so a shared URL does not open them either.

A QC Checklist for Design Work

The standard checklist is written for a finished restoration. A design center can add the CAD design items on top of it — margin integrity, occlusal clearance, proximal contacts, minimum wall thickness, connector size and position, insertion path and undercuts, export format, scale and orientation.

Files That Open Where the Case Is

STL, PLY and OBJ preview in the browser — rotate the model without downloading it — up to 100MB per file. When the designer needs everything, one button pulls the whole case down as a single ZIP.

What the Designer's Desk Looks Like

Four things the person at the screen needs, and one thing they are never given.

Designer role

Only the Cases Assigned to Them

The board is filtered to that designer's cases. Owners and managers see everything; a designer sees their queue. The limit is a database rule, so it holds for every screen, link and export.

QC

A Checklist Built for Design Work

The owner or a manager runs the CAD-design checklist on the case: margin integrity, occlusal clearance against the antagonist, proximal contacts, wall thickness, connector size and position, insertion path, and the export format, scale and orientation. A full pass moves the case to Ready, and the designer sees the outcome on their own case.

Files

The Model, in the Browser

STL, PLY and OBJ files render in the case itself, so the designer can check the scan before opening the CAD software. Up to 100MB per file, and the whole case downloads as one ZIP with the files, the work ticket and the notes.

Sealed

What They Never See

No unit price on the card or the case, no line items, no invoice, no payment, no product or price list, no other designer's work. Your margins on a case are not something a contractor at a screen has to be trusted with.

Not sure it fits a design center?

Design centers are not all built the same — some design for one lab, some for twenty, some bill per unit, some bill per hour. Tell us how yours is set up and we will tell you honestly whether SimpleLabOS fits before you spend a day on it.

  • Tell us how many designers you have and whether they are staff or contractors
  • Tell us how you bill: per unit, per arch, per account
  • Ask exactly what the Designer role can and cannot reach

Per-Unit Prices. One Monthly Bill Per Account.

Set your own price per unit for each account you design for, with quantity tiers for the accounts that send volume. Once a month, each one gets a statement of account — the month's invoices plus anything still carrying a balance — as a PDF under your own name and logo, and every invoice email carries a Pay Now link that needs no login.

What You Get for the Money

  • A Designer role sealed to assigned cases, enforced in the database
  • A Manager role that runs the whole operation except billing
  • A CAD-design QC checklist you can edit to your own standard
  • STL, PLY and OBJ preview in the browser, up to 100MB per file
  • Whole-case download: every file, the work ticket and the notes in one ZIP
  • Your own price per unit per account, with quantity tiers
  • A per-doctor monthly bill and a no-login Pay Now link on every invoice
  • A monthly units report: units received and completed by account, on screen or as CSV

$29/mo, $0 setup, no annual contract, and a 14-day free trial. A card is collected up front but is not charged during the trial, and you can cancel anytime.

My Work
Designer view
#LX-20260918-004
3-unit bridge · #12–14 · zirconia
CAD design · due Thursday
#LX-20260918-011
Single crown · #30 · e.max
CAD design · due Friday
#LX-20260917-002
Implant crown · #19 · custom abutment
Ready for QC

This is the whole screen for a designer. There is no price on any card, no invoice tab, and no case that was not assigned to them — the board is filtered before it ever reaches the browser.

Questions Design Centers Ask

Can a designer see what I charge for a case?

No. The Designer role has no access to unit prices, case line items, invoices, payments, or your product and price list, and those limits are database rules rather than hidden menu items — a copied link or a direct request returns nothing.

Can a designer see cases that were not assigned to them?

No. A designer's case board is filtered to the cases assigned to them, and file access is re-checked case by case. Owners and managers see everything.

Is the QC checklist any use for design work?

The standard checklist is written for a finished restoration — marginal fit, occlusion, contacts, shade and esthetics — which is not what a design center checks. One click adds the CAD-design items to the checklist: margin integrity, occlusal clearance against the antagonist, proximal contacts, minimum wall thickness, connector size and position, insertion path and undercuts, and export format, scale and orientation. The list is editable, so you can drop anything you do not need, and a full pass — run by the owner or a manager — moves the case to Ready.

Can my designers open scan files without downloading them?

STL, PLY and OBJ files preview in the browser inside the case, so a designer can rotate the model and check the scan first. Files up to 100MB are accepted, and when they do want everything, one button downloads the whole case — every file, the work ticket and the notes — as a single ZIP.

Can I give someone full control without giving them the billing?

Yes. The Manager role does everything an owner does — cases, doctors, products, prices, workflows, staff — except billing and the subscription, which stay with the owner.

How do I bill an account that sends me 200 units a month?

Set a per-unit price for that account, and add quantity tiers so the price steps down as volume goes up. At month end you can send that account one statement of account as a PDF under your own name and logo, and the monthly units report tells you how many units you actually received and completed for each one.

How much does it cost?

SimpleLabOS starts at $29/mo with $0 setup and no annual contract, and every plan includes a 14-day free trial. A card is collected up front but is not charged during the trial, and you can cancel anytime.

Give your designers the case. Keep the rest.

A Designer role sealed to assigned cases, a CAD-design QC checklist, model preview in the browser and whole-case downloads — from $29/mo with $0 setup.

14-day free trial • Card collected up front but not charged during the trial • Cancel anytime