{"id":9,"date":"2026-08-21T16:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:40:10","slug":"how-it-works","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"How It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ts-public ts-shell ts-page\"><div class=\"ts-eyebrow\">How It Works<\/div><h1>Register once. Keep the project together.<\/h1><div class=\"ts-steps ts-linked-steps\"><a id=\"register\" href=\"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=10#customer-project\"><strong>1. Register<\/strong><p>Provide the project, customer and participant information.<\/p><span>Start project \u2192<\/span><\/a><a id=\"upload\" href=\"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=10#project-files\"><strong>2. Upload<\/strong><p>Add drawings, specifications and reference files.<\/p><span>Upload references \u2192<\/span><\/a><a id=\"estimate\" href=\"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=11\"><strong>3. Estimate<\/strong><p>Tops &amp; Surfaces develops up to eight material\/fabrication options.<\/p><span>Open portal \u2192<\/span><\/a><a id=\"select\" href=\"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=11\"><strong>4. Select<\/strong><p>The customer selects the material lot and payment option.<\/p><span>Review selections \u2192<\/span><\/a><a id=\"pay\" href=\"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=11\"><strong>5. Pay<\/strong><p>Deposit or prepayment is confirmed before production release.<\/p><span>Open portal \u2192<\/span><\/a><a id=\"execute\" href=\"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/?page_id=11\"><strong>6. Execute<\/strong><p>Sales order, production order and installation milestones remain attached to the project.<\/p><span>Track project \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topsandsurfaces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}