Run the whole shop. Quote to paid.
We grew up in a family fab shop that's been running for almost 50 years - and got tired of quoting at 9pm, losing our weekends to admin and still never feeling like we knew where our jobs were up to. So we built Factory. Quote, schedule, run the floor, and get paid, in one place. Hundreds of shops run on it now.
Run the whole shop. Quote to paid.
We grew up in a family fab shop that's been running for almost 50 years - and got tired of quoting at 9pm. So we built Factory - quote, schedule, run the floor, and get paid, in one place. 300+ shops run on it now.
Run the whole shop. Quote to paid.
We grew up in a family fab shop that's been running for almost 50 years - and got tired of quoting at 9pm. So we built Factory - quote, schedule, run the floor, and get paid, in one place. 300+ shops run on it now.
300+ shops · quote in minutes
You're not buying from a software company.
Factory was born from experiencing the pains of running our own custom fab shop. Every tool out there was an enterprise ERP built for the big 5%, or made by people who never worked in the industry. Nothing fit shops like ours. So we built it ourselves - not just for our shop, but for every custom fab shop that's outgrown the spreadsheet but has no business buying an ERP.
"You're buying from a family that ran a fab shop for almost 50 years - and built the software it always needed."
ML Michael · ran our fab shop for 20+ yrs
Quote to paid - one straight line.
Quote in minutes, not hours.
Build a quote from your catalogue - your products, price levels, and shop rates in one place - then get the job out to the shop floor. Win the work before the other shop has opened their spreadsheet.
Spin up standard or on-the-fly bills of materials as you quote - reuse what you build all the time, or put one together on the spot.
Costs flow from your latest purchase prices, so the margin you quote is the margin you actually make.
Plan the week on one board.
Drag jobs onto your crew and machines and balance the load across cutting, fab, and install - no whiteboard, no guesswork.
Add custom and recurring entries for everything off-job too - sick leave, machine maintenance, site visits - so the board reflects what's really happening.
See your true capacity at a glance and let Factory schedule the work across your crew and machines for you.
Workflow - your board, your way.
Build your own job statuses and team views, and see the dollar value of jobs sitting in each stage at a glance.
Automated SMS and email to your customers the moment a job hits a stage you choose - no one chasing updates.
Factory helps your crew decide which job to pick up next, so the right work gets done at the right time.
Everything about the job, on the job.
Capture key notes, photos and attachments, customer signatures, and custom checklists right on the job - and tag each other in messages to keep the whole crew in the loop. No more hunting through texts, emails, and the glovebox.
Documents and drawings attach themselves - set them to drop onto jobs automatically for specific customers, or whenever a specific product is added to the job.
Time tracked where the work happens.
Clock on and off for attendance, track time against each job, and turn it into timesheets that flow straight to your accounting package - so labour hits your costs and payroll without re-keying.
Fully supported on mobile too - your team can clock on and off from any device, on the floor or out on site.
Invoice without leaving the job.
Full invoices, partial invoices, and progress payments - all living against the job and synced to your accounting package. See exactly what's been invoiced, what's been paid, and what's remaining.
Customers view their invoices online - no chasing, no re-sending.
Make the invoice yours - customise the look and feel of your invoice PDFs so they go out in your branding.
Get paid faster.
Take online payments, track what's been paid on every job, and automatically reconcile it all back to your accounting package.
We set up your online payments for you - so you're ready to take card payments fast, without working out the payment side yourself.
Easy enough that the whole floor picks it up day one.
It works the way a shop already works - if your team can use a phone, they can run Factory.
Know exactly what you make on every job.
Every quote, hour, and material rolls up into one number that matters: your margin. Factory tracks estimated against actual costs across labour and materials in real time, so you see the profit on a job while you can still do something about it - not months later at tax time.
The materials layer, handled too.
Jobs run on materials, and material prices move. Factory tracks your stock and supplier costs in the background - so your quotes, margins and stock levels always match reality.
Bend it to your shop, not the other way around.
Every shop runs a little differently. Factory flexes to yours - set up your own statuses, labels, fields, views and document templates so the system reads the way your floor already talks. It all ships out of the box, ready to shape from the start.
No developers, no waiting on anyone - we get you set up, then you can tweak whatever you want, whenever you want, without paying a vendor every time you need a change.
We don't tell you how to work - other software makes you fit its way. Factory gives you the tools to shape it and make it speak your shop's language.
We set it up with you - onboarding gets Factory shaped around your jobs, materials and crew, so you go live on a setup that already fits, then tune it from there.
Move jobs through the exact stages your shop uses, named the way your floor names them.
Tag and sort jobs however you think about them - rush, warranty, repeat customer, whatever matters.
Add text boxes, dropdowns, checkboxes and more to capture exactly what a job needs.
Filter jobs into the view each person needs, then save it so it's one tap next time.
Make quotes, work orders and invoices look like yours, with your own layout and branding.
Checklists, notifications, permissions - the smaller settings bend to your shop too.
Factory speaks your shop's language - not the language of a software company that's never walked a floor.
"Factory allows me to create a work order, generate invoices, schedule deliveries, manage contacts, and notify customers all in one place."
"My husband, who is not technical at all, can actually jump in and do his own invoices - and now raves about it to all his mates."
"The list of things I love about Factory is long. It's helped us exponentially in our business."
"We've used it for a few years at my other business and found it seamless."
See it on your own jobs.
We'll quote and run one of your real jobs, live, inside Factory - no slides, no gimmicks. Just Factory on the work you already have.
We only do custom fabrication. We only ever will.
Every other tool claims to serve fabrication and construction and architects and trades. Built for everyone means built for no one.
We picked one floor and went deep. Factory fits the way a custom fab shop actually runs, no matter what you're making - because that's the only shop we'll ever build for.
Don't get tricked into thinking more features means more value. A thousand features you'll never touch don't help you - the right ones, built for how you work, do.
We don't just level you up. We talk you up.
We came up on the floor, so we know winning the next job is half the battle. Every shop that joins Factory gets a free business profile - we shine a light on your work and give your shop exposure that can help bring in more jobs.
Keep the books you already keep.
No switching, no double entry. Connect the accounting package you already run and let quotes, invoices, and payments flow straight through.
Need something of your own? Build it.
Factory's open API lets your team wire up custom integrations to the rest of the tools your shop runs on.
Straight answers.
It's built the way a shop works, so the floor adopts it day one. As Forktorque put it: "It's not overly complicated with bells and whistles, everyone can use it."
We come from the industry and we've done the work - so Factory is built for how a fab shop actually runs, not bent out of a generic tool. Hundreds of shops already run on it. The others say they understand fabrication; we've lived it.
Yes. Factory syncs with the accounting you already use - QuickBooks Online, Xero, MYOB and more - so jobs, invoices and payments flow straight through. No switching, no double entry.
Very. Customise job statuses, support any product, material or labour rate, and tailor your PDF templates. You can even customise what you capture against a job - want a dropdown for "Freight type" or a text field for "Site contact"? Add it in a few clicks and have it show up on the job exactly where you want it.
Yes. Create purchase orders, link them to the sales orders they're for, and mark items received as they arrive. Your product catalogue updates to the latest purchase price automatically, and any linked jobs pick up the new cost - so your margins stay accurate without you re-keying anything.
Yes. Track on-hand, promised, available and on-the-way stock from suppliers, and Factory adjusts levels automatically as sales and purchases move through the business - so you always know what you've got and what to order next.
Yes - native apps for iOS and Android. Your team can update jobs, track time and see what work they've got on from anywhere on the floor or out on site.
We get your customers, suppliers, products and bills of material set up, then train your team on the platform. The goal is value fast, then we keep adding more together, incrementally. No capped number of sessions, no time limits, and no handing you off to "partners" - you work with us.
Weeks, self-serve and guided - not a months-long rollout.
A flat rate based on the number of people on your team. No hidden costs, and no gouging you with extra fees for features every shop needs - everyone gets the whole platform.
Chat to us about pricingWe lived the pain. We walked the floor. We know this world. The others only say they do.
We don't just build the software. We know the work.
Straight-talking advice on running a sharper, more profitable shop - pricing, people, and the floor. Written for fabricators, by people who've done the work.