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INDUSTRIES / METAL FABRICATION

Metal fabrication software for custom fab shops

Every metal job you have on, in one place: quoted, planned, tracked on the floor, invoiced, and costed when it ships. Built by people who ran a fab shop.

→Built for custom fab shops of 1 to 50 people →High-mix, low-volume, make-to-order →Live in weeks, priced for smaller shops
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§02 IS THIS YOUR SHOP · SHARED - SELF-QUALIFY CHECKLIST
IS THIS YOUR SHOP

We built Factory for metal fabrication shops like yours.

Factory gets the schedule off the whiteboard and onto a board the whole team can update, the pricing out of your head, and the quoting done before you go home. Then it shows you what every job actually made, before the job is finished.

1 to 50 on the floor
No two jobs are the same
The schedule is a whiteboard or spreadsheet
Pricing is mostly done from memory
The floor is disconnected from the office
Quoting often happens after hours
What a job made is a guess until tax time
§04 HOW FACTORY HELPS · SPINE-BAND ANATOMY (MIRRORS PAGE 1 §SP) + ARROW BULLETS
QUOTE TO PAID

How Factory helps metal fabrication shops.

AN ENQUIRY LANDS MONEY IN THE BANK
QuoteThe price comes off your own rates, not a guess.
→ BOMs and Kits: build a parts list for this job only, or save one to reuse
→ Your price list: plate, cutting, welding and finishing at your own rates
→ Purchase prices: costs automatically updated as supplier prices do
PlanSee what your crew and machines already have on.
→ Planner: schedule work against your crew and machines
→ Custom entries: leave, maintenance and site visits on the same board
→ Drag and drop: move a job to another day, crew or machine
TrackEvery job's stage, hours and photos in one place.
→ Workflow: track every job through job statuses you set up yourself
→ Notes, photos and attachments: kept on the job, not in texts
→ Time tracking: attendance, plus hours worked against each job
Get paidInvoice off the job, then see what it made.
→ Partial invoicing: bill part of a job or all of it
→ Online payments: customers pay by card, you get paid sooner
→ Accounting sync: flows to Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks
→ Profitability: see what each job actually made
§04b OLD WAY vs FACTORY · VARIANT SLOT - WHITEBOARD vs WORKFLOW BOARD
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT WORKFLOW

In a metal fab shop, your jobs live on a whiteboard, and it is always a day behind the floor.

Every shop has the board, and it holds up right until the person who keeps it is on the tools or away. Factory tracks the same jobs on a board the whole shop moves, so where the work sits is on the screen before anyone has to ask.

HOW IT WORKS NOW
Job tracking whiteboard in a fab shop office, job numbers and due dates written up by hand with sticky notes and highlighter
THE SAME THING IN FACTORY
Workflow Search for orders... Views Filter
On Hold 1
Total$1,240.00
Galv
Order #1048 Metal Dynamics
DM
Cutting 3
Total$3,914.00
FabricationPlasma
Order #1042 Skyline Steel Mat. on order - check with Dan
IBMS
Order #1042 Conveyor support frame 1 of 3 · nested
Order #1051 Horizon Structures
RL
Fabrication 3
Total$2,806.00
UrgentWeld
Order #1035 Apex Industrial Drawings req. before Thu
MKIB
Order #1035 Dust extract hood 2 of 4 · in progress
Order #1039 Linwood Fabrication
MS
Complete 1
Total$1,180.00
Installed
Order #1021 Mercer Engineering Signed off onsite 28/08
RL
WHAT THE BOARD COSTS YOU
Only as current as the last person who updated it.
A job moves and the board has no idea.
Rubbed out and rewritten, so last month is gone.
WHAT YOU GET WITH WORKFLOW
The floor moves the job, as it happens.
Anyone can see where a job sits, no walking out.
Automatic updates sent to your customer.
ORDER #1035
Apex Industrial
MOVED TO FABRICATION
8:41am · from the bay
IT WORKS ON MOBILE TOO
The board only stays true if the floor can update it.
Same jobs on the phone. Push a job to the next stage from the bay, so the board is right without a walk back to the office and nothing to update later. Shops that would rather not have phones out on the floor run it on a tablet at each machine instead.
§04c SECOND SPOTLIGHT · GROUP CHAT vs COLLABORATE
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT COLLABORATE

Everything anyone said about the job is in someone's phone, or someone's head.

The question gets asked in a text, the answer comes back in another, and the photo of the fault sits in one person's camera roll. Factory keeps the notes, the photos and the questions on the job itself, so whoever opens it next sees the whole story.

HOW IT WORKS NOW
A phone on a steel bench showing the shop group chat: three photos of the same bracket sent one after another, a question typed underneath and no reply
THE SAME THING IN FACTORY
Order #76142RoofcoFABRICATIONWork order
DetailsItemsTrackingCollaborateProfitability
DC
Dave C.Floor · 8:12 AM
IMG_2214.jpgIMG_2215.jpg
Plate came through 3mm over. Trim it or send it back? @Mark K.
MK
Mark K.Office · 8:31 AM
Trim it. Put the extra hour on the job so it shows up in the cost.
DC
Dave C.Floor · 11:40 AM
Trimmed and tacked. Moved it to Fabrication.
Write a message. @ to tag someoneSend
WHAT THE GROUP CHAT COSTS YOU
The photo of the fault is in one person's phone.
Ask three people about a job, get three answers.
The one who knew what happened is on leave.
WHAT YOU GET WITH COLLABORATE
Notes, photos and questions sit on the job.
Whoever opens it next reads the whole story.
Nothing depends on who is on the floor today.
ORDER #76142
Roofco
Plate 3mm over. Trim or send back?
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IT WORKS ON MOBILE TOO
Photos and questions go on the job from the floor.
A photo of the weld, a question about the plate, an update on what is done - added to the job from the floor, and the office reads it the same minute. Nothing to type up later and nothing sitting in a phone nobody else can see.
§05 PROFITABILITY · SHARED - COPIED FROM THE LANDING PAGE, WORDED FOR FAB WORK
KNOW WHERE THE MONEY GOES

The jobs that lose you money look exactly like the ones that don't.

No two metal jobs are the same, so the only way to know a job made money is to watch the hours and the material go on it. Factory tracks estimated against actual across labour and materials as the work happens, so you see what a job is making while it's still on the floor - not months later at tax time.

→Watch the quoted margin hold or slip before the job ships - estimated against actual on every one-off.
→Margin broken down by labour and materials, so you can see which one ate the profit.
→Price the next job from real numbers, not the last guess.
Profitability Order #76142 · Roofco
You made $5,170 on this job - a 26% margin.
Over on cost $1,840 under your $7,010 estimated profit.
ESTIMATED
Cost $12,990
$7,010
35%
ACTUAL
Cost $14,830
GAP
$5,170
26%
CHARGED
$20,000
Fixed quote
COST
$14,830
+$1,840 over
PROFIT
$5,170
26% margin
Have a five minute chat with us → We will walk you through the numbers on the kind of jobs you build.
§07 PROOF · SHARED - COPIED FROM THE LANDING PAGE

What other fab shops say about us.

300+
shops run on Factory.
Seconds
to see where every job is, instead of a whiteboard a day behind.
"Factory allows me to create a work order, generate invoices, schedule deliveries, manage contacts, and notify customers all in one place."
- Academy Sheetmetal Academy Sheetmetal
"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."
- Mezcal FabricationMezcal Fabrication
"The list of things I love about Factory is long. It's helped us exponentially in our business."
- Balamara MechanicalBalamara Mechanical
"We've used it for a few years at my other business and found it seamless."
- EG RoofingEG Roofing
§03 FOUNDER STORY · SHARED - COPIED FROM THE LANDING PAGE
WHO YOU'RE BUYING FROM

We were in the same position you are.

We ran our own custom fab shop, and 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
The two of us, Paul and Michael - on our shop floor
§06 SET UP RIGHT · SHARED - SUMMARIZED FROM GETTING SET UP
SET UP RIGHT

A dedicated team gets you live, and stays until it's working.

Real people who've set up hundreds of fab shops. The heavy lifting is on us: we migrate your customers, suppliers, products and pricing, and build out your kits and BOMs, not dump it on your already busy crew.

4-6
WEEKS, START TO LIVE
01
WEEK 1
KICK-OFF & DATA
You're in from day one

You explore the platform while we import your customers, suppliers, products and pricing - and agree on the first problems it has to solve for you.

02
WEEKS 2-4
BUILD & TRAIN
We build it out and train your crew

Kits and BOMs built for you, then each person trained on what matters to their role - no one-size-fits-all.

03
WEEKS 4-6
GO LIVE
You go live on something real

Quotes with clear profitability, job statuses tracked, time on jobs, your accounting integrated and invoices getting paid.

∞
ONGOING
WE KEEP GOING
Going live is the start, not the finish

No surprise bills, no being left on your own. We stay with you well past go-live.

The full story, session by session: how we get a shop set up.

§08 INTEGRATIONS · SHARED - COPIED FROM THE LANDING PAGE
INTEGRATIONS

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.

QuickBooks Online
Xero
MYOB
DEVELOPER API

Need something of your own? Build it.

Our API is open, so your team can connect Factory to the other tools your shop runs on.

Talk to us about the API →
§09 FAQ · SHARED - EXCEPT Q1 KEYWORD STRING (+ SCHEMA IN HEAD)
STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions metal shops ask

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§10 FINAL CTA · PAGE-SPECIFIC
OFF THE WHITEBOARD

Rub the whiteboard out for good.

Your jobs on the board, in the stages your shop actually runs, with the hours going on them as the crew works and what each one made at the end. Your jobs, not a demo file.

See it on your own jobs →
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