Manufacturing software for small fab shops
One system for the whole job, set up the way your shop already works. Price custom work off your own numbers, track what your shop needs to track, send paperwork that looks like yours, and keep the accounting package you already have. Built for small custom fab shops by people who ran one.
See if Factory fits your shop.
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Got it. Expect our call.
We'll call you within one business day for a quick five-minute chat.
Want to pick a time instead? Book a demoEvery system you get shown was built for a shop ten times your size.
You do not have a crew of two hundred, a planning department or an IT team. There are twenty jobs on, a crew who are flat out, and a spreadsheet holding it together. Then the software you get quoted for expects all of that, plus somebody to run it as their full time job, six months to put in, and your accounting moved across as well.
Quote a job you have never built before, off your own numbers.
No two jobs are the same, so the quote gets built from what the job is actually made of: the material, the hours to cut it, weld it and finish it, the fixings, all at your own rates. Win it and the same lines become the job your crew picks up.
Every order in one list, with the things your shop actually tracks on it.
Two shops can build the same thing and still track completely different information about it. So the view of your work is yours to make: you decide what it holds and what everything on it is called. We bend to how your shop works, instead of telling you how to run it.
The office runs it at a desk. The floor runs it on whatever is in their hand.
Same jobs and same numbers whatever you open it on: a computer in the office, a tablet on the bench, a phone in a pocket, a shared screen out in the shop. The crew are not filling in an office system at the end of the day, they are moving the job on while they are standing at it.
What leaves the shop should look like it came from you.
Every document your customer opens is built by dragging the blocks you want onto the page. The quote, the work order, the invoice and the delivery docket can each carry different things, because the person reading each one needs something different.
Keep the books your accountant already knows.
Your accounting already works, so we are not asking you to change it. Connect QuickBooks Online, Xero or MYOB and the invoices, the payments and the customers go across on their own. Your bookkeeper carries on in the package they have used for years, and nobody in the shop has to learn the accounting software to send an invoice.
Most systems do not fail in the demo. They fail on the floor.
It is rarely because the software cannot do what you need. A system built for a much bigger shop needs somebody whose whole job is keeping it fed, and a shop of fifteen people does not have that person. So it gets filled in late, then not at all, and a few months later the whiteboard is back and there is a login nobody opens.
What other fab shops say about us.
"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."
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
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.
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.
Kits and BOMs built for you, then each person trained on what matters to their role - no one-size-fits-all.
Quotes with clear profitability, job statuses tracked, time on jobs, your accounting integrated and invoices getting paid.
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.
Questions small shops ask about manufacturing software
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The software should fit the shop, not the other way round.
No consultant, no six month project, and nothing about the way you already run has to change to suit it. Bring the thing about a job that lives on a sticky note in your office, and we will make a field for it with you on the call.
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