Sheet metal fabrication software for custom fab shops
One sheet metal job is dozens of parts, bends and finishes, all priced by hand. Factory builds the quote from components you have already costed, then follows the job through to what it made.
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Factory gets the pricing out of one person’s head and into kits anyone can quote from, the schedule off the spreadsheet, and the quoting done before you go home. Then it shows you what every job actually made, before the job is finished.
How Factory helps sheet metal fabrication shops.
In sheet metal fabrication, every job is a one-off, and every quote starts from a blank worksheet.
The worksheet works, right up until the one person who knows how to price it is busy. Then the quote waits, and so does the job. Factory prices a custom job the way you build it: raw material off your own price list, the labor to fold, weld and finish it, and the fixings that go with it. Save that as a kit and the next job that needs the same work is priced from it, so anyone in the office can price it.
Nobody knows what a job cost until the timesheets are typed up.
On a lot of small jobs, the hours are the cost. Today they get written on a docket, or remembered at the end of the day, then typed up on Friday. Factory has the crew clock on and off the job from a shared screen on the floor, so the hours are on the job while the work is still happening.
The jobs that lose you money look exactly like the ones that don't.
A quote is an estimate until the hours and the material land on the job, and on most jobs that is not until it is finished. Factory tracks estimated against actual across labor 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.
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.
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.
Our API is open, so your team can connect Factory to the other tools your shop runs on.
Questions sheet metal shops ask
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Stop pricing every job from nothing.
Every job is different, but the parts and the work inside them are not. Price the next one from components you have already costed, and see what it made when it shipped. Bring two jobs you have already built and we will turn them into kits with you on the call.
Canonical: P2 /industries/metal-fabrication · sibling: P3 /industries/steel-fabrication