Steel fabrication software for custom fab shops
Every steel job is a drawing, a pile of material and a date to hit. Factory keeps all of it in one place, from the quote to the invoice, and shows what the job made.
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Factory gets the plan out of pencil and onto one board the whole shop can see, 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.
How Factory helps steel fabrication shops.
In steel fabrication, the whole plan lives in pencil on one sheet on the wall.
Fabrication, measures and installs all end up on the same sheet, because that is the only place they fit together. Factory puts all three on one plan, scheduled against your crew and machines, with the estimated hours written on every block.
A step gets missed, and nobody finds out until it is too late.
The steps live on a printed drawing next to the work, ticked in pen by whoever remembers. Factory puts the checklist on the job itself, applied from your own template, so every step carries the name of the person who did it and the time they ticked it.
The jobs that lose you money look exactly like the ones that don't.
No two steel 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 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 steel shops ask
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Nobody should have to ring the floor to find out.
Every job's drawing, hours and ticked-off steps sit on the job itself, so the office and the floor are looking at the same thing. Bring the drawings for a job you have on now and we will set it up with you on the call.
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