§01 HERO · SHARED FRAME - VARIANT STRINGS: H1 · EYEBROW · CRUMB
Factory
INDUSTRIES / WINDOW AND DOOR

Software for window and door fabricators

One order can be twenty different windows and doors, and the whole thing gets priced properly once, in the program that draws it. Then somebody types it all out again so the shop can build it. Factory imports that priced job without it being manually re-entered, tracks it through the shop, and shows what the job made.

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 window and door shops like yours.

You already price the job properly, in the program that draws it. What you do not have is a way to get that out of there and into something that runs the shop, so it ends up getting re-entered manually into multiple systems. Factory takes in what you have already priced, without anyone typing it a second time, and shows what every job 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
Quoted in one program, typed into another
The floor is disconnected from the office
Quoting often happens after hours
What a job made is a guess until tax time
Book a call → If that sounds like your shop, a five-minute call will tell you if Factory fits.
§04 HOW FACTORY HELPS · SPINE-BAND ANATOMY (MIRRORS PAGE 1 §SP) + ARROW BULLETS
QUOTE TO PAID

How Factory helps window and door shops.

AN ENQUIRY LANDS MONEY IN THE BANK
QuoteEvery window and door, priced off what each one is made of.
AI Importer: import a job you priced in your estimating software, with no double entry
Product Kits: turn each window and door into a bill of material and labor
Purchase prices: profile and hardware costs updated when supplier prices change
PlanSite measure, fabrication and install, on one schedule.
Planner: schedule work against your crew and machines
Custom entries: site measures, machine maintenance and anything else that takes up the week
Drag and drop: move a job to another day, crew or machine
TrackWhere every job, window or door is up to.
Workflow: track every job through job statuses that match how your shop works
Notes, photos and attachments: kept on the job, not lost in someone's phone
Time tracking: attendance, plus hours worked against each job
Get paidInvoice the work that went out, then see what the job made.
Partial invoicing: accept deposits and bill the job in stages as the work gets done
Online payments: customers pay by card, you get paid sooner
Accounting sync: flows to QuickBooks, Xero or MYOB
Profitability: see what each job actually made
§04b FIRST SPOTLIGHT · TYPED TWICE vs AI IMPORTER · NO STRAP BY DECISION
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT AI IMPORTER

Price the job once, then import it in seconds.

You designed and estimated the job somewhere already, whether that is V6, LogiKal or something else, and then nothing moves until someone enters every window and door into the office system a second time. Keep designing and estimating where you do now: the AI Importer reads the file your estimating program exports and builds the order in Factory.

HOW IT WORKS NOW
A window and door schedule printed off the design program, propped against the monitor with half its rows ticked off in pen, beside a keyboard pulled forward
THE SAME THING IN FACTORY
AI importer Keystone Homes · from V6
Bayview stage 2 12 of 20 items
ITEMS READ FROM THE FILE
W01 awning window2KIT MATCHED
D01 sliding door1CHECK THIS
S01 flyscreen6KIT MATCHED
W02 fixed window4KIT MATCHED
D02 sliding door2reading
15 more items below
ITEMS IN THE FILE
20
Across four product types
SAVED BY USING THE IMPORTER
$90
2 hours of typing at $45/h
Nothing typed in twice Create order
WHAT RE-ENTERING IT COSTS YOU
A window gets missed between the quote and the job.
The sizes change and only one copy gets them.
Hours go into re-typing a job you have already priced.
WHAT YOU GET WITH AI IMPORTER
The order matches what you quoted, down to the hardware.
Change the sizes once and the whole job has them.
The hours that went into re-typing go into quoting the next job.
Book a call → Tell us which program you price in, and how the job gets from there to the shop today.
§04c SECOND SPOTLIGHT · PRICED FROM NOTHING vs PRODUCT KITS
FEATURE SPOTLIGHT PRODUCT KITS

Every job is custom. Price it from what goes into it.

A product kit breaks a finished window down into what it takes to make: profile, glass, hardware, gaskets and the hours to cut, glaze and finish it, at your own rates. Kits can come in with the job you import, already priced, or you can build and change them in Factory: start from a template and adjust what this job needs, or make a one-off. Either way, Factory works out the price from the parts and hours in it.

HOW IT WORKS NOW
A yellowed supplier price list taped to a cupboard door above bins of window and door hardware, several prices pencilled over
THE SAME THING IN FACTORY
Order #76166 Keystone Homes PO 8841 · 20 items In Production
Awning window, powder coat SAVED KIT
Aluminum frame and sash with standard hardware, gaskets and beads. Cut, machined, crimped, glazed and packed.
MATERIALS
Frame profile set1 set$186.40
Sash and hardware set1 set$94.20
Gaskets and glazing beadsset$18.60
LABOR ($) ESTIMATED
Cut and machine0.75 h$67.50
Assemble and glaze1.25 h$112.50
Finish and pack0.40 h$36.00
KIT COST
$515.20
$299.20 material, $216.00 labor
PRICED AT
$736.00
Margin $220.80 (30.0%)
WHAT PRICING FROM NOTHING COSTS YOU
Every quote is worked out from scratch, part by part.
The hardware cost is whatever the last invoice said.
The same work gets priced differently depending on who quotes it.
WHAT YOU GET WITH PRODUCT KITS
A finished window broken down into its materials and its hours.
Costs come from your own purchase prices, not memory.
Anyone in the office can price the job and land on the same number.
ON SITE
Keystone Homes
KIT
ATTACHED4 files
Open drawings
IT WORKS ON MOBILE TOO
The whole job, in your hand on site.
Open the job on site and all of it is there: every kit on the order, the drawings and photos attached to it, and the notes from the shop. No folder of printouts, nothing left back at the desk.
§04d PLANNER · HIGHLIGHT ANATOMY, NOT A SPOTLIGHT
PLANNER

Somebody measures it, the shop makes it, a crew fits it.

That is three different lots of people on one job, and all of it has to sit on the same schedule. Factory shows the measure, the fabrication and the install together, so you are not planning the shop off half the picture.

See what the shop already has on before you take the next job.
Site measures and installs sit beside the fabrication, not in a separate diary.
Move a job to another day and everybody is looking at the same schedule.
Planner Search for orders... Resources Day Week Month
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Dave C. PERSON
7:30-11:00 AM Site measure, Bayview stage 2 Order #76166 · 20 items
PO 8841 · on site DCMK
All day Sick leave Approved
Mark K. PERSON
7:00-3:00 PM Windows, doors and screens Order #76166 · 64 h estimated
20 items · powder coat MK
7:00-3:00 PM Sliding doors Order #76171
Cutting saw MACHINE
6:30-2:00 PM Cut profile to length Order #76166
All day Maintenance Repeats monthly
Crimping press MACHINE
6:30-2:00 PM Crimp sashes and frames Order #76166 · 12 h
Install crew TEAM
7:00-4:00 PM Bayview stage 2, first drop Order #76166 · 11 items
3 crew on site RLDC
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The install crew knows the schedule before they leave.
Whoever is out on site opens the schedule on their phone, sees which job they are on and when, and sends the update back without ringing the office.
§05 PROFITABILITY · FRAME, BULLETS AND MOCK SHARED · OPENING PARAGRAPH IS PAGE-OWNED (Sep 19)
KNOW WHERE THE MONEY GOES

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

The difference only turns up in the hours and the material that actually went on it. Factory puts both against what you quoted, 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 labor and materials, so you can see which one ate the profit.
Price the next job from real numbers, not the last guess.
Profitability Order #76166 · Keystone Homes
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
Book a call → 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.
No double entry
import straight from your estimating software.
"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.

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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.

Book a call → Ask us what it would take to get your shop live.
§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
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.

Browse the developer docs →
§09 FAQ · SHARED - EXCEPT Q1 KEYWORD STRING (+ SCHEMA IN HEAD)
STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions window and door shops ask

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§10 FINAL CTA · PAGE-SPECIFIC
PRICED ONCE, ENTERED ONCE

The job you priced should not need typing out again.

Bring a job you priced in V6 or LogiKal, and your own price list. We will import it and build the kits from it with you on the call, so you are looking at windows and doors you have already designed.

Book a call →
A7 · WINDOW AND DOOR · BUILD NOTES
Spotlights: AI Importer (§04b) + Product Kits (§04c). §04b names V6 and LogiKal as examples only - Factory takes any import - and the ICP keeps designing and estimating where they do now; the importer reads the file and builds the order. §04d is a Planner HIGHLIGHT, not a third spotlight - the measure, the fabrication and the install on one schedule. Both at the quote, by decision. Product Kits is spent from the sheet metal page on purpose - the two arguments must stay visibly different.
Mobile straps: §04c is the job on site (every kit, drawing, photo and shop note), §04d is the schedule on site. Donor shells, page-owned claims. §04b has none: an import is a desk job.
One job: #76166 Keystone Homes across §04b, §04c, §04d and §05, and the order is 20 items - matched to the 20 numbered rows in §04b's photo. Re-match all five figures if that photo is ever re-shot. No dimensions anywhere in the artwork.
Photography: §04b and §04c both carry new frames (Sep 19-20). §04b is 1448x1054, daylit, the sheet flat on the desk, twenty rows with every field present and every type matching its code letter - its five mock rows follow the photo's file order (W01/D01/S01/W02/D02) and must be re-checked on any photo swap. §04c is 1470x1070, natively 1.374, labelled bin row and two-decimal prices, closed. One cosmetic item left on §04b: the page is shot at an angle so the rows do not read level - next pass square-on. The HERO is installed (Sep 21): 1672x941 at 50% 50%, JPEG q92. Three renders all hit exactly 1672x941 against the 2200px ask, so that ask is closed as a generator ceiling and the shortfall is accepted as page 9 did - do not re-brief the hero for width. The old 44% nudge came off with the ratio change: at 1.777 the frame is scaled to width and shows whole.
Forms: matched to the MAIN LANDING PAGE, not to a purpose-built pair (user call Sep 20). windows-and-doors is now a real key in CAMPAIGN_PAGES holding the site-wide GEO forms: US b71348f0, AU fc7e3b22, UK 36511ddd, with US/UK on the disco round robin and AU on au-rr-booking. callback and demo share one id per geo because the landing page has no mode split. This replaced the fallback to the default pair, which is the metal pair - that was the launch blocker and it is closed.
Scope named: aluminum windows and doors, security and fly screens, commercial as well as housing. Out: timber, steel, shopfronts, glazing either way, delivery scheduling.