Job shop software for custom fabrication shops
One system for the whole job. Price it up, plan it, track it on the floor, log the hours, invoice it, and see what it made. Built for custom fabrication shops by people who ran one.
See if Factory fits your shop.
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We'll call you within one business day for a quick five-minute chat.
Want to pick a time instead? Book a demoTwenty jobs on, and the only place they all exist is in your head.
The quotes are in a spreadsheet. The schedule is on the whiteboard. The hours are on a clipboard somewhere, and the invoice gets written up from memory two weeks later. It holds together until someone asks where a job is at, or what you actually made on it.
Every job is managed in one place. Not the whiteboard, not the spreadsheet, not the clipboard, not your head.
The job goes in once, however you priced it.
Price it up in the spreadsheet you have always used, drop the file in, and Factory reads it into a quote or order, line by line. Or build it from a custom kit of components and labor. Either way it is typed once, and the drawing, the revision, the photos and the notes all land on the same job.
The week laid out on the crew and the machines that have to build it.
The jobs you have won, sitting on the people and machines that will do them, so when a customer asks for a date you are not guessing.
Every job on one board, in the stages your shop actually uses.
The board is the whole floor on one screen, every job sitting in a column that matches a real stage in your shop.
The invoice comes straight off the job, and they can pay it online.
Nothing gets typed twice. The lines you quoted are the lines you bill, all of it or part of it, and the customer gets an itemized invoice they can pay by card there and then. It goes across to QuickBooks, Xero or MYOB on its own, so your bookkeeper carries on as normal.
The hours are the biggest cost on the job, and most shops guess at them.
Get the hours onto the job as they happen and you know what it cost you. Guess at them and you find out at tax time, if you find out at all.
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 shops ask about job shop software
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Write the job down once and be done with it.
Price it however you price it, put it on the week, let the hours go on it, send the invoice - all off the one job. Send us something you priced this week and we will show you it in Factory.
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