Hi there,
We're excited to share some of the recent updates we've made to Factory!
Sales Order
> Tracking
, and vice versaOther things to improve your experience!
Filter by status
in the Planner, making it easier to display Jobs/Orders.We hope you enjoy these new updates as much as we enjoyed building them for you! And as always, please don't hesitate to reach out to the team if you have any questions or feedback.
Hi there,
We've recently released a considerable number of updates and improvements. Here are some of the highlights that are now available:
Time Tracking
Active tracking
button located in the top nav bar of Factory. This allows you to clock on to new jobs without having to click into a job's Tracking
tab.Other
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on both Sales and Purchase orders.product kits
.We hope you enjoy these updates and improvements!
Hi there,
We're excited to say that we've just released a new feature that will help you more easily manage back-ordering and similar situations inside Factory!
Splitting Orders
Split Order
via the Options
button when viewing a submitted Sales or Purchase order. Then, select the line items and quantities that would like to split out into a new order.draft
order containing the selected line items and quantities, removing them from the original order. The newly created order will also be automatically linked to the originating order via the Linked Orders
tab.We hope you enjoy these new updates as much as we enjoyed building them for you! And as always, please don't hesitate to reach out to the team if you have any questions or feedback.
Hi there,
We're excited to update you on a few of our more recent updates to Factory!
Timesheets
Square Metre Products
Custom Planner Events
Other things to improve your experience!
We hope you enjoy these new updates as much as we enjoyed building them for you! And as always, please don't hesitate to reach out to the team if you have any questions or feedback.
Hi there,
We've released two new features that give you even greater flexibility when creating quotes and sales orders!
Whole Order Markups
add markup
button, applying a percentage based increase to all line items on the order.Tax Free Products
Product is bought/sold tax free
option when editing the product.Exclude from tax
option found within each line item's options menu.We hope these new features serve you well and help you to accommodate even more unique and specific use cases when using Factory!
Hi there,
We have some new feature announcements and quality-of-life improvements that we'd love to share with you!
Order History for Products
You can now view a list of all Sales and Purchases that contain a certain product via the new Order History tab within each product's page, giving you a simple way to find existing and historical jobs based on the products they contain.
Stock level breakdowns
When viewing a product's Tracking tab, you can now click on the Promised and On the way stock values to display a breakdown of all Sales / Purchases that make up these stock level figures.
Negative dollar line items
You can now add negative values for the Markup, Unit Price and Total Price for line items on Sales and Purchase orders, giving you greater flexibility when creating orders under specific circumstances.
Various bug fixes
Please feel free to reply to this message with any thoughts or questions!
As always, we'd love to hear them.
Hi there,
This is a big one! We are very excited to announce that we have released the first major piece of our new Time Tracking
functionality, allowing your team to clock on / off from jobs.
Gain visibility and insight into the amount of labour that goes into each job, providing greater clarity on your margins and driving more accurate quoting.
You can leverage Time Tracking
in the following ways, via each Sales Order's Tracking
tab:
Hours estimated
vs Hours worked
for each jobIn addition, you can configure Time Tracking
in the following ways via the Settings > Time Tracking page:
Planner
when users clock on / off from jobs.Actual qty
of Labour line items
on a job as users clock on / off from labour tasks, providing you with an accurate, live, margin.Work hours
for your team and automatically clock off team members when the end of a day is reached.You can view a detailed walkthrough of the functionality here.
Later this month we will be releasing our Timesheets
functionality, giving you even greater capabilities around managing your team and the time they work!
As this exciting set of functionality continues to evolve, we encourage you to provide any feedback and thoughts about how we can continue to improve our ability to help your team track the time they work on jobs.
Hi there,
You can now add custom text to the emails that you send from Factory.
We hope this new feature will make sending emails via Factory even more flexible and functional for you!
Please feel free to reply to this message with any thoughts or questions! We'd love to hear them.
Hi there,
We have made a few slight tweaks and improvements to some key areas of Factory:
As always, please feel free to reach out to our team with any questions or feedback :)
Hi there,
In another step towards our upcoming Time Tracking functionality, we've released our new Labour Line Items feature.