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.
Hi there,
We're very excited to inform you that you can now set credit limits for customers, as well as place customers on credit hold.
Credit limits
Credit hold
Other
Hi there,
We're excited to announce the rollout of our latest update, Sub-Kits.
You can now add 'kits within kits' to create more complex and detailed Product Kits that contain multiple layers or 'sub-assemblies'.
When creating or editing a Product Kit, simply click the new Add Sub-Kit button, enter a name for the Sub-Kit and then add your products to it.
From within the Product Kit's page, you can also customise where the Sub-Kit's details will display throughout Factory, similar to showing/hiding where a Product Kit's individual line items appear.
As always, we'd love to hear your feedback on this new functionality, so please don't hesitate to reach out with any thoughts or questions!
Hi there,
We've made various improvements and fixes to Factory this week that we'd love to share with you.
As always, we hope you find these changes and fixes useful!