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Era for your metal fabrication.

Drawing-to-invoice for a job shop: drawings collected per enquiry, machine-hour quotes, logged shop hours and net-30 invoices.

Start with Era7 modules · 4 prepared workflows · 3 teammates

Is your work spread over 7 tools that don’t know each other?

Bookings in one place, messages in another, payments in a sheet. A change stays in one tool before it reaches the people who need it.

The order stayed in emailProduction plan in a spreadsheetSuppliers on WhatsAppWork order on paperThree versions of the stock countDelivery date promised by phone
Work order on paperThree versions of the stock countDelivery date promised by phoneThe order stayed in emailProduction plan in a spreadsheetSuppliers on WhatsApp
Drawings in a folderCustomer list in another toolInvoices cut off from shipmentsThe order stayed in emailProduction plan in a spreadsheetSuppliers on WhatsApp

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Era brings them into one place. A few of the apps you can connect

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Same week. Same team. A different day.

Every job arrives as a drawing; materials and labour are costed and quoted, and approved work queues in the workshop. Due dates and quality records are shared with the customer.

Metal fabrication: the same work, today and with Era.

  • Today: Missed orders. An emailed order never entered the production plan. — Era: Order to work order. An approved quote becomes an order, then a work order.
  • Today: Missing materials. Production started; materials ran out halfway. — Era: Stock and supply. Low stock prepares a supplier order draft.
  • Today: Unclear delivery. The customer keeps asking where the order is. — Era: Status updates. Each stage change notifies the customer.
  • Today: Disconnected invoices. The shipment left; the invoice came a week later. — Era: Shipment to invoice. A completed shipment creates the invoice with its terms.

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One workspace. Your whole business.

Setup switches 7 sections on together: sales, quotes, invoices, document requests and more. The table is a sample filled with the setup’s real services.

Sample screen · illustrative data

Ready for metal fabrication. Working from day one.

Everything switched on at setup comes from this business type’s own list: services, teammates, workflows and sections.

Workflows that run themselves

Wired to real events; switch them on, off or change them in plain words.

WorkflowsOn
New lead → assign to me and add a follow-up task
Drawing uploaded → costing task
Quote sent → call back in 2 days
Quote accepted → approve → invoice

Your site opens with ready pages

Your theme carries your business name; the pages come with the setup.

Site pages
About us
Services
Request a quote
Contact

Your teammates are ready

They work by your rules and ask you first before messaging, paying or deleting.

Estimator assistantMakes sure every enquiry has drawings, quantities and material before costing starts.
Work order plannerSplits every accepted quote into shop-floor tasks, one per operation.
Collections follow-upReminds customers of invoices coming due and flags the late ones.

Ask your workspace

Ask a question; get the answer with the records behind it.

Erasample

Which orders could be late this week?

Two orders are waiting on materials; one is due Friday. I’ve drafted the supplier order and a note to the customer — I’ll show you both before sending.

Sections on from day one

7 sections switch on together; turn off what you don’t need, add more later.

SalesQuotesInvoicesDocument requestsTeamWebsiteAI

Before you start

Open the lead → Request documents. The buyer gets a link for the DXF/STEP files and the parts list; when they arrive you get a costing task.

Catalogue → Machine hours, Labour, Surface treatment and Material. Change a price there and every new quote uses it.

Hours marked billable on a customer are priced at the operation’s rate when you approve the week, and accounting gets a task to invoice them.

You approve the invoice in one click, and the work order planner opens a task per operation — cutting, bending, welding, coating — in the Shop floor list.

Sales, Quotes, Invoices, Document requests, Team, Website, AI; 0 ready services and products, 3 teammates, 4 workflows, 15 notification rules and a website theme.

Yes. Switch on “start with sample data” during setup to get realistic customers, records and history; remove them in one step when you are ready.

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Follow every step from order to shipment.

Describe your business in a sentence and Era sets up services, teammates and workflows to match. It runs on your own AI subscription.

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