Solutions · Metal Fabrication
ArchFlow builds custom fabrication management software for India's metal and aluminium fabricators — job-work shops, facade contractors and structural fabrication units. It replaces the Excel cutting lists, paper job cards and WhatsApp follow-ups your shop currently runs on, with one platform that carries every job from enquiry to erection.
Where it breaks
A facade BOQ lands. Your estimator digs through section catalogues, works out weights in Excel, checks today's aluminium rate, and the quotation goes out four days later — after two revisions over WhatsApp. By then the client has three other numbers.
Paper job cards travel with the material — until they don't. Cutting done? Welding queued? Sent for powder coating and not back yet? The answer lives in one supervisor's head, and client-supplied material blurs into your own stock with no trail to separate them.
Measurement sheets don't match dispatch challans. RA bills wait on site sign-offs. Retention amounts live in a diary, and Tally only knows what accounts remembered to enter. The owner learns a job lost money months after the trucks left.
What we build for you
Quote from drawings with section weights, per-kg or per-sqm rates and current material costs built in. Every revision tracked, every approval logged — the enquiry that lands on Monday quotes by Tuesday.
Every job carries a live card through cutting, fit-up, welding, finishing and QC. Fabrication job card software that answers "which stage is it at?" in one search, not five phone calls.
Material issued against job cards, offcuts logged, client-supplied stock reconciled separately from your own. Outsourced powder coating, anodizing and galvanizing tracked challan-out to challan-in, so nothing leaves the gate untracked.
Delivery challans, e-way bill details and installation teams on one screen. Site measurements, fitment status and photos flow back from the field instead of dying in WhatsApp groups.
GST invoices, RA bills, retention and outstandings generated from actual dispatch and measurement data, synced with Tally — so accounts stops re-typing what the factory already knows.
Every enquiry, job, stage and outstanding in one live view. Fabrication shop management stops depending on the morning phone round — leadership sees the floor without walking it.
ArchFlow's spine — enquiry to installation across 14 stages, BOM-aware quoting, multi-department coordination — runs every day at Pranav Doors & Windows, a premium fenestration manufacturer in Chandigarh: 10 departments, 100+ employees, operations across five states, live since 2024. Fenestration is aluminium fabrication held to tighter tolerances. Your deployment is custom-built for your vertical, on a spine already proven under daily production pressure.
Common questions
There is no fixed price — every ArchFlow deployment is scoped per project, because a five-person job-work shop and a hundred-person facade contractor need very different systems. You pay for what your shop will actually use, not per-user licences for modules nobody opens. That is how custom fabrication management software in India should work: tell us your workflow, get a scoped proposal, and see the first working module in one to two weeks.
The first working module — usually quotations or job cards — is live in one to two weeks, and full deployment is done by week four. ArchFlow is built around your existing stage names, documents and formats, so the floor isn't relearning its own process. No six-month ERP implementation, no consultants camped in your office, no big-bang cutover that stalls production while everyone learns new screens.
Yes — client-supplied material is tracked separately from your own stock, from inward challan through consumption, scrap and return, with the challan trail your GST job-work filings need. Every job card shows what was received, what was consumed and what remains, so month-end reconciliation stops being an argument. Material you send out — powder coating, anodizing, galvanizing — is tracked the same way, challan-out to challan-in.
Yes. Facade and structural work bills nothing like supply orders — measurement-sheet-based RA bills, retention percentages, and progress spread across multiple sites. ArchFlow tracks measured, dispatched and installed quantities per site, so every RA bill is backed by data instead of a diary, and retention and outstanding amounts are visible per project. Aluminium fabrication software has to bill the way your clients actually pay.
Custom-built — every deployment is shaped to the client's own workflow, on a platform spine that has run daily production at a premium fenestration manufacturer since 2024. A generic metal fabrication ERP makes your shop adapt to its screens; ArchFlow adapts to your stage names, your documents and your approval chain. And it connects to what you already run — Tally for accounts, GST invoicing formats your CA will recognise.
A 30-minute call with a founder. We'll walk through what we built for Pranav and map what your version looks like.