Engineer to order software
Engineer to Order Software for Custom Fabrication Shops
Simple engineer to order software for project-based fab shops. Not an ERP, not a spreadsheet. Quote, plan, schedule and track every custom job in one place, from EUR 120 / USD 140 a month, month to month, cancel anytime.
From EUR 120 / USD 140 a month. Cancel anytime.
The short answer
What is engineer to order software?
Engineer to order software is a tool for shops where every job is custom engineered and built to a specific order, not pulled from stock. It helps you quote each one-off project, plan and schedule the work across your departments, and see real job status on the floor, without the cost and long setup of a full ERP.
- What it isSoftware to quote, plan, schedule and track one-off, custom engineered jobs
- Who it is forProject-based custom metal and steel fabrication shops, roughly 5 to 150 people
- What it replacesSpreadsheets, paper, and a whiteboard for scheduling and job status
- How it differs from ERPSimpler and narrower, no CPQ or MRP weight, from EUR 120 / USD 140 a month
The engineer to order problem
In a fabricator’s words
Every job is engineered and different, so the repetitive MRP logic built for high-volume plants does not fit how you actually work. You are running many custom projects at once, each at a different stage, and today you plan them on spreadsheets, paper, or a whiteboard plus a few phone calls.
01
Quoting one-off work
Every quote is slow and inconsistent, because nothing is a repeat. Numbers get retyped from a quote file into the job, and something always slips.
02
Scheduling in one head
Planning across design, fabrication and installation lives in one person’s head, so a slipped job is a surprise instead of a flag you saw coming.
03
No real-time job status
When a customer asks how far along their project is, you find out by walking the shop and asking, not by looking at a screen.
You do not need a six-figure ERP built for machinery builders. You need one place to quote, plan, schedule and track custom jobs, that a 5 to 20 person shop can start using in a week.
How EZIIL solves it
One pain at a time
EZIIL maps to the way a project-based fab shop actually runs. Each pain above has a real feature behind it.
Quoting one-off work
A quote that becomes the job
You build a price offer per project phase, then an accepted offer flows into planning, into a customer order, and into an invoice you can email from the system. One set of figures, reused, so you are not retyping a quote into a job.
Multi-project scheduling chaos
See every job on one plan
The Master View is a visual, drag-and-drop monthly plan across your departments (design, fabrication, installation, or whatever you set). It carries estimation hours per operation, balances them against each department’s capacity, and flags when a job will overrun its deadline. View it by project or by person, so you can see who is overloaded before it becomes a problem.
No real-time job status
Job status without walking the floor
On the floor, a worker logs in, picks their machine or operation, scans a QR code, sees only their filtered task list, checks the drawing, and reports quantity done. Progress rolls up as reported time against budget, which the project manager can override to a manual percentage. If someone asks how far a job is, you look at the screen instead of walking the workshop.
Where you fit
EZIIL vs traditional ETO ERP vs spreadsheets
This is the fastest way to see whether EZIIL fits your shop. If you are a project-based fab shop, you will see yourself in the EZIIL column. If you build highly engineered custom machinery and need a product configurator, you will see yourself in the ERP column, and that is the honest answer.
| EZIIL | Traditional ETO ERP | Spreadsheets and whiteboard | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price and commitment | From EUR 120 / USD 140 a month, month to month, cancel anytime, one-time onboarding about 2x the monthly fee | High four to six figures, annual or multi-year contracts | Free upfront, real cost hidden in errors and rework |
| Setup time | Start in under a week, one module at a time | Months, often half a year of prep | Instant, but rebuilt constantly |
| Best-fit shop size | 5 to 150 people, project-based fabrication | 100+ employees, complex machinery and capital equipment | 1 to a few people, until it breaks |
| Custom project scheduling | Visual drag-and-drop Master View across departments, with capacity and deadline flags | Deep MRP scheduling, heavy to configure | Manual, no capacity view, out of date fast |
| Quoting to live project | Price offer per phase flows to order and invoice | Full estimating and CPQ engine | Separate quote files, retyped into jobs |
| Shop-floor tracking | QR-based mobile reporting, progress vs budget rolls up automatically | Full MES-grade tracking | Walk the floor and ask |
| Need for IT or consultants | No, guided onboarding included | Yes, implementation partners required | No |
| Configurator / CPQ | No, on purpose (not built for machinery builders) | Yes, a core feature | No |
Pricing
Transparent monthly pricing to fit your needs and budget
EZIIL Starter is a complete base product. Every tier gets the same features, the price only tracks team size. There is a one-time onboarding fee of EUR 300 / USD 350 that covers setup, training and check-ins.
Starter
€120 / mo
$140 / month
1 to 15 users
Starter
€180 / mo
$210 / month
16 to 50 users
Starter
€290 / mo
$338 / month
51 to 150 users
It is month to month. You can cancel next month, with no annual lock-in. You start with the modules you need and add more (BOM, procurement, inventory, machine planning and others) one at a time, on your timeline, so your first investment stays small.
Customer results
Custom steel fabricators run better on EZIIL
12 Excel sheets deleted
The Enefit Solutions team got rid of 12 daily-updated Excel sheets after switching the whole department to EZIIL.
Early quotes up 15%
UPFab now sees 3 months of shop capacity ahead, takes on work they used to decline, and prices tight-timeline jobs with confidence.
5 hours of paperwork in 20 minutes
B&W Metall cut packing and dispatch documentation from 5 hours to 20 minutes per project and retired the paper archives.
24x return on time invested
Every 1 hour in the EZIIL BOM saves 8 hours in procurement and 16 in production, measured by Nordic Shelter’s engineering lead.
Live within 1 week
Kane Metall built their drawing management and job order system in EZIIL within a week, on the way to a 10 million euro sales target.
Profit per job, in real time
APS Group sees labour hours and profit/loss per job live across 20+ concurrent projects, pricing future work more accurately.
FAQ
Is engineer to order software an ERP?
Not in EZIIL’s case, on purpose. A traditional ETO ERP is a large, configurable system with estimating, CPQ and MRP, built for big machinery builders and priced and staffed to match. EZIIL is simpler and narrower: quoting, planning, scheduling and shop-floor tracking for project-based fab shops, from EUR 120 / USD 140 a month.
Do I need to move everything at once?
No. You roll out one module at a time, in whatever order suits you, and your license grows only as you add modules. Many shops start with projects plus the Master View plan, then add production planning and reporting later.
Can I start small?
Yes. Starter is a complete base product, not a trial. A small shop can begin with the core plan and scheduling, add BOM, procurement or inventory when ready, and cancel next month if it is not a fit.
How long is setup?
Most shops are live in under a week. After a verbal yes, EZIIL sends a spreadsheet to fill in, builds your database over a couple of days, and runs a hands-on kickoff. Setting up a single job takes about 20 minutes to 4 hours depending on how much data you add.
Can it handle installation and field work?
Partly, and here is the honest boundary. The mobile app (iOS and Android) handles time logging, completing operations, and photo capture, which is useful for verifying installs. It does not have site maps or a site-address feature yet, so it will not navigate a crew to a job site. EZIIL is also not a sales CRM and not a product configurator.