Fitfactory Tricorn and EZIIL are both built by people who know small steel workshops, both promise to replace spreadsheets and paperwork with one system, and both go live in weeks rather than months. That makes this one of the closer comparisons a small fabricator will run, and the differences that decide it sit below the feature list: what kind of work your shop does, how the pricing scales as your team grows, and what you are committing to on day one.
This comparison covers what each product does, what year one really costs, the strengths and weaknesses, and which shops each one genuinely fits.
TL;DR: Fitfactory Tricorn is a well-established MRP for subcontract precision engineering, sheet metal, and assembly shops. It runs quote to works order to delivery to invoice with strong traceability and certificates of conformity, is trusted by 400+ UK manufacturers. It is priced per user (first user £116/€137/$160 per month, each additional user £41/€48/$56 per month), sold on a monthly subscription with a 12-month minimum term, and several capabilities (production scheduler, shop floor data capture, dashboards, financial interface) are paid add-ons. EZIIL is production management software purpose-built for project-based custom steel fabricators of 15-150 people, with multi-project capacity planning, live job status, plan vs actual profit per project, and built-in EN 1090-2 traceability in a cloud system with mobile apps. Pricing is flat by team size (£102/€120/$140 to £246/€290/$338 per month for the whole team, plus a one-off £255/€300/$350 onboarding fee), and shops go live in under a week starting with one module. If you are a UK subcon machining or sheet metal parts shop working to AS9100 or IATF 16949, Tricorn is the natural shortlist. If you are a custom steel fabricator juggling multiple projects across departments and need to see clashes, overloads, and profit per job without per-user fees or a 12-month commitment, EZIIL is the closer fit.
Last updated: July 2026. Currency note: prices are shown as £/€/$. EZIIL publishes EUR and USD prices, so its GBP figures are approximate conversions. Fitfactory Tricorn’s listed prices are in GBP, so its EUR and USD figures are approximate conversions. Conversions use July 2026 exchange rates and are rounded.
Fitfactory Tricorn vs EZIIL: quick comparison table
The short version: Tricorn MRP grew up around UK subcontract precision engineering, machine shops quoting and delivering batches of parts. EZIIL grew up around project-based custom steel fabrication, shops building one-off staircases, frames, and structural packages. Each is strongest on its home ground.
| What matters to a small custom steel fab shop | EZIIL | Fitfactory Tricorn | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built around | EZIILProject-based custom fabrication: one-off structural steel, staircases, architectural metalwork, industrial equipment. | Fitfactory TricornSubcontract parts manufacturing: precision machining, sheet metal, assembly, quote-to-invoice batch work. | Why it mattersA parts workflow and a projects workflow look similar in a demo and feel very different in month three. Buy the one shaped like your work. |
| Monthly cost | EZIILFlat by team size: £102/€120/$140 per month (1 to 15 users), £153/€180/$210 (16 to 50), £246/€290/$338 (51 to 150). No per-user fees. | Fitfactory TricornPer user: £116/€137/$160 per month for the first user, £41/€48/$56 per month for each additional user (Capterra UK listing). A 15-user shop is around £690/€815/$950 per month before add-ons. | Why it mattersOn EZIIL, putting every welder in the system costs nothing extra. On per-user pricing, every shop-floor login raises the bill, which is exactly where small shops start cutting users. |
| Commitment | EZIILMonthly subscription with a one-off £255/€300/$350 onboarding fee. Start with one module, add the rest when ready. | Fitfactory TricornMonthly subscription with a 12-month minimum term, per Fitfactory’s published materials. | Why it mattersA low-commitment start lets you prove the system on one live project before you are locked in for the year. |
| Multi-project scheduling | EZIILCore product: drag-and-drop capacity planning by department, with clash, overload, and on-time-delivery indicators across every live project. | Fitfactory TricornCapacity planning included; the fuller Production Scheduler is part of Fitfactory’s separately priced MES add-ons. | Why it mattersIf your #1 pain is knowing which of nine live projects is about to slip and which department is overloaded next week, this is the row to weigh hardest. |
| Compliance and traceability | EZIILBuilt-in EN 1090-2 traceability module for structural steel execution classes. | Fitfactory TricornStrong traceability with automatic certificates of conformity; positioned for ISO 9001, AS9100, and IATF 16949 audit readiness. | Why it mattersAerospace and automotive subcon shops need AS9100/IATF support. EU and UK structural fabricators need EN 1090. These are different compliance worlds. |
| Shop floor | EZIILMobile app on iOS and Android: start/stop timer, today’s tasks, drawings on the phone. | Fitfactory TricornJob cards and travellers generated automatically; Shop Floor Data Capture (SFDC) is a paid add-on module. | Why it mattersA welder with a phone and a fixed data-capture terminal are different answers to the same question. Ask which one your floor will actually use. |
| Deployment | EZIILCloud SaaS, OS agnostic (Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android). | Fitfactory TricornCloud or on-premise; Windows-centric heritage (Capterra lists Windows desktop and Windows/Linux on-premise). | Why it mattersOn-premise is a genuine plus for shops with strict data requirements, and a cost and maintenance question for everyone else. |
| Support and reviews | EZIILPersonal onboarding by people who understand fabrication; setup, training, and regular check-ins included in the one-off fee. | Fitfactory TricornExcellent reputation: 4.9/5 for customer support on Capterra, users describe joining “a family”. UK phone support, 30 years of heritage. | Why it mattersTricorn’s support scores are among the best in this category and deserve to be named. Both vendors are small enough to know your name. |
| Profitability view | EZIILPlan vs actual hours and costs per project, live, with profitability indicators before you invoice. | Fitfactory TricornDetailed job costing across materials, labour, machining, and subcon operations, so you know what each part costs to make. | Why it mattersCosting parts and seeing live project profit are cousins, not twins. Match the view to how you win work. |
| Where they operate | EZIILEurope, UK, the US, Australia, Canada and export-oriented fabricators; English and Estonian; UK office in Daresbury. | Fitfactory TricornUK and Ireland focus; English only; strong UK user community. | Why it mattersLocal support matters. So does software built around the type of contracts you sign. |
| Best fit | EZIILCustom steel fabricators, 15 to 150 people, one-off project work, EN 1090 requirements, multiple simultaneous projects. | Fitfactory TricornUK subcontract precision engineering, sheet metal parts, and assembly shops working repeat and batch orders to aerospace/automotive quality standards. | Why it mattersThe right tool matches your shop’s DNA, not the longest feature list. |
Fitfactory Tricorn details verified July 2026 from public sources including fitfactory.com and the Capterra UK listing; confirm current pricing and terms with Fitfactory directly. EZIIL pricing: eziil.com/pricing. Prices shown as £/€/$; Fitfactory publishes prices in GBP and EZIIL in EUR and USD, so converted figures are approximate at July 2026 exchange rates.
What is Fitfactory Tricorn?
Fitfactory Tricorn is MRP and production control software for UK manufacturing SMEs, developed originally by Tricorn Systems Ltd (founded 1995) and now the flagship manufacturing product of Fitfactory Technology Ltd. Its home ground is subcontract manufacturing: small and medium precision engineering shops, sheet metal fabricators, and assemblers that quote work, win it, make it, and invoice it.
That quote-to-invoice spine is the product’s core strength. You build quotes from templates of previous jobs, including materials, operations, bought-in parts, and subcontract costs. A won quote converts straight into a works order with no re-keying, and job cards and travellers print automatically for the floor. Purchasing links to works orders and stock requirements, goods-in books material against purchase orders with batch numbers, and deliveries generate delivery notes and certificates of conformity automatically. Invoices come off completed deliveries in a few clicks.
Tricorn is heavily focused on traceability and audit readiness for ISO 9001, AS9100, and IATF 16949, which tells you a lot about its customer base: aerospace, defence, motorsport, and automotive supply chains. Fitfactory says over 400 UK manufacturing businesses run on it, and it is available cloud-hosted or on-premise on your own servers.
Tricorn’s pricing, per its Capterra UK listing, is per user: £116/€137/$160 per month for the first user and £41/€48/$56 per month for each additional user, on a monthly subscription with a 12-month minimum term. Add-on packages sit on top: the MES suite (machine monitoring, Production Scheduler, Shop Floor Data Capture), dashboards, and the financial interface are purchased separately, and some otherwise positive reviews have called the add-ons “rather expensive“. (Always confirm current pricing with the vendor, listed figures can lag.)
What Fitfactory Tricorn does well
- A proven quote-to-invoice workflow for subcon work. Quote templates, one-click conversion to works orders, automatic travellers, linked purchasing, CofCs, and invoicing. For a parts shop, this is the whole admin day, handled. Users report office staff spending minutes on job setup instead of hours.
- Traceability that passes audits. Material batch tracking, subcontract process traceability, inspection records, and automatic certificates of conformity, built for ISO 9001, AS9100, and IATF 16949 environments. One user summed it up: “the traceability of materials and subcontract processes has been incredibly beneficial.”
- Support people rave about. 4.9/5 for customer support on Capterra is a genuinely rare score. A 2022 reviewer who was “sceptical of the Fit Factory family sales pitch” concluded “I was completely wrong. You join a family when you buy Tricorn.”
- Fast, well-supported data migration. The same reviewer imported data from their old system and was “up and running over a weekend“. For UK shops moving off a legacy system, that migration muscle matters.
- Job costing across the real cost stack. Materials, bought-in parts, labour, machining, and subcontracted operations roll up per item, so subcon shops can see whether their hourly rate actually holds.
- UK heritage and a UK user community. Thirty years serving UK manufacturing SMEs, UK phone support, and a large installed base of shops like its customers.
- On-premise option. Shops with customers who require data kept on-site, or with specific IT policies, can run Tricorn on their own servers.
Where Fitfactory Tricorn falls short for a small custom steel fabricator
None of these are flaws for Tricorn’s core customer. They are rather the predictable gaps when a parts-manufacturing MRP meets project-based structural fabrication:
- Per-user pricing works against whole-shop visibility. At the listed £116/€137/$160 plus £41/€48/$56 per additional user, a 15-person shop pays around £690/€815/$950 per month (roughly £8,280/€9,750/$11,400 per year) if everyone gets a login, before any add-on modules. Small shops respond predictably: they license the office and leave the floor on paper, which quietly kills the live status visibility they wanted the system for.
- The 12-month minimum term front-loads your risk. Fitfactory’s subscription runs on a 12-month minimum. That is normal for MRP software, but it means you are committed for the year before you know whether the floor will adopt it.
- Scheduling depth lives in paid add-ons. Core Tricorn includes capacity planning, but the fuller Production Scheduler, Shop Floor Data Capture, machine monitoring, and dashboards are separately priced MES modules. The total cost of the system can be well above the entry price.
- It thinks in parts and orders, not projects. Tricorn’s world is works orders for parts, often repeating. A custom steel fabricator’s world is projects: hundreds of unique assemblies per contract, drawings and revisions tied to each one, multiple projects competing for the same bays and people, and profit measured per project. Tricorn can process that work, but the workflows that hurt most in a structural shop (multi-project capacity clashes, department overload visibility, plan vs actual per project) are not what it was built around.
- No EN 1090-2 workflow. Tricorn’s compliance strengths point at aerospace and automotive standards. If your contracts require EN 1090 execution class traceability, you would be building that discipline around the system rather than inside it.
- Limited flexibility in the database. Reviewers note you cannot add custom fields or dropdowns, changes to the standard database are slow to arrive, and rework and reject tracking is weak. One reviewer growing beyond the basics found “too much manual intervention required.”
- A Windows-heritage product in a mobile-first world. Capterra lists Windows desktop and Windows/Linux on-premise deployment, and there is no native mobile shop-floor app; shop-floor input comes via the SFDC add-on. If you want a welder to see today’s tasks and log time from a phone, that is not Tricorn’s model.
- UK and Ireland focus. For UK shops that is irrelevant. For fabricators working across the US, Canada, Australia, Europe or with EU contract requirements, the product and support footprint are limited.
Who Fitfactory Tricorn is really for
A UK subcontract precision engineering, sheet metal, or assembly shop, roughly 5-50 office and works staff, quoting and delivering parts into aerospace, defence, motorsport, or automotive supply chains, that needs bulletproof traceability, CofCs, and audit readiness, values a 30-year UK vendor with outstanding support, and is comfortable with per-user pricing and an annual commitment. For that shop, Tricorn is one of the most sensible choices on the UK market. That shop is just not a custom structural steel fabricator.
What is EZIIL?
EZIIL is cloud production management software built specifically for small custom steel and metal fabricators, the 15-150 person shops doing project-based, one-off work: structural steel, staircases, architectural metalwork, industrial equipment. It was founded by people from the fabrication industry and is used by shops across the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and the UK.
EZIIL is deliberately not a generic MRP. It is the operational layer a project-based fab shop is missing: drag-and-drop capacity planning by department across every live project, a live dashboard that updates as hours are reported, plan vs actual hours and costs per project, on-time-delivery indicators that flag jobs and departments falling behind, and documents, drawings, and BOMs tied to each job. The shop floor works from a mobile app on iOS and Android: start and stop a timer, see today’s tasks, open the drawing. Accounting stays in your accounting system; EZIIL integrates with tools like Directo and ProNest rather than replacing your ledger.
EZIIL’s pricing is flat by team size, and every tier gets the same full Starter feature set: £102/€120/$140 per month for 1 to 15 users, £153/€180/$210 for 16 to 50, and £246/€290/$338 for 51 to 150, plus a one-off £255/€300/$350 onboarding fee covering setup, training, and regular check-ins with people who know fabrication. Optional advanced ERP add-on modules (Bill of Materials, procurement, inventory, EN 1090-2 compliance, subcontractor management, machine planning, advanced shop floor control, detailed reporting, shipments, invoicing integrations) layer on when you are ready. Shops go live in under a week, starting with one module, on a monthly subscription with no year-long lock-in to start.
What EZIIL does well
- Multi-project scheduling as the core product, not an add-on. Drag-and-drop capacity planning by department shows every live project on one board, with overloads and deadline clashes visible before they bite and OTD indicators flagging what is falling behind. For fabricators juggling six to ten simultaneous projects, this is the single most requested capability we hear from shops coming off spreadsheets.
- Pricing that encourages full adoption. A 15-person shop pays £102/€120/$140 per month, total. Adding your next welder costs nothing. B&W Metall reached 100% shop-floor adoption, every worker reporting in EZIIL regardless of age or role, and cut packing and dispatch paperwork from about five hours per project to about twenty minutes.
- Live in under a week, low commitment. Start with one module, prove it on live projects, add the rest when ready. Kane Metall built a production drawing management platform and job order system within a week. APS Group rolled EZIIL out in a few weeks with what their planner called a minimal learning curve.
- Profit per project before the invoice. Planned vs reality dashboards show which jobs are making money while you can still act. APS Group reports tighter control of active jobs, better-informed estimating, and concrete profit and loss insights per job.
- Built for exactly this work. “This innovative new system is built for exactly what we do, allowing us to plan more effectively and streamline our workflow,” says UK fabricator Harrogate Steel. FLI Structures‘ purchasing manager calls it “a hub of information that is extremely easy to navigate, giving a full picture of all live jobs.”
- Proof from shops like yours. Enefit Solutions deleted 12 separate Excel sheets and now runs the whole team in one system. VMT raised engineer efficiency by 40%, grew turnover 30% without new hires, and lifted supply security from 45% to 98% after adopting EZIIL BOM. Nordic Shelter’s engineering lead calculates 1 hour invested in EZIIL BOM saves 8 hours in procurement and 16 in production.
- EN 1090-2 built in. Traceability for European structural execution classes is a module you switch on, not a discipline you bolt on. Among the fabrication systems we compare, this remains rare.
Where EZIIL falls short
- Not a quote-to-invoice subcon MRP. Tricorn’s quoting templates, one-click works orders, and automatic CofC generation for batch parts work are more developed than anything EZIIL offers a parts shop. If your business is quoting machined parts into aerospace supply chains, Tricorn fits that shape better.
- No AS9100 or IATF 16949 positioning. EZIIL’s compliance strength is EN 1090-2 structural traceability. Aerospace and automotive quality environments are Tricorn’s home turf, not ours.
- No on-premise option. EZIIL is cloud SaaS. Shops contractually required to keep systems on their own servers need Tricorn’s on-premise deployment.
- Not for high-volume repeatable production. EZIIL is built for make-to-order project work. Shops running large repeating batches are better served by MRP-centric systems.
Fitfactory Tricorn VS EZIIL: features that matter for a custom steel fabrication shop
| Feature | EZIIL | Fitfactory Tricorn |
|---|---|---|
| Running the business | ||
| Quoting and estimating engine | EZIIL●No dedicated quoting module; plan vs actual data from finished jobs sharpens future estimates. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓The core strength: quote templates with materials, operations, bought-in parts, and subcon costs; won quotes convert straight to works orders. |
| Job costing (plan vs actual per project) | EZIIL✓Live profit visibility per project, while the job is running, before the invoice. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Detailed per-part costing across materials, labour, machining, and subcon operations. |
| On-time delivery (OTD) indicators across all jobs | EZIIL✓Flags jobs and departments falling behind before dates slip. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Progress tracked through works orders; deeper schedule visibility sits in the paid Production Scheduler add-on. |
| Live dashboard and KPI reporting | EZIIL✓Updates automatically as hours are reported from the floor; included in Starter. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Dashboards are a separately priced add-on package. |
| Invoicing | EZIIL●Via invoicing module and accounting integrations (Directo among them). | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Invoices come off completed deliveries in a few clicks; the financial interface to accounts is a paid add-on. |
| Planning and scheduling | ||
| Drag-and-drop capacity planning by department | EZIIL✓Visual planning with overload and bottleneck flags, included in the core product. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Capacity planning included; the fuller Production Scheduler is part of the separately priced MES add-ons. |
| Multi-project view across simultaneous projects | EZIIL✓Every live project on one board, with clashes and overloads visible before they bite. | Fitfactory Tricorn✗The unit of work is the works order for parts, not the project; multi-project clash visibility is not the model. |
| Structural BOM from drawings | EZIIL✓Dedicated BOM module built for structural steel assemblies and revisions. | Fitfactory Tricorn✗Parts and materials are handled through quotes, works orders, and purchase orders. |
| Drawings and documents tied to each job | EZIIL✓Drawings, files, and custom data on every project, visible down to the shop floor. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Job information travels on automatically generated job cards and travellers; reviewers note custom fields cannot be added. |
| Subcontractor management | EZIIL✓Dedicated module; subcontracted steps planned inside the project. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Subcontract operations quoted, costed, and traced; a strength for subcon supply chains. |
| Procurement and stock tied to production | EZIIL✓Procurement and inventory modules linked to project BOMs and budgets. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Purchasing linked to works orders and stock; goods-in books material against POs with batch numbers. |
| Shop floor | ||
| Mobile app on the worker’s own phone (iOS and Android) | EZIIL✓App Store and Google Play: start/stop timer, today’s tasks, drawings on the phone. | Fitfactory Tricorn✗No native mobile shop-floor app; Windows-heritage product with terminal-based data capture. |
| Shop floor time and data collection | EZIIL✓Included for the whole team at no extra cost; hours flow straight into job costing. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Shop Floor Data Capture (SFDC) is a paid add-on module in the MES suite. |
| Drawings and task lists in the worker’s hands | EZIIL✓Each worker sees today’s tasks and the drawings for the job they are clocked into. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Work travels on printed job cards and travellers, generated automatically from the works order. |
| Whole-team adoption without per-user cost | EZIIL✓Flat by team size; the fifteenth welder costs nothing to add. | Fitfactory Tricorn✗Every additional login is £41/€48/$56 per month on the listed pricing, so small shops tend to license the office and leave the floor on paper. |
| Compliance and traceability | ||
| EN 1090-2 compliance module | EZIIL✓Built in, with job-level tracking: who did what, when, with which material. | Fitfactory Tricorn✗Not advertised; Tricorn’s compliance strengths point at aerospace and automotive standards. |
| Material batch tracking and certificates of conformity | EZIIL●Traceability handled through the EN 1090-2 module and job-level records. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓A core strength: batch tracking, inspection records, and CofCs generated automatically on delivery. |
| AS9100 and IATF 16949 audit readiness | EZIIL✗Not EZIIL’s compliance world; EZIIL’s strength is EN 1090-2 structural traceability. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Positioned for ISO 9001, AS9100, and IATF 16949 environments; proven in aerospace and automotive supply chains. |
| Shipments and site deliveries | EZIIL✓Shipments and deliveries module tied to projects, built for delivering fabrications to site. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Delivery notes and CofCs generated for parts dispatch; site delivery planning is not the model. |
| Platform, cost, and adoption | ||
| Cloud based, works on any device | EZIIL✓100% cloud SaaS, OS agnostic (Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android), automatic updates. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Cloud or on-premise; Windows-centric heritage per the Capterra listing. |
| On-premise option | EZIIL✗Cloud only. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Can run on your own servers; a genuine plus for shops with strict data requirements. |
| Published pricing | EZIIL✓Flat tiers: £102/€120/$140 to £246/€290/$338 per month by team size, plus one-off £255/€300/$350 onboarding. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓Per user via the Capterra UK listing: £116/€137/$160 for the first user, £41/€48/$56 per additional user per month; MES add-ons priced separately. |
| Start without a 12-month commitment | EZIIL✓Monthly subscription; prove the system on one live project before you are locked in for a year. | Fitfactory Tricorn✗Monthly subscription with a 12-month minimum term, per Fitfactory’s published materials. |
| Human support included | EZIIL✓Personal onboarding by people who know fabrication, with regular check-ins; support direct from the product team. | Fitfactory Tricorn✓UK phone support with a 4.9/5 Capterra support score; users describe joining “a family”. |
| Go live in under a week | EZIIL✓Start with one module, add the rest when ready; Kane Metall was running within a week. | Fitfactory Tricorn●No published timeline, but data migration is well supported; one reviewer was up and running over a weekend. |
| Built for custom steel fabrication | EZIIL✓Project-based one-off steel and metal work is the whole product, not a template. | Fitfactory Tricorn●Built for subcontract parts manufacturing; structural steel work runs through a parts-and-orders workflow. |
✓ Included ● Partial, add-on, or via integration ✗ Not offered. Fitfactory Tricorn details from public vendor documentation, the Capterra UK listing, and user reviews, verified July 2026; capabilities and packaging evolve, confirm specifics with Fitfactory. Prices shown as £/€/$; converted figures are approximate at July 2026 exchange rates. EZIIL details: eziil.com/features and eziil.com/pricing.
Who should choose Fitfactory Tricorn
Choose Fitfactory Tricorn if you are a UK subcontract precision engineering or sheet metal parts shop working to aerospace or automotive quality standards, you want a 30-year UK vendor with outstanding support and an on-premise option, and per-user pricing with an annual term fits how you buy.
Who should choose EZIIL
Choose EZIIL if you are a custom steel fabricator running multiple one-off projects at once, your biggest pain is seeing clashes, overloads, and slipping deadlines across the shop before they cost you a client, you need EN 1090-2 traceability, and you want the whole team in the system at a flat monthly price you can start on this month.
If you are still weighing it, the cheapest test is an hour of your time: take a free product tour of EZIIL, see your own workflow in a demo version, and compare it against a Tricorn demo.
The five questions that decide it
1. Is your work parts or projects?
This is the whole comparison in one question. If your shop quotes and delivers batches of machined or sheet metal parts, often repeating, with CofCs going out the door, Tricorn’s quote-to-invoice engine was built for your day. If your shop builds one-off fabrications, where every contract is a project with its own drawings, BOM, deadlines, and margin, EZIIL organizes everything around exactly that unit of work. Tools stretched across this line are the ones that end up abandoned.
2. What does year one actually cost?
A 15-user shop on Tricorn’s listed pricing: £116/€137/$160 plus 14 x £41/€48/$56 = about £690/€815/$950 per month, roughly £8,280/€9,750/$11,400 for the minimum 12-month term, before MES add-ons like the Production Scheduler or SFDC. The same shop on EZIIL: £102/€120/$140 per month plus the one-off £255/€300/$350 onboarding fee, about £1,480/€1,740/$2,030 in year one, with scheduling, live tracking, and plan vs actual included in Starter. At 30 users the gap widens: roughly £1,305/€1,540/$1,795 per month on listed per-user pricing versus £153/€180/$210 flat. Confirm Tricorn’s current pricing with Fitfactory; the point is the shape of the curve, not the exact figure. Per-user pricing grows with your headcount. Flat team pricing does not.
3. How much are you committing before the team has proved it?
Tricorn asks for a 12-month minimum term, which is standard for UK MRP and reasonable for a vendor investing in your data migration. EZIIL asks for a £255/€300/$350 onboarding fee and a monthly subscription, and structures the start so you go live on one module in under a week and expand only when it is working. If past software projects at your shop stalled after go-live, buy the failure mode you can afford.
4. Which compliance world do you live in?
AS9100, IATF 16949, ISO 9001 audit trails and certificates of conformity: Tricorn, clearly. EN 1090-2 execution class traceability for structural steel in the EU and UK: EZIIL, built in. Neither product covers the other’s world well, and this row alone settles the choice for many shops.
5. Where will job status actually get updated?
A system is only as live as its inputs. Tricorn’s model is job cards, travellers, and optional SFDC terminals. EZIIL’s model is a phone in every pocket: start a timer, finish a task, and the office dashboard moves. Ask your foreman which one survives a busy Friday.
FAQ
Is Fitfactory Tricorn the same as Tricorn Systems? Yes. Tricorn production control software was developed by Tricorn Systems Ltd, founded in 1995, and is now sold and developed by Fitfactory Technology Ltd as Fitfactory Tricorn MRP, alongside Fitfactory’s other products (AeroDNA, DNAsp, MES modules).
How much does Fitfactory Tricorn cost? Per its Capterra UK listing, Tricorn starts at £116/€137/$160 per month for the first user plus £41/€48/$56 per month for each additional user, on a monthly subscription with a 12-month minimum term. Add-ons such as the Production Scheduler, Shop Floor Data Capture, dashboards, and the financial interface are priced separately. Confirm current pricing with Fitfactory.
How much does EZIIL cost compared to Tricorn? EZIIL is priced flat by team size, not per user: £102/€120/$140 per month for 1 to 15 users, £153/€180/$210 for 16 to 50, and £246/€290/$338 for 51 to 150, plus a one-off £255/€300/$350 onboarding fee. A 15-user shop pays about £1,480/€1,740/$2,030 in year one on EZIIL versus roughly £8,280/€9,750/$11,400 on Tricorn’s listed per-user pricing before add-ons.
Does Fitfactory Tricorn support EN 1090? Tricorn is positioned for ISO 9001, AS9100, and IATF 16949 audit readiness with strong traceability and certificates of conformity, but does not advertise an EN 1090-2 workflow. EZIIL includes a built-in EN 1090-2 traceability module for structural steel execution classes.
Is there a free trial of EZIIL? EZIIL offers a free guided product tour: you sign up and see inside the platform in a demo version, and the onboarding team helps with initial setup and data migration because every fabrication shop’s setup is unique. There is no self-serve free trial.
Can EZIIL replace Tricorn for a UK shop? For a project-based custom steel fabricator, yes: EZIIL covers scheduling, live job tracking, BOM, procurement, EN 1090-2, and profit per project, with a UK office in Daresbury and UK customers such as Harrogate Steel and FLI Structures. For a subcontract parts shop that lives on quote templates, batch works orders, and CofCs into aerospace supply chains, Tricorn remains the better-shaped tool.
How long does it take to switch from spreadsheets or an old MRP to EZIIL? Shops go live in under a week, starting with one module. APS Group rolled EZIIL out internally in a few weeks with a minimal learning curve, and Kane Metall built its production drawing management platform and job order system within a week.
How we compared Fitfactory Tricorn and EZIIL
This comparison was researched and written by Team EZIIL in July 2026. It draws on Fitfactory’s published product pages and materials for Tricorn MRP, including its stated monthly subscription with a 12-month minimum term (confirmed July 2026), verified user reviews on Capterra UK (4.4/5, 28 reviews, including per-user pricing of £116 for the first user and £41 per additional user), third-party listings on Software Advice and GetApp, and EZIIL’s published pricing and attributed customer results. Fitfactory prices Tricorn in pounds sterling; euro and dollar figures for Tricorn are approximate conversions at £1 = €1.18 / $1.38 (July 2026) and rounded. EZIIL’s euro and dollar prices are both published list prices; its pound figures are approximate conversions at the same rates. Cost scenarios state their assumptions so you can rerun the math for your own headcount.
Updates. We review this comparison when either vendor makes a material change and re-verify pricing at least quarterly. If you spot something outdated, email support@eziil.com and we will correct it.