Never run your team on software? Start with Facto Lite.
Two lines, OEM schedules to hit, and the plant still runs on Tally, registers and WhatsApp. Put attendance, payroll and the day's tasks on Lite first. Production comes onto Facto once your people trust a screen.
What is Facto Lite, and when should a factory start with it?
Facto Lite is a separate product from the company behind Facto: Tasks, CRM and HR & Payroll that you set up yourself, free for 60 days with no card. A factory that has never run its team on software can start there, get people used to the habit, then bring production onto Facto.
Why a factory's first software should be the small stuff
When a plant that has never used software goes live on a full manufacturing ERP, the first thing to break is usually habit. A supervisor who has kept the attendance register for twenty years has to start logging production on a tablet in the same week the accounts team learns a new GST flow, and by month two everyone's quietly back on paper.
Lite gives your team a smaller first thing to get right. Marking attendance on a phone, closing a task on the app instead of replying in a group, seeing a payslip that matches the register: none of it touches the shop floor's output, so a bad week costs nothing. Most of the resistance is gone by the time a work order needs a screen.
Facto Lite has its own site, its own pricing by team size and its own signup. You set it up yourself, and there's no implementation project to plan around.
What to put on Lite first
- 01 · Start here
Attendance and payroll
Attendance from a phone or a biometric reader, leave and shifts, then salary structures, statutory deductions and payslips from the same record. The first payroll month is where the whole plant sees the numbers come out right, and that's what earns the system its trust.
- 02 · Then
Tasks and checklists
Delegate work with an owner, a date and a reviewer, and set up recurring checklists that raise themselves. The follow-ups that used to live in WhatsApp groups get a timeline, and you stop chasing people for updates.
- 03 · If sales needs it
CRM
Leads, quotes and follow-ups for a sales team whose enquiries still sit in a notebook or someone's phone. Take it only if that's a real problem today; each module is bought on its own.
When the factory floor comes onto Facto
Lite runs the parts every business has. It leaves out everything a factory has that an office doesn't, and that's where Facto starts:
- Work orders, routings and what's running on which machine
- Stock by location and batch, with reorder points
- Quality checks at each stage, with rejections that go somewhere
- Purchase orders, dispatch, invoicing and the sync to Tally
Lite's attendance, payroll, tasks and CRM are the same modules that run inside Facto, so the habits your team built carry across. When you're ready, the production management modules by industry show what goes on next, and the guide to manufacturing software in India covers how a rollout usually runs.
Run one payroll month on Lite before you decide anything.
Every module is free for 60 days, with no card. If production is already the problem, skip ahead and see Facto on your own process.
Or read more on the Facto Lite site.