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Explore new ways to quote, plan, produce and deliver with Arcphase. See the features bringing your team and customers closer to the work.

Shipping & Logistics

Shipping that fits your business

Offer the delivery services you trust, in the countries you serve. Bring live carrier rates, customer carrier accounts and local pickup into one checkout experience.

Customers choose from relevant options, while your team works with the same services in MES.

Highlights

  • Choose and name the services customers see.
  • Compare price and transit time before adding a service.
  • Save preferred shipping arrangements for returning customers.

Settings · Checkout · Shipping

Finance & Payments

Make every refund clear

Handle refunds, credit memos and customer credit from the order. See how each adjustment affects the payment and remaining balance before you confirm it.

Give customers a clear explanation and a downloadable record, with the original invoice kept intact.

Highlights

  • Refund selected items or reverse a payment.
  • Keep credit documents connected to the order and accounting.
  • Apply available customer credit to a future invoice.

Finance · Portal · Accounting

Drawing Review

Catch the details before you quote

Compare drawing requirements with the selected part specification. Bring units, tolerances, threads, inserts and finishing requirements into the quoting conversation.

Resolve differences while the requirements are still being agreed, with engineering review close at hand.

Highlights

  • Spot differences between drawing and CAD units.
  • Flag tolerances that need an engineer's approval.
  • Keep review requests and customer notes with the part.

Portal · Drawings · Engineering

Collections

Know who owes what, and what comes next

See outstanding invoices by order, from partially paid work to balances overdue by 30, 60 or 90 days. Open the customer record with payments, refunds and billing contacts together.

Give collections a clear starting point, with the context to follow up confidently.

Highlights

  • Find invoices and reminders that still need sending.
  • See payment methods, email history and previous reminders.
  • Compare balances with accounting from the same workspace.

Finance · Accounting

Drawing Review

No drawing? Start with the CAD

Create a review sheet from a STEP or STL file, with views, overall dimensions, mass and volume. Give the part a document your team and customer can discuss together.

Keep threads, tolerances and inspection requirements on the drawing that travels with the work.

Highlights

  • Generate a review sheet directly from the part.
  • Keep the sheet connected to its CAD revision.
  • Measure and annotate it alongside customer-supplied drawings.

Portal · MES · Drawings

Quality & Inspection

One drawing, from agreement to inspection

Review, measure and annotate the customer's drawing in MES. Record inspection samples against its dimensions and see whether each result meets the specified tolerance.

Carry the agreed requirements through production and into the certificate of conformance.

Highlights

  • Check samples against standard or custom tolerances.
  • Prepare redacted copies for the shop floor.
  • Keep travellers current when a drawing changes.

MES · Quality · Production

Tax & Compliance

Keep tax connected to the sale

Manage the regions where you collect tax and review customer exemptions with their supporting documents. Keep the agreed tax treatment with the order and its accounting records.

Give customers a consistent order total and your finance team the evidence behind it.

Highlights

  • Review collection settings and rates by region.
  • Approve exemption requests with the certificate in view.
  • Keep order tax details aligned with accounting.

Finance · Portal · Accounting

Shipping & Logistics

Follow the parts to the customer's door

Bring carrier tracking into the order so your team and customers can follow preparation, transit and delivery. Delivery updates arrive with the work they belong to.

Spend less time checking tracking pages and more time helping customers when a shipment needs attention.

Highlights

  • See clear shipment progress on the order.
  • Identify carrier exceptions that need follow-up.
  • Review revised shipping charges with their reason and billing details.

Shipping · Portal · Finance

Quality & Inspection

Send the evidence with the parts

Build certificates of conformance from the order's part details, inspection measurements and material records. Choose the certification statements relevant to the delivery.

Give customers a traceable record of the work behind their parts, ready to keep with their own quality documents.

Highlights

  • Include material, process, inspection and traceability statements.
  • Add recorded measurements and part notes.
  • Reopen issued certificates when a customer or audit needs them.

Quality · Shipping · Documents

Production & Documents

The right document, at the right station

Send travellers, packing slips, labels and certificates to the printers where your team needs them. Arcphase Autoprint connects MES to your shop-floor print stations.

Keep production and packing supplied with current paperwork without choosing a printer for every job.

Highlights

  • Choose printers by document type and manufacturing process.
  • See which documents have printed and which need attention.
  • Send shipping labels and customs paperwork to the right station.

Production · Shipping · Settings

Setup & Branding

Your company, throughout the experience

Bring your logo, company details, currencies and payment instructions together. Carry that identity through the portal, quotes, emails and shipping documents.

Give customers a consistent experience from their first quote to their final delivery.

Highlights

  • Publish your own portal terms and company links.
  • Share design guidelines and manufacturing standards.
  • Include payment instructions on invoices.

Settings · Portal · Email

Shipping & Logistics

Handle the journey back, too

Arrange returns, replacements and reshipments from the shipping workspace. Keep each delivery linked to its parts, reason and supporting records.

Give your team a clear history when an order needs more than one journey.

Highlights

  • Prepare return labels with the collection and delivery details reversed.
  • Distinguish replacements, courtesy shipments and carrier losses.
  • Record package dimensions and choose boxes.

Shipping · Quality · Finance

Production Planning

Every build. Every part accounted for.

Connect each build to its machine, material batch and produced quantities. Keep remaining parts visible when an order spans several builds.

See the work still to do alongside the history of what has already been made.

Highlights

  • Keep material lot references with production records.
  • Follow builds through printing, cooling and completion.
  • Manage equipment maintenance and calibration alongside build history.

Manufacturing · Machines · Quality

Finance & Payments

Get the job started with a deposit

Request a deposit against the order and let customers pay from their portal. Record bank payments and keep the funds ready to apply when the invoice is issued.

Give both sides a clear view of the deposit from request to receipt and final payment.

Highlights

  • Track requested, pending and paid deposits.
  • Provide receipts for recorded bank payments.
  • Apply funds across invoices with a record of each adjustment.

Finance · Portal · Accounting

Finance & Payments

See where the work pays off

Compare invoiced revenue with material costs.

Understand which materials contribute to your margins.

Highlights

  • Compare material revenue and costs with accounting.
  • Use consistent currencies and rates across quotes and invoices.

Finance · Accounting

Manufacturing Intelligence

See the detail in your CAD

Review wall thickness, holes, pockets and other features directly from STEP geometry. Highlight findings on the model so your team can see exactly where to look.

Make quoting and engineering decisions with the part in view, from a thin wall to a hard-to-clear cavity.

Highlights

  • Locate findings directly on the 3D model.
  • Review build size, fine detail, drainage and support requirements.
  • Reuse analysis for unchanged files and review new results when the design changes.

Portal · Quoting · 3D viewer

Quoting & Revision Control

Keep design changes under control

Manage CAD, drawing and price revisions with a clear history for each part. Decide whether a design change also changes the agreed price.

Keep production working from the current specification while preserving the commercial decisions behind the order.

Highlights

  • Upload a new design or restore an earlier revision.
  • Choose whether to hold or update the price.
  • Carry CAD and drawing changes into revised travellers.

Portal · MES · Production

Finance & Payments

A clear view of every payment

Bring payments, deposits, available credit and disputes into one finance workspace. See how each payment applies to the customer's invoices.

Answer payment questions with the order, balance and accounting record together.

Highlights

  • Follow payments across card, bank and other recorded methods.
  • Apply available funds with both balances in view.
  • Track refunds and dispute response deadlines.

Finance · Accounting

Operational Visibility

Keep the next action in sight

Bring new orders, payments and important work updates into your team's notification inbox. Each person can choose the alerts relevant to their role.

Return to updates when you are ready to act, with the related order close at hand.

Highlights

  • Read and manage notifications across devices.
  • Follow new orders and received payments.
  • Choose inbox, email or browser alerts.

MES · Settings

Customer Communications

Your brand, in every update

Send quotes, order confirmations, shipping updates and pickup notifications with your company's identity and the relevant order details.

Keep customers informed throughout the job, with room for your team to review messages before they go.

Highlights

  • Compose quote emails with the parts and requirements in view.
  • Review shipping and pickup notifications before sending.
  • Follow delivery status when a customer asks about an email.

Email · Portal · Shipping

Shipping & Billing

Keep extra shipping charges clear

When shipping costs change, choose whether to bill the difference or waive it. Show an additional charge separately on the customer's order.

Explain the extra cost without changing an invoice the customer has already paid.

Highlights

  • Review the additional charge and record the reason.
  • Show shipping invoices alongside their payment status.
  • Let customers pay the additional charge from their order.

Shipping · Portal · Finance

Portal Experience

Keep the promise in view

See the customer-agreed completion date alongside your production schedule. Replan the work while keeping the original commitment visible.

Give sales and production the same reference when priorities or schedules change.

Highlights

  • Show consistent dates across quotes, orders and emails.
  • Keep the scheduled completion date visible to your team.
  • Carry due dates onto shop-floor travellers.

Portal · Quoting · Production

Integrations

Connect the work to accounting and payments

Bring QuickBooks Online and Stripe into your Arcphase workflow. Keep invoices and payments connected to the orders your team is already managing.

Accept card payments and keep accounting informed without rebuilding the sale in another system.

Highlights

  • Manage accounting and payment connections in one place.
  • Keep invoice and payment records connected to QuickBooks.
  • Offer customers card payment through the portal.

Settings · Finance

Customer Self-service

Reach the person who pays the invoice

Let customers maintain their billing contacts at checkout and on the order. Keep the right invoice recipient available across their company's orders.

Start the billing conversation with the right person, before payment is due.

Highlights

  • Add and update accounts-payable contacts.
  • Choose the primary invoice recipient.
  • Give your team the same contact details in MES.

Portal · Checkout · Finance

Customer Experience

Make payment part of the order experience

Give customers their invoices, due dates, balances and payment options in one place. Keep payment status visible alongside the work they ordered.

Customers can see what remains to pay and take care of it directly from the order.

Highlights

  • Pay invoices individually or together.
  • Download invoices and review payment details.
  • Share invoice links with the person handling payment.

Portal · Finance

Drawing Review

Agree the requirements before production

Capture dimensions, tolerances, threads and inserts on the part's drawing. Bring requirements that need approval to your engineering team during quoting.

Make the customer's expectations visible where your team reviews and makes the part.

Highlights

  • Choose the annotation types available to customers.
  • Compare requested tolerances with the process standard.
  • Keep approved requirements with the part specification.

Portal · Admin · Engineering

Quoting & Pricing

Make negotiated pricing easy to follow

Apply a fixed or percentage discount to the quote. Show it clearly in the customer's summary, checkout and invoice.

Keep the agreed adjustment visible without rewriting every part price.

Highlights

  • Choose an amount or percentage.
  • Show the discount as its own line before tax.
  • Carry the same adjustment through to accounting.

Quoting · Portal · Finance

Operational Visibility

Give the next step an owner

Assign tasks to a person or department and connect them to the order, part or customer they concern. Keep comments and recurring follow-ups with the work.

Give your team a shared view of what needs attention and who is taking it forward.

Highlights

  • Let team members claim work from their department queue.
  • Open the relevant record directly from a task.
  • Schedule recurring work and reminders.

MES · Operations

Operational Visibility

See what needs attention first

Spot overdue, approaching-deadline and partially shipped work from your order and production lists. Bring handling instructions and account alerts into view before the next action.

Start the day with a clear view of the jobs that need a decision.

Highlights

  • Filter production by urgency and progress.
  • See past-due accounts and credit-limit alerts on orders.
  • Carry rush and special-handling notes onto travellers.

MES · Production · Finance

Shipping & Logistics

Ship the way the order needs

Prepare international, multi-box and partial shipments from the same workspace. Keep package details, customs information and shipped quantities connected to the order.

Send the parts that are ready while keeping the rest of the work visible.

Highlights

  • Prepare customs details from the parts and order.
  • Create labels for each package in a multi-box shipment.
  • Track ordered, shipped and remaining quantities.

Shipping · Portal

Quoting & Services

Quote the complete job

Add assembly, inspection, finishing and other services to a quote, with or without manufactured parts. Keep quantities, prices and requirements together.

Carry the whole job from the agreed quote through invoicing and delivery.

Highlights

  • Reuse service templates across quotes.
  • Show services clearly on customer documents.
  • Request supporting files when a service needs them.

Quoting · Portal · Finance

Shipping & Logistics

Get the parts out the door

Compare live carrier rates, buy labels and prepare packing slips from MES. Keep tracking and customer notifications with the order.

Give the packing team one place to complete a shipment and keep everyone informed.

Highlights

  • Compare delivery times and prices before choosing a service.
  • Record couriers, local deliveries and other shipments.
  • Send tracking details to the customer when the shipment is prepared.

Shipping · MES

Drawing Review

Keep the drawing with the part

Attach drawings to a part and mark up the requirements directly on the sheet. Carry the agreed drawing into the order and production paperwork.

Give quoting, production and inspection a common reference for what the customer needs.

Highlights

  • Attach PDF or image drawings to each part.
  • Place labelled annotations with clear notes.
  • Include the agreed drawing with the traveller.

Portal · Production

Quoting & Pricing

Include the finish from the first quote

Offer finishing choices suited to each material, with their cost and production time included in the quote.

Let customers make informed choices and give production a complete specification before work begins.

Highlights

  • Show the finishing options available for the selected material.
  • Include finishing time in the target completion date.
  • Carry finishing requirements onto the traveller.

Portal · Quoting · Production

Manufacturing Intelligence

See manufacturing risks on the part

Explore manufacturability findings beside the 3D model. Review build size, thin walls, holes, trapped cavities and other concerns for the chosen process.

Bring the right questions into the quoting conversation while there is still time to resolve them.

Highlights

  • Run analysis when a part is uploaded.
  • Highlight areas that need closer inspection.
  • Bring parts that need approval to engineering review.

Portal · Quoting · 3D viewer

Manufacturing Intelligence

From CAD file to quoting

Upload the CAD file you already work with and bring the part into your quote. Arcphase prepares the model for viewing, analysis and pricing.

Start discussing the requirements without a separate export step.

Highlights

  • Upload STEP, STP, IGES, STL and OBJ files.
  • Follow file preparation from the part card.
  • Retain STEP units and confirm units for mesh files when needed.

Portal · Upload

Production & Documents

Paperwork that follows the work

Generate travellers from production orders and packing slips from the parts being shipped. Put the specifications, drawings and quantities where your team needs them.

Keep the bench and packing station working from documents connected to the order.

Highlights

  • Track traveller revisions and the reason for each change.
  • Prepare packing slips for full or partial deliveries.
  • Give your production and shipping documents a consistent company identity.

Production · Shipping · Documents

Production Planning

Turn the parts queue into a production plan

Plan builds alongside the parts waiting to be made. Allocate quantities, choose the material and machine, and keep each manufacturing process focused on its own work.

Connect the plan to production progress without losing sight of the remaining order quantities.

Highlights

  • See new, queued, running and manufactured parts together.
  • Drag parts into build plans and adjust quantities.
  • Import a machine build log to record the parts produced.

Manufacturing · MES