From Excel take-offs to Xero: one system for a steel fabricator's whole job cycle

The challenge

Dream Fabrication & Engineering fabricates and installs structural steel from its workshop in Derrimut, Melbourne. Like most fabricators, the office ran on a mix of tools that did not talk to each other: an ELEMENTS-style take-off spreadsheet for each job, a quote template in Word, stock lengths and off-cuts remembered rather than recorded, supplier orders by phone and email, and every invoice and bill typed again into Xero.

The result was slow quoting, material bought twice or cut fresh when an off-cut would have done, and no clear view of what each job actually cost until long after it was finished.

What we built

Task Tango deployed Pulse on a dedicated cloud instance for Dream Fabrication, then extended it with a fabrication module shaped around how the workshop actually runs. Every release was tested with the client and shipped to production the same day.

The team behind the software

Alongside the platform, Task Tango provides Dream Fabrication with a dedicated Marketing & Operations Support Officer who works inside Pulse every day: preparing quotes, scheduling site visits, handling enquiries, reconciling accounts and following up outstanding invoices, as well as running the company's social media and lead generation. Software and service from one partner, so there is one number to call.

Security

Because the system is internet-facing, it went through a full code-level security review: a central authorisation gate on every action, per-request identity, hashed and expiring session tokens, login rate limiting, restricted cross-origin access and the Xero secret encrypted at rest, all delivered as four hardening releases within the first week.