Steel construction management software
Optimize the management of your metal construction projects with dedicated all-in-one software. Manage all your jobsites: estimates, invoices, schedules and material orders, while keeping your budgets and deadlines under control.
A flexible, high-performance solution
Whether you’re a welder, an ironworker, a boilermaker, a sheet metal worker or anything else, it’s essential that your management software is perfectly adapted to your specific professions, to guarantee the efficiency and fluidity of your operations.
MCA Metal is a tailor-made management software designed specifically to meet the needs of metal construction professionals. Thanks to its flexibility, you can customize the software according to the requirements of your worksites, giving you optimum management at every stage of your projects.
To make your choice easier, MCA Metal offers three basic versions, each with a set of modular features to suit your specific activity. Would you like to have a clear overview of the tasks to be carried out and their progress? You can add planning functionalities to your software. If you also need to manage human resources, whether for temporary hires or payroll, the HR module is available to take complete charge of your employees.
Whether it’s managing materials, manufacturing schedules or controlling the costs of your metal construction projects, MCA Metal adapts to your needs, guaranteeing precise monitoring and total control of your worksites.
MCA Metal ME-1200 to ME-1600 packs
ME-1200
- Administration
- Logistics
- Purchase, multi-currency
- Stock management
- Sales, customer management, multi-currency
- Finance
- General accounting, multi-currency
- Invoice payments (suppliers)
- Grouping of payments
- Mobile application
- Project management
- Customer files
- Dashboard
- Project and customer management
ME-1400
- Administration
- Logistics
- Purchase, multi-currency
- Credit purchase
- Stock management
- Sales, customer management, multi-currency
- Credit sale
- Finance
- General accounting, multi-currency
- Invoice payments (suppliers)
- Grouping of payments
- Human Resources
- HR-Employees (salaries)
- Mobile application
- Project management
- Customer files
- Dashboard
- Project and customer management
ME-1600
- Administration
- Logistics
- Purchase, multi-currency
- Credit purchase
- Stock management
- Sales, customer management, multi-currency
- Credit sale
- Finance
- General accounting, multi-currency
- Invoice payments (suppliers)
- Grouping of payments
- Human Resources
- HR-Employees (salaries)
- HR-Time Management
- HR-Scheduling and leave balances
- Time-sheets
- Mobile application
- Project management
- Planning linked with the module of your choice
- Customer files
- Dashboard
- Project and customer management
- CRM / Customer Relationship Management
Features in detail
You’ll find a full list of software features depending on the package you need.
Administration
– User and password management
– User access rights management
Logistics
Purchasing, multi-currency
– Supplier management
– Product management
– Barcode management
– Management of accounts ‘ Expense, Sales’
– VAT by product
– Supplier management
– Supplier sub-ledger accounting
Purchase credit
– Management of goods returns (suppliers)
– Management of credit notes (suppliers)
– Management of open down payments (suppliers)
Stock management
– Stock management by location
– Stock in/stock out
– Manual stock in/stock out, by day
– Stock statistics
– Inventory
– Inventory: Validation
Sales customer management, multi-currency
– Customer management with reports
– Auxiliary customer accounting
– Quotations, order forms, work sheets, daily report
– Invoices, QR-code – IBAN pdf
– Management of several correspondents per invoice, personalized text
– Sending quotations and invoices in pdf format by e-mail
– Collection – camt054 – iso : 20022
– Table of open invoices with reminders
– Graph
– Send documents by e-mail
Credit sales
– Management of goods returns (customers)
– Management of credit notes (customers)
– Management of open down payments (customers)
– Management of gift vouchers (customers)
Finance
General accounting, multi-currency
– Journal entries
– Summary of accounts
– Customized accounts (analytical accounting)
– Accounts receivable and payable management
– VAT increments and settlements
– Final printout pdf
– Analysis by account
– VAT statements
Invoice payments (suppliers)
– Payment schedule
– Supplier subledger accounting
– Analysis of payments by period
– Depreciation management
Payment consolidation
– Postfinance OPAE-FDS – iso :20022
– Banks DTA (pain001) – EBICS – iso : 20022
Human Resources
HR-Employees (salaries)
– Choice of salary by trade
– Management of social security statements
– Management of employer charges
– Insurance documents
– Auxiliary accounting
– Linked with general accounting
HR-Time management
– Production time management
– Employee time management
– Worksheet management
HR-Scheduling and vacation balances
– Schedule, week, month, year, hours counting
Time-sheets
– Definition of services, by line and by project
– Settlement, choice of allocations for billing
– Linked to activity reports, staff schedules
Mobile application
Mobile – Time-Sheets access by worksite
Project management
Planning linked with the module of your choice
– Project planning
– Personnel planning
– Displayable by day, week, month, year, with hours counted
– Gantt chart.
– Linked to Human Resources, management of vacations, vacations, etc.
– Linked to Purchasing/Sales modules
– Linked to CRM, event management
Customer files
– Centralized management of customers/suppliers
– Centralized management of debtor invoices/products by supplier
– Storage of documents relating to the file
– Management of dates assigned to schedules
– Centralized management of CRM files
– Centralized document management
Dashboard
– Profitability analysis by project
– Budget overview by project
Project management, customers
– Project management / mandates / monetary vision
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, customers
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, suppliers
CRM / Customer Relationship Management
CRM – Customer Relationship Management
– Import of pdf, xls, word and image documents
– Linked to planning with deadlines
– Linked to time-sheets, activity reports, staff schedules
– Linked to website, activity reports
– Newsletter dispatch
– Event management for statistics
– Integrated mailbox
– Classification of directories, activity centers
– Prospect file
ME-1200
Administration
– User and password management
– User access rights management
Logistics
Purchasing, multi-currency
– Supplier management
– Product management
– Barcode management
– Management of accounts ‘ Expense, Sales’
– VAT by product
– Supplier management
– Supplier sub-ledger accounting
Stock management
– Stock management by location
– Stock in/stock out
– Manual stock in/stock out, by day
– Stock statistics
– Inventory
– Inventory: Validation
Sales customer management, multi-currency
– Customer management with reports
– Auxiliary customer accounting
– Quotations, order forms, work sheets, daily report
– Invoices, QR-code – IBAN pdf
– Management of several correspondents per invoice, personalized text
– Sending quotations and invoices in pdf format by e-mail
– Collection – camt054 – iso : 20022
– Table of open invoices with reminders
– Graph
– Send documents by e-mail
Finance
General accounting, multi-currency
– Journal entries
– Summary of accounts
– Customized accounts (analytical accounting)
– Accounts receivable and payable management
– VAT increments and settlements
– Final printout pdf
– Analysis by account
– VAT statements
Invoice payments (suppliers)
– Payment schedule
– Supplier subledger accounting
– Analysis of payments by period
– Depreciation management
Payment consolidation
– Postfinance OPAE-FDS – iso :20022
– Banks DTA (pain001) – EBICS – iso : 20022
Project management
Customer files
– Centralized management of customers/suppliers
– Centralized management of debtor invoices/products by supplier
– Storage of documents relating to the file
– Management of dates assigned to schedules
– Centralized management of CRM files
– Centralized document management
Dashboard
– Profitability analysis by project
– Budget overview by project
Project management, customers
– Project management / mandates / monetary vision
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, customers
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, suppliers
ME-1400
Administration
– User and password management
– User access rights management
Logistics
Purchasing, multi-currency
– Supplier management
– Product management
– Barcode management
– Management of accounts ‘ Expense, Sales’
– VAT by product
– Supplier management
– Supplier sub-ledger accounting
Purchase credit
– Management of goods returns (suppliers)
– Management of credit notes (suppliers)
– Management of open down payments (suppliers)
Stock management
– Stock management by location
– Stock in/stock out
– Manual stock in/stock out, by day
– Stock statistics
– Inventory
– Inventory: Validation
Sales customer management, multi-currency
– Customer management with reports
– Auxiliary customer accounting
– Quotations, order forms, work sheets, daily report
– Invoices, QR-code – IBAN pdf
– Management of several correspondents per invoice, personalized text
– Sending quotations and invoices in pdf format by e-mail
– Collection – camt054 – iso : 20022
– Table of open invoices with reminders
– Graph
– Send documents by e-mail
Credit sales
– Management of goods returns (customers)
– Management of credit notes (customers)
– Management of open down payments (customers)
– Management of gift vouchers (customers)
Finance
General accounting, multi-currency
– Journal entries
– Summary of accounts
– Customized accounts (analytical accounting)
– Accounts receivable and payable management
– VAT increments and settlements
– Final printout pdf
– Analysis by account
– VAT statements
Invoice payments (suppliers)
– Payment schedule
– Supplier subledger accounting
– Analysis of payments by period
– Depreciation management
Payment consolidation
– Postfinance OPAE-FDS – iso :20022
– Banks DTA (pain001) – EBICS – iso : 20022
Human Resources
HR-Employees (salaries)
– Choice of salary by trade
– Management of social security statements
– Management of employer charges
– Insurance documents
– Auxiliary accounting
– Linked with general accounting
Project management
Customer files
– Centralized management of customers/suppliers
– Centralized management of debtor invoices/products by supplier
– Storage of documents relating to the file
– Management of dates assigned to schedules
– Centralized management of CRM files
– Centralized document management
Dashboard
– Profitability analysis by project
– Budget overview by project
Project management, customers
– Project management / mandates / monetary vision
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, customers
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, suppliers
ME-1600
Administration
– User and password management
– User access rights management
Logistics
Purchasing, multi-currency
– Supplier management
– Product management
– Barcode management
– Management of accounts ‘ Expense, Sales’
– VAT by product
– Supplier management
– Supplier sub-ledger accounting
Purchase credit
– Management of goods returns (suppliers)
– Management of credit notes (suppliers)
– Management of open down payments (suppliers)
Stock management
– Stock management by location
– Stock in/stock out
– Manual stock in/stock out, by day
– Stock statistics
– Inventory
– Inventory: Validation
Sales customer management, multi-currency
– Customer management with reports
– Auxiliary customer accounting
– Quotations, order forms, work sheets, daily report
– Invoices, QR-code – IBAN pdf
– Management of several correspondents per invoice, personalized text
– Sending quotations and invoices in pdf format by e-mail
– Collection – camt054 – iso : 20022
– Table of open invoices with reminders
– Graph
– Send documents by e-mail
Credit sales
– Management of goods returns (customers)
– Management of credit notes (customers)
– Management of open down payments (customers)
– Management of gift vouchers (customers)
Finance
General accounting, multi-currency
– Journal entries
– Summary of accounts
– Customized accounts (analytical accounting)
– Accounts receivable and payable management
– VAT increments and settlements
– Final printout pdf
– Analysis by account
– VAT statements
Invoice payments (suppliers)
– Payment schedule
– Supplier subledger accounting
– Analysis of payments by period
– Depreciation management
Payment consolidation
– Postfinance OPAE-FDS – iso :20022
– Banks DTA (pain001) – EBICS – iso : 20022
Human Resources
HR-Employees (salaries)
– Choice of salary by trade
– Management of social security statements
– Management of employer charges
– Insurance documents
– Auxiliary accounting
– Linked with general accounting
HR-Time management
– Production time management
– Employee time management
– Worksheet management
HR-Scheduling and vacation balances
– Schedule, week, month, year, hours counting
Time-sheets
– Definition of services, by line and by project
– Settlement, choice of allocations for billing
– Linked to activity reports, staff schedules
Mobile application
Mobile – Time-Sheets access by worksite
Project management
Planning linked with the module of your choice
– Project planning
– Personnel planning
– Displayable by day, week, month, year, with hours counted
– Gantt chart.
– Linked to Human Resources, management of vacations, vacations, etc.
– Linked to Purchasing/Sales modules
– Linked to CRM, event management
Customer files
– Centralized management of customers/suppliers
– Centralized management of debtor invoices/products by supplier
– Storage of documents relating to the file
– Management of dates assigned to schedules
– Centralized management of CRM files
– Centralized document management
Dashboard
– Profitability analysis by project
– Budget overview by project
Project management, customers
– Project management / mandates / monetary vision
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, customers
– Follow-up of offers, invoices, receipts, suppliers
CRM / Customer Relationship Management
CRM – Customer Relationship Management
– Import of pdf, xls, word and image documents
– Linked to planning with deadlines
– Linked to time-sheets, activity reports, staff schedules
– Linked to website, activity reports
– Newsletter dispatch
– Event management for statistics
– Integrated mailbox
– Classification of directories, activity centers
– Prospect file
With MCA Metal
Optimize your site management
The use of specialized tools and digital solutions enables steel construction companies to manage their worksites more efficiently. Thanks to better organization of information, field teams no longer need to make frequent trips to the office, reducing unnecessary travel and improving responsiveness in the field. This helps avoid delays, meet production deadlines and optimize resource management.
With MCA Metal, all information is centralized on a collaborative platform. Data is structured and accessible in real time, whether on site or in the office, facilitating communication between teams and guaranteeing smooth monitoring of work.
Manufacturing and intervention schedules are displayed in an intuitive interface, enabling optimum monitoring of ongoing projects. Professionals can enter reports and updates directly from the worksite, avoiding extra trips to the office.
Information is quickly transmitted and properly classified, considerably improving the company’s responsiveness and the management of its worksites.
Visibility on progress
Keep a close eye on the progress of your jobs thanks to a clear visual display of the tasks to be completed and their progress.
In just a few clicks, assign your resources to scheduled tasks according to availability.
Detect delays and budget overruns at a glance.
Compliant bids and invoices
Draw up estimates in no time for the work to be done, supplies, labour, etc.
Define the rates per hour, square meter, flat rate, etc. and let the software calculate the prices.
Manage all aspects of invoicing: down payments, partial invoices, final invoices…
Optimized inventory management
Anticipate your material needs with a precise, up-to-date overview of your inventory.
Monitor stock movements in real time to avoid unnecessary shortages or surpluses.
Plan your orders according to the quantities needed for each job, with automatic alerts for critical thresholds.
MCA Metal
A centralised working platform
MCA Metal is a management software designed specifically for the needs of metal construction companies. It focuses on analyzing and tracking the progress of work on your sites, while maintaining a complete history of each project.
With a comprehensive and detailed view of the company’s activities, you can efficiently manage your steel construction projects, whether for the manufacture of steel structures, the installation of components or the production of finishes.
Task planning and scheduling is made easy with a Gantt chart-type schedule. Resources (manpower, machines, materials, etc.) are allocated to each task according to their availability and location on the site, ensuring optimal management of operations.
The software records and compiles the various costs and revenues associated with each project in a financial table. This enables you to compare estimated costs with actual costs, facilitating budgetary control and expense optimization.
In addition to project management, MCA Metal brings together all the essential functionalities for the metalworking trades: work sheet management, quotation creation, invoicing with automatic dunning, as well as customer, supplier, order and inventory management. This guarantees fluid, centralized management of all your job sites.
Modular solution
ERP – CRM – CMS Module
Tor all the standard administrative management of your metal construction company, tracking jobsites/projects over periods exceeding calendar years, with summaries of work carried out. Management of customer, supplier and service provider relations, with monitoring of complaints and history of communications and actions. Templates for quotations, invoices, etc. or correspondence with your contacts, linked directly to files with the option of integrating appendices.
Additional modules
Module Financial Project
Monetary view of costs and revenues per project, with history
Tracking Module
Vehicle fleet management, with geolocation via a dynamic map and recorded hours of use.
Reporting Module
Reports and statistics in real time, in graph or table format.
As MCA Metal is a flexible management solution, additional modules can be added. Feel free to check our modules page to see what options are available.
The flexibility of SaaS-based steel construction software
Easy integration and broad compatibility
- Quick and easy addition of modules and services, based on a single database
- Extensive interoperability with your third-party applications, your e-commerce tool, different OS (Windows, Mac, Android and Linux) and your third-party machines
Tailor-made
- Customisable and accessible (mobile, tablet, PC/Mac)
- Multilingual interface, adaptable to your company’s taste and colours (FR, EN, DE, IT)
Cloud computing and dematerialisation of processes
- Access to data anywhere and anytime
- Reduced infrastructure costs (IT equipment)
Shared work platform
- Synchronisation of documents and data with change history
- Different levels of access according to established profiles
Scalability and continuous improvement
- New features and regular application enhancements, which support good business practices and improve your operations
- New services offered in line with customer needs, market and technology trends
High security, protection, availability and confidentiality of your data
Backup, access rights, data storage in Switzerland in a secure private cloud is a priority for MCA, bringing you :
- Increased confidence of your customers, suppliers and employees
- Reputation maintained
Complies with legislation & regulations
- Accounting and management of your operations in accordance with the latest legal standards.
- Compliance with ISO 20022, RGPD (General Data Protection Regulation), invoice with QR-Code, etc.
Key features
Management from tender to delivery
Plan and organize your workshop and metal construction sites efficiently
With MCA Metal, you plan and schedule the activities of your workshop and metal construction sites with the utmost precision. You allocate human and material resources (field crew, subcontractors, machines, metal materials, etc.) to your various projects, ensuring smooth, consistent management of every stage of your worksite.
Overhauls and maintenance work on steel structures can also be programmed into schedules, to optimize monitoring and avoid unforeseen delays.
The software provides a clear visual display of ongoing activities, enabling you to monitor the progress of your projects in real time and make adjustments quickly if necessary, particularly in the event of delays in material deliveries or changes to schedules.
To reinforce task management, automatic reminders alert you to important project deadlines, such as metal fabrication or installation stages. What’s more, MCA Metal keeps a complete history of operations carried out on site, so you can monitor and analyze the work performed.
The schedule, hours entered, progress and incident reports, customer contact details, invoices and other documents associated with each project are grouped together in a single file, providing you with all the information you need to optimize the management of your metal construction projects.
Simplified quoting and invoicing
With MCA Metal, you can easily create and edit quotations for your metal construction projects, integrating services, metal materials, labor, and more. Managing the prices of these various elements helps you to produce a precise costing for each job, based on the specifics of your projects.
You can define the billing method that suits you: hourly rate, per square meter, flat rate, or by adding any discounts. The software takes into account VAT management according to the applicable rates to guarantee compliant invoicing.
Estimates can be transformed into invoices at the click of a button, with professional formatting to suit your preferences. To facilitate payment management, you can generate down payments, partial invoices or a final invoice from the estimate, depending on the progress of the work.
Unpaid invoices can be tracked easily thanks to a notification system integrated into the software, and automatic reminders can be set up by e-mail or SMS, enabling you to maintain smooth payment management throughout the project.
Mobile application
With MCA Metal, your field crews and subcontractors have mobile access (smartphone or tablet) to consult activity schedules, work sheets, enter hours worked, draw up intervention or accident reports, and carry out any other operation linked to the metal construction site.
In the event of an incident, your teams can quickly report the information using the mobile application. They can attach photos and notes to the incident report, facilitating rapid and accurate management of unforeseen events.
Thanks to centralized information, you have real-time access to field data to guarantee the smooth running of your metal projects, whether for fabrication, installation or maintenance of steel structures.
The collaborative aspect of MCA Metal enables better coordination of operations by sharing site information between all concerned. Depending on their access rights, everyone can consult or modify data, ensuring smooth, transparent management of metal construction sites.
Stock management
You manage the supply of your finished products, spare parts and materials according to stock levels, while taking into account the needs of your technicians for on-site interventions. It’s also easy to track supplier orders, deliveries and supplier invoice payments.
Supplier records are automatically updated after each transaction, providing you with a complete history for smooth, transparent supply management.
When your technicians need specific items for a job, they can consult the supplier catalog remotely via the mobile application, and place orders directly from a smartphone or tablet, guaranteeing maximum responsiveness in the field.
Spare parts required for maintenance or handling of steel structures can also be pre-ordered to guarantee the continuous availability of materials needed for your projects.
Quotation and invoicing
With MCA Metal, you can easily create and edit quotations for your metal construction projects, integrating all services, metal materials, labor and other necessary elements. Managing the prices of these various components helps you to achieve accurate, transparent costing for each project.
You can define the pricing method that best suits your project: hourly rate, per square meter, flat rate, or by applying any discounts. The software also manages VAT according to the applicable rates, ensuring invoicing in compliance with legal requirements.
Once you’ve drawn up an estimate, you can transform it into an invoice at the click of a button, with a professional layout adapted to your preferences. If you need to manage advance payments, the software allows you to generate a deposit, partial invoices or a final invoice directly from the estimate.
The software’s integrated notification system makes it easy to keep track of unpaid invoices. What’s more, you can set up automatic reminders by e-mail or SMS to ensure smooth, efficient management of your customers’ payments.
Employee management
The MCA Metal solution integrates all the HR aspects essential for managing your teams and subcontractors. It tracks wages, working hours, absences and HR documentation for each trade (welding, ironwork, boiler-making, sheet metal work, etc.).
Working hours are entered by your employees in the field and validated by the site manager or HR manager, facilitating time management and labor control. Wages are calculated on the basis of actual hours, wage bases, overtime, social security charges, absences and other specific variables.
With just a few clicks, the software enables you to draw up compliant pay slips and set up vacations, vacations and public holidays in accordance with current standards and your internal regulations.
This complete integration of quotation, invoicing and human resources management enables you to efficiently manage your metal construction projects, while optimizing the management of your teams and resources.
Reports and statistics
Management reports allow you to analyse the data collected by the software. With these analysis tools, you are able, for example, to examine multiple ongoing projects to compare their profitability.
You will also be able to obtain invoicing statistics to compare the number of invoices per period, evaluate the productivity of your teams according to different criteria or analyse the types of problems encountered during previous projects in order to prevent their recurrence.
Customer communication
You can inform customers of the arrival of your technicians by e-mail or automated SMS, or communicate any useful information about ongoing operations, your services, etc.
Accounting
The accounting is partly done by automated processes. Financial transactions are recorded in the software, which integrates all accounting aspects: creditors, debtors, salaries.
You carry out accounting operations, taking into account all the specificities linked to the metallurgy sector, to ensure compliant accounting.
FAQ
Is the software available as a perpetual license or as a subscription (SaaS mode) ?
Our software is available on a subscription basis only. This model allows you to benefit from regular updates and to change the number of users or features included in the software at any time.
Is there a maximum number of users allowed per subscription ?
No, you can add as many users as you like. In addition, you can change the number of users included in your subscription at any time.
Do I have to pay extra for assistance ?
1. Assistance with a procedural oversight
If the help requested is a simple reminder or clarification of a procedure already explained, this assistance is free of charge. This includes, for example, reminders on how to use features or the steps to follow for a task.
For example, if you’ve forgotten how to draw up a VAT statement and need a reminder or guidance to follow the necessary steps, this assistance will be free of charge.
2. Subscription support for VAT preparation
If you have taken out a subscription that includes VAT preparation, this service is included in your subscription at no extra cost. You can benefit from this support directly, at no additional cost.
3. Accounting assistance
If you need help with accounting-related issues, such as specific advice or complex configurations, this will be invoiced. This includes support in optimizing or correcting accounting configurations.
For example, if you notice an error in your accounting entries or reports, and this error is not linked to a settings problem but to incorrect handling or data entry, you will be billed for the intervention required to analyze and correct the error.
4. Support for human error search
If you request assistance in identifying or correcting errors caused by incorrect handling or erroneous input, this service will also be invoiced.
5. Training a new user
Support to train a new user in the use of the software or tool requires a more in-depth intervention and is invoiced.
Is it possible to develop specific features for my company ?
Our solutions are tailor-made which means that our developers can create or modify features and set up specific processes according to your needs.
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To summarize
MCA Metal represents a complete, tailor-made solution for metal construction professionals, whether you’re a locksmith, boilermaker, metal carpenter or in another metalworking sector.
Our software offers exceptional flexibility, with the ability to customize features to suit your specific needs.
Our platform centralizes information and makes it accessible in real time, facilitating communication between the field and the office.
Planned interventions are clearly visible, and your teams no longer need to go back and forth to retrieve files or file reports.
Our mobile application gives you greater responsiveness, performance and mobility.
Discover our software today to optimize your operations and simplify your administrative management.