Farm software runs your printers. Layers3D runs your business.
Uptime matters. So does the twenty minutes you spent on a quote that never came back, the file nobody asked for, and the invoice you re-typed into your accounting on Sunday.
Columns are kinds of tool, not brands. Farm-automation software is excellent at what it does. The question is what happens to the job before it reaches a printer and after it leaves one.
Stage
Farm automation tools
Generic CRM + spreadsheet
Layers3D
Quote request arrives
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Inbox
Captured with the file, measured, priced
Pricing
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Spreadsheet, 20 minutes
Seconds, from your rates, learns from completed jobs
Customer approval
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Email back-and-forth
One click on your branded quote page
Queue & printers
Strong
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Two boards, per-part progress, lead times from your fleet
Shop floor
Printer status
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QR on every box; printer-station QR for Bambu farms
Delivery & payment
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Manual
Pickup slots, labels, card and e-transfer
Accounting
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Re-keyed
Synced
If your bottleneck is the printers, buy a farm tool. If your bottleneck is everything around them, this is the one.
Built in a shop
Built inside a working print shop, not a pitch deck.
Layers3D runs a real 3D printing business in Cambridge, Ontario, every day. The support-material pricing exists because a wall tile once quoted 406 hours of print time. The file-chase exists because almost every quote request arrived without a file. The hold button gives back the days a job was paused because a deadline once did not. Every feature is a job that nearly went wrong.
Pricing that learns from the jobs you actually completed, not a template
Guards that hold a total when a spec edit would move the money by itself
Board columns that ask the shop-floor question, not the software question
CloseThe Layers3D home screen for a shop: close rate, quotes needing a decision, expected revenue from the pipeline, new leads, orders to review and jobs in production, with quick actions to add an order or install the quote widget.
Your data stays yours
Your rates, your customers, your files. Nobody else's.
Shops on Layers3D share software, not data. Another shop cannot see your pricing, your customer list or your orders, and a new shop starts on neutral defaults, never on your rate card. Export everything in one click, any time.
Every record is scoped to your shop; cross-shop access returns nothing, by design and by test
Integration credentials encrypted per shop; the platform's own credentials are never shown to you, and yours are never shown to anyone else
Two-factor login; time-limited support access you can see in the audit log
One-click account export
CloseThe Users page of a shop with four staff and their roles: admin, production, sales and finance.
