Free production scheduling software

• keyboard_arrow_downHow is Anolla different from conventional production scheduling software?
  Many production planning tools focus primarily on building schedules and managing calendars. Anolla is an AI-powered production scheduling and workflow platform that brings scheduling, customer relationship management, automation, flexible pricing, and online payments into one place. It supports hourly jobs and multi-day production schedules, works on the web and mobile apps, and can be used across multiple countries and languages. Its flexible structure makes it suitable for small machine shops as well as larger manufacturing organizations.
• keyboard_arrow_downDoes Anolla support hourly and multi-day production bookings at the same time?
  Yes, this is one of Anolla’s main competitive advantages among production planning tools. Unlike many production capacity booking systems, Anolla does not force production management to choose either an hourly machine-rental model or a purely day-based batch production model. The platform simultaneously supports hourly machine and equipment schedules, day-based production orders, and production projects with variable duration. Under one manufacturing company account, you can manage different production lines, workshops, machines, workstations, and subcontracting in parallel. All booked production hours, batch windows, and equipment rental periods are consolidated into a single central production calendar. Anolla is ideally suited for hybrid manufacturing business models such as metal workshops, woodworking, 3D printing centers, CNC studios, small-batch producers, rental equipment fleets, and consultative product development.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow does the Anolla AI assistant reduce administrative workload and human errors in production management?
  Anolla's automated AI customer support is available around the clock and can resolve many chat enquiries without staff involvement. Automated communication reduces repetitive administrative work, helps prevent human error, and gives your team more time for production planning, capacity management, and business development.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow does Anolla’s dynamic pricing module help manufacturing companies offer prices optimized for their production volume?
  Anolla’s dynamic pricing module automates the pricing and sales strategy for production capacity. A manufacturing company can configure detailed pricing rules based on hourly production cost, machine type, materials used, work shift, seasonality, utilisation level, order volume and customer segment. All price changes are applied automatically according to the defined business and production rules, avoiding manual price list updates. The system helps sell idle machine hours at lower prices during low-load periods, raising base utilisation, and allows higher margins for peak hours and critical equipment to maximise production revenue. Dynamic pricing helps optimise production schedules, equipment utilisation and gross margin. The strategy aims to increase capacity utilisation, reduce machine downtime and improve the overall profitability of the production unit.
• keyboard_arrow_downIs Anolla suitable for both a small workshop and a manufacturing group with multiple factories?
  Yes, Anolla’s production booking software is engineered to scale from a single CNC machine shop to industrial groups with multiple plants and locations. Smaller production units and prototyping studios can start with a powerful free plan that covers machine-time booking, production schedules, basic customer management, and task tracking. Teams with several factories, warehouses, and production centers benefit from centralized capacity management, where different workshops, machine fleets, warehouses, and production lines are managed from one account. The platform lets you add unlimited production units, users, shifts, and roles. Flexible role- and location-based access control (RBAC) allows you to define distinct permissions for production managers, line operators, planners, warehouse staff, and sales teams, ensuring each role can view and edit only the production data relevant to them.
• keyboard_arrow_downWhat production and business applications does Anolla integrate with?
  Anolla is built on an API-first architecture and supports key integrations within the manufacturing and business ecosystem. For payment of production orders, there is a direct integration with Stripe payment solutions, which supports both advance payments when booking production time and automatic final invoicing after the work is completed. For analytics and monitoring production capacity, the software supports integrations with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel, helping track order flows, booking conversions and production volume trends. The open API enables raw data transfer to business analytics and BI/ML tools (for example, a manufacturing management dashboard, predictive maintenance, demand forecasting). In addition, Anolla can be integrated with ERP, MRP, WMS and CRM systems to synchronise production orders, stock levels, material flows and the client portfolio. The platform also supports integrations with asset management, maintenance systems and project management software.
• keyboard_arrow_downWhat does the free plan offer and what do the paid production modules add?
  The free plan includes the core features needed to introduce digital production capacity booking and job scheduling: a basic production calendar, equipment and workstation booking, unlimited bookings, straightforward customer data management, and standard reporting. It is well suited to small workshops, prototyping and product development studios, and businesses renting individual machines. Paid modules add unlimited automation, including automatic booking confirmations, production deadline notifications, and shift change rules. They also provide advanced integrations with ERP, MRP, accounting, and analytics platforms, plus tools for managing customer loyalty and repeat orders from B2B manufacturing clients. Larger factories can also access detailed capacity planning, consolidated reporting across multiple plants, SLA monitoring, and a dedicated support channel.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow does Anolla’s usage-based pricing help mitigate risks in a production business?
  Anolla’s usage-based pricing model is designed to reduce the financial and demand-related risks of manufacturing companies. Production workshops, rental equipment fleets and project-based production units don’t have to pay high fixed monthly fees during periods when production volumes and equipment utilization are low. Platform costs always scale in proportion to the actual booking volume, production hours and number of active users. This approach is particularly suitable for seasonal manufacturing businesses, project-based production lines, subcontracting workshops and manufacturing services with fluctuating demand, where order volume depends on export markets or campaigns. This way a manufacturing company can keep fixed costs under control and use a fully featured booking and production management platform exactly when production capacity is heavily utilized.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow quickly can I start using Anolla’s production scheduling software?
  Setup takes only a few minutes, with a context-aware AI assistant available around the clock to guide you. Most users can create an account and complete the initial configuration independently, making this production scheduling software quick and straightforward to implement.
• keyboard_arrow_downWhat makes Anolla’s production booking platform a future-proof solution?
  Anolla is a future-proof production booking software solution thanks to its extensible modular architecture, cloud-based infrastructure and AI-driven learning capabilities. The platform is built around a powerful REST API that allows manufacturers to integrate Anolla seamlessly with existing ERP, MRP, WMS, MES and maintenance systems. The extensible modular architecture also supports an industrial IoT ecosystem: machine door and access control, equipment rental management, sensor-based condition monitoring, production line sensor streams and automated maintenance schedules. Thanks to continuous software updates and the integration of new technologies, Anolla can quickly adopt cloud-based production analytics, predictive maintenance, smart factory concepts (Industry 4.0) and AI-based production planning. This keeps your booking, planning and equipment-fleet management tools consistently at the leading edge of the market.

¹ Percentages are approximate indicators calculated based on our historical and current data. These figures are based on client feedback, surveys, and other analyses. The final result may differ. The outcome depends on the specific scope and sector of the application.