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Fabric Shelters & Farm StructuresCustomer Story

~20% Less Timeon Jobs

Smart Shelters

At a glance

The wins for Smart Shelters

~20%
Less time on jobs
Farm + industrial
Fabric-cover structures
NZ-wide
Auckland-based install crews

Auckland-based Smart Shelters engineers and installs fabric-covered farm shelters, riding arenas and industrial structures across NZ — putting Empower on the floor cut roughly 20% off job times.

Engineered fabric on a big scale

Smart Shelters designs, fabricates and installs large-span fabric-covered structures — riding arenas, dairy shelters, feed pads, industrial storage — across New Zealand. Each project mixes shop-floor fabrication with on-site installation crews, both needing to be scheduled tightly.

Data across shop + site

Empower captures time against the same job whether staff are welding a frame in the workshop or installing on a farm. The office sees the full picture — not two disconnected data streams that only meet in the invoice.

A tighter 20% on the clock

The consistent read across projects has been roughly 20% less time per job — real minutes back on jobs that used to run over because nobody was watching them until the end.

Zero Risk Software

Our Productivity Guarantee

You see gains like Smart Shelters's in your first year — or we provide unlimited support, free of charge, until you do.

20–40%
Productivity increase

Faster jobs, greater workshop output — with the same overheads.

$5–$15k
Saved per month

Stop losing money to manual tracking and hidden inefficiencies.

7 days
To go live

Get Empower working on your floor in under a week.

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