The Fabri Manager blog

Running a trade business, written down

Quoting, invoicing, getting paid, and putting your work in front of clients — from the team building Fabri Manager in Accra.

pricing · workshop management · ghana business

How to Price a Fabrication Job (So You Stop Losing Money)

The costing method behind a profitable quotation — materials with waste, consumables, honest labour hours, overheads and the margin most workshops forget — with a worked gate example in cedis.

Elkanah Kwaku Donkor · 21 Sept 2026 · 4 min read

getting paid · workshop management · ghana business

How to Get Clients to Pay On Time (Deposits, Terms and Polite Chasing)

The payment terms that protect a workshop, when to take deposits and stage payments, WhatsApp follow-up messages you can copy, and what to do when a client simply stops answering.

Elkanah Kwaku Donkor · 21 Sept 2026 · 5 min read

workshop management · growth · ghana business

Running Your Workshop on WhatsApp: What Breaks, and How to Fix It

WhatsApp is where the work comes from — it is a terrible place to keep the work itself. The five things that go missing in the chats, and a simple system to run a workshop without losing them.

Elkanah Kwaku Donkor · 21 Sept 2026 · 4 min read