Quick Answer
Make money faster in Can 'Em All by raising can value, increasing production, and completing conveyor routes to the selling tube. Keep selling cans after the day ends, then use factory sales to fund permanent profit upgrades. Start with value and output upgrades before working toward a more automated factory.
Which upgrades should you buy first to make money faster?
Prioritize can value, production speed, and conveyor belts when you need more money for upgrades. At the end of each day, enter the elevator to access the Upgrade Tree. Follow its connected branches to unlock weapons, processing machines, conveyors, and automated production.
Raise the value of each can
Buy premium cans to increase the money you receive per can. With this upgrade, each can sells for $3. This improves the value of your output, rather than requiring more creatures for every increase in income. If you already have cans moving through the factory, start by checking your can value upgrades.
Increase cans per creature and incoming creatures
Buy Triple Trouble to produce three cans from each creature. You can also upgrade incoming deliveries so three creatures leave the truck instead of one. These upgrades address different parts of production: cans per creature and creatures arriving at your factory. Use both as you work toward higher output.
Reinvest in processing and automation
Increase production speed and unlock machines and conveyors. You can also reinvest in stronger weapons and vacuum upgrades as your factory develops. The goal is to process more creatures and move the resulting cans through an automated factory. Once production runs automatically, earning money becomes easier.
How do you get produced cans to the selling tube?
Complete each conveyor route so your cans reach the selling tube automatically. Buying conveyor belts alone does not finish the delivery route. Check where the route ends before you rely on automatic sales.
Collect cans at a conveyor end
Place a basket at the end of the conveyor to catch falling cans.
You can use this collection setup while working toward automatic delivery. The basket catches the cans; the completed conveyor route handles automatic delivery to the selling tube.
Finish the route to the selling tube
Complete the conveyor connection to the selling tube. An unfinished conveyor does not automatically deliver cans there. If you have increased output, check delivery too: producing cans and getting them sold are separate steps.
Can you keep selling cans after the day ends?
You can continue selling cans after the day is over. Keep this in mind before treating the end of the day as the end of your selling opportunities. Finish selling the cans you have instead of assuming that income must wait for another day.
Does selling your factory help you earn more money?
Selling your factory gives you permanent upgrade points, including options that improve profit in your next factory. You lose your machines and weapons, but purchased permanent upgrades carry over. Other permanent upgrade options include more damage, lower stamina costs, and more creatures arriving each day.
Selling the factory resets machines and weapons. Use the permanent points to strengthen your next factory, and expect to rebuild its equipment.
A second factory reached over $1.1 million from less than $8,000 on its twelfth day in one run. That result shows the potential of permanent upgrades; it does not guarantee the same income for you. Treat factory sales as investment in your next run, rather than a way to preserve your current equipment.
What does Smoked Meat do for your income?
Smoked Meat doubles the money from everything you burn. Its benefit applies to burned output, so keep that condition in mind when considering the perk. For general progression beyond earning cash, follow the Can 'Em All walkthrough.
To put your income to work, follow the skill tree guide and the permanent upgrades list.
FAQ
You can improve income through can value, production, delivery, and permanent upgrades.
Each can sells for $3 after you buy premium cans.
No. Triple Trouble produces three cans per creature. Increasing truck deliveries from one creature to three is a separate upgrade.
Check whether you have completed the route to the selling tube. An unfinished conveyor does not automatically deliver your cans there.
Yes. You can continue selling cans after the day ends.
No. You lose machines and weapons, but your purchased permanent upgrades carry into the next factory.