Shop management software
Quote it. Build it.
Install it. Get paid.
One system for the whole job — from the phone call, through the floor, out to site, and into the books. Every print MIS stops at “ready for install”. For a sign shop, that is where half the job starts.
Enquiry
The call lands somewhere before it is a quote, with a date to ring back.
Quote
Priced off your own formulas and materials, with the margin showing.
Floor
Board, schedule, materials, proofs, and what it is actually costing.
Install
Checklists, photos, and a signature from site — on a phone.
Invoice
Tax done properly, payments tracked, and a file your bookkeeper imports.
What is in it
The parts of a shop, not the parts of a demo.
Each of these exists because a shop loses money without it — not because it made a feature list longer.
Pipeline & quoting
Enquiries with a follow-up date, then quotes priced from your formulas. Revisions keep their history, so last month’s quote still says what you sent.
Jobs, board & schedule
Stages you configure, capacity planned in hours rather than in job counts, and a shop-floor ticket that scans.
Install & survey
Checklists, camera capture and sign-off from site. The half of a sign shop’s work that no commercial-print system models at all.
Materials & costing
An append-only stock ledger with the cost frozen at the moment it moved, so a job from March still costs what March cost.
Held for customers
Print five thousand, ship five hundred a month, and know what is left — plus a nudge when a customer is running low enough to reorder.
Delivery notes & shipping
The paper that goes in the box, carrying no prices at all, and tracking that lives on the job instead of in somebody’s email.
Invoicing & books
Sales tax calculated properly, deposits and part-payments, and a QuickBooks or Xero export that warns you before you import the same invoice twice.
Purchasing & suppliers
Purchase orders raised from what a job actually needs, with each supplier’s own pricing, so a cost is looked up rather than remembered.
Their own page
A link, not another login. They approve a quote, watch a job, pay an invoice, and see what you are holding for them — which is most of the calls you take.
Why not the one you were about to buy
Print MIS was built for printers. Sign shops are not printers.
Install is a first-class job
Ladders, permits, site surveys, a signature on arrival. In every commercial-print MIS this is a note in a text field. Here it is a scheduled visit with its own checklist, photographs and sign-off — and the labour on it lands in the job’s cost like everything else.
Capacity in hours, not jobs
Six jobs is not a week’s work; ninety hours is. The schedule is built from the hours on each line, so the answer to “can we take this on for Friday?” is a number rather than a feeling.
Quote from a message
Paste in what the customer actually sent — the rambling email, the text with three sizes in it — and get a draft quote to correct. Nothing is sent until a person has looked at it.
Sales tax that survives an audit
Rounded once on the taxable base, labour handled separately, and the rate frozen onto each document. A rate change next year does not quietly re-rate last year’s invoices.
Built to be trusted with the shop
The boring parts, done on purpose.
Nobody sees money who shouldn’t
Production and installer accounts never load a price. It is enforced in the data layer, not hidden in the interface, so a missed check is a cosmetic bug rather than a margin leak.
History stays true
Prices, costs, rates and quantities are frozen onto the document that used them. Change a price list today and every past job still reads exactly as it did.
Two-step sign-in for everyone
Not just owners. A floor account reaches customer data and artwork too, and leaving it behind a password alone is the weakest link in the building.
Your data leaves whenever you like
Customers, quotes, jobs and the books export to ordinary files. No export fee, and no conversation with anyone first.
We are looking for a handful of shops to build this around.
Founder shops get lifetime pricing, their workflow taken seriously, and a direct line to the people writing it. In exchange we want the awkward truth about what your shop actually does, including the parts that live on a whiteboard.
It is written by a working sign and print shop in Addison, Illinois, for shops like it. If that is you, say hello and tell us what you make.