Ecommerce storefront. Here's how we stack up.
Keep Shopify if you sell a fixed catalogue of stock designs. Add Printer's Friend if you also do custom decoration work with artwork, approvals and production stages.
Shopify sells products. It does not run a decoration shop: no screens, no pretreat, no approvals, no press schedule. Shops that try to force it end up with a stack of apps and still key orders into a spreadsheet. Printer's Friend runs the shop and gives you branded stores and campaign pages for the selling part.
We publish our own pricing on the pricing page, in your currency. We do not quote Shopify's numbers here, because we have not verified them recently and a stale figure is worse than none .
One monthly price and no add-on fees. Where something needs a higher plan, the card says which.
Screen, DTG, DTF, embroidery, sublimation and transfers each price on their own model, with garment cost, setup, quantity breaks and margin visible on the quote line.
On every plan
A kanban for the office that updates every fifteen seconds, a full-screen wallboard for the shop, and per-station screens filtered to the stages that station cares about. Barcode scan advances a job.
On every plan
Staff clock on and off at a floor station against an order number. Hours cost at each person's labour rate, so reports show margin after labour, not just gross margin.
On every plan
Assign a rep to an order and their rate is frozen onto it. Commission is earned on dispatch, on the ex-tax value, and totals per rep sit in Reports.
On every plan
Customers sign in under your branding to approve artwork, track the production stage, pay invoices and reorder past jobs. Unlimited portal users, no per-seat charge.
On every plan
Team stores at your workspace address, group-buy campaign pages and an in-store kiosk, all included. Every storefront page carries its own social card and share buttons so a link unfurls with the product picture.
On every plan
SKU-level stock with a movement ledger, reorder points, suggested purchase orders, PO emailing to the supplier, receiving and cycle counts. Any supplier's range imports from CSV.
On every plan
A REST API for customers, orders and inventory, and signed outbound webhooks on order stage changes, so any tool you already run stays in step.
On Premium and above
Shopify is the better fit if you are primarily a retail brand selling finished goods and decoration is only your own production.
14 day trial. Card collected at signup, not charged until the trial ends. Cancel anytime.
Run both: keep the Shopify storefront and use Printer's Friend for custom work, or move your product catalogue in by CSV. We do it for free in your first onboarding session.
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