From the quote to the reorder, on one thread.
Quote, artwork approval, purchasing, production, despatch, invoice and next season's reorder — one record that is never re-typed. For print shops, decorators and promo distributors. Set up in an afternoon from what you already make.
Five screens your team will live in.
Seven shops. Seven orders. One system.
Scroll — each order stacks on the last.
Leavers hoodies for a year group of 210, names on the back.
What breaks today
Forty emails with spellings and sizes. A spreadsheet that's wrong the day it's sent. Chasing the last nine payments by hand.
On A1Printsoft
A team store with a hard close. Each family orders and pays for themselves; the roster checks itself; 210 orders become one run, one PO and bags by class.
A match kit with names and numbers — and a duplicate 10.
What breaks today
Numbers in a WhatsApp thread. A duplicate found at the press. A reprint at the shop's cost and a late kit.
On A1Printsoft
The organiser fills the roster in the studio; duplicates and sizes are checked before a file exists; 22 mirrored print files and a CSV come from the approved proof.
A uniform programme with cost centres and an approver.
What breaks today
Every order is an email to the shop and an email to finance. Nobody knows what's left in the budget until the invoice lands.
On A1Printsoft
A company store with contract prices, cost-centre allowances and an approver who taps one link. Over the limit? Approve, decline or approve with fewer — with a reason.
A charity run store with £5 a tee to the cause.
What breaks today
The organiser fronts the money or the shop does. The total raised is a spreadsheet nobody trusts.
On A1Printsoft
A campaign store with a goal bar donors can see, a per-product donation, and a payout settled automatically when the run closes.
Van panels, a forecourt banner and a rush.
What breaks today
Nobody can price a banner online. The banner is wider than the roll and someone finds out at the printer. Rush is a guess.
On A1Printsoft
Buyer-sized products with bleed, keep-outs and cut paths; tiling with registration marks; a promise date from wide-format's real capacity; files to the Roland's hotfolder.
250 welcome packs from four suppliers, priced as one kit.
What breaks today
Four supplier catalogues in four tabs. EQP worked out by hand. A phone call to find out where the mugs are.
On A1Printsoft
Live stock and prices through PromoStandards, end-quantity pricing applied, four POs raised from one quote, a free sample as an order type, status pushed to the buyer.
24 acrylic awards, each with a different plate.
What breaks today
A configurable product that needs a phone call. 24 plate files made one by one in the design app.
On A1Printsoft
Tint, base and plate configured on the product page; recipients entered as a roster; 24 inverted laser files, a bill of materials and an assembly routing — priced per minute.
Three outcomes. One system.
Win the quote, keep the account, get the reorder.
Quote while they're on the phone. Contract prices apply themselves. Stores repeat every season. Lapsed customers are noticed.
- Quote turnaroundminutes, not days
- Reorderone click, art and prices kept
- Team storesunlimited, never metered
One record from enquiry to invoice. Nothing lost.
The quote becomes the order. Proofs are signed records. POs come from demand. Every conversation is on the order's thread.
- Re-typing between systemsnone
- Silent proofssurface at 24 h and 72 h
- Bookssynced on despatch
The platform does the boring parts. You approve.
Agents draft quotes, POs and chases. Preflight runs on upload. Print files make themselves. A scan is the status update.
- Job card, print files, labelsgenerated
- Status updatesa barcode scan
- Work you can't make profitablyrouted by rule
Anything with a print area.
Apparel is where most shops start. The same engine prices, proofs and produces everything else your suppliers list — each product with its own areas, methods and pricing rule. The dashed shape is what the buyer can design on.
The studio knows what it’s printing on.
Fixed areas on a tee, a generated area on a banner, a cut path on a sticker, a wrap on a mug, zones on a kit, a price table on a card — one engine, one set of rules, presented the way each product needs.
Front, back and sleeves, each with its own method and limits.
- Areas per side. Left chest, full front, full back, sleeve — each paired with the methods it allows and its own price table.
- Size run on the right. Quantities per size, youth behind a switch, price breaks live; never in the design panel.
- Ink & thread libraries. Stocked inks with a count; thread charts for embroidery; light/dark flag drives DTG underbase.
- Method switch as a conversation. "Gradients are off for screen print — DTG is +£1.10."
The buyer states the size. The area generates itself.
- Width × height in mm or inches. Bleed 25 mm turn + 5 mm for hemmed banners; DPI checked at final size.
- Keep-outs drawn in. Eyelets every 500 mm, hems and pole pockets shown as no-go zones on the canvas.
- Tiling. Wider than the roll? Panels with 20 mm overlap and registration marks — decided before checkout.
- Finishing as options. Hemmed, eyelets, wind slits above 2 m² — each reveals what it affects.
Shaped products get shaped areas — with the hardware in mind.
- Feather, teardrop and rectangular flags. The printable area follows the sleeve and the hem, generated from the pole size the buyer picks.
- Single or double-sided. Double-sided mirrors the back panel automatically and prices the blockout layer as its own line.
- A-boards, window decals, vehicle magnets. Same rules: a panel size or a cut path, keep-outs where the frame or the trim sits.
- Hardware from the catalogue. Pole, base, ground spike and carry bag arrive as supplier line items, not a note in the order.
Cut path from the artwork. Kiss-cut or die-cut, decided by the buyer.
- Contour from alpha. Rectangle, rounded, circle, oval, or a contour traced from the artwork with a 2 mm offset.
- Closed path enforced. A cut that can’t close is a conversation, not a print.
- Cut option → output profile. Kiss-cut selects the sheet profile; die-cut selects print + cutter profile.
- Sheet layout shown. 250 on 3 sheets, gang-packed with cutter marks.
A wrap area that previews on the curve and unwraps for the press.
- Warped preview, flat output. The design curves on screen; the sublimation file is flat and mirrored.
- Handle keep-out. The area stops where the handle starts — shown, not discovered.
- Flat-rate decoration. No per-stitch maths for promo; the price is the price.
- Kit it. Mug + pen + tote as one kit line from four suppliers.
Zones you colour, a roster you fill, files per player.
- Zones. Body, sleeves, collar — each takes a colour, a pattern with scale, or a two-colour gradient with angle.
- Squad & sizes panel. Roster with names, numbers and sizes; duplicates and cut-safe fonts checked live.
- Per-unit files. 22 mirrored sublimation files plus a CSV manifest from one approved proof.
- Organiser link. The club fills the roster; the shop sees it arrive.
Sides, paper, finish and quantity — priced from a table, imposed for press.
- What decides the price is in view. Size, paper, sides, quantity as full-width rows; everything else behind "More options".
- Options reveal their effect. Spot UV reveals its area on the stage; a fold shows its direction; lamination unlocks the corners note.
- Quantity × paper table. 500 on 350 gsm silk vs 1,000 on 400 gsm uncoated — the table, not a formula.
- n-up imposition. One print-ready PDF per design, then the press sheet.
One back office. Three outcomes.
Simple mode by default — Today · Sales · Production · Buying · Products · Studio · Storefront · Growth · Money · Reports. Everything advanced lives under "More".
Quote while the customer is still on the phone.
Size run as a grid with 2XL upcharges, price breaks by quantity, the contract price applied by itself, live blank stock, margin shown as you type.
Last year's kit order, this year's roster, one click.
Art, sizes and prices are kept on the order. An anniversary trigger drafts the "same again?" a month before. Lapsed customers are noticed before they're gone.
Team, school, club and company stores — unlimited.
A run with a hard close consolidates forty orders into one setup and one PO. The company portal has cost centres, allowances and an approver who taps one link.
Keep selling on Shopify or Woo. Orders flow into production.
The studio embeds on their product page; the computed line price is honoured at their checkout; status and tracking push back. Buyers never get a second login.
Six decisions, each with its reason and its money.
Discounts above the cap, rush requests, purchase holds, refunds, agent drafts — queued with the maths. Everything under your thresholds just runs.
One thread for two audiences.
Quote, acceptance, proof, PO, jobs, despatch, invoice and every message — on one record. The customer sees their side through a private link; staff see it all.
Silence is a state. Nothing dies quietly.
A proof is a signed record — who, when, which revision, on what device. Unanswered at 24 h: nudged. 72 h: nudged again and flagged at risk. 7 days: on hold, never cancelled. Three rounds free, then your charge applies.
POs come from demand, never retyped.
Every PO line traces to the order line that caused it. Three jobs needing the same blank are one line. Hold two days to cross free carriage — the maths is shown. Partial receipts are normal and matched.
Invoice on despatch. Books in sync. Chasing automatic.
Deposits and balances, instalments, per-order tax override, dunning against terms, expenses per job so you see true profit, and a tax report by period, cash or accrual. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Tally, DATEV.
It writes the quote, the PO and the chase. You tap approve.
Every draft shows its reasoning and its numbers. Nothing is sent, ordered or published without a person — the same gate applies to staff without publish rights.
One plan, five lenses. Promise dates from real capacity.
Board by state, calendar by date, load by work centre, timeline, live floor. Drag to reschedule and the promise recomputes. Hand-offs assigned by capability, capacity and fairness — with the reason stated.
A scan is the status update.
A tablet app built for gloves: scan to claim, scan to move, log spoilage, check the proof against the piece. Progress derives from scans, weighted by minutes. Stalls show on Today.
Files make themselves, and pass preflight before the floor sees them.
One document in millimetres; one renderer for preview, proof and print. Separations per ink, gang and stacked sheets with cut contours, mirrored sublimation per piece with a CSV, imposed cards with marks — to the machine's hotfolder.
Work you can't make profitably goes to a partner — by rule, not by phone.
A four-colour job under 24 pieces, a mug, six hoodies to Texas. Eligibility is computed, economics is a landed-cost comparison per line, policy is yours. Preview the rule, then arm it.
Buyers design within what your press can do.
A limit is a conversation, not a disabled button. The buyer is told why and offered a priced way forward — including a method switch.
Fonts, colours and effects filtered by the method.
Screen print gets its ink palette and no gradients; embroidery gets thread colours and a minimum text height; laser gets vector only. Compatibility is computed from measured asset properties — never a list an admin maintains.
Method
Ink · 2 of 6
Font · cut-safe
Placement
A mini designer on the product page. A full studio when they need it.
Quick jobs: area strip, Text / Upload / Template / Art / Names, S/M/L/Fill, nine-point placement, live price. "Open in full studio" carries the design over. Same parts, one engine.
Checked as they go. What they see is what the press gets.
Stroke weight, text height, colour count and resolution at final size against the method's limits. Saved in millimetres, never pixels. Position, size and text exactly; colour within the printer's profile.
Names & numbers with a roster, not a form field.
Layouts per product type, cut-safe fonts at 8 mm and up, a roster the organiser fills with checks for duplicates and sizes. Per-unit output files follow.
The buyer states the size. The area generates itself.
Bleed per method and material, safe zone, keep-outs for eyelets and hems, cut path — rectangle, rounded, circle or contour from the artwork — tiling when it's wider than the roll, DPI at final size.
Jerseys, trophies, kits — parts, zones and options.
A jersey's zones take a colour, a pattern or a gradient. A trophy has a tint, a base and an engraved plate with recipients. Options — collar, fabric, paper, lamination — reveal what they affect and price as one line.
Finished designs, sold as products.
Templates sit in the category bar with a "from" price and what can be changed. Choosing one opens the studio with only the products whose methods can print it — and says why the rest are hidden. Seasonal categories appear on dates.
2026
Set one colour. Everything derives.
Soft tint, focus ring, glow and brand text are computed so contrast always holds — a shop can pick yellow and nothing breaks. The studio and storefront carry the tenant's brand; the back office never changes under an operator.
A complete shop, page for page — or theirs.
Home with product tabs, category tiles, promo tiles, numbered steps and a USP strip; category pages with off-canvas filters; product pages with the mini designer; cart, checkout, order received and the proof step. Built with the same page builder you get.
Layout
Selling
Custom kit for teams, schools and businesses
Design it in minutes. Screen print, embroidery and full colour — from 1 piece.
Start designingBlock · Product tabs
SEO
What you approved is what the press gets.
The studio saves one document in millimetres. One renderer makes the preview, the proof and every print file from it — and preflights each one before the floor sees it. Nobody opens Illustrator.
What legacy platforms leave to spreadsheets.
Every one of these is a workaround somewhere else — a size chart in Excel, a banner priced on the phone, a reorder rebuilt from scratch, an approval buried in email. Here they are the product.
Per-size pricing
Every apparel order is a size breakdown with upcharges. The quote grid is built around it.
Pricing per area
Width × height from the buyer; bleed, keep-outs and tiling generated; priced per m².
Contract pricing
Schools, clubs and companies get their price automatically. Accepted quotes never move.
Reorders that remember
Art, sizes and prices kept on the order; an anniversary trigger drafts the "same again?".
Approval as a record
Who approved, when, which revision, on what device — and a clock on silence.
Stores, never metered
A store per school, club, company or event. Priced by orders, not by store count.
Made elsewhere, by rule
A line goes to a partner on cost, capability and capacity — with the maths shown.
Agents that draft
Quotes, POs and chases drafted with their reasoning. Nothing publishes itself.
“Could we get twelve 2 × 1 m banners for the open day on the 14th? Same logo as last year.”
Meet the agent that drafts your day.
It reads the enquiry, drafts the quote from your price tables, writes the PO to the supplier that actually has stock, and chases the proof nobody answered.
It stops at every point where money or a promise is involved. Nothing leaves the building until you tap. Every draft shows its reasoning, so the new hire learns the way you price.
- 4.8 owner rating on drafts
- 12,400 quotes drafted a month
- 0 sent without a human tap
Keep your store. Keep your suppliers. Keep your accountant.
A1 makes the products and the print; everything you already use plugs into it. Stores keep selling, suppliers keep shipping, the books keep balancing — and every order lands in the same production plan.
Connected stores: the studio embeds, the computed line price is honoured at their checkout, status and tracking push back. Buyers never get a second login.
Your platform owns
Listing · cart · checkout · payment capture · theme · pages · its customer accounts. Copy you've edited there is never overwritten.A1Printsoft owns
Product truth · methods · pricing rules · the studio · artwork · production · purchasing · the order thread and everything after the order. Buyers never get a second login.Built with print shops, for the day they actually have.
“We quoted a 60-polo job while the customer was still on the phone, with the 2XL upcharge already in. He said yes before I had put the kettle on. That used to be an evening job.”
“The leavers hoodie run used to be forty emails and a spreadsheet I did not trust. This year the parents ordered themselves, the roster checked itself, and I pressed one button to make it one job.”
“I stopped finding out about problems at five o’clock. A proof nobody answered, a job that stalled on the laser: it is on my phone before it is a problem, with what to do about it.”
Made by people who have stood at the press.
Every rule in A1Printsoft was argued over by someone who has quoted a kit run at five o'clock, chased a proof for a week, or reordered blanks from the wrong supplier. The product reads like the trade because the team comes from it.
Ran a 12-press decorator for 19 years. Wrote the size-run grid the way the front desk actually quotes.
Fifteen years pricing banners by the metre. Owns the keep-outs, tiling and finishing rules.
Built purchasing for a supplier-network distributor. Every PO rule in A1 started on their whiteboard.
Twenty years building order and studio systems for this trade. Made the pieces talk to each other.
Bring everything. Run both. Cut over when you’re sure.
Ten years of customers, prices and artwork is why shops stay put. Here is what the first month looks like: your old system never stops, and you choose the day it does.
Import, whole
Customers, contract prices, products with price tables, artwork with approved proofs, orders with history and team stores. Counted and checked before you see it.
Run both
New work starts in A1Printsoft while open jobs finish where they began. Buyers keep the same store links. Nothing is re-typed in either direction.
Cut over
When the last old job ships, switch the old system off. It stays read-only for as long as you want, and you can export everything at any time.
Live in four steps.
Pick what you make
Apparel, signage, promo or all three. We preload the methods, products and price tables for your trade.
Bring your data
Customers, contract prices, artwork and orders arrive whole from your old system, or you start clean.
Take the first order
Quote, proof, accept. Jobs, print files and the supplier PO create themselves from the accepted record.
Scan, ship, reorder
The floor scans the job card, the customer sees the status, and next season drafts itself a month early.
A monthly plan sized by your orders, or pay per order. Same features either way.
Every plan includes a number of orders; do more and we bill the difference, never stop you. Or skip the monthly fee and pay per order. Switch once a quarter — we always show what the other model would have cost.
Starter
- 1 storefront · 2 seats
- Design studio, quotes, orders
- Production plan & jobs
- Email support
Growth
- Unlimited storefronts & team stores · 10 seats
- Everything in Starter
- Purchasing, hand-offs, live floor, floor app
- Agents, campaign autopilot, report builder
- Connected stores (Shopify, Woo…)
NetworkEnterprise
- Everything in Growth · unlimited seats
- Multiple locations & work sites
- API, SSO, white label
- Dedicated onboarding · invoice with PO
See it with your own products.
Thirty minutes with someone from the trade. Bring a real quote from this week and we rebuild it live, with your prices, methods and sizes.
Questions owners ask
Not answered here? Write to us and a person from the shop-floor team replies within a working day.
What counts as an order?
One accepted and reaching production, from any source — web, phone, kiosk, portal or a connected store. Each buyer order in a team-store run counts as one; that's why the included numbers are generous, and why we'd rather bill overage than ever stop a leavers run. Cancelled before the first floor scan, or fully refunded in the period, is credited.
Are features different on per order?
No. Tiers decide features; the model only decides how you pay. Switch once a quarter, effective next period; your billing page always shows what you'd have paid on the other model.
Do I have to leave Shopify or WooCommerce?
No. Mark the site as connected: they keep listing, cart, checkout and payment; we own product truth, methods, pricing rules, the studio, artwork, production and everything after the order. Team stores and the company portal run on our checkout because closing dates, rosters and payouts don't exist on those platforms.
When does the trial start?
At your first accepted order, not at sign-up — so you can set up at your own pace. No card. Fourteen days from that order, metered but not billed; the first invoice is one full period in your currency.
How many proof rounds are free?
Three. From the fourth, your artwork charge applies automatically and the buyer sees it before submitting. Time waiting on the buyer beyond 24 hours moves the promise date day for day; your own revisions never do.
Where does my data live and can I leave?
Regional residency, 35-day point-in-time backups, and an export of everything at any time. Your customers, artwork and prices are yours.
Notes from the shop floor.
Set up in an afternoon. From what you already do.
Free for 14 days · no card · pick what you make and we preload the methods, products and price tables.