Hoops Alternative for Signage: SwiftSignQuote vs Hoops

If signage is where your money is, the alternative to Hoops is a system built for signage. Custom signs are priced by size, material, finish, quantity and install. Two signs are rarely the same. Hoops' product pages describe quoting from decoration pricing and supplier catalogues, and do not describe pricing a sign that way.

SSQ is built for it. Your customer picks the size and material on your website and the price is computed on the spot, install included from their address. Bigger jobs check out as a quote for your team. Your team quotes the bespoke ones inside SSQ, and every job runs on the SSQ jobs board.

Here is an example, not a price. A cafe owner wants a 2400 by 600 mm aluminium composite sign for the shopfront, with install. On your website they type the size, pick the panel and the print finish, and enter the site address. The price updates with every change and the install line is added from the address. They upload the logo and pay, or check out as a quote if they want to talk first. Your team gets a priced job with the artwork attached. Change the width to 3000 mm and the price moves with it, because it is computed, not looked up.

That is the gap with a store of pre-built items. Hoops SalesStores show customers the products, pricing and variants the shop has already set up. That suits a team kit or a uniform reorder. A sign in a size nobody has set up needs a price computed on the spot, and that is the centre of SSQ. Repeat business accounts get a B2B portal with their own pricing, order history and reorder.

Hoops is built for apparel, garments and embroidery; its product pages do not point at custom signage. Its SalesStores show customers the products, pricing and variants the shop has set up. They do not describe a customer pricing a custom size and material.

Hoops prices jobs for your staff. SSQ prices them for your customers, on your website, and the order lands with your team. If you run both, the bridge into Hoops is calibrated for you during onboarding. For a sign business that is the difference between answering every enquiry by hand and having the routine ones, around 60% to 80% of the jobs most shops do, price themselves, while your team quotes the bespoke rest inside SSQ.

See it live: size a sign on the demo store and watch the price move

Yes. We automate garment, embroidery and general print sales too, as adjacent work. Our core is custom signage, the work that is hard to quote, which is why we set it up for you. But the real money in most print businesses is in larger jobs and repeat customer orders, so that is where we recommend you focus the automation first. For most shops, that is not apparel. If t-shirts, garments and embroidery are most of what you sell, Hoops is your go-to for that work. We would rather tell you that than sell you the wrong system.

Yes. Or replace Hoops: SwiftSignQuote covers what Hoops does for your staff, jobs board included. Keep Hoops if your team would rather, and we connect the two so your enquiries and sales flow straight into it, while SwiftSignQuote runs the automated quoting: built for scale, speed and being easy to buy from. The bridge that sends orders into Hoops is calibrated for you during onboarding. It is your call. Our recommendation is to let us handle the switch: run both side by side for a month or two, then switch the old one off once your team is settled. Xero, QuickBooks and your website stay.

Your customers price the routine sign jobs themselves, online: going by SwiftSignQuote aggregated data, that is around 60% to 80% of the jobs a shop does. Your team quotes the bespoke rest inside SSQ, with staff quotes and tender pricing, as part of the same done-for-you service. Your sign price tables are calibrated for you during onboarding, and they are yours to own after go-live. More on done for you.

The small jobs stop waiting on a person. Across the sign and print business books we have analysed, jobs under $2,000 were 59% to 99% of invoices. On SSQ those signs are priced, paid for and handed to your team with the artwork attached, so your people spend their time on the fitout or the tender. They also come back: 84% to 94% of revenue in the same books came from repeat customers.

Hoops lists Core at $199 USD a month with 2 users included, extra users at $39 USD a month each, and SalesStores as an add-on from $99 USD a month. As shown on hoopscrm.com/pricing on 2026-10-22.

SSQ is an implementation scoped to your business, so we price it on the demo call, not on a page.

• You sell t-shirts, apparel, embroidery, garments or promotional products.
• You quote from supplier catalogues and decoration pricing.
• You run branded stores for teams, schools and companies.

That is Hoops' strength. When you want to grow a signage business, automate custom signage quotes and run the jobs on one system, SSQ is where you do that. We serve customers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Germany and the US.