Ordant Alternative: SwiftSignQuote vs Ordant for Sign and Print Businesses

It depends on what you want to change.

• You want one system for the sale and the floor. Replace Ordant with SwiftSignQuote. It covers what Ordant does for your staff, and adds the customer side: your customers price and order on your website, your team quotes the bespoke jobs inside SSQ, and every job runs on SSQ's jobs board. We recommend a managed switch: both side by side for a month or two, then the old one off.
• Your team is settled on Ordant for production. Keep it for that, and we connect SSQ to it. Your customers still price and order on your website, and your staff stop retyping small jobs.
• You have no production system yet. Say so on the demo call. SSQ runs the lot: jobs board, staff quotes, enquiries, proofing, and Xero and QuickBooks sync. See sign quoting software and print shop management software.

Ordant has the strongest customer side of the shop systems we compare. Ordant offers B2C and B2B web-to-print storefronts. They sit under the heading "Dynamic Pricing Based on Actual Costs": "As production costs rise (or fall), online prices change too." Its estimating page says you can "Enable customers or authorized CSRs to create estimates."

What its pages do not describe is a stranger on your existing website typing a custom size, picking a material and getting a computed price. That is the centre of SSQ. A customer sizes a lightbox, adds install from their address, uploads artwork and pays by card, or checks out as a quote for your team. It runs on your domain, inside the website you already have, and we put it there. See how customers price and order on your website.

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

Either. SwiftSignQuote covers what Ordant does for your staff, jobs board included. Or keep Ordant 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 into the production system you run 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 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 price tables are calibrated for you during onboarding, and they are yours to own after go-live. See done for you.

The small, repeat jobs stop waiting on your staff. Those jobs are most of the work. Across the sign and print business books we have analysed, 84% to 94% of revenue came from repeat customers. Jobs under $2,000 were 59% to 99% of invoices. On SSQ the customer prices those jobs on your website and the order lands with your team already priced, so nobody retypes them. Buyers are ready to order that way: 73% of B2B buyers are willing to spend US$50,000 or more in a single online order (McKinsey, n=3,942).

Ordant lists Essential at 295 USD a month with 5 users, Professional at 495 USD a month with 10 users, Professional+ at 995 USD a month with 20 users, and Enterprise at a custom price. As shown on ordant.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 run print across many processes: digital, large format, offset, labels, screen printing, sublimation.
• You want estimating, purchasing, proofing and invoicing in one staff system.
• You want web-to-print storefronts built with a no-coding website builder.

If that is you, Ordant is a strong fit. Its pricing page marks the free trial "Available in USA, Canada, and UK only." If you want customers to price custom sign work on your website, SSQ can replace it, sale and floor both, or connect to it if your team keeps Ordant for production. We automate garment and embroidery sales too, as adjacent work. 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. We serve customers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Germany and the US.