Printavo Alternative: SwiftSignQuote vs Printavo for Print Shops

It comes down to what you sell.

• Mostly garments: screen print, embroidery, DTF. Printavo is built for that. Its quoting is shaped around garments, ink colours, placements and stitch counts.
• Mostly custom signage: window graphics, lightboxes, 3D fabricated signs, and the stickers and banners alongside. Look at SSQ. Custom signage is our core, the work that is hard to quote, which is why we set the pricing up for you. SSQ automates the quote on all of it, from a sticker run priced at what you should be charging to a 3D fabricated sign or a lightbox, complete with installation time and a callout fee that changes with the job. Tender packs come back priced too. Your customers price the routine jobs on your website without a person in the loop, and your team quotes the bespoke rest inside SSQ.
• Both. Replace Printavo with SSQ through a managed switch and run every job on SSQ's jobs board, or keep Printavo for apparel and connect it to SSQ, which runs signage and print from the price to the floor. Either way, we would point the automation at the larger jobs and repeat orders first.

For a shop that is mostly garments, a system built for apparel decoration, such as Printavo, is a strong fit. 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.

Printavo's pages describe customers approving from a link, paying invoices online, and ordering from Merch stores the shop sets up for a group. They do not describe a stranger choosing a custom size and material on your own website and getting a computed price.

That is what SSQ does. A customer orders 300 decals at a custom size, or a lightbox with installation, sees the price, uploads the file and pays. A trade account reorders last month's job. Your team gets an order to make, not an email to price.

See it live: price a custom sign on the demo store

Yes. PALS is a trade printer on the Gold Coast. Its products run on SSQ, and it kept its own website.

Replace it if you want the shop on one system. SwiftSignQuote covers what your current shop management system does for your staff, jobs board included. Or keep Printavo 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 either way.

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. 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 a banner, a decal run or a panel in a size nobody stocks is priced, paid for and handed to your team with the file attached. They also come back: 84% to 94% of revenue in the same books came from repeat customers. And buyers want it: 67% of B2B buyers prefer a rep-free experience.

Printavo lists Lite at $109 a month for 2 users and 20 quotes or invoices a month, and Standard at $244 a month for 5 users with unlimited quotes. Printavo Merch stores are an extra $109 a month on Standard and included on Premium, which is priced by their sales team. As shown on printavo.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.

• Most of your work is garments: screen print, embroidery, DTF, DTG.
• You quote by colour count, placement and stitch count.
• You run group stores for schools, clubs and fundraisers.

That is Printavo's home ground. 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 garments are most of your work, Printavo is built for that. If your growth is in custom print and signage sold online, SSQ is built for that, from the online price to the jobs board. We serve customers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Germany and the US.