Print shop management software that runs your whole sales engine

Print shop management software, often called a print MIS, runs the inside of a print business. Job tickets, schedules, stock, print estimating for your team, invoicing. It is built for the people on your floor, and the good ones do that job well.

What it does not do is sell. The customer still emails a brief, waits for someone to price it, chases it, and sometimes buys from whoever answered first. Many of these systems keep pricing with staff. The customer still cannot price a custom size or material on your website and pay for it there and then.

That gap is the sales side. It is where print jobs are won or lost, and it is the part we automate.

Your pricing rules do not go away. They move onto your website. Your price tables are calibrated for you during onboarding: materials, sizes, quantities, finishing, minimums and trade discounts. After go-live the tables are yours to own and adjust.

Then the customer does the work your estimator used to do. They change the size and the price moves. They pick a material and it moves again. They upload the file, approve the proof and pay. The print workflow from there is short: paid order, approved artwork, job on the board.

Not every job belongs on a calculator. A large fit-out or an odd one-off still needs your eye. Your team quotes those in the same system. The aim is the 80/20 split: the routine 80% of jobs run themselves, and your best people spend their time on the 20% that brings the big dollars. That split is a benchmark, not a promise, and every business differs.

Your products are also set up for AI shopping agents. Our staff have worked directly with the Amazon Rufus AI shopping team, so we build your products in the structure those agents read: they can find what you sell, advise your customers on it, request a quote and buy. It is not a big channel yet, but it is growing fast. AI-referred traffic to US retail sites grew 693% year on year over the 2025 holiday season (Adobe), and McKinsey estimates AI agents could orchestrate up to US$1 trillion of US retail sales by 2030. The sign industry will likely move more slowly, and it depends on when your customers start buying this way. We are keeping tabs on it and update these figures as it moves, so you are ready when it reaches you.

Trade printers that sell wholesale to sign companies and retail to the public. Wide format, banners, decals and signage, where every order is a different size and a fixed catalogue never fits. See instant quotes and web-to-print for how the ordering side works, and the B2B portal for repeat accounts.

If you run a screen print or apparel shop: yes, we automate garment and embroidery sales too, as adjacent work. But in most print businesses the real money is in larger jobs and repeat customer orders, so that is where we would point the automation first. For most shops, that is not apparel.

We serve customers in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada, Germany and the US.

PALS is a trade printer on the Gold Coast. They kept their own website and run their prices online with SwiftSignQuote: anyone can price a job, and registered trade customers see their trade discounts once they log in. Visit the PALS store.

Put the store, quote pages and portal inside the website you already have, and let customers price and pay there. It pays because most of your jobs are small and most of your money comes back.

• Across the sign and print business books we have analysed, jobs under about $2,000 made up 59% to 99% of invoices and 8% to 86% of revenue, book by book.
• Repeat customers brought in 84% to 94% of revenue across the sign and print business books we have analysed.
• 67% of B2B buyers prefer to buy without a sales rep (Gartner, 2026, n=646).
• 73% of B2B buyers are willing to spend US$50,000 or more in a single online order (McKinsey, n=3,942).

Let customers price and buy the small jobs themselves, keep trade accounts reordering through the portal, and your people get their time back for the work that pays.

It depends on which side of the business is stuck. If it is the floor, jobs, schedules and stock, you need the functions of a print MIS. If it is the sale, customers waiting for prices, quotes going quiet, trade accounts emailing the same order again, you need a customer-facing sales engine. Most trade printers need both. SwiftSignQuote does both: the jobs your MIS runs today, and automated quoting and ordering on your website.

Not necessarily. SwiftSignQuote covers the functions your print MIS runs today, so you can replace it fully. Or keep it, 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.

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. Your website can stay too. The store, quote pages and portal sit inside it, on your domain, and a new website is optional. See done-for-you automation and how it all connects.