We’ll cut to the chase: last year, Printavo, InkSoft, and GraphicsFlow joined forces to create Inktavo. Inktavo is a new family of software solutions to help print shops, promotional product distributors, and branded merchandise businesses succeed. Look for this...
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Research: How Printavo Saves Print Shops Up To $35,000 Each Year
How Much Time and Money Can You Save With Printavo? We Found Out. Printavo's cloud-based shop management platform accelerates print shops’ growth by keeping them organized, streamlined and centralized. We help you accomplish this by using a simple interface and an...
How To: Make a Screen Printing Pricing Matrix (Free Download)
The #1 question screen printers and print shops have is "How do I set my prices?" This is a topic as controversial as it is difficult – every shop we talk to at Printavo has a different strategy for their screen printing pricing. That's why we built the screen...
The Best Screen Printing Pricing Strategy? Using Contribution Margin
In 2018, when I started at Printavo, Steven and Bruce and I sat down and tried to develop a screen printing pricing matrix that any shop could use. The theory was simple. We know the calculation that shops make to get to their prices, so let’s link it back to to their...
How To: Move Your Screen Printing Shop Successfully
Want to kill your screen printing business? There's one sure-fire way to do it: do a bad job moving your shop. A lot of us started printing in our bedrooms, garages, and basements. As time goes on, a squeaky-clean warehouse with tons of space starts to seem like a...
New To Printavo | Custom Fees Are Here!
What’s new: Create, save, and apply commonly used fees to your Quotes and Invoices - and more! Use percentages or amounts: fees can be saved as a flat $ amount or % of the total, helping you maintain consistency on what you charge Apply by default, or per...
FAQ: Migrating to Embedded Payments
We have begun notifying shops that signed up prior to Q3 2022 and have not yet made the switch to Printavo's embedded payments about when they will need to migrate to our embedded payment platform. On April 3rd, 2023, payment automations linked to Stripe and/or...
12 Tips for Using Printavo’s QuickBooks Online Export
Note: this article has been updated to more accurately reflect the connection between QuickBooks Online and Printavo. Lots of businesses struggle with QuickBooks. Intuit's accounting software is powerful and popular! But screen print industry-specific software like...
The 4 Best Blank Wholesale T-Shirt Companies for Printing
Buying wholesale t-shirts is not an easy task. There are dozens of websites that claim to sell wholesale t-shirts, but only a few are the real deal. Even worse, if you search "wholesale t-shirts," you'll find dozens of misleading articles with long lists of...
What Software Do I Need For Screen Printing?
Screen printing isn't just pulling a squeegee and dragging ink across a screen. There's a lot of software involved with making great screen prints. What works to help one shop print shirts might not work for another. But if you look at the forums and groups that...
Increase Your Sales in Printavo | Improving (Or Creating!) Your Quote Pipeline
If you nail your Quoting process, you will make more money in your business. But how should you do it? You need to build a Quote pipeline. A Quote pipeline is simply a solid, repeatable process that your shop follows every time you make a quote for custom...
Screen Printing Invoice/Quote Template | How to Make a Screen Printing Quote | Free Download
Screen printing quotes are mission critical for every screen printing business. But how do you make a quote for screen printing? Whether you’re a new screen printer looking for a simple way to send quotes, or simply want some ideas for how to set up...