That’s right! Brand new features are live in Printavo. Here they are:
We just released the ability to create expenses for your shop and specific orders. You can also see profit/loss charts for individual orders too.
Lastly we revamped out analytics features to be faster and easier to use. You can now see:
This update is for all Printavo plans, enjoy!
We’d like to officially announce the ability to create purchase orders in Printavo! You can now mark line items as needing to be ordered and drag these line items to POs. POs can then be automatically sent to Vendors and monitored via shipping tracking numbers. Check out the video for a full demo:
You can now add custom messages inside your Invoice Status Actions. Head here to do this: https://www.printavo.com/orderstatuses/actions
Our new homepage.
Add tasks with due dates for your shop to complete.
View what’s being created and edited on your account by employees.
View analytics on your business.
Our brand new calendar makes it easy to change Invoice Statuses and due dates.
Each shop gets a website that is Local Google SEO optimized to help boost your sales.
Receive Inquiries from the contact form on your Printavo website or from a contact form you can place on your own website.
Printavo is mobile and tablet friendly!
Share invoices with your customers / employees quickly using a secure link.
Chris Woolum
Printavo would like to welcome Chris Woolum to the team! Chris has been building web applications his whole life and worked with me earlier on in Printavo’s life. This is the first team member and we’re both extremely excited to take Printavo even farther.
New to screen printing or looking to streamline your operations? As a small shop operator, I found out the hard way that keeping a clean and organized shop was essential to being successful. By minimizing waste I found that I was able to maximize profits and productivity.
One of the most time-consuming aspects of screen printing is cleaning up ink. Let’s face it–it’s not very fun. These are a few things I have done in my shop to reduce the mess in handling ink.
Taking the time to set up a proper ink cabinet saved me loads of time and frustration. By lining the ink shelves with newspaper it prevented ink from touching the actual surface of the shelves and in the event of a drip or spill I would simply throw the newspaper away and replace it with fresh newspaper. Since old newspapers are free and easy to come by, I reaped the benefits of easy cleanup at no cost. With the shelves now protected by newspaper, I took a few minutes to ensure all ink containers were clearly labeled and wiped clean of any ink. Paying special attention to where the lid met the container as well as the bottom. I also discovered stacking ink containers directly on top of one another lead to more than a few disasters.
Before I start my print jobs and handle ink, I always put on an old XXXL tee on over my clothes. When handling ink I always make sure to wear vinyl gloves. These are available at most big box stores in bulk for a low price. In our shop, we keep vinyl gloves next to our ink storage and at our ink handling station. We also keep a stack of newspapers by the handling station and always lay a few out on the table before handling ink. In the inevitable event that ink drips or spills, clean up is quick and easy. We also place high absorption shop rags or recycled old, unusable tees at both the storage rack and handling table for easy access in case of a spill. Shop rags and tees tend to be more absorptive and soak up the ink much better than cheap paper towels that just smear the ink around.
When it comes to handling and storing of ink you can never be too vigilant. Even if you employ all the suggestions above you can still end up with a mess on your hands, whether it be knocking over a container or transferring a small spot from your arm to a couple of tees in production. However, I’ve found that taking these steps can dramatically reduce waste, increase production, and keep things around the shop as clean as it can be. Hopefully implementing these tips in your shop will help save you some time, money, and possibly your sanity.
After running a screen-printing business for a good long while, we realized there’s not a simple solution for screen-printers to help manage their shop. My name is Bruce Ackerman and I am one of the founders of Printavo. While running my print shop in Illinois, we were using multiple software systems to keep track of orders, payments, customers and accounting functions. Each system was separate and didn’t talk to one other which created redundancies, lost revenue and unhappy customers. Our screen-printing shop grew quicker than expected which made our current system unacceptable to continue using. This led us to search for a new centralized system to help us.
After weeks of research we came across Shopworx, Quickbooks, Filemaker and Teecal. Each of these systems were not user friendly, needed to spend unnecessary time reading manuals, costly, only accessible on one computer, needed server resources, slow, no mobile compatibility and poor customer service. We could not use these for our screen-printing business.
We have been web developers as a side-job for a while so why not build the perfect, simple solution to help fellow screen-printers manage their shops!
Simplicity – No manual needed. Printavo’s focus is on creating a simple solution to help manage your business. We want you to be able to sign up and begin using it right away without installing anything, purchasing hardware or doing anything strenuous.
Web-Based – Always there for you. It is very important to access your business operations wherever you are. Whether it’s entering orders in on your smartphone or laptop anywhere, Printavo will be available for you.
Customer Support – Willing to go the extra mile. Plain and simple, we’re here to help you and we want your business to succeed. Printavo will be extremely easy to use but very powerful. But, don’t hesitate to contact us if you have a question or suggestion!
The screen-printing industry is growing quite quickly again since 2008 and shows no sign of slowing. We want to help this industry by providing a simple, easy to use solution for screen-printing shops to help centralize and manage their shops. Be sure to put your email address in the homepage so we can keep you up-to-date when we launch!
We will continue posting more information and screenshots of Printavo very soon!
