Projects for print

A print project rarely consists of a single, simple product. A brochure has multiple components, a trade show package combines products from different sources, and a book often involves several suppliers. Every part comes with its own prices, files, and communication.

To keep track of it all, print managers often rely on a spreadsheet, long email threads, or a general project management system. That covers part of the process, but not the complete print project. Products, stock, prices, files, communication, and quotes stay scattered, and part of the work remains manual.

Until now, it hasn’t been possible to automate a complete print project in a single workflow, from first setup through multiple quotes and actions to an order.

With Projects in the Prindustry Platform, you piece together one complete print project. Add a project manager, reference, budget, and deadline, so it’s immediately clear who’s responsible and what the budget is. A project runs for as short or as long as needed, from a few weeks to several years. Then you add everything that belongs to the job: products, manual tasks, prices, files, communication, quotes, and orders.

This way, you manage the complete print project from one central place, instead of keeping everything scattered across different files and tools.

Within one project, you combine different types of products and activities:

• products from your assortment;
• stock products (SKUs);
• products from the Marketplace;
• products you build directly within the project;
• manual tasks and additional services.

This way, you put together a complete print project with products from different sources, without having to calculate each one separately. Send the project through as a quote, and the customer can approve it product by product or all at once for the whole project. Each part then flows through to an order and invoice at its own pace.