For small print shops
Simpler than a print MIS.
A print MIS runs the whole business: estimating, production, purchasing, often a CRM and a web shop. That suits a commercial printer with a room full of presses. A shop of a few people mostly needs four things: a priced quote out the door, a yes from the customer, the job through the building, and the money in.
How you get started.
A typical print MIS
- Book a demo or a consultation before you can try it.
- Priced per user, or per block of users, so it costs more as you take people on.
- A setup period while your products, prices and data are mapped across.
- Built to model the whole business, so there's a lot to learn before the first quote.
Thintent
- Sign up and send a real quote the same day. 30 days free, no card.
- £79.00 a month per shop, with everyone who works there included.
- Two things to set up: your letterhead and whether you're VAT registered. A press or paper is added the first time a job needs it.
- Type a price you already know, or let it cost the job from your own press, stock and finishing.
What thintent does.
The part of an MIS a small shop uses every day.
- Costed quotes from your own press, stock and finishing: digital by the click, litho by the plate, large format by the square metre. Or type the price.
- One link for the customer to read the quote, accept it and pay by card or Pay by Bank. No account to make.
- Deposits that hold the job until they're paid, and reminders that chase the rest.
- A job board by stage, a day board of each press by day, job sheets and delivery notes.
- Invoices and credit notes that get UK VAT right, synced to Sage Accounting or exported to CSV.
- Sending work out to a trade supplier, with a purchase order from the job.
What it doesn't do.
If you need these, a full MIS is the right call.
- A customer web portal or storefront.
- A CRM with leads and email campaigns.
- Stock control: counting the paper on the shelf, not just costing it.
- Courier labels and tracking.
- Xero, QuickBooks or MYOB, for now. Sage is synced; the rest export to CSV.
Send your next quote from thintent.
30 days free, no card, nothing to configure. If it hasn't saved you time by the end of the week, you've lost nothing.
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