The one thing that is different
Every shop has one process that makes it theirs, and it is usually the one the platform cannot do. So you keep a spreadsheet next to it, and now you run two systems.
If Printavo almost works for your shop
An honest comparison from a shop that runs one, including the cases where you should just keep Printavo.
Twenty minutes. We look at how work moves through your business and tell you what we would fix first. No pitch.
01 / Read this first
When to keep it
Keep Printavo if your workflow matches how it thinks about a job, if the price makes sense at your volume, and if you are using most of it. It is real software built by people who know this trade, and rebuilding what you already have is a bad use of money.
02 / The other case 04
When shops outgrow it
Per-seat pricing
Adding a part timer should not be a pricing decision.
Paying for two thirds you don't open
Real for a lot of small shops, and it compounds every month.
Your data lives somewhere else
Reporting is whatever the platform decided reporting means.
03 / Side by side 06
Honest comparison
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Time to running Same week Weeks, then it fits
Cost year one Lower Higher
Cost year three Higher Lower
Fits your process Mostly Exactly
You can change it File a request Open the base
Ownership Rented Yours
The honest downside: Printavo has a larger support team and a public roadmap. We are a small team. That is a real advantage and you should weigh it.
04 / Moving
Migration
Your existing data comes over. Customers, jobs, pricing. We run both in parallel if you want.
Next step
Tell us where Printavo stops fitting
Twenty minutes. A fair number of these end with 'stay where you are', and that is a cheaper conversation now than in month three.