Communicate, collaborate, and coordinate print jobs in Acumatica Printshop
Printshop 2.0, the newest version for Acumatica Cloud ERP 2021 R2. In this new release we have bundled lots of features that allows print business to take advantage of automation for managing production jobs, scheduling, and achieving productivity gains.
- Printshop Ver 2.0, released Feb 1st 2022, comptaible with 2021 R2 and higher versions.
Powerful print features, unleashed
Get empowered with latest print automation for wholesale, custom decorators and fulfillment business.
Integration
Fully integrated custom production jobs from start to finish, optimize your sales, purchasing and production teams.
Features
Print ready features out of the box, allows you to deploy with click automating some of the key print business process.
MVP Plugin
Developed by an Acumatica Certified MVP (Most Valuable Professional), rest assured it works without any hurdles.
Business Planning
Plan your production jobs with easy, multiple job card capabilities, new job statues gets your job done.
Profitability
Monitor your sales margin and profitability for each custom order, organize to cut down cost and boost profits.
Productivity
Increase productivity gains all across your print business, schedule and print more jobs. Streamline your job scheduling process.
15 min overview video of Printshop 2.0 Features - Ask The Print Guy
Printshop ver 2.0
New Features Video Tutorial
Multiple Job Cards | Production Templates | Customer Items | Split Ship | Online Art Approval
I. Multiple Job Cards
- New Feature - Multiple Job Cards in Printshop 2.0
- Ability to create and assign multiple job cards per sales order
- Create multiple screen print, embroidery, promotional and digital job cards
- Assign to line items on an order
- Schedule jobs, art approvals and track status
Benefits - Manage Production orders in single document
- Allocate and print jobs that are in stock
- Track and trace status of each job
- Share product specs with outside vendors
Multiple Job Cards - How to enable and use in 2021 R2? - Video
II. Production Templates
Once you mastered creating multiple job cards, you will fall in love with this new feature.
What if we could save the entire job card details for repeat orders or orders with same custom work that needs to be done over and over.
Introducing “Production Template”, create once, save as a template and re-use same job card spec sheet/data, which saves ton of time doing data- entry and fastens everything.
Benefits
Production Templates - How to create templates in Ver 2.0?
How to manage templates?
In this video tutorial you can learn how to create new templates, edit or modify existing templates, load templates and feel comfortable to manage the production templates.
How to manage Printshop production templates?
How to create Job/Setup cards on a Sales Order?
With Printshop 2.0 you can now create job cards of different job types automatically on the sales order screen. You can use this feature to automate the process of data entry using the concept of templates.
How to auto populate job cards in sales order?
Manage Job Scheduling
In Printshop 2.0 you can manage your production job scheduling in a breeze, with new job status, workflows and process screen allows production manager to schedule, update job status with a click of a button.
Schedule Production Jobs in Printshop 2.0
III. Split Shipments
Split-Ship, multiple shipments in single sales order
Printshop Split-Ship is a new feature in Printshop 2.0, Split ship allows to ship ordered item to multiple shipment locations allowing to calculate sales tax and frieght for shipments on a single Sales order in Acumatica Cloud ERP 2021 R2. It's fully integrated with Avalara and Starship
IV. Online Art Approval
Online Art Approval
Collect art approvals from your customers over the web, no need to login or access portal links, quickly send approvals link via email and allow them to preview and approve or decline the art.
New Job Types
Custom Job Types
We understand one size doesn't fit all, so we designed our PrintShop to accept various job types. For print jobs outside our standard set, we are free to store production data and apply art workflows outside our engine while still being able to access a Single Source of Truth.
Printshop Workflow
Printshop workflow covers all aspects of print business, from quote to cash. Printshop workflow ties sales and purchasing along with production jobs, whether you do in-house or contract/outside jobs.
The Workflow below depicts orders coming through sales team, website or ecommerce stores, we collect the custom job specs and collaborate with various internal and external teams in getting the job done. If you have an e-commerce website you can bring in those custom embellishment data and tie into your powerful backend ERP allowing you to have single source of truth.
Printshop solution ties your scheduling of work, managing of your jobs including art approvals and art file management, allowing you notify your customers and their shipments with turn around time of week or two from start to finish.
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Coordinate &
Communicate
Learn how to manage projects from start to finish, within Acumatica Cloud ERP. Printshop 2.0 helps you manage your production jobs.
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Exchange feedback in real time
Eliminate the need for messy emails within internal teams. With Acumatica Printshop CRM activities you always get notified with dashboards and KPI's.
Save time with custom templates
Production job templates helps save time with job specs for repeat orders and standardize jobs and streamline processes in no time.
Customer items tied with job templates a quick way to create job cards.
Track job from start to finish
Coordinating custom jobs is hard work with customers, vendors and internal employees. Create visual dashboards, KPI's, notifications to keep track of each job from start to finish.
FAQ's
1. Is Printshop Ver 2.0 package free to subscribed users?
Yes all Printshop customers with active subscription will receive 2.0 version as part of the SaaS offering with product support.
2. What version is Printshop 2.0 comptaible?
Printshop ver 2.0 was built on 2021 R2 version of Acumatica, we request all our customers and partners to upgrade to this new version for compatibility, we will support all higher version as well.
3. Are all features available out of the box?
Yes all new features are available, however some of the key features may require additional "add-on" licensing such as Multiple job cards, Split ship, Online art approval.
4. When is scheduling with calendar feature going to be released?
We are currently working on enhancing the existing calendar view feature and make scheduling easier and allow to drag and drop, re-schedule and view by resources, this will be released in Q2/Q3 of 2022/23.
5. What is next set of features Printshop is planning?
Printshop team is working on various features and testing the proof of concept, we may introduce new job types such as wide-format, print paper and offset printing. We have roadmap for integrating with Promostandards.org for tighter integration of purchasing and inventory updates with vendors.
6. How do we report support issues or bugs?
If your subscribed customer you have access to our support portal www.MyERPHelp.com please login and create a support ticket with details of the issue and our support team will follow up with fixes or resolution.
Note:
* Please check with our sales team for integration modules such as Shopify, BIG Commerce or any ecom websites, job cards won't create automatic and certain level of customizations is required and it's a paid service.
* Webhooks or API is based on the consumption and our sales team can determine the price options as provided by Acumatica
* Promostandards integration is currently being developed and it needs seperate license to activate, check with our sales team
* Few of the features fall under Experimental feature list, and it may be adapted into product line or excluded from the plugin based on user experience and market conditions, please check with our sales experts.