Online stores and design tools for decorators. Here's how we stack up.
Pick InkSoft if your bottleneck is selling online. Pick Printer's Friend if your bottleneck is what happens after the order lands.
InkSoft leads with online stores and sales tools. Printer's Friend leads with the back office: quoting, production scheduling, artwork approval and invoicing, with stores and a designer included rather than being the whole product.
We publish our own pricing on the pricing page, in your currency. We do not quote InkSoft's numbers here, because we have not verified them recently and a stale figure is worse than none — check theirs directly.
One monthly price and no add-on fees. Where something needs a higher plan, the card says which.
Screen, DTG, DTF, embroidery, sublimation and transfers each price on their own model, with garment cost, setup, quantity breaks and margin visible on the quote line.
On every plan
A kanban for the office that updates every fifteen seconds, a full-screen wallboard for the shop, and per-station screens filtered to the stages that station cares about. Barcode scan advances a job.
On every plan
Staff clock on and off at a floor station against an order number. Hours cost at each person's labour rate, so reports show margin after labour, not just gross margin.
On every plan
Assign a rep to an order and their rate is frozen onto it. Commission is earned on dispatch, on the ex-tax value, and totals per rep sit in Reports.
On every plan
Customers sign in under your branding to approve artwork, track the production stage, pay invoices and reorder past jobs. Unlimited portal users, no per-seat charge.
On every plan
Team stores at your workspace address, group-buy campaign pages and an in-store kiosk, all included. Every storefront page carries its own social card and share buttons so a link unfurls with the product picture.
On every plan
SKU-level stock with a movement ledger, reorder points, suggested purchase orders, PO emailing to the supplier, receiving and cycle counts. Any supplier's range imports from CSV.
On every plan
A REST API for customers, orders and inventory, and signed outbound webhooks on order stage changes, so any tool you already run stays in step.
On Premium and above
InkSoft is the better fit if online stores and sales enablement are the main thing you are buying, and your production workflow already works.
14 day trial. Card collected at signup, not charged until the trial ends. Cancel anytime.
CSV import for customers and products; we rebuild store fronts as affiliate stores during onboarding. We do it for free in your first onboarding session.
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