The ultimate
print shop manager.
Quotes, invoices, production, approvals and payments in one fast app your whole crew will actually use. Add a website that takes orders while you print. Set it up yourself in minutes, or we'll build it with you. Either way, it costs less than Printavo.
14 days of every tool, free. No card, no call. Set up in about two minutes.
Built inside a real print shop. Halftone runs Visual Concepts in Eureka, California: design, screen printing, signs, wraps and stickers under one roof since 2007.
Read their story →From “can you print this?” to paid in full.
Every step of a print job lives in one place, so nobody has to ask where an order is, what it costs or whether it's paid.
Quote
Size runs, price matrices and blank costs do the math. A 300-piece, three-location order takes a minute.
MatricesApprove
Customers check the proof, approve it and pay the deposit from one link. No logins.
One linkProduce
The board shows every job by department and stage. Blanks get ordered in one batch.
BoardPick up
Move a job to Ready and the customer gets an email with their balance and a pay link.
AutomationsGet paid
Card, cash, check or Venmo, recorded against the order. Reports show what's owed and how old it is.
Payments
Quote a 300-piece order before the customer hangs up.
Line items know garments. Type the style, punch in sizes, pick the print, and the price builds itself from your blank cost, markup and matrix.
- Size runs from 6M to 6XL, youth and baby included
- Price matrices by quantity and colors, for screen print, embroidery and DTF
- A built-in calculator for stickers, banners, signs and decals
- Every reorder re-prices itself: today's blank costs, your current matrices and today's tax rate
A board the whole floor can read at a glance.
Every open job, in the stage it's actually in, grouped by department. Drag a card to move it. Due dates go red before they're a problem.
- Departments come from your own stage names: Screen Print, Embroidery, Digital, Install
- A calendar you can drag jobs around on
- Works on the phone in your back pocket
Proof, approve and pay. One link, no logins.
Send a quote or invoice from your own email address. Customers see the mockups, sizes and total, type their name to approve, and pay online with your processor.
- Your logo, your email address, your payment account
- Approvals are logged on the order with a name and time
- Paid invoices record themselves
Blanks to order, added up for you.
Halftone totals every garment your open jobs still need by style, color and size. Copy the list to your rep, or download it, then mark those jobs ordered in one click.
- Choose which stages count as “waiting on blanks”
- Estimated blank cost before you order
- Each job moves to its next step when you mark it ordered
Unlimited automations. On every plan.
When a job moves to a stage, Halftone does the follow-up: emails the proof, sends the pickup notice, assigns the job, sets the due date. Printavo counts these and charges for more. We don't.
- Runs from the board, the order screen, bulk edits and Blanks
- Proof, pickup, invoice and thank-you emails, written to sound like a person
- Every automation is logged on the order
Mockups in seconds, right on the order.
Drop in the customer's logo, pick the garment color and placement, and the mockup lands on the imprint, the quote and the work order. White backgrounds get knocked out automatically.
- Tees and hoodies in any color
- Front, left chest or back, at any print size
Everything a print shop runs on.
Find anything, fast
Press ⌘K and type an order number, a name, an email or a phone number.
Opens instantly
The shop loads from your device and syncs in the background. No spinning wheel at the counter.
Install it like an app
Add it to your phone's home screen. Check the board from the press.
Reports that answer questions
Collected and invoiced by month, sales by category, top customers, sales tax and receivables by age.
Work orders that print right
Quotes, invoices and work orders with mockups, imprint notes and size breakdowns, ready to print or save as PDF.
Bring your customers
Drop in a CSV from Printavo, ShopVOX, QuickBooks or a spreadsheet. Columns are matched for you.
Your processor, your rates
Customers pay through your own payment account. Halftone doesn't take a cut of your sales.
Fees, discounts, tax-exempt
Setup fees, rush charges, percent or dollar discounts, and tax-exempt customers with resale numbers.
Your data is yours
Download everything, any time: every order, customer and payment in one file, or lists as CSV.
The best print shop websites in the game.
We design and build your website around your actual work, then connect it to your prices. Customers upload art, see the finished product, get a real price and check out, while you're on the press.
Online ordering with live prices
Stickers, labels, banners, signs and decals priced from the same price list as your front counter, to the cent.
Art upload that shows the real thing
Customers see their art as the finished piece, cut line and finish included, with a resolution check before they pay.
Your work, front and center
Case studies, a portfolio of real jobs, quote and file-upload forms. Fast on every phone.
We personally build it with your shop.
Halftone is easy to set up on your own. But if you'd rather hand it off, we work with you one-on-one on your workflow, your Halftone setup and your website.
Walk us through your shop
A call where we map how a job moves from the first email to pickup, and what slows it down.
We set it up
Your stages, price matrices, fees, email templates and automations, built to match. Your Printavo history comes along.
We build your site
Designed around your work and wired to your prices, so online orders land in Halftone ready to produce.
Launch, then check in
We train your crew, then check in every month to tune what's working and fix what isn't.
Less than Printavo.
A lot less.
Unlimited quotes, invoices and automations on every plan. Printavo starts at $109 a month for two people and 20 invoices.
Try every tool free for 14 days, no card. After that, the free plan keeps going with 10 new orders a month on one computer, and the pro tools wait for you on a paid plan. See everything on the pricing page →
Halftone vs. Printavo
Good questions.
Can I really set it up myself?
Yes. Name your shop, pick what you print (screen printing, embroidery, DTF, signs, stickers, wraps, design) and Halftone sets up your production stages, categories, price matrices and automations to match. Drop in a customer CSV and you're quoting.
How do I move off Printavo?
We do the complete transfer for you: every quote and invoice with its line items, sizes and imprints, plus payments, statuses, price matrices and art. Then we rebuild your automations. It's free with any yearly plan. Most switches only bring your customer list. See what comes with you.
Do I need a website from you to use Halftone?
No. Halftone works on its own. The website is there for shops that want to take orders online with their own prices, and it's included in Full Service.
Is there a free version?
Every new shop gets 14 days of everything, free, no card. After the trial, the free plan covers one person on one computer with 10 new orders a month and the core tools: quotes, invoices, the board and the calendar. Blanks to order, the mockup maker, reports, automations and reorder re-pricing are part of the paid plans. Your data is always yours to export. Paid plans also sync your whole team on every device, send email from your own address and take online payments.
Who handles card payments?
Your own payment account, at your own rates. Halftone connects to Authorize.Net today (including Riverside Payments). Using something else? Tell us on a walkthrough.
Is there a contract?
Monthly plans cancel anytime. Yearly plans are paid up front and cost less: about two months free, no build fee for websites, and a free Printavo move.
Run a sharper shop by Friday.
Set up Halftone yourself in a couple of minutes, or let us set up Halftone, your workflows and your website with you. Either way, it costs less than Printavo.