Honest comparison

Printer's Friend vs spreadsheets

The default system in most shops. Here's how we stack up.

Stay on spreadsheets while you are under roughly 20 orders a month. Past that, the re-keying and the chased approvals cost more than software does.

A spreadsheet is the cheapest print shop system and the most expensive one. It cannot email a customer, cannot hold an approval, cannot show the floor what to print next, and cannot tell you which jobs lost money. Every hour it saves in software cost, it takes back in re-keying.

On pricing

We publish our own pricing on the pricing page, in your currency. We do not quote spreadsheets's numbers here, because we have not verified them recently and a stale figure is worse than none .

When spreadsheets is the better choice

Spreadsheets genuinely win if you do a handful of large repeat jobs a month for two customers you speak to daily.

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Paste your customer list and your last twelve months of orders into our import template. Most shops are done in under an hour. We do it for free in your first onboarding session.

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Printer's Friend vs spreadsheets: questions

At what point is a spreadsheet costing me money?
The usual signals are: you have re-typed the same customer address more than once this week, you have chased an artwork approval by text, or you cannot answer "which jobs are due Friday" without opening two files.
Can I keep using my spreadsheet alongside?
You can export any list to CSV at any time, so nothing stops you. Most shops stop within a fortnight.

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