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Print Broker Software
Print Estimating and management software to grow your print broker business.
An industry-leading Print MIS for print brokers
Are you a print manager or print broker? Our ultimate goal is to help you reach the maximum potential for your business through our all-inclusive Print MIS software. By utilising our tailored print management system and top-quality online web-to-print print ordering software, you will have the management solutions you need to drive your business growth.
As a print manager or print broker, it’s vital to be highly organised and offer genuine value for your customers – and our system can help you manage your complete business workflow from a single, cloud-based Print MIS system. This enables you to streamline your workflow, manage print jobs with multiple suppliers efficiently, and always be in control of customer print job deadlines.
Make your print business operations more efficient by using one core system to manage your workflow from quote request through to customer invoice, saving you time and money. Whether you outsource all your jobs to third party suppliers or if you run some jobs yourself in your own print business the Hexicom ePrint MIS system will enable you to achieve all your goals.
Revolutionise your print broking business with the
Hexicom suite of software products
With advancements in technology, and the need to work smarter with less staff and overhead more broker businesses are moving online, with a growing shift towards cloud print management, print estimating, and Web 2 Print software to drive efficiency and cost savings.
The ultimate print broker management software
You can manage your print broker business with ease using our print broker software, and work from any location as the system is cloud based so you just need an internet connection and you are set to go. We designed our system to enable you to provide your customer accurate print estimation using prices from one or more suppliers, efficiently manage jobs of all types including multi-part jobs, easily create purchase orders, delivery dockets, reports, and packing slips.
The process to build your customer estimate or print quote is straightforward and you can select which of your suppliers to include in the bid process for your print projects. You can price up to 4 quantities from each supplier and you can select the best price per quantity regardless of which supplier provided the price. Suppliers can submit their prices online from a web page along with the delivery date they can achieve so the whole process is online removing the need for you to input costs manually.
Using only the internet, print brokers and print managers can utilize our best-in-class online management information system to improve the following areas:
- Print brokers can login to the cloud-based MIS system from any location where you have internet access including mobile internet
- Make even challenging print jobs simple and easy - whether that's small- or large-scale print jobs
- Enjoy using the simple job management work in progress screen, viewing all your current jobs by delivery date, modifiable job status, or supplier
- Create supplier purchase orders, delivery dockets, and customer invoices
- Add our comprehensive warehouse management module to enable you to store and manage stock items for your customers in your warehouse facility. Combine this with our online ordering web to print module and customers can order their stock items from their eCommerce web store.
- Link your Hexicom Print MIS system to your cloud accounting software to create a full print broker management information system with workflow from estimate right through to accounting and payment. We have online API connections to Xero, Quick Books Online and MYOB.
Customers Order Online With Hexistore
The increasing move online is impacting all businesses and online print ordering is growing in the print industry as well. For print brokers, Hexicom’s cloud-based Print MIS has an excellent B2B eCommerce module called HexiStore that enables you to create customer specific ordering portals, so your regular customers can order specific products ready-made with their own branding from your online store.
Here’s how it works within our top print broker software for the print industry:
- Your customers order online, direct from their own branded B2B eCommerce store
- The order is received in your Hexicom print broker management software system
- You create a purchase order and send out to your supplier directly from the system
- Tracking of the progress of the individual print jobs is undertaken in the systems job management module
- Customers are notified of progress using automatically generated emails as you change the job status
- You send your invoice to the customer directly from the system
- The date for the supplier purchase orders and your customer invoices is pushed through the internet to your online cloud accounting system, and the process is complete!
Our Print MIS Features for Print Brokers
Review your specific KPIs and keep track of your tasks and planned calls in our print broker management software. Your personalized dashboard can be custom-built for unique reporting requirements based on your personal performance or the businesses overall performance.
Take advantage of easily managing your customers, prospects and suppliers’ contact information in one place – and use this in the print management workflow and web2print modules. Keep customer notes, create tasks and call reminders, and track estimate conversion rates.
Our print broker software enables you to create and send out quote requests to your vendors, add your mark up, and then send onto your customers as a detailed and highly professional estimate or quote. You can add costs for design, specialist finishing, delivery, installation and much more.
Easily track the progress of your print jobs in production for a clear view of your work in progress. Use colour schemes to prioritise your job list by delivery date and allocate a status to display the job’s current progress in your workflow.
Create and send purchase orders, invoices and delivery information to your customers and suppliers with ease, streamlining your print broker workflow. Purchase orders can have the suppliers’ invoice details recorded, delivery notes can include delivery tracking information, and the key data can be exported to your cloud accounting package.
- Dashboard
- Database & CRM
- Estimate Manager
- Job Production
- Purchase Orders & Invoice Mgmt
Our Web2Print features:
Your regular customers can order online from their own branded ordering site – giving them the best web-to-print solutions for their company, with multiple settings available to tailor to each individual company for a bespoke, unique experience for each print job.
Create products to enable quicker quoting and allocate products to customers online stores so they can order their specific products online.
Orders can be approved, rejected or edited by the approver, and we support two-level approvals so one person can approve and then their manager can also approve too. Users can have spending limits pre-set for them ensuring they don’t overspend in the web2print system.
You have the ability to edit the appearance of your web to print shops so you can tailor them to your customers’ image and colours ensuring brand consistency.
- B2B Online Ordering
- Product Types
- Order Approval
- Appearance & Customisation
FAQs
A list of common questions to help you understand and make your decision to move into the industry-leading browser based Print MIS and web2print software.
- Who uses MIS Print Software?
- What is a print broker?
- What are print managers?
MIS Print Software can be used by various individuals and companies, whether you’re a print broker or manager, a digital signage company, an offset or digital printer, or a promotional reseller or apparel supplier – or any combination of these. Utilizing print software or a cloud-based print management system can streamline any businesses operations.
A print broker is a business that offers their services to companies to manage their printing needs, but do not possess any printing equipment themselves. Instead, they contract with printing companies in order to fulfil their clients’ orders and secure the best possible combination of quality and price for their customer.
Print managers are very similar to print brokers, and often depends on the region in which they are working when it comes to the terminology used. Professionals referred to as print managers could also be used to refer to someone who supervises the printing process for a business, or someone who acts as a broker within a company.
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