Signage Software & Sign Shop Management

The problem

A sign job is not a print job with a bigger sheet.

It is priced by the lineal or square metre, cut from a roll that leaves waste at both ends, mounted on a substrate, then delivered by two people to a site that may not be ready.

Media waste off the roll

A 1 370 mm roll cut for a 900 mm panel wastes the balance whether you charge for it or not. Priced per square metre of finished sign, that waste is invisible until the stock take.

Installation costed as an afterthought

Two installers, a vehicle, half a day, a return trip because the wall was not ready. It rarely appears as its own line, so it is rarely recovered.

Site surveys and rework

The measure-up, the permit, the second visit when the sign does not fit. Real hours, usually absorbed.

Every quote rebuilt from scratch

Same substrates, same laminates, same frame profiles, priced fresh each time from someone’s memory of the last customer.

The benefit

Price the whole job, not just the panel.

Configured to your printers, cutters, substrates and crews.

Install is recovered, not absorbed

Crew hours, vehicle and travel priced into the estimate like any other operation.

Nesting waste is in the price

Offcuts and roll ends costed into the quote rather than discovered at month end.

Re-quote a size change in seconds

Substrate, laminate and frame held as a bill of materials, so a customer changing dimensions is not a rebuild.

The solution

Sign estimating that covers the whole job.

Lineal metre or square metre pricing. Quote the way the trade quotes, costed from what the roll actually costs you.
Media waste calculated, not guessed. Nesting on the roll, offcuts and roll ends priced into the estimate.
Ink consumption in the cost. Coverage priced as material, which matters more on solid-colour wide format than almost anywhere in print.
Substrate, laminate and frame as a bill of materials. Build the sign once and re-quote it when the size changes.
Installation as a costed line. Crew hours, vehicle and travel in the job rather than absorbed.
Multi-quantity and multi-currency. Price a one-off and a forty-branch rollout in the same estimate.
Machine speeds and overheads per device. Flatbed, roll-to-roll and router each carry their own rate.

Running the shop

Sign shop management, not just estimating.

The accepted quote becomes the job card, and everything behind it runs on the same record.

Production planning board: Print, cut, laminate, fabricate, install — each stage visible to the whole shop.
Stock across locations: Rolls, sheets, substrates and hardware in multiple units of measure, with replenishment levels you set.
Purchasing with landing costs: Multiple supplier prices per item and landing costs allocated automatically — which matters on imported media.
Job tracking and time capture: Real hours booked against the job, install included, feeding the next estimate.
Service management: Ticketing for maintenance and warranty work on signs already in the field.
Invoicing and accounting: Invoice from the same record into full-house accounting. No second system, no reconciliation.

What sign shops ask before they switch.

"We do signage and some print." That is the normal case. One estimating module covers print, wide format and packaging, so banners on Monday and business cards on Tuesday quote out of one system.
"Can it handle a multi-site rollout?" Yes — a multi-quantity estimate, one job with its own schedule, installation tracked per site. Project management is included for the larger ones.
"Does it price installation properly?" Installation is costed like any other operation, at your crew rate plus vehicle and travel.
"What does it cost?" Month-to-month, per user, no capital outlay, no lock-in, every module included. The prices are published.
"Is it only for big shops?" No. The subscription works for a single-user shop, and users are added or removed as the team changes.

Quote one of your own signs with us

Send us a job you priced recently — media, substrate, install and all — and we will estimate it in BOS alongside you.

The job was profitable until the install.