PressMargin is for shops that need a separate view of job costs and profit. Enter paper costs, click charges and labour rates. Add actual material use and hours after each job. The tool compares the actual cost with the quote.
Get early access$59 a month, for the whole shop. There is nothing to migrate. Your job tickets, your invoicing and your customer records stay where they are.
This is not a list of features that are missing. It is the same three complaints, from shops running the estimating systems that commercial print has been buying for twenty years.
The system quotes the job and invoices the job, and then has no report that puts cost against sales. Labour and hourly rates often are not in the model at all, so margin per job is a thing you work out afterwards in a spreadsheet, if at all.
Paper moves, and updating prices across the system means opening one stock at a time. Shops describe it as the single worst part of the software they own, so in practice the prices go stale and the margin quietly goes with them.
The customer changes the stock or the quantity, and the estimate cannot be adjusted. It has to be rebuilt from the beginning. Repeat work, which should be the easiest money in the shop, costs the same estimating time every round.
Your paper costs, your click charges, your finishing rates and what an hour on each machine costs you. Nothing is estimated from an industry average. The model uses your shop's numbers.
A quote is built from that cost model, so the price you send a customer already knows what the job costs you and what margin it is carrying before you send it.
When a stock goes up 8%, you change it in one place. Every quote and price list built on that stock updates, and you can see which of your standing prices just stopped being profitable.
A full management system for a shop this size asks you to move onto it, and it charges you by the user. Paid by the month, YoPrint is $69 for one user, Printavo is $109, shopVOX is $109 plus $29 for each user, and CoreBridge Starter is $129. PressMargin is $59 for the whole shop, with no count of users and nothing to change to try it. (All four prices read from each vendor's own page in September 2026. Paid for a year instead, YoPrint is $59 a month and CoreBridge Starter is $99.)
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No, not yet. It is being built, and this page is how the first shops are being found. If you sign up you will hear from the person building it before it opens.
Because you are not replacing it. Changing an estimating system means moving your customers, your price lists and your job history, and most shops decide it is not worth the week it costs. PressMargin asks for none of that. You enter your rates and actual job costs to get a separate margin report. If your current software already gives you this report, you may not need another tool. If it is not useful, stop paying.
Keep the spreadsheet if all you need is a price. It is free, you built it, and it works. PressMargin answers a different question. A spreadsheet can compare quoted and actual costs too. Both tools need accurate material use and hours for each job. PressMargin provides a dedicated workflow for that comparison. If you never want that number, the spreadsheet is the right tool and you should not pay us.
No. Most shops that would use this keep their existing system for job tickets and invoicing, and use PressMargin for the costing and the pricing. It is deliberately narrow.
Both. The cost model handles a click charge and a press hour side by side, because most shops that would buy this run some of each.
Then the margin it shows is wrong, and that is worth knowing. It only uses numbers you enter, so the first useful thing it usually does is show you which of your own rates have not been touched in years.