PressMargin prices a job from your own paper costs, click charges and labour rates, and then shows you what the job made after it ran. When paper goes up, you change the paper cost once and every price that uses it moves with it.
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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.
Estimating and management systems for commercial print generally run from about $60 a month for the smallest to several hundred, and the ones aimed at a shop this size mostly do not publish a number at all.
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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 trying to work out whether it is worth twenty minutes of your day, and you cannot do that without the number. Booking a call to learn a price is the part of buying this software that shops complain about most.
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.