Using the Connect personalization and variable data component of the storefront, your customers can quickly and easily customize, proof, and approve documents directly from a web browser. As the printer, you’ll receive a press-ready PDF file immediately after the order is placed. Think of the time you’ll save and headaches you can avoid by having your customer complete these often tedious steps online. You can focus on what you do best… printing!

The storefront will generate a job ticket for each order your customers place. Nearly all information available is summarized on this sheet for your reference.

Easily update order status information with our barcode tracking tools. Pick lists and job tickets include a standard 3 of 9 barcode. Using any standard barcode reader, you can use our scanning station to quickly and easily update job status as the order goes through your plant.

Doing print work for a broker? Give the broker a branded ordering interface to use with his customer. His customer never sees information about your printing company, but you get the order.

Need to send jobs to an outside print vendor? You can create an unlimited list of vendors to utilize, and have specific orders automatically route to that vendor. The vendor receives all files and information necessary to print and ship the job.

If you operate more than one print facility, you will trully benefit from Connect’s mutli location management. With this powerful feature, you can easily assign customers to each of your facilities. As new orders come in, each order will be automatically assigned to the appropriate facility. You can easily reassign an order to a different facility as needed.

You are provided with a unique user name and password to login into the Connect control panel. From the control panel you are able to create additional users, add clients, manage orders, provide estimates, check inventory, and much more. You can even assign different levels of permission to your staff to insure that the right people are managing the right things.

Create unlimited numbers of users for each of your customer accounts. This allows you and your customer to easily track who ordered what. You may even assign a variety of permission levels to each user to better manage the ordering capabilities of each user. User Groups allow you to associate products with groups of users and even assign different pricing for each of the user groups.

Customize the look and feel of each customer storefront. Choose from our predesigned templates and personalize for your customer with their colors and artwork. Or work with one of our talented designers to create a unique look.

With Connect’s approval workflow, you can easily define which users need ordering approval and which users can approve orders. When a user with limited permissions places an order, users with approval capabilities are automatically notified by email to complete the approval process.

Keep track of current inventory levels and inventory history with Connect’s powerful transactional inventory control capabilities. Your customers may view inventory detail such as current inventory level, last replenished dates, and even view orders placed against the inventoried product.

Accept credit card payments, Paypal, funding codes, provide real time shipping rate information, export data, and more.

Our side-by-side approach allows your customer to enter information and preview the document on the same screen. No need for them to download proofs, launch Acrobat, or click through to another page to view the proof.

With Connect, the finished document can be imposed to your specifications.

Connect utilizes a robust scripting language that allows for a variety of intelligent responses based upon user input. In addition, Connect can automatically format user input to match your customer’s corporate image standards.

Choose from a variety of user input methods including image upload, rich text formatting, browser based image cropping, database driven drop down lists, and more. Connect has a powerful composition engine to accomodate a variety of text stylization, image and pdf importing, and more!

Using the web based control panel, you can easily create web-to-print templates for your customers to use.

QR Codes and Bar Codes can be automatically generated and merged into the finished poduct based on data entered by your customer or via an Excel data file upload.

Templates can be personalized either manually by your customer, automatically from an Excel file they load, or a combination. Ideal for small mailing campaigns, the data file can even trigger variable image merging!

With the Interactive Designer, the customer can design, edit and add to their product directly on the proof! Like the standard templates above, but with the option of a more open editing and layout design by the customer. The Interactive Designer is more like a simple Photoshop application than an online form. The user can be allowed to selectively change font characteristics. They can also add new text areas, new images, move their position on the template, rotate them, change justification and layering, crop images, and more. The proof itself is the canvas where all work is performed. There are no form fields as in the standard version above.