Every job in one list
Orders arrive from your sales channels over the API, or you enter them by hand. Each keeps its source_name and source_id, so a job on the floor still points back at the storefront it was sold on.
Print shop & production management
Manage your print shop and production in one place.
Orders come in from your storefronts. PrintExchange holds them in one list, moves them through the stages your shop actually works in, and closes them out with a shipment. One system for the whole floor — orders, production, shipments, and the stock they draw down.
What you run it with
Four things, and they all point at the same order.
Nothing lives in a spreadsheet on the cutter. An order carries its line items, its shipments, its notes, and the folder it is sitting in.
What has to be made
Name, code, quantity, price, weight, and whatever variations the customer picked. Add, change, or drop an item on an order that is already open — the order does not have to be re-sent.
Off the bench, out the door
Record carrier, method, tracking number, weight, and cost against the order. An order can carry several shipments when a job goes out in more than one box.
Blanks, substrate, consumables
Inventory items with a code, a stock count, a bin location, and a manufacturer SKU. Correct one item, or push a whole shelf’s worth of counts in a single API call.
The workflow
Folders are the floor. An order sits in exactly one.
There is no second status field to keep in sync. Where an order is filed is where the work is. Move an order from its own page, or refile a whole day’s worth in one API call.
Stage 1
New
Landed from the channel. Nothing has been touched yet.
Stage 2
Prepared
Pulled, printed, trimmed. Sitting on the bench waiting for a label.
Stage 3
Closed
Shipment recorded, tracking on the order. Done and accounted for.
Off the line
Canceled
Pulled before it ran. Kept on record with its history intact.
Every move is written to the order’s history alongside your own notes, so a week later you can still see when a job left New and who shipped it.
The dashboard
Built for the person standing at the press.
Sign in and you land on the order list, filed by folder, with a count on each tab. Open an order and everything about it is on one screen — no tabs to hunt through while your hands are full.
- Folder tabs with live countsSee how many jobs are waiting before you walk to the press.
- The whole order on one pageCustomer, shipping address, line items, shipments, and notes together.
- Move a job on when it’s donePick the next folder from the order page. Refiling a whole run at once goes through the API.
- Same data as the APIThe dashboard reads and writes the same store the API does. Nothing is dashboard-only.
The API
Everything here is also a REST endpoint.
Orders, line items, shipments, inventory, folder moves — a full REST API over the same store, so your storefront can push orders in and your scripts can pull them out.
https://api.printexchange.io/api/v1/
Base URL
Authorization: Bearer pxk_9f3c1d8a4b…
One header on every request
On the roadmap Print jobs attached to a line item, and routing those jobs to a print partner. Not built yet — today PrintExchange manages the order, the folder it is in, its shipments, and your stock.