Question: I have my own pricing tool. It incorporates all the business costs, running of the machines and so on. Once I have a price, it will also create a quote or order form, and a job sheet etc. Is this what PrintJob can do?

The PJ system works slightly differently and isn’t trying to replicate or replace that (rather complex) functionality. It can however do some of it.

1) In the PrintJob system, the client can put their requirements into a ‘Request Quote’ form. You get the results of this form in the Quote Manager and after consulting your offline program, you can put the price in directly.. The client accepts the quote and the job is created, with job sheet and invoice etc.

2) You can also create products with a large array of prices, depending on the client's wants. The client picks the product, and then chooses, for example, press type, quantity, paper type, foil, embossing, finishing options, colour, turnaround time, delivery options etc. The parameters can determine a price by either the price that you manually insert for every combination of choices, or by adjusting the advertised price by % or integer increase/decrease, or a combination of both. The downside is that it can be quite hard to put in all the variables and pricing parameters. Also you probably have variables that you don’t want/need the client to know about. The upside is that with this feature you have a very powerful system that can do all the work for you (once you have done the setup!).