Job Costing & Profitability Software for Print Shops
Know What a Job Should Make — Before You Quote It
PriceIt helps screen printing, embroidery, DTG, DTF, and promotional products businesses understand the real cost of their work and make better pricing decisions.
With PriceIt's Overhead Estimator, you can determine a realistic overhead cost for your shop and use that information in your job costing.
Then use the Costing Tool to evaluate profitability at two critical points:
Before the job: Should we sell it at this price?
After the job: Did we make what we expected to make?
Instead of relying on markup, gut instinct, or what another shop charges, PriceIt gives you the numbers you need to evaluate your own pricing and profitability.
Two Tools. One Goal: Better Profitability.
PriceIt approaches job profitability from two directions: understanding what it costs to operate your shop and understanding what it costs to produce the job.
Overhead Estimator
Your production costs are only part of the picture.
Rent. Utilities. Equipment. Insurance. Software. Payroll. Maintenance. Administrative expenses. These costs have to be covered by the work moving through your shop.
PriceIt's Overhead Estimator helps you determine a realistic overhead variable based on your actual operating expenses.
That overhead variable is then used by PriceIt's costing calculations, giving you a more realistic picture of what a job needs to produce financially.
Costing Tool
PriceIt's Costing Tool helps you evaluate an individual job using your costs, overhead, selling price, and expected profitability.
Use it before quoting to determine whether the proposed selling price gives you the profitability you're looking for.
Then return to the same job after production and evaluate it again using what actually happened.
That gives you two answers every shop owner should know:
Before production: Does this price make sense?
After production: Did this job perform the way we expected?
Better Numbers Lead to Better Pricing Decisions
Used together, the Overhead Estimator and Costing Tool give you something markup alone can't: a clearer picture of whether the price you're charging actually works for your business.
You can spot a weak margin before you commit to the quote, understand how much room you really have for a discount, and see when a job that looked profitable on paper didn't perform as expected on the production floor.
That means fewer pricing decisions based on guesswork—and more decisions based on what it actually costs to run your shop and produce the work.
Know the cost before you set the price. Then verify the result after the job is done.
Cost the Job Before and After Production
A profitable job starts before the order ever reaches production.
PriceIt's Costing Tool lets you evaluate the job when you're building the quote—and then return to it after production to see how the actual results compare.
Before the Job: Evaluate the Price
Before committing to a selling price, use the Costing Tool to evaluate whether the numbers work for your shop.
See how the proposed price looks after accounting for your costs and overhead.
Use that information to answer questions like:
Does this price provide the profitability we're looking for?
How much room do we really have to discount the job?
Does the quantity make sense at this price?
Are we covering enough of our operating costs?
Should we adjust the price before sending the quote?
You're still in control of the pricing decision.
PriceIt simply gives you better information before you make it.
After the Job: Compare the Results
Once production is complete, return to the job and update the costing information based on what actually happened.
Did production take longer than expected?
Was setup more involved?
Were labor or production costs higher?
Was there more spoilage?
Did the job run more efficiently than anticipated?
PriceIt lets you compare the profitability you expected when the job was quoted with the profitability based on the actual production results.
Now you're not simply asking whether the job felt profitable.
You can see whether it performed the way you expected.
Turn Every Completed Job Into Better Information
If expected and actual profitability are different, you have something useful to investigate.
Maybe your production assumptions need adjusting. Maybe setup needs to be priced differently. Maybe your minimums need another look. Or maybe a certain type of work consistently performs better than expected.
That information can help make the next quote more accurate.
Estimate → Price → Produce → Review → Adjust
Instead of discovering months later that your pricing wasn't producing the margins you expected, PriceIt gives you a way to evaluate profitability job by job.
See the problem. Understand what changed. Adjust the next quote.
That's how better job costing turns into better pricing—and better pricing turns into a more profitable shop.
See What Your Jobs Are Really Making
Let us show you how PriceIt uses your overhead, job costs, selling price, and production results to help you evaluate profitability before and after the job.
Built for the Work Your Shop Actually Produces
Screen printing, embroidery, DTG, DTF, and promotional products don't all have the same cost structure.
PriceIt gives you one place to evaluate profitability across the different types of work moving through your shop.
Screen Printing
Account for the realities behind screen printed work—garments, screens, setup, impressions, production time, spoilage, and order quantity.
Whether you're producing 24 six-color shirts or 500 one-color shirts, PriceIt helps you evaluate whether the selling price makes sense for the work involved.
Learn more about PriceIt Screen Printing Management Software.
Embroidery
Machine time, stitch count, hooping, thread changes, setup, garment handling, and personalization can all affect the profitability of embroidery work.
PriceIt helps you evaluate the job before quoting and review the results again after production.
Learn more about PriceIt Embroidery Management Software.
DTG & DTF
Digital production still has real costs—equipment, ink, film, powder, pretreatment, transfers, labor, maintenance, spoilage, and production time.
PriceIt helps you see how those costs affect the profitability of the finished job.
Learn more about PriceIt DTG & DTF Management Software.
Promotional Products
Vendor costs, freight, setup charges, outsourced decoration, handling, and rush charges can quickly change the economics of a promotional products order.
PriceIt helps you look beyond product markup and evaluate what the order actually contributes.
One Costing Process Across Your Shop
Your production methods may change from job to job.
The question doesn't:
Does the price we're charging make sense for the work we're doing?
PriceIt gives you a consistent way to answer that question across the different types of work your shop produces.
Costing Works Better When It's Connected to the Job
Job costing shouldn't live in a separate spreadsheet that has to be recreated every time you want to check profitability.
With PriceIt, costing is part of the same system you use to estimate, sell, produce, and manage the job.
That means the information you're using to evaluate profitability stays connected to the work itself.
From Estimate to Completed Job
Build the estimate and evaluate the proposed selling price.
Send it to the customer for online estimate approval.
Move the approved order into production.
Manage the work through production scheduling.
Then return to the costing information after production and compare the actual results with what you expected when the job was quoted.
Estimate → Approve → Produce → Review Profitability
No separate costing spreadsheet.
No rebuilding the job somewhere else just to figure out whether it made money.
No disconnect between the price you quoted and the job your team actually produced.
One Job. One Connected Workflow.
PriceIt brings estimating, orders, customer approvals, purchasing, artwork, scheduling, production, costing, invoicing, and reporting together in one shop management system.
Costing isn't something you do outside the workflow.
It's part of the workflow.
Stop Guessing What Your Jobs Are Making
Being busy doesn't automatically mean you're profitable.
And a job that looks good when you send the invoice isn't necessarily producing the margin you expected.
PriceIt gives you a better way to know.
Use your actual shop overhead to understand what your work needs to produce.
Evaluate profitability before you commit to the selling price.
Review the job after production to see whether it performed the way you expected.
Then use what you learned to make the next pricing decision better.
See PriceIt Costing & Profitability in Action
We'll show you how the Overhead Estimator and Costing Tool work together—and how they connect with estimating, orders, production, scheduling, and the rest of PriceIt.
Know what the job should make before you quote it. Know what it actually made when you're done.