appy.agency
CRM for print & signage

A CRM built for print & signage shops

Jobs, proofs, production and deliveries in one place — approvals chase themselves, and the press schedule stops living on a whiteboard.

Free · no signup · a real plan and price in ~10 minutes, in your words.

to a working prototype
~1 week
to start
€500
that chase themselves
Proofs

Off-the-shelf CRMs were built for a sales team. Not for print & signage.

Proofs sit in inboxes for days while the press stands ready — and every unsigned proof is a job you can’t print, ship or invoice.

The production schedule is a whiteboard only one person can read. When a rush job lands, the whole week gets re-juggled from memory.

The quote lives in one inbox, the artwork in another, the PO in a third — and re-typing between them is exactly where a typo sneaks into a 5,000-run print.

Nobody tells the client the job has shipped or the fitter is due — so the phone rings here instead, and the front desk loses the afternoon to status calls.

See it from the inside

What your CRM would look like — screen by screen.

Not stock screenshots — this is the shape of the system we’d build for print & signage: your records, your stages, your words. Click through the screens.

The owner’s morning screen — proofs waiting on clients, what’s on press, deliveries going out — and what the automations already chased before 8am.

A real starting point

Here’s the analysis we’d start from — for print & signage.

Not a template. This is the data model, pipeline and automations a business like yours actually runs on — mapped in your words. Your free analysis produces exactly this, shaped to you.

Your system, mapped

Your pipeline, exactly as your CRM would show it — your stages, your words. This is what we build from.

What it tracks

ClientsJobsProofsPress slotsDeliveriesInvoices

Where customers reach you

EmailPhoneWebsite formWalk-in

Connects to

StripeCourier trackingAccounting export

Busywork the system takes over

  • Proof chasernudges the client at 48h and 96h until the proof is signed
  • Approval to pressa signed proof books the job onto the press schedule itself
  • Dispatch noticestexts tracking or the fitter’s ETA the moment a job leaves
  • Reorder nudgeoffers a reprint when menus, cards or leaflets are due to run out

What this replaces — where it hurts today

  • Proofs stuck in inboxes
  • Whiteboard press schedule
  • Status calls all afternoon

Your price, from your answers

Standard scope

Prototype · 1 weekstart here

€500

  • Client + job records
  • The production board
  • The proof-chaser automation

Full build

€4,000€7,500

Estimate — it becomes one fixed price on the free call. Never hourly, no surprises.

€3,000every appy build lands in this band€9,000

What sets your scope

  • · Proof approval loop with versioned artwork
  • · Press & finishing schedule
  • · Delivery, courier and install bookings

Run · monthly

€180/mo

Hosting, monitoring, fixes and small improvements.

If you go all the way: ≈ €6,160 first year, all-in — and you own everything. Today's only decision is the €500 prototype.

Questions print & signage ask us

Does it work with our design tools and RIP software?
Yes — artwork stays in the tools your studio already uses. The CRM tracks the versions, specs, sign-offs and press slots around them, and anything with an export or API can feed the one board everyone works from.
Can clients approve proofs without logging into anything?
Yes. They get a link, see the proof, and approve or request amends in one tap — no account, no portal password. Every version and sign-off is stamped on the job, so “I never approved that” conversations end.
How long until we’re live?
A working prototype in about a week for €500. The full build usually lands in three to six weeks, depending on how many presses, processes and integrations are in scope.
Who owns the system and the data?
You do — entirely. It’s your system, hosted for you, and you can export everything at any time. No per-seat lock-in.

Have a mess like this one?

Book a free 30-min call. We’ll sketch what your version of this system would look like — and put a number on it.

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