Automate Screen Print, Direct to Film, DTG & Embroidery Orders
with Our Customer-Facing Design Lab & Quote Builder.
Link directly to your public Design Lab from your main website. Customers browse your curated catalog of wholesale blanks, add multiple garments and colors, select size quantities, place multi-location artwork mockups, and receive instant pricing calculated by your custom matrices. Choose between requiring upfront payment or submitting for shop review before routing straight to production.
24/7
Self-Service Customer Ordering
Matrix-Linked
Real-Time Decorator Math
$49/mo
Flat Rate • Unlimited Orders
Apex Custom Apparel
Public Design Studio • SanMar Direct
Add 22 more shirts to automatically unlock the 100+ piece wholesale price break!
Add 22 more pieces to unlock the 100+ pc tier!
💡 Combine multiple colors to reach volume tier savings.
From Website Link to 5-Star Review:
The Point A → Point Z Design Lab Journey
See how The Print Life transforms your website into a 24/7 automated custom apparel sales engine with matrix-driven pricing and instant production dispatch.
Add a "Design Online" or "Instant Quote" button to your main website navigation that links directly to your branded Design Lab (/design-lab/[tenantId]). Visitors enjoy a seamless, mobile-friendly design canvas featuring your logo, brand colors, and custom pricing.
Key Online Studio Capabilities:
- Zero Coding Required: Direct link or iframe embed maps directly to your active shop tenant.
- Branded Experience: Displays your shop name, logo, contact info, and terms of service.
- Mobile-Optimized UI: Fast, responsive canvas for smartphones, tablets, and desktop workstations.
Visitors click from your homepage straight into your catalog and live quote canvas.
Public Online Design Studio Built for Print Shops
Give customers a modern, embeddable design studio right on your website. Clients can browse live apparel catalogs (SanMar, S&S, AlphaBroder), customize colorways, upload artwork, and submit orders directly into your Kanban queue without back-and-forth emails.
- Live supplier catalog search with real-time stock & colorway swatches
- Toggleable lead-capture wall to qualify buyers before designing
- Instant pricing matrix calculations factored from your shop formulas
- Direct order submission into drafting status on your production board
Distributor Live Catalog
SanMar • S&S Activewear • AlphaBroder
Unisex Jersey Short Sleeve Tee
Men's CVC Crewneck T-Shirt
Heavy Cotton 100% Cotton Tee
Interactive Multi-Location Mockup Canvas
Stop emailing static PDFs or confusing proof sheets. The Print Life allows you and your customers to position artwork across multiple garment locations—Front, Back, Left Chest, Sleeves, and Neck Tags—with live garment colorway previews and exact print dimensions.
- Interactive visual canvas with snap-to-center and sizing bounding boxes
- Multi-placement proofing on a single line item without extra fees
- Live garment colorway switching across 50+ manufacturer swatches
- Automated export of high-resolution proof files for press operators
Mockup Canvas Arranger
Bella + Canvas 3001 • Heather Navy
Multi-Project Consolidation in a Single Master Invoice
Real customer orders are rarely just one shirt style. In The Print Life, an invoice can contain multiple distinct projects—like screen printed tees, embroidered trucker hats, and DTF hoodies—each with its own artwork, mockups, and supplier POs consolidated into one clean customer invoice.
- Combine screen print, embroidery, DTF, and promo products seamlessly
- Independent mockup proofs and blank inventory assignments per project
- Consolidated payment checkout and deposit tracking on one invoice
- No messy line-item workarounds or split customer billing confusion
Master Project Invoice
3 Independent Production Jobs • #INV-2048
150x Bella+Canvas 3001 (2-Color Front + 1-Color Back)
50x Richardson 112 Trucker Hats (8,500 Stitches)
40x Independent Trading SS4500 Hoodies (Full Front DTF)
Customer Approval Portal with Surcharge Recovery
Send professional proof approval links with digital signatures, timestamped sign-offs, revision request notes, and 1-click Stripe/Square checkout. Our automated cash-first surcharge recovery engine offsets the 3% credit card fee automatically.
- Digital timestamped customer signature approvals
- One-click revision request loop notifying your graphic art team
- Integrated Stripe & Square payment checkout with 3% fee offset
- Automatic status shift from Quote to In Production upon sign-off
Customer Approval Portal
Public Client Link • Quote #TLP-8492
Sarah Jenkins • Oak Ridge High School
Timestamp: 2026-08-25 16:42:10 UTCDesign Studios & Portals Compared.
See how The Print Life gives you enterprise customer acquisition and multi-project quoting tools at a fraction of the competitor cost.
| Feature | Print Life ($49/mo) | Printavo | Teesom | YoPrint | InkSoft |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Public Online Design Lab Customer-facing design studio on your custom domain where clients build and submit orders. | |||||
Multi-Project Consolidation in 1 Invoice Combine screen printing, embroidery, and DTF as independent projects under one master invoice. | |||||
Multi-Location Mockup Proofing Interactive canvas proofs across Front, Back, Sleeves, and Neck Tags with live colorways. | |||||
Live Supplier Catalog & Stock Sync Direct PromoStandards API connection with SanMar, S&S Activewear, and AlphaBroder. | |||||
Cash-First Surcharge Recovery (3%) Automatically offsets 3% merchant processing fees during online quote approval checkout. | |||||
Flat $49/mo (Unlimited Users) Everything included on our $49/mo flat rate without per-user seat fees or tier upgrades. |
Custom Apparel Design Lab &
Quote Builder FAQs.
Everything you need to know about customer self-service quote building, supplier catalog blank selection, and digital proof approvals.
Ready to capture
more online orders 24/7?
Empower your website visitors to create designs, preview real-time matrix pricing, and approve quotes on their own schedule. Unlimited orders and users for a flat $49/mo.