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.
No Credit Card Required for Trial • 14-Day Free Trial • Built for Scale
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 Commercial Print Shops
Give customers a modern, embeddable design studio right on your website or custom subdomain. Clients browse live apparel catalogs (SanMar, S&S Activewear, AlphaBroder), customize colorways, upload artwork, and submit orders directly into your drafting queue without back-and-forth emails.
- Live supplier catalog search with real-time PromoStandards inventory counts & colorway swatches
- Toggleable Lead Capture Wall in Settings to collect prospect contact details before designing
- Instant pricing matrix calculations factored directly from your shop decoration formulas
- Direct order submission into drafting status on your production Kanban 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 Arranger with Centerlines
Stop emailing static PDFs or confusing proof sheets. The Print Life allows customers and staff to position artwork across multiple garment locations—Front, Back, Left Chest, Sleeves, and Neck Tags—with snap-to-center alignments, rotation controls, and exact print dimensions.
- Interactive visual canvas with Center Horizontal, Center Vertical, and snap-to-centerline guides
- Multi-placement proofing on a single line item without extra software fees or plugins
- Live garment colorway switching across 50+ manufacturer swatches with realistic shading
- Automated export of high-resolution proof files and dimension coordinates for press operators
Mockup Canvas Arranger
Bella + Canvas 3001 • Heather Navy
In-Stock Color Book Palette & Thread Locking
Protect your production floor from unmixable ink colors and missing thread spools. Under Settings → Customer Portal, assign manufacturer Color Books (Wilflex Epic Standard Plastisol, Rutland, Madeira Polyneon, Isacord 40) directly to your decoration matrices to restrict customer selections strictly to stocked shop palettes.
- Lock public color pickers to curated shop ink lines (Wilflex, Rutland, Union Ink) or thread charts (Madeira, Isacord)
- Eliminate color disputes, unmixable Pantone guesswork, and costly reprint write-offs
- Customers select from authorized in-stock swatches with exact manufacturer color codes and names
- Seamless hand-off to screen printers and embroidery machine operators with exact ink/thread callouts
In-Stock Color Book Palette
Wilflex Epic Standard Plastisol • 2-Color Front
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 proposal.
- Combine screen print, embroidery, DTF, and promo products seamlessly under one order
- Independent mockup proofs, decoration matrices, and blank inventory assignments per project
- Consolidated payment checkout and deposit tracking on one clean customer-facing invoice
- Zero messy line-item workarounds, duplicate invoices, 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 integrated Stripe checkout. Our automated cash-first surcharge recovery engine offsets the 3% credit card fee while promoting zero-fee ACH bank transfers.
- Digital timestamped customer signature approvals stored directly on the job traveler
- One-click revision request feedback loop notifying your graphic art team instantly
- Integrated Stripe payment checkout with automated 3% credit card fee offset vs $0 fee ACH
- Automatic status shift from Quote to In Production upon deposit and proof 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 Studio Embeddable customer design lab on your custom domain (/design-lab/[tenantId]) with live catalog browsing. | |||||
Multi-Project Consolidation in 1 Invoice Combine screen printing, embroidery, and DTF as independent projects under one unified master quote. | |||||
Native Color Book Ink & Thread Locking Restrict customer color choices strictly to in-stock ink series (Wilflex, Rutland) or thread charts (Madeira). | |||||
Multi-Location Mockup Arranger Canvas Visual canvas across Front, Back, Sleeves, and Tags with Center Horizontal/Vertical snap guides. | |||||
Live Supplier Catalog & Stock Sync Direct PromoStandards connection with SanMar, S&S Activewear, AlphaBroder, and Otto Cap. | |||||
Flexible Checkout (Upfront Deposit OR Review) Require 50%/100% upfront card deposit, or toggle "Submit for Review" for sales team inspection. | |||||
Cash-First Surcharge Recovery (3%) Automatically offsets 3% merchant processing fees during online checkout while encouraging $0 ACH. | |||||
Flat $49/mo (0% Sales Take Rate & Unlimited Staff) Everything included with zero transaction percentages, zero order limits, and unlimited staff seats. |
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.