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Acumatica Printshop, Promotional Products Industry Plugin for Screen Printers, Embroidery and Promotional Business

By Harsha Sarjapur
IBIS Analyst group report on Promotional Products Industry estimates 26,000 business with revenue of $23 billion and with a growth rate of 3-5% yearly.

Promotional Products include Screen Printing, Embroidery, Digital Printing and other services that allow business to market and advertise.
Industry analysts predict over the next five years, continued growth in corporate profit and total advertising expenditure will boost industry demand, compelling companies to spend more on promotional products.
What is the Promotional Products Industry?
Companies in this industry design and distribute promotional products (e.g. key chains, magnets, and pens). They also provide a variety of advertising-related services, including sign lettering and window dressing.

This industry does not include advertising agency services, public relations agency services, media-buying agency services, media representative services, display-advertising services, direct-mail-advertising services or marketing consulting services.
(Source: IBIS website)

InfoSourcing Inc, Acumatica certified Implementation and technology partner recently unveiled their new plugin for Promotional Products industry, with this plugin business now can adapt Acumatica Cloud ERP for their distribution, fulfillment, drop shipments and meet the needs of the PPI industry.

Acumatica Cloud ERP is fully integrated cloud solution with strong Financial accounting, robust distribution features along with built-in CRM allows business to automate their business process, workflows and add industry specific plugins from several ISV vendors and Partners, a multi-cloud eco-system.

Screen PrintersAcumatica PrintShop software solutions include full-screen printing solution for screen printers integrated with powerful Cloud ERP features.
With powerful inventory features, pricing based on item matrix, setup screens to capture print data (such as ink colors, mesh counts, print images) approvals and notifications to keep you informed.

Embroidery 
PrintShop works seamlessly for Embroidery companies, integrated with powerful Cloud ERP features lets you capture data for setup screens (such as locations, thread color, images). Custom production reports allow job manager on the shop floor to run jobs based on thread colors sample or entire production orders.

Promotional Products
PrintShop solutions allow you to run promotional orders with powerful Cloud ERP features.
With Acumatica you can now process all orders from third party sources/dealers and complete with drop ship, blanket purchase orders. Acumatica CRM allows you to quickly create quotes, process orders and ship them before their event dates.

We have few competitors in the market working with PPI business, and either they are legacy business solutions running as client-server desktop based or web based solution and not necessarily cloud solutions.
ShopWorks is one of the competitors we found which address the basic operations of PPI business and we have done a comparison of what they offer along with Acumatica +PrintShop has to offer in order to scale your business in the Cloud.

Compare Acumatica PrintShop and ShopWorks Features





Switch to the more modern way of doing business, be more productive and ahead of your competitors in Promotional Product Industry (PPI), let's evaluate your promotional business.

Learn more about Acumatica PrintShop for Promotional Product Industry from InfoSourcing Inc, an extension for Acumatica Cloud ERP.
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