Honest comparison

Printer's Friend vs OnPrintShop

Web-to-print platform for commercial printers. Here's how we stack up.

Pick OnPrintShop if you are a commercial printer with varied substrates and someone to own the configuration. Pick Printer's Friend if you decorate apparel and want opinionated defaults and a published price.

OnPrintShop is a broad web-to-print platform aimed at commercial print, with its top tier pitched at multi-location businesses needing compliance and integrations. It is configurable where Printer's Friend is opinionated, and it is quote-only where we publish a price.

Printer's Friend
OnPrintShop
Pricing
Published on our pricing page, from $49/mo
Quote-only across all four plans
Free trial
14 day free trial, self-serve
No trial stated; demo request on every plan
Built for
Apparel decoration only, with a pricing model per decoration method
Broad web-to-print; top tier aimed at large multi-location print businesses
Customisation
Opinionated defaults that work on day one
Highly configurable, which means it is configured

OnPrintShop figures taken from their own published pricing on , source. Prices change; check theirs before you decide.

What Printer's Friend includes

One monthly price and no add-on fees. Where something needs a higher plan, the card says which.

Quoting and pricing per decoration method

Screen, DTG, DTF, embroidery, sublimation and transfers each price on their own model, with garment cost, setup, quantity breaks and margin visible on the quote line.

On every plan

Production board, floor board and operator screens

A kanban for the office that updates every fifteen seconds, a full-screen wallboard for the shop, and per-station screens filtered to the stages that station cares about. Barcode scan advances a job.

On every plan

Labour time tracking on every job

Staff clock on and off at a floor station against an order number. Hours cost at each person's labour rate, so reports show margin after labour, not just gross margin.

On every plan

Sales commission tracking

Assign a rep to an order and their rate is frozen onto it. Commission is earned on dispatch, on the ex-tax value, and totals per rep sit in Reports.

On every plan

Customer portal, artwork approvals and reorders

Customers sign in under your branding to approve artwork, track the production stage, pay invoices and reorder past jobs. Unlimited portal users, no per-seat charge.

On every plan

Team stores, campaign pages and social sharing

Team stores at your workspace address, group-buy campaign pages and an in-store kiosk, all included. Every storefront page carries its own social card and share buttons so a link unfurls with the product picture.

On every plan

Inventory, purchase orders and supplier receiving

SKU-level stock with a movement ledger, reorder points, suggested purchase orders, PO emailing to the supplier, receiving and cycle counts. Any supplier's range imports from CSV.

On every plan

Open API and signed webhooks

A REST API for customers, orders and inventory, and signed outbound webhooks on order stage changes, so any tool you already run stays in step.

On Premium and above

When OnPrintShop is the better choice

OnPrintShop is the better fit for a print business running wide-format, litho or multi-location operations alongside apparel, especially where compliance and custom integrations matter.

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14 day trial. Card collected at signup, not charged until the trial ends. Cancel anytime.

Already on OnPrintShop?

Straightforward: CSV in, and we set up your decoration methods and templates for you. We do it for free in your first onboarding session.

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Printer's Friend vs OnPrintShop: questions

Is Printer's Friend suitable for a large shop?
Up to around 50 staff, comfortably. Beyond that, or if you also run litho and wide-format, a broader web-to-print platform is the more honest recommendation.
How long does setup take?
Most shops are quoting the same day and running production within a week.

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