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Ways to Sell ​

Printer's Friend sells in five places besides the quotes you write yourself: a public shop, a branded store per customer, a group buy campaign page, the customer portal and a walk-in kiosk. All of them price through your own price lists and pricing rules, and all of them land as a draft quote or an order in your workspace, so nothing prints until a member of staff has looked at it.

Where It Lives ​

PageWhat it's for
yourshop.printersfriend.com/shopYour active catalogue, open to anyone, with a product page per style. Ordering goes through a quote or the portal. See Public shop
Records, then Affiliate store editorA branded store for one club, school or company at /store/{slug}, with guest checkout. See Affiliate team stores
Records, then Campaign storesA group buy page at /campaign/{slug} with a target, a close date and a progress bar. See Campaign stores
Insight, then Brand & portal, section Walk-in kioskThe iPad kiosk at /workspace/kiosk for counter customers. See The walk-in kiosk
Insight, then Coupon codesCodes a customer types in the portal cart. See Coupon codes
Insight, then PromotionsAutomatic offers applied to portal cart orders. See Promotions
Insight, then Email broadcastsA marketing email or SMS to customers who have agreed to hear from you. See Email broadcasts

The portal itself, where signed-in customers reorder at their price list rate, approve artwork and pay invoices, is covered under The customer portal.

A published affiliate team store with its branded hero, the product grid at the customer's rate and add to cart controlsA team store, one of the five surfaces.

Which One to Use ​

CustomerSurfaceWhy
A club or company that orders kit every seasonAffiliate team storePermanent, branded to them, priced at their price list, and they send their own members to the link
A one-off group buy with a deadlineCampaign storeOne garment at one price, with a target and a close date on the page
Someone standing at your counterWalk-in kioskThey place the order themselves while you keep the press running
A trade customer with a loginThe portalTheir price list rate, saved designs, reorders, approvals and invoices in one place
Anyone browsingPublic shopA catalogue with a product page per style that sends them to a quote or a sign in

What Every Surface Shares ​

  • Prices come from the pricing engine: the garment's list price, the customer's price list, your pricing rules and the tax label, rate and currency set under Brand and portal settings. The one exception is a campaign, which sells at the unit price you set on the campaign.
  • A store, campaign or portal checkout leaves a draft quote under Operate, then Quotes. A kiosk order lands under Operate, then Orders in the Artwork stage.
  • The buyer receives a confirmation email addressed to them at the address they typed, and the staff who handle quotes and orders are told in the panel and by email.
  • Guest checkout needs no account. When your Stripe account is connected, the confirmation page offers Pay now by card through a signed link that works for 24 hours; paying converts the draft quote to an order and an invoice and opens Stripe's hosted payment page.
  • Orders count against the open order limit of your plan, and the limit is enforced with a message naming the plan that lifts it. A draft quote does not count until it is accepted.

Before You Launch Any of Them ​

  1. Connect payments if you want card payment at checkout. Without Stripe, the confirmation page promises an invoice by email and offers no card button.
  2. Import your catalogue and add product photos through the asset library. The store editor and the kiosk refuse to run on an empty catalogue and point you to the import.
  3. Check the tax label, rate and currency under Brand and portal settings. Every checkout prints them.
  4. Open each page on a phone before you share the link.

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