Startup Screen Printing Launches Three New Industry-Specific Apps
Jesse Poteet, founder of Startup Screen Printing and owner of Alpine Apparel Co., announces the launch of three apps for print shops.
Pricely is a pricing calculator and AI quoting platform built specifically for custom apparel decorators. It gives shops a single place to build, manage, and run every pricing model they use — replacing the spreadsheets, legacy calculators, and one-off formulas most multi-method shops rely on today.
According to a press release, Pricely was built to solve a problem that affects nearly every apparel decorator running more than one decoration service. As shops add embroidery, DTF, and laser engraving alongside screen printing, pricing inevitably ends up scattered: one spreadsheet for screen printing, another for DTF, a separate calculator for embroidery, and special customer rates buried inside email threads, Poteet shared in the press release.
“Pricing felt more complicated than it needed to be when I first started” Poteet said. “Spreadsheets worked for a while, but the second your shop starts offering more than one service, pricing lives everywhere. Pricely is what I wanted when I was trying to quote a screen print job and a DTF order on the same day without losing my mind.”
Also recently launched is Packed, a fulfillment workspace built specifically for screen printing and apparel decoration shops. Packed gives shop owners one place to manage every order from creation to doorstep — replacing the carrier portals, spreadsheets, packing slip templates, and customer status emails that most apparel decorators juggle today, the press release shared.
“Shipping is the part of the shop where hours disappear and nobody notices,” Poteet said in a press statement. “Ten minutes of actual work wrapped in 90 minutes of switching between tabs. Packed was built so a two-person shop and a 50-person shop can both fulfill orders from one screen instead of five.”
The final app just launched is GroupKit. GroupKit is a group-order management platform built specifically for screen print shops that replaces the email chains, Google Forms, group-chat screenshots, and manual size lists that most shops use to coordinate group orders for schools, teams, companies, and other organizations.
According to a press release, GroupKit was developed in direct response to a real shop problem. Last year, Poteet’s shop printed a 1,600-shirt school order — its largest job to date and a $20,000 invoice — only for the school to discover after delivery that nearly 200 sizes were missing. The shop’s counts matched the school’s spreadsheet exactly, but the spreadsheet itself had been off: sizes had been collected manually from 40 teachers across two campuses by email, Slack, and sticky note. A printed reorder followed, and even that recount was missing shirts.
“Group orders are some of the best work a print shop can take,” Poteet said in the press release. “They’re also the jobs most likely to eat a weekend. The roster grows from 30 to 67, half the sizes come in late, a parent gets the color wrong — and suddenly the shop is doing customer service instead of printing. GroupKit is what finally fixed that.”
To learn more about all three apps, visit printprostrategies.com.
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