For Shopify stores selling commercial print and paper goods
Price Print From the Table You Already Quote From.
Print is quoted by the run, not by the piece.
Multiply a unit price by quantity and you will never land on a real number from a real price list.
Appify prices the job from the price list you already quote from. Paste the table in, and the per-piece figure comes out the other end for the customer.
14-day free trial. Free on Shopify Partner dev stores.
Why the search took this long
Six Things Print Needs That Most Options Apps Don’t Do
If you’ve tried one and gone back to quoting by email, it stalled on one of these.
The price comes out of a table
Print is quoted from a published price list: quantity down one side, size or stock across the top. Most apps only add a set amount per choice. Appify has pricing tables built in.
Quantity breaks that aren’t percentages
500 flyers work out at 36 cents each. At 5,000 it’s 9 cents. Print discounts step at the run sizes you publish, and Appify takes each step from your table.
Options don’t all price the same way
A rush charge is a percentage of the run. A setup charge is a flat fee. Most apps only do flat, so you absorb the difference on the ones that aren’t. Appify does both.
More price drivers than option slots
A flyer prices on size, stock, sides and quantity. A booklet adds page count and binding. Every job has its own list, and Shopify allows three options.
The proof is approved before it prints
Print runs once. Switch on design review and the customer has to confirm they approve before they can order, and the proof they saw lands on the order.
Reordering shouldn’t mean rebuilding it
Print is repeat business, the same job again next quarter. Shopify’s own Buy again drops the configuration and adds a bare variant. Appify Reorder brings the whole spec back.
What your sales reports don’t show you
The Orders You Never Knew You Lost
None of these turn up in a report. The customer never complains, they just don’t come back.
The buyer who already had the spec written down
They knew the size, the stock, the coating and the run. Your page offered a starting-from price and a quote form. A national printer gave them a number before they closed the tab.
→ Every option the job actually has, priced live on the pageThe quantity you didn’t show
They wanted 300. You listed 250 and 500. They picked 250 and you left money on the table, or they left entirely.
→ Every quantity you sell, at the tiers your press actually steps onThe rush that was never charged
“Need it Thursday” arrived in the notes field. Production expedited the job. The two to three day tier is worth over fifty percent and none of it was invoiced.
→ Turnaround charged as a percentage of the jobThe file that had no bleed
Two thousand flyers printed with a white sliver down one edge. You reprinted at your own cost to keep the account.
→ Bleed, trim and safe zone shown while they uploadThe proof they approved in an email thread
Three attachments deep, they said “looks good”. After delivery they said they’d approved a different version, and you had no timestamped record.
→ A proof approved on the order, before it goes to pressThe reorder nobody could find
“The same menus as last March.” The artwork is somewhere in fourteen months of email, and the stock and coating are anybody’s guess.
→ Past orders come back whole, artwork and spec attachedNone of these show up in analytics, so none of them ever make it onto a list to fix. They just keep happening. Install Appify, build your hardest product first, and you’ll know inside a week which of them were costing you.
What Lands on the Order
Not a spec in a notes field and a file in your inbox. Everything prepress needs to run it.
Reorder and cart recovery
Buying It Again Shouldn’t Mean Building It Again
Print is repeat business. Menus, business cards, seasonal flyers, the same job with one line changed. Every one should be the easiest sale of the week.
It All Comes Back With It
Would you rather just go and use it?
Our demo store has a live one on a real storefront. Pick a size, pick a run, watch the summary price itself out. It’s set up on stickers rather than flyers. No install, no signup.
Built for print shops
Everything a Print Shop Has to Price
Each one of these exists because print pricing breaks in a specific way.
Price the Job, Not the Piece
Options That Depend on Each Other
Artwork and Proof, on the Page
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Built and Supported from Canada
Support comes from the people who build the app. Ask a hard pricing question and you won’t be explaining your trade to a stranger first.
Sell print other apps can’t price, tier, or proof.
Eight questions that rule out an app in two minutes
Every app lists the same features. Swatches, text fields, uploads, conditional logic.
That list tells you nothing. What separates them is the pricing underneath.
Ask these before you install the next one, Appify included.
- Can it calculate a price, or only add prices up? Totalling add-ons is easy. Reading a job table, multiplying for sides and coating, then applying turnaround as a percentage of the whole job is math.
- Can it price a job rather than a piece? 300 flyers cost $175.01 and 500 cost $178.20 on a real published list. Multiply a unit price by quantity and you cannot reach either number.
- Can the price come out of a table you paste in? The price list you already publish, quantity down one axis and stock across the other. It is a lookup, not a formula that smooths between the runs.
- Can one option change another option’s choices? 14pt business cards sell at 250, 500 and 1,000. 18pt sells at 190, 380 and 1,140. The quantities on offer change with the stock.
- Can rush be a percentage rather than a flat fee? Two to three day turnaround costs 55% more. On a $178 job that is $98, not a $15 add-on. Most apps can only offer the flat fee.
- Does the order arrive with an approved proof? Or does somebody email a PDF, wait, email another, and only then send it to press?
- Can the customer design the product, and can you limit what they change? Three things get sold under one name. An overlay on your product photo is a personalizer. Crop and filter on an upload is an image editor. A designer is a real artboard, sized by their own measurements, with cut lines and a print-ready file at the end.
- Can a customer reorder, and does an abandoned cart come back whole? Print is repeat business, the same job with one line changed. Shopify’s own Buy again drops every option, so a wrong order lands in the cart looking right.
Eight yeses is rare. Take the list to whichever app you look at next and get an answer to each one before you commit to it. Or get started with Appify and stop searching.
You Might Be Wondering
“This sounds technical. I don't write formulas.”
Most merchants here don’t. A quantity price list is a table you paste in, not a formula you write. Describe the rest in plain language and the AI builds it. Support will do the awkward part with you.
“My pricing comes from a trade printer's table.”
Then paste it in. Job tables are data, not variants, so a full trade price list never touches the option or variant limits.
“Every product has a different set of quantities.”
Expected, and it’s why the tiers can depend on the stock. Business cards, flyers and booklets can each carry their own tiers inside one store.
“I already have an options app.”
For options, most work fine. Can yours price a job rather than a piece, change the tiers when the stock changes, and apply rush as a percentage? If that happens in a spreadsheet, that’s the part this replaces.
“Will this slow my product pages down?”
No. Options load with the page and add to cart natively, without a separate cart flow or a third-party checkout.
“How do I know it fits my products before installing?”
Go and use it. Our demo store runs a live configurator, set up on stickers rather than flyers. Change the options and watch the price summary before you install anything.
What You Get
Every feature is on every plan. Nothing is held back for a higher tier.
- Job pricing tables by quantity and size, pasted in from your trade price list
- Stock, sides, coating and finishing as multipliers on the job, not flat fees
- Turnaround tiers applied as a percentage of the whole order
- Conditional rules, so quantity tiers and coatings follow the stock chosen
- Product Designer with upload, bleed, safe zones and a built-in photo editor
- Design review sign-off, with the proof image attached to the order
- Reorder past orders and restore abandoned carts with the artwork intact
- Calculators on any page, not only product pages
- Native add to cart, no variant clutter, Shopify Markets and 10 languages
From $39 / month
The subscription scales with how much you use the calculators. Monthly AI credits are included, with an overage charge only if you go past them.
Or try it live first if you’d rather see it working before you install.
Your Price List In, a Live Price Out
Not the standard business card. The booklet with the page count.
The one where the stock changes the quantities.
The one you quoted by email and never heard back about.
If it can’t handle that one, you’ll know inside a week and you won’t have paid anything.
14-day free trial. Free on Shopify Partner dev stores.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can it price a job rather than a per-unit price?
Yes, and that’s the right way round for print. The job price comes from a table, and per-piece cost is derived from it rather than used to build it.
Can I use my trade printer's price list?
Yes. Job tables are pasted in as data, so a full price list with hundreds of cells never touches Shopify’s option or variant limits.
Shopify raised the variant limit. Doesn't that fix this?
No. The variant cap moved to 2,048 in October 2025, but the limit of three options per product did not change, and it’s the option limit that blocks any job priced on more than three.
Can the list of quantities change with the stock?
Yes. Each stock can carry its own quantity tiers through a conditional rule, so the run sizes on offer change with the stock the customer picked.
Can I charge rush as a percentage of the job?
Yes. Turnaround can lift the whole order by a percentage rather than adding a flat fee, and each tier can carry its own rate.
Can customers upload artwork and approve a proof?
Yes. The Product Designer accepts uploads, shows bleed and safe zones at true size, and an approved proof can be recorded against the order before production.
What files does prepress receive?
Orders can carry the full spec, an approved proof PNG, a print-ready file with bleed and a cut-line SVG where it applies.
Can I stop combinations that can't be produced?
Yes. Soft touch laminate can be limited to cover stocks, page counts can be forced to multiples of four, and a blocked combination refuses to price with a line explaining why.
Does this create extra variants in my store?
No. Options and pricing live outside the variant system, so no combination of stock, size and run becomes another SKU.
Do I need to know how to write formulas?
No. A price list is pasted in as a table. For everything else, describe your pricing in plain language and the AI-assisted setup writes it.
Can I edit without customers seeing a broken page?
Yes. Work in draft and publish when you’re ready. Every publish saves a version and you can restore an older one at any time.
What does it cost?
From $39 per month with a 14-day free trial. The price scales with calculator usage, and monthly AI credits are included. Partner development stores are free.