For Shopify stores selling commercial print and paper goods
500 Flyers Cost $3 More Than 300. Your Options App Can’t Price That.
500 flyers cost $178.20. 300 cost $175.01.
Two thirds more product for $3.19, because both runs fill the same press sheets.
Multiply a unit price by quantity and you’re wrong at every tier, which is why your page shows a starting-from price and a contact form. Appify prices the job from the tables you already quote from. Per-piece cost comes out the other end, where it belongs.
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Why the search took this long
Why a Print Job Has No Unit Price
Print breaks a normal options app in four specific places, and the first one stops you before you’ve listed a single product.
Seven pricing axes, three option slots
Quantity, size, stock, sides, coating, finishing and turnaround. Seven things that change the price, and every one has to be live before you can quote a job. Shopify gives you three option slots. The variant ceiling moved to 2,048 in October 2025 and the option limit didn’t move at all, so the product still cannot be listed the normal way.
A job price, not a unit price
Setup is most of a short run and almost nothing on a long one. That’s why 300 flyers cost $175.01 and 500 cost $178.20, printed one side. Two thirds more product for $3.19, because both runs fill the same press sheets. Multiply a per-unit price by quantity and you’re wrong at every tier.
The ladder itself changes with the stock
Thicker card changes how many fit in a box, so 14pt sells at 250, 500 and 1,000 while 18pt sells at 190, 380 and 1,140. The quantity options depend on the stock option. A flat grid has no way to let one option change another option’s choices.
Turnaround is a multiplier on the whole job
Two to three day turnaround costs 55% more than the standard tier. That’s a multiplier on the whole job, and it grows as the job does. Sell it as a $15 add-on and you lose money every time somebody picks it.
What the reports don’t show
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. They pasted the same spec into a national printer’s configurator and had a number before they closed the tab.
→ All seven axes 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.
→ The full ladder, 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 priced as a multiplier on 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 attachedYou can’t fix what nothing reports.
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 a repeat business. Menus, business cards, seasonal flyers, the same job with one line changed. Every one of those should be the easiest sale of the week, and right now it’s a search through fourteen months of email attachments.
It All Comes Back With It
Would you rather just go and use it?
Our Shopify demo store runs a live size by quantity table. Move the run length and watch the price per piece fall. It is set up on stickers rather than flyers, and it is the same kind of table your flyer prices sit in. Nothing to install and 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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Real People Who Have Built These Setups
Ask a question during the trial and you’ll get an answer while you’re still sitting in front of the problem.
Four questions that rule out an app in two minutes
Ask these before you install the next one, Appify included. They’re the four things a listing almost never tells you.
- Can it price the job, or only a piece? Setup is most of a short run and almost none of a long one. Multiply a unit price by quantity and you are wrong at every tier.
- Can the quantity ladder change with the stock? 18pt sells at 190, 380 and 1,140 because cards per box changes. The options have to depend on each other.
- Can rush lift the whole job by a percentage? Two to three day is 55% more, not a flat fee, and it grows with the job.
- Does the order arrive with an approved proof? Or does approval live in an email thread, where liability never actually transfers?
Four yeses is rare. Run them on the calculator at the top of this page before you run them on us.
You Might Be Wondering
“This sounds technical. I don't write formulas.”
Most merchants here don’t. A quantity ladder is a table you paste in, not a formula you write. For the rest, describe how you quote a job in plain language and the AI-assisted setup builds it. Support will do the awkward part with you during the trial.
“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 quantity ladder.”
Expected, and it’s why the ladder 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.”
Most do, and for options they work. The question is whether yours can price a job rather than a piece, change the tiers when the stock changes, and apply rush as a percentage. If any of that is happening 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 Shopify demo store runs the same two-axis quantity table, set up on stickers rather than flyers. Move the run length and watch the price per piece as a customer would, 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 ladders and coatings follow the stock chosen
- Product Designer with upload, bleed, safe zones and a built-in photo editor
- Proof approval recorded against the order before it goes to press
- 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.
Seven Options Priced Live, Proof Approved on the Order
Not the standard business card. The booklet with the page count.
The one where the stock changes the tiers.
The one still sitting in your inbox as an attachment.
If it can’t handle that one, you’ll know inside a week and you won’t have paid anything.
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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 a seven-axis product.
Can the quantity ladder change with the stock?
Yes. Thicker stock changes how many pieces fit in a box, so each stock can carry its own quantity tiers through a conditional rule.
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 ladder 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 subscription scales with how much you use the calculators, and monthly AI credits are included, with an overage charge only if you go past them. Shopify Partner development stores are free.