For Shopify stores selling yard signs, banners and rigid signage
One Sign Costs $63. 25 Cost $8 Each.
Both prices are right. The first sign carries the whole setup, and by the twenty-fifth there’s almost none left to carry.
That’s not a percentage discount. It’s a table.
Appify prices signs the way your rate card already does. Size down one axis, run length across the other, substrate and sides on top. The number appears while the customer is still choosing, which is where most of these sales are won.
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Why the search took this long
Why One Sign and 500 Signs Aren’t One Product
Sign pricing breaks a normal options app in four specific places, and every one of them costs money rather than just looking wrong.
Quantity breaks that aren’t percentages
A yard sign run drops from $63 to $8 by 25 units and keeps falling to $2.18 at 5,000. Banners flatten out between 22% and 31% off at 10. Those are two completely different curves, and neither is “10% off at 25”. They’re tables, one per size.
Per square foot is wrong at both ends
At a run of 100, an 18 by 12 sign works out at $2.21 a square foot. A 48 by 96 works out at $1.09. Same material, same shop, half the rate. A flat area formula undercharges every small sign you sell and overcharges the big ones.
The double-sided uplift moves
About 17% at a run of 48. Over 40% at 1,000. Setup amortises away and the second print pass is what’s left. Most apps model this as a flat add-on, which is wrong at both ends of the ladder and wrong in opposite directions.
Options that physically exclude each other
Grommets and pole pockets can’t share an edge. Double-sided needs 18oz. A stake pushes into the flutes of corrugated plastic, so it isn’t an option on aluminium at all. A dropdown will happily sell all three.
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 realtor who needed twenty signs by Friday
They found your page, saw “request a quote”, and ordered from a national printer in four minutes. Your quote went out on Monday.
→ A price on the page, at the run length they actually wantThe custom size you didn’t offer
They needed 30 by 40. Your dropdown had 24 by 36 and 48 by 24. They left rather than ask, and you never saw the request.
→ Any size they type, priced from your own tableThe small run you sold at a loss
Your rate is per square foot, so a batch of 18 by 12 signs priced like a billboard. You made them anyway, and the margin quietly went missing.
→ A table where the small sizes carry their real rateThe rush job nobody charged for
“Need by Friday” arrived in the notes field. Production expedited it. The two-day tier is worth 50% and none of it reached the invoice.
→ Turnaround as a priced option, not a noteThe file that printed like mush
They paid for a four foot banner and uploaded a logo saved off a web page. Nobody looked until it was on the press.
→ Artwork uploaded, previewed and approved before it printsThe reorder that became a support ticket
“Same signs as last spring.” Nobody can find the artwork, the size, or which stake they had.
→ Past orders come back whole, artwork attachedYou can’t fix what nothing reports.
What Lands on the Order
Not a size in a notes field and an email attachment. Everything production needs to run it.
Reorder and cart recovery
Buying It Again Shouldn’t Mean Building It Again
Signage is seasonal and it repeats. Campaigns, open houses, events, store openings. The same customer wants the same sign with one line changed, and right now that’s a support ticket rather than an order.
It All Comes Back With It
Would you rather just go and use it?
Our Shopify demo store runs a real yard sign configurator. Change the run length and watch the per-unit price collapse. Nothing to install and no signup.
Built for sign shops
Everything a Sign Shop Has to Price
Each one of these exists because signage pricing breaks in a specific way.
Price the Way Your Rate Card Does
Stop the Order That Can’t Be Made
Runs Inside Your Sign Catalogue
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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 from a size by quantity table? Not one discount percentage. Signage breaks 87% between one unit and twenty-five, and banners barely reach 30%.
- Can the double-sided charge change with the run? It is about 17% at 48 units and over 40% at 1,000, because setup amortises away and the second pass is what is left.
- Can a customer type any size? Or only pick from the sizes you built in advance, and email you about the one they actually need?
- Can it refuse a stake on aluminium? Stakes push into the flutes of corrugated plastic. Aluminium has none, so it should never be offered.
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 your rate card in plain language and the AI-assisted setup builds it. Support will do the awkward part with you during the trial.
“My banner and yard sign pricing work completely differently.”
They do, and that’s expected. Banners are area-priced, yard signs are per-unit against a ladder. Both are setups in the same app, not a compromise between the two.
“Customers upload terrible artwork.”
The designer can ask for the file on the page, show it at size with bleed and safe zones, and hold a proof the customer approves before anything prints.
“I already have an options app.”
Most do, and for options they work. The question is whether yours can read a size by quantity table, change the double-sided uplift with the run length, and refuse a stake on aluminium. 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 a real sign configurator, so you can move the run length and watch the price 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.
- Two-dimensional size by quantity pricing tables, pasted in from your rate card
- Area pricing for banners, with rates that can change as the size grows
- Substrate multipliers, finishing charges and named setup or artwork fees
- Rush tiers applied as a percentage of the whole job
- Conditional rules, so stakes only appear on the substrates that take them
- Product Designer with artwork upload, bleed, safe zones and proof approval
- 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.
A Number on the Page, Not a Quote on Monday
Not the standard yard sign. The odd size on aluminium.
The one with the pole pockets and the rush.
The one you quoted on Monday and lost on Tuesday.
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 from a size by quantity table?
Yes. Two-dimensional pricing tables let a 12 by 18 at 50 units and a 48 by 24 at 1,000 each read their own cell, rather than sharing one percentage discount.
Can customers order a custom size?
Yes. Width and height can be typed in and priced from your rate, so you aren’t limited to the sizes you built as variants.
Can quantity breaks be steep at the low end?
Yes. Signage ladders drop very fast over the first few tiers, and a table reproduces that exactly rather than smoothing it into a flat percentage.
Can the double-sided charge change with quantity?
Yes. It can be a multiplier that varies by tier, which matches how the cost actually behaves as setup amortises across a longer run.
Can I stop options that don't physically work together?
Yes. Grommets and pole pockets can be made mutually exclusive, and a stake can be limited to corrugated substrates so it never appears on aluminium.
Can I charge rush as a percentage?
Yes. Turnaround can lift the whole job by a percentage rather than adding a flat fee, and each tier can carry its own rate.
Can customers upload and approve their artwork?
Yes. The Product Designer accepts uploads, shows bleed and safe zones at true size, and can hold a proof the customer approves before production.
What files does production receive?
Orders can carry the measurements, all selections, an approved proof PNG, a print-ready file with bleed and a cut-line SVG.
Does this create extra variants in my store?
No. Options and pricing live outside the variant system, so no size or quantity combination 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.