What is re-typing orders costing your shop?
Every Shopify order someone re-enters into Printavo by hand costs time you can measure. Enter a few numbers and see the monthly damage.
Your manual-entry cost
You’re spending about 0 hrs/month and $0/month re-typing orders, that’s $0/year.
PrintFlo does this automatically: Shopify orders flow into Printavo as production-ready invoices, mockups, sizes, and print locations included. Most of that time and cost goes to zero.
See how the integration works →Free to install · 14-day trial · Built by a former Printavo engineer
Why manual order entry is so expensive for print shops
Re-keying an order into Printavo isn’t just typing a name and address. For a print shop it means matching each size to the right column, adding print locations and imprint details, attaching the mockup, setting the category and item number, and double-checking quantities, for every single order. Four minutes is a conservative estimate once you include the context-switching between Shopify and Printavo.
The cost compounds with volume. A shop taking 40 orders a week at four minutes each burns roughly 11.5 hours a month, more than a full workday, on data entry alone. That’s time your team isn’t spending on production, art approvals, or customer service, and it’s the first thing to break when an online store or drop spikes your order count.
It’s also where mistakes creep in: a mistyped size run or a missed print location doesn’t show up until production, when it’s expensive to fix. Automating the Shopify-to-Printavo hand-off removes both the hours and the rework. See exactly what syncs from Shopify to Printavo, or read the step-by-step setup guide. Choosing where to sell in the first place? Compare what the online store platforms cost →