One tier
Orders arrive directly from the end customer. Pricing, account balance and delivery are handled one to one, with nobody in between.
Solutions · Flagship
Commercial Printing Automation
Browser-based production automation that puts agencies, printers and trade printers on one order chain. From the moment an order is placed to the van that delivers it, every step lives on the same platform.
13 years
of continuous development
3 tiers
customer · agency · trade printer
100%
browser based
The model
Built for trade printing, not just printing.
A conventional print shop sells straight to the end customer. A trade printer sells through agencies and smaller printers, who in turn collect orders from their own clients. This software was written to model exactly that chain.
Three tiers
The customer orders from an agency, the agency orders from the trade printer. Each tier keeps its own price list, its own balances and its own client book, all running on the same data.
Order chain
One order, three tiers, no re-entry.
No phone calls, no forwarded emails, no retyping between steps. Once an order is approved it drops into the next tier on its own.
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01
The customer orders
A client of the agency places the order from their own screen, inside the application.
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02
The agency approves
The agency reviews the order, corrects it if needed and releases it for production.
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03
It reaches the printer
The approved job lands on the trade printer's screen as an order from that agency.
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04
Production and shipping
Artwork, press sheet and plate or digital press, then dispatch by delivery region.
Who does what, and who sees what
| Role | What they do | What they see |
|---|---|---|
| Customer | Places orders with the agency they are registered to. | Their own orders, order status and account balance. |
| Agency / Printer | Checks customer orders, approves them and passes them to the trade printer. | Orders and balances of their own customers. |
| Trade printer | Moves approved orders into production and runs plate, digital press, stock and shipping. | Every dealer and customer movement, stock, collections and reports. |
Capabilities
Orders, production and collections on one platform.
Thirteen years of requests from real production floors shaped this product. The modules share one database, so what you enter on one screen never has to be typed again on another.
Dealer and customer network
- Discount groups defined per dealer
- A dedicated web address so each dealer can sell to its own customers
- Dealers restricted to the product categories you allow
- Credit limits set per customer and per dealer
- Card payment collected the moment a limit is exceeded
Prepress and plate
- Designers prepare artwork in the system and send it for manager approval
- The imposition operator filters the job pool and lays out press sheets
- Upload the CTP file and the job goes straight to plate
- Digital press support: send an order or a full sheet directly to digital
- Digital jobs skip the CTP step entirely
Warehouse, stock and supply
- Detailed warehouse and stock views
- Stock transfers between warehouses
- Raw material purchasing with goods-in entry
- Delivery notifications
- Supplier management and purchasing reports
Payments and accounting
- Card payments accepted through every major bank
- Payment taken from the customer screen, the admin screen or on the delivery round
- Invoice numbering and grouping for accounting
- Sales and payments pushed to Netsis ERP over its API
Shipping and distribution
- Orders grouped by delivery region
- Local distribution run sheets
- A separate list for payments due on delivery
- Card payments taken by the driver during the round
Notifications and messaging
- Internal messaging between users
- SMS and email alerts triggered by order status
- Bulk SMS campaigns with delivery reports
- Unlimited template-driven information pages: email, privacy, data protection, terms, cancellation and returns
Reporting and traceability
Every movement reported, every action on record.
Break sales down by month, by year or by region and export the result to Excel or PDF. Every action on the dealer, customer and management side is logged, and those logs cannot be deleted, as data protection rules require.
- Sales and payment reports by month, year and region
- Excel and PDF export
- Raw material purchasing and supplier reports
- Full audit log across dealer, customer and management screens
- Tamper-proof records kept in line with data protection law
Setup and infrastructure
Open your browser and start working.
Nothing to install, no versions to roll out. Windows or Mac makes no difference, and the same screens open on a tablet at the press or a phone on the road. Where it runs is your call.
- Platform independent, fully browser-based architecture
- Instant access from the browser, no client software
- Interface that works on mobile screens
- Cloud hosting on PCI DSS certified servers
- On-premise installation on your own server if you prefer
Boha Cloud
Runs redundantly on PCI DSS certified servers. Maintenance, updates and backups are on us.
Your own server
If your data has to stay in house, we install the application on your own server.
Contact
Let's walk through the details.
Tell us how your order chain, dealer network and production flow work, and we will show you the software running on your own scenario.