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Unified Admin

Back-end tools at your command

PrintNow empowers you to create customized Web-to-Print Stores your way. The Unified Admin is the centralized control center for all operations.

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Analytics

key sales, orders, reports, & clear visitor data.
Orders

connect product order data — anywhere
Pricing

engine made easy — for you and all users
Users

manage users —  & group segmentation
Site Themes

tools to deploy & update custom themes
CMS

content management — made flexible & smart
Products

deploy your product collections to sell & grow
Checkout

built in ecommerce — customizable checkout
Domain Tools

A series of tools to stay productive at work
Settings

general setup related configuration items
Print Editor

easy template admin workflow all built-in
Account

your profile and connection to support

Analytics

key sales, orders, reports, & clear visitor data.

The Analytics dashboard displays key sales, orders, and online store visitor data.
  • Run key reports on any date range for one or all of your Print Stores calculated together.
  • Built-in integrations to Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager to track user data.
  • Drop in any 3rd party tracking scripts from popular apps.
  • Set of included reports exported to excel or via Enterprise API.
Analytics dashboard showing sales performance, order summaries, visitor data, and downloadable reports.

Orders

product order data — anywhere

Your complete order management system from Printnow. Streamline sales and order fulfillment.
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  • Manage orders across all Print Store deployments.
  • Automate order processing via Enterprise API, Zapier, or XML methods.
  • Custom email notification system for order status updates.
  • Workflow admins can easily view assigned orders, update status, and access history, keeping projects on track.
  • Integrate with MIS and print automation systems.
Order management dashboard displaying product orders with customer names, statuses, and delivery dates.

Pricing

engine made easy — for you and all users

Configure a pricing engine for each unique product category

Developing a custom pricing engine is a streamlined process that provides maximum ease of use for you and your customers.

  • To begin, create a general profile to determine your base pricing.
  • Set your available quantities and display options.
  • Create your printed sides and page counts.
  • Configure both standard size offerings and custom sizing configurations.
  • Build custom turnaround options into your pricing engine to increase profits.
  • Populate custom order options such as paper stock, proofing, mailing, and other finishing choices, and provide precise pricing for each.
  • Per item, flat charge, percentage, flat charge + percentage, per square unit, unit per area range, square unit per area range, per linear unit are some of the charge as types.
  • Activate smart option triggers to incorporate conditional logic, enhancing front-end calculators for complex products.
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Easily export and import your pricing in Excel

Export your pricing data into Excel for seamless bulk pricing adjustments, or use the efficient Unfield Admin tools for quick updates.

  • Excel can also save time and resources by reducing the need for manual updates.
  • PrintNow allows for manual pricing updates in the Unified Admin tables as well.
  • Clone pricing engines for other similar pricing categories and edit as new.
  • Save your pricing for import into other Print Stores or share pricing across Print Stores.
"PrintNow gives print providers companies the edge they need in today's competitive market. The cutting-edge platform simplifies complex processes while enabling businesses to deliver exceptional customer experiences."
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Paul Borg Jr.

President, Printwell

Interface showing options to export and import pricing data in Excel format with upload and download buttons.

Configure your shipping methods for fixed or live rates

Gain access to Fedex, UPS, & USPS live rates API’s using your own account credentials to display real-time carrier rates or custom fixed rates.

  • Custom shipping configuration using your account.
  • Bulk export and import for configuration and pricing.
  • Integrated real-time shipping rates from (FedEx, UPS, & USPS).
  • Flat rate shipping options per order by (price range, weight range, and postal codes).
  • Weight entry at base price and order option level.
  • Shipping box max weight.
  • Supports adding handling charges.
  • Enable or disable available shipping methods.
  • On-site order tracking from customer accounts and emails.
  • Shopping cart with tax and shipping estimates
  • Calculator before checkout can include shipping estimates.
Form allowing users to set fixed shipping rates or enable live rate calculation from selected carriers.
Interface for configuring pricing rules by product category with editable fields for formulas, markups, and discounts.Interface showing options to export and import pricing data in Excel format with upload and download buttons.Form allowing users to set fixed shipping rates or enable live rate calculation from selected carriers.

Users

manage users —  & group segmentation

Site users dashboard showing a list of customers with names, email addresses, account status, and action buttons to edit or manage profiles.

Site Users

You can review all of your customers and manage your customer information from the site users page of your PrintNow Unified Admin.

  • CRM searchable dashboard for all active site users.
  • Quick access to orders, projects, and uploads.
  •  Manage site users projects and carts via Unified Admin.
  • View statistics and manage account profiles.
  • Accounts can be generated by self registration, manual setup, or via bulk import.

User Group
Segmentation

Create User Groups for access to specific items within a catalog, custom themes, special pricing, specific payment options, and more.

  • Apply custom theme to a user group.
  • Attach product collections to a user group.
  • Auto-assign user to a user group based on domain.
  • Attach autofill profiles by user group.
  • Define custom checkout fields by user group.
  • Require order approvals by user group.
  • Define payment methods by user group.
  • Apply discounts to a user group.
  • Assign address profiles by user group.
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Unified Admin Users

To allow your staff members access to help you to run your stores, you need to give them user roles to access specific parts of your Unified Admin deploments.

  • Searchable dashboard for all active admin site users.
  • View statistics and manage account profiles.
  • Create customized user roles to restrict staff access within the Unified Admin for different deployments and individual pages within each deployment.

User Admin Roles for both your staff admins & customers

User Admin Roles provide you a way to set administrative privilege’s across each Storefront on a page-by-page basis for both your staff admins & customers with access to the Unified Admin back-end.

  • Create custom user roles to restrict staff access within the Unified Admin for specific deployments and pages within each deployment.
  • Extend access to the PrintNow Unified Admin for you partner Print Stores you manage on your deployments.
  • Access the activity log that tracks all edits within the Unified Admin.
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Site Themes

Visual tools to deploy custom themes

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Design offline with visual tools & build custom themes.

Speed up building HTML with visual power tools.

  • Create responsive websites using the Bootstrap framework and visual tools.
  • Work faster with HTML, CSS / SASS, and Bootstrap in a low code workflow.
  • Purchase ready-made HTML themes or build your own custom one from stratch.
  • Integrate basic theme structure from exported code into PrintNow's master pages and CMS without coding.
"Printing professionals choose PrintNow to gain operational excellence and drive sustainable growth. The proven platform helps businesses deliver superior results while building stronger client relationships."
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Brad Mabee

Project Coordinator, Branded Boxes

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Access your site themes directly in the Unified Admin

It enables you to easily manage the files and folders related to your website.

  • Provides root access to all your site themes conveniently from the Unified Admin.
  • Create new folders, rename, upload, download, and delete directories and files.
  • Displays files sizes an date modified.
  • Connect via FTP alternately.
Unified Admin interface displaying a list of site themes with options to preview, edit, or activate each theme.

Use the built-in code editor, redefined and optimized

PrintNow uses Visual Studio Code code editor across Site Themes and CMS pages, providing intelligent HTML programming support.

  • Paste code provided by offline visual code builders in the code editor without coding.
  • Line numbers are displayed with easy page navigation controls.
  • Find and replace and go to line number key commands.
  • Use IntelliSense for faster and more efficiently code editing.
  • The color picker UI is now available in HTML style sections.
  • Move the mouse over HTML tags or embedded styles and JavaScript to get more MDM reference information.
  • You can fold regions of source code using the folding icons on the gutter between line numbers and line start.
  • To improve the formatting of your HTML a source code beautifier is built in.
Built-in code editor with HTML and CSS code displayed, showing syntax highlighting and real-time changes.

CMS

content management — made flexible & smart

Design View and Code View
Both the visual editor and code view that uses the Visual Studio Code editor offers complete functionality through a very intuitive interface that users will find natural to use.
CMS dashboard interface for managing website content with editable pages, media library, and smart layout controls.
Page Content Types
Content types such as pages, categories, products, tags, and blogs are organized for better manageability. Easily add content using the built-in tools or via Excel spreadsheets.
CMS interface displaying organized content types including pages, categories, products, tags, and blogs with options to add new items or import from Excel.
Extended Content
The extended content controls simplify the process of combining custom data on your pages, resulting in clean code without the need for ongoing developer support.
Interface showing extended content controls with tools for inserting custom data blocks into web pages without code editing.
HTML Snippets
When content repeats across page, HTML snippets allow you to save that content and refer back to it like this {{my-snippet}}. This approach makes it clean and manageable.
Interface displaying a list of saved HTML snippets with names and preview content for reuse across web pages.
SEO Management
PrintNow's SEO-friendly URL structure and robust SEO toolbox are crafted to supercharge your search engine optimization strategies.
SEO settings panel showing editable fields for meta titles, descriptions, and custom URLs designed for search optimization.
CMS dashboard interface for managing website content with editable pages, media library, and smart layout controls.
CMS interface displaying organized content types including pages, categories, products, tags, and blogs with options to add new items or import from Excel.
Interface showing extended content controls with tools for inserting custom data blocks into web pages without code editing.
Interface displaying a list of saved HTML snippets with names and preview content for reuse across web pages.
SEO settings panel showing editable fields for meta titles, descriptions, and custom URLs designed for search optimization.

Products

deploy your product collections to sell & grow

Create category product landing pages

Design captivating E-commerce landing pages that boost online sales.

  • Modify the category master template to update the layout and data controls to match top online print solution strategies.
  • Upload persuasive imagery with controls that support multiple images.
  • Add extended content data placeholders to dynamically control your custom content.
  • Easily add new categories manually or in bulk within PrintNow.
  • Drop in your content and build out your pages with detailed information/
  • Make your call to action prominent and clear and enable your available buttons.
Interface for creating product landing pages by category with layout options, banners, and featured product sections.

Add both add-to-cart items and customizable template products

You can curate your products and create a one-of-a-kind experience for your customers.

  • Easily add new categories manually or in bulk within PrintNow.
  • Setup product information, price mappings, & product numbers.
  • Configurate customized template defaults, toggles, rules, and asset libraries.
  • Enable Attributes that will allow end users to filter items on Print Stores.
  • Assign related products that will help the end users navigate your product options.
  • Upload custom product thumbnails or use the auto generated template version.
E-commerce interface displaying standard add-to-cart items alongside customizable template products with design buttons.

Organize unique product collections

  • Easily create collections for both products and category overview pages with a pricing calculator.
  • Use Organization or User Groups to assign collections.
  • Assign product collection(s) to user group "retail" for non-logged-in users or when no user group is specified.
  • Collections override all standard product-specific assignments by design.
Admin interface displaying organized product collections by theme or category with options to add, edit, or rearrange items.
"As a loyal PrintNow customer in Honolulu for over 10 years, we've consistently found their platform and support to be exceptional. PrintNow provides incredible value and serves our needs perfectly."
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Sanford Morioka

Press Supervisor, Edward Enterprises

Interface for creating product landing pages by category with layout options, banners, and featured product sections.E-commerce interface displaying standard add-to-cart items alongside customizable template products with design buttons.Admin interface displaying organized product collections by theme or category with options to add, edit, or rearrange items.

Checkout

built in ecommerce — custom checkout

Enable a merchant account for credit card transactions
PrintNow supports a dozen payment gateways including Authorize.net, PayPal, and Stripe that are the most popular as well as PO and Invoice for buy now, pay later customers.
Settings panel for enabling a merchant account with fields for payment gateway credentials and credit card processing options.
Add Tax/Vat manually or put on autopilot
Setup manual methods or automatically calculate sales tax and VAT for customers in 30 countries including the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Australia. 
Tax configuration screen with options to manually set Tax/VAT rates or enable automated tax calculation services.
Configure promotion codes and discounts
You can easily create complex conditional promotion codes and discounts  to promote sales and special offers that are applied to the shopping cart when condition is met.
Promotion code settings interface with fields to enter discount codes, set percentage or fixed discounts, and define expiration dates.
Add custom checkout fields to collect data
Checkout fields are assigned to user groups to collect custom data fields during user checkout. You can define text entry fields, predefined dropdown values, or date fields.
Checkout customization panel with options to add custom fields like text inputs, dropdowns, and checkboxes to collect additional customer data.
Configure your checkout styles to express your brand
Customize your checkout by modifying colors, uploading a banner, logo, or background, changing fonts, or adding custom footer links, all while maintaining top-notch security.
Checkout customization screen with style options for colors, fonts, button shapes, and layout to match brand identity.
Settings panel for enabling a merchant account with fields for payment gateway credentials and credit card processing options.
Tax configuration screen with options to manually set Tax/VAT rates or enable automated tax calculation services.
Promotion code settings interface with fields to enter discount codes, set percentage or fixed discounts, and define expiration dates.
Checkout customization panel with options to add custom fields like text inputs, dropdowns, and checkboxes to collect additional customer data.
Checkout customization screen with style options for colors, fonts, button shapes, and layout to match brand identity.

Domain tools

A series of tools to stay productive at work

Admin interface for adding custom domain bindings with fields for domain name, SSL status, and certificate management options.Admin interface displaying FTP account settings with fields for username, password, host, and directory path.Admin interface showing store cloning options with buttons to duplicate an existing store setup for quick deployment or redesign.Activity log showing a chronological list of system changes with timestamps, user names, and actions performed.Error log interface showing a list of system errors with timestamps, error types, messages, and related deployment details.

Add your custom site bindings and free ssl certificates

Configure your custom root-domains, sub-domains, generate CSR requests, upload,, enable,  bind your SSL Certificates.

  • Generate CSR request within site bindings.
  • Upload purchased SSL certificates as PEM, CRT, or PFX formats for activation.
  • Enable Let’s Encrypt that is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) to enable HTTPS (SSL) on your stores.
Error log interface showing a list of system errors with timestamps, error types, messages, and related deployment details.

Configure and maintain FTP account access

Create FTP accounts to allow access to the root installation of PrintNow or restrict access to Orders, All site themes, or specific site themes.

  • Add FTP accounts within Unified Admin.
  • Uses explicit FTP over TLS if available.
  • Create user credentials and access roles to: Root, Orders, Site Themes, or a specific Site theme you specify.
  • FTP connection samples is specified for you to connect with FTP client like FileZilla.
Error log interface showing a list of system errors with timestamps, error types, messages, and related deployment details.

Use store clone for rapid deployments or site redesigns

New store clone copies any existing Print Store to a new root domain or subdomain

  • Clone Store: products, categories, tags, email notifications.
  • Clone Pages: pages, categories, products, tags, HTML snippets, blogs, and extended content.
  • Clone Pricing: Base pricing, promo codes, and tax settings.
  • Clone Print CAD:  products.
  • Clone Checkout:  checkout fields, country list, and translations.
  • Clone Print Editor:  autofill profiles, offline templates, and settings.
Error log interface showing a list of system errors with timestamps, error types, messages, and related deployment details.
"PrintNow has been our trusted platform since 2016. Its intuitive design and robust features excel at B2B portals and deliver world-class results for both B2C and B2B print commerce deployments."
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Joe Kelner

Strategist, Dolan Printing

Keep track of system changes with the activity log

The activity log was created for customers to track staff admin activity generated and posted to PrintNow servers.

  • Continuous log of changes that provides ways to filter and search by id, username, description. type, action, and date & time.
  • Aims to log activities consistently to ensure comprehensive records
  • Provides specific details about each activity to facilitate accurate analysis.
  • Activity logs are proven tools for enhancing productivity and time management.
  • Individuals can optimize their routines, improve efficiency, and achieve a greater sense of control over their time.
  • Helps PrintNow support track down issues with customer deployments over time.
Activity log showing a chronological list of system changes with timestamps, user names, and actions performed.

Access the error log to help solve issues with deployments

The error log was created to help customers to track errors generated and posted to PrintNow servers Print Store deployments.

  • We show the last 7 days of errors.
  • Filter and search by Id, error message, type, app, IP, referrer, URL, User-Agent, & date & time.
  • Error logs help reduce the mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR) of your IT environment.
  • Can uncover hidden problems and enable teams to take quick, proactive steps, preventing customer complaints.
  • Error logs can highlight application performance issues.
  • Error logs are crucial for troubleshooting security incidents.
Error log interface showing a list of system errors with timestamps, error types, messages, and related deployment details.

Unified Admin

Centralized solution for all management

Print Store Admin

Your Print Store admin is where you configure all your settings, and streamline multi-store deployments.

Partner Apps

All partner apps that require credentials or setup are fully integrated.

Account Tools

Manage your account and gain access to superior support services.

Supported browsers

PrintNow supports the latest two versions of all major browsers.

Backups and duplication

You can export CSV files to back up data & download store themes locally.

Print Editor Admin

PrintNow's unique creative tools are designed to enhance productivity and creativity for all staff admins.

Print CAD Admin

Structural designs can be managed locally with the Print CAD app and uploaded to PrintNow for all online controls.

Searching your PrintNow admin

Built-in search to filter all pages, users, and settings in an intuitive Interface.

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Print Editor

easy template admin workflow all built-in  

Import InDesign templates attached to product data

Use the Adobe software suite for better template workflow.

  • PrintNow parses text and assets in InDesign's .IDML export format, automating template importing.
  • Optionally tag your elements to identify them in the PrintNow Unified Admin tools.
  • PrintNow keeps your product data and template data separate, allowing you to reimport one without effecting the other at any time.
  • PrintNow also allows you to create templates using the Print Editor Admin without InDesign.
"PrintNow's automated template-driven systems enforce brand consistency while providing complete design flexibility. Fast artwork processing and delivering exactly what customers expect is absolutely crucial to our business success."
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Daniel Acree

Director of Marketing, ReminderMedia

Interface for importing InDesign templates and linking them to specific product data with options for file upload and data mapping.

Work in Editor Admin tools to craft your own template experiences

Discover the Print Editor, enabling staff admins to create and customize dynamic templates with ease.

  • Modify any existing template and save changes.
  • Adjust tag and display names.
  • Control layout item replace orders.
  • Specific what items are included in final print-ready PDF, hidden, and locked.
  • Toggle the ability to change positioning, opacity, rotation, borders, effects, and shadows.
  • Change sizing mode on text to Wrap, No Wrap, or Scale and on images to Fit To Mask, Fit To Box, or Scale.
  • Force layers to the top.
  • Reset cropping and clear background.
  • Create grouped elements to make template easier to work with and reposition.
  • Work with asset libraries to modify templates.
  • Make any changes to imported templates using Print Editor Admin and save results.
  • Export templates as a file for backup and reimport.
  • Make thumbnails dynamically from saved results or upload custom thumbnails.
  • Control toggles to change available panels, buttons, image search, and available features per template.
Editor Admin interface with tools for designing and managing custom templates, including layout settings, text fields, and image placeholders.

Link asset libraries to empower your users with more capabilities

Offer libraries of ready-to-use templates for anything and everything you want users to be able to create.

  • You can attach color palettes either at the template level or at the item level on templates.
  • Attach the fonts from the master library to specific product templates.
  • Link interchangeable layouts, backgrounds, seamless patterns, and elements for creative assets.
  • Change preview types to flat proof, PDF download, flip book, 3d models, & live photo views.
  • Attach image libraries, photo stock integrations, and file storage integrations.  
  • Link attribute sets for filtering large template libraries.
  • Link related products to show on product detail pages.
  • Upload alternate thumbnail views for multiple displays.
Admin interface showing linked asset libraries with options to manage images, templates, and design files accessible to users.

Add conditional logic and autofill profiles in a form-based simple mode

Maintain complex layout control for templates that must be locked down and preserve a logical approach.

  • PrintNow uses Mustache, a logic-less template engine that allows simple syntax placeholders to be replaced with values for controlling formatting.
  • For advanced needs, PrintNow's custom rules engine can define conditional logic based on tag names, targets, and actions for primary template controls.
  • Autofill Profiles are used to pass variables assigned to users, user groups, or template-by-template basis for dynamic template text and image replacement.
Form builder interface in simple mode with options to add conditional logic and autofill profile fields like name, email, and company.

Make your Print Editor theme uniquely yours with customizations

Make the app feel like it was created specifically for your company and create a look that matches your brand.

  • Easily define your primary, surface, and accent colors in no time to blend it all together.
  • Set background images on the main workspace and proofing windows for an enhanced visual experience.
  • Enhance your design by customizing SVG icons.
  • Use the Custom CSS editor to customize the appearance of your custom skins.
  • Upload your logo to finalize branding your Print Editor.
Print Editor interface with customization options for colors, fonts, and layout to personalize the theme.
Interface for importing InDesign templates and linking them to specific product data with options for file upload and data mapping.Editor Admin interface with tools for designing and managing custom templates, including layout settings, text fields, and image placeholders.Admin interface showing linked asset libraries with options to manage images, templates, and design files accessible to users.Form builder interface in simple mode with options to add conditional logic and autofill profile fields like name, email, and company.Print Editor interface with customization options for colors, fonts, and layout to personalize the theme.

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Discover all you can do with PrintNow.

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Print Store

Make online print stores better for everyone
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Print Editor

Online Editor to customize & preview print products
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Print CAD

Web to pack ecommerce ready print packaging
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Unfied Admin

Unified admin platform tools at your command
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Integrations

Fully integrated print automation at its finest
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Hosting & Security

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