Three subscriptions to do most of it.
Or one that does all of it.
An honest, line-by-line look at InkSoft and Printavo against our platform. Every competitor column below comes from that vendor's own published documentation and public pricing. Where a capability is not documented anywhere, we say so instead of guessing.
The comparison
Line by line.
The rows that decide whether a customer can order the right thing without a person in the middle.
| Capability | InkSoft | Printavo | CFDFpromoall of it, one platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| What your customer touches | |||
| Online design studio for your customers | Separate product | ||
| Customer picks an exact PMS colour | |||
| Customer picks an exact thread colour | |||
| CMYK and RGB builds for DTF and DTG | RGB only | ||
| You upload your own colour and thread charts | |||
| Decoration method chosen inside the design | 6 methods | ||
| Colour count and stitch count, automatic | |||
| White underbase detected and priced | |||
| Exact imprint size, to two decimals | A rectangle | ||
| Fabric rules block a job you cannot produce | |||
| Team names and numbers taken online | |||
| Any product you upload, your own print areas | Limited | ||
| Suppliers and purchasing | |||
| Integrated supplier catalogs | 8 | 3 | 25+ |
| Headwear and sublimation blank catalogs | |||
| Live inventory on hand while you quote | Reported unreliable | Partial | |
| Purchase order sent into the supplier portal | Open request | Manual | |
| A day of POs consolidated into one | |||
| Production and back office | |||
| Production management | Needs Printavo | ||
| Barcode scanning to advance a job | |||
| QuickBooks sync | Via Printavo | ||
| Repeat orders with no new proof | |||
| Per-client price lists and volume breaks | Partial | ||
| Employee stores with a per-person allowance | |||
| Dealer and reseller portal | |||
| What you get around the software | |||
| User seats included | Plan based | 2 to 20 | 25 |
| Multilingual storefront | |||
| Unlimited onboarding and training | |||
| Unlimited tech support, no per-ticket fee | Plan based | Plan based | |
| Money-back guarantees | None published | None published | 3 |
| Contract | Term based | Term based | None, cancel any cycle |
Sources: each vendor's published help documentation, public pricing pages and public feature-request boards, checked August 2026. "Open request" means their own customers have asked for it publicly and it has not shipped. "Not published" means we could not find it documented, not that it is impossible.
The money
More capability. Less money. Same month.
To get close to what one of our plans does, a shop runs a storefront tool, a production tool and an art tool. Here is what that actually costs at published list prices.
What the stack costs
Three bills, three logins, three support queues, and the table above still has a column of gaps in it.
What we cost
One bill. One login. One support queue. No per-store fee, no commission on what you sell, no contract. Every plan includes unlimited onboarding, unlimited training and unlimited support.
The cost of standing still
None of this shows up on an invoice.
Which is exactly why it runs for years. Every one of these is money that leaves without ever being counted.
The colour you cannot show
A national account needs its exact brand colour approved before it orders. Your studio cannot show it one. So the order leaves the studio and goes back into email, or it goes somewhere else. How many did that this year?
The proof that was never a proof
Your customer approved a rectangle, not a measurement, on a print area that may not even sit on the garment. When it comes back wrong, who absorbs it?
The PO nobody needed to type
Every purchase order retyped by hand into a supplier portal is a person doing a job the software already knows how to do. Multiply that by every PO you cut this week.
The roster in a spreadsheet
Names and numbers cannot be taken online, so every team job gets typed in by a human in the busiest month of your year.
The order you never knew you lost
Stock reads available in the store and out of stock at checkout while the supplier has it on the shelf. That customer does not call to complain. They just do not come back.
The scanner in the drawer
You bought hardware to speed up receiving and the software said no. That is not a software cost. That is capital sitting idle.
Included, not extra
Everything that usually costs more.
None of the following is an add-on, an upsell or a support tier you buy later. It is in the plan.
Unlimited onboarding
As many sessions as your team needs to be running, not a fixed block of hours.
Unlimited training
Your whole team, forever, at no charge. New hire in March? Same deal.
Unlimited tech support
No per-ticket fee, no support tier to buy.
Multilingual storefronts
Sell in English and French from the same catalog.
Canadian grant programs
Canadian shops can put this against digital adoption and productivity grants. We help you build the application.
25+ supplier catalogs
Including the headwear and sublimation blank lines the others do not carry.
Unlimited stores
No per-store fee. No commission on anything you sell. Ever.
Unlimited products
Your own catalogs by CSV, hard goods included, your own print areas on anything.
25 user seats
Your reps, your art team, your production floor. Not two.
Your pricing, kept
Your negotiated supplier costs, your tiers, your per-client discounts, exactly as you run them today.
QuickBooks sync
Invoices and payments, one click.
Barcode scanning
Scan to receive, approve artwork, cut the PO, mark produced, mark shipped.
DST and client artwork library
Upload their DST once. It is there on every reorder, locked so nobody stretches it.
Your own domain and SEO
Your storefront, your domain, indexed and yours. Not a widget on someone else's site.
The guarantees
They publish none. We put four in writing.
Your first client store, built free
Pick a real account. We load your suppliers, your pricing, your decoration methods and your colour charts, and we build it. A $1,499 build at no charge.
Live in one week, or money back
One week from the moment you hand us everything we need. Miss it and you are refunded.
No money in 30 days, money back
If the store has not made you money 30 days after it launches, you are refunded.
No contract, ever
Cancel any cycle. Nothing to unwind, no exit fee, and the training stays free the whole time.
And these are available on request
Tell us which fear is the real one and we will write the guarantee against it before you sign anything.
Time-back
If your week is not lighter within 30 days, we keep working with you at no charge until it is.
Results
No measurable result in 30 days and we keep working free until there is one.
Revisions
Design revisions until your client approves. Not three rounds. Until they approve.
Launch two
Launch two client stores in your first 30 days and your next cycle is on us.
Pick one real account. We build it free.
A school, a corporate account, a team. We load your suppliers, your pricing, your decoration methods and your colour charts, and you judge it on the result. Nothing changes in your shop until you say so.
No contract. Cancel any cycle. If it does not make you money in 30 days, you are refunded.