Artwork intake from brands and converters
File upload portal, preflight, and customer-spec validation up front — so files don't sit in inboxes waiting for the CSR to chase a missing die line.
Flexo trade shop software · System of record
Flexo trade shop software, built for the way your shop actually runs.
Quotes, intake, plate imaging, gang allocation, converter delivery, and invoicing by plate area — on one purpose-built system instead of an offset MIS, three spreadsheets, and a whiteboard.
Plate area · jobs · customers · AR — one system of record
Why generic software fails trade shops
A flexo trade shop is not a print shop. The software shouldn't be either.
Most software sold to flexographic prepress shops was originally built for sheet-fed offset printers, in-plant converters, or generic manufacturing. None of them assume the unit of business is a square inch of imaged photopolymer plate — and almost everything downstream breaks because of it.
Your customers aren't end consumers — they're brands, converters, and designers
Trade shops bill multiple parties on a single job: artwork from the brand, plates shipping to the converter, AR back to the designer. Generic MIS can't model the three-party flow.
Plate area, not units, is the billing unit
Your rate card is in square inches or square meters by plate type, gauge, and screening. Offset MIS counts impressions and treats plate area as a custom field.
Gangs are the daily reality, not the exception
Small jobs share a plate to hit minimum imaging area. Allocation across customer POs has to be automatic — not a manual export to Excel every Friday.
Converter delivery is its own logistics flow
A plate kit shipping to a converter's plant for a scheduled press run is not the same workflow as a printed-job delivery to a retail brand.
Flexoworks models all of this natively. Brands, converters, and designers as separate customer entities. Plate area, plate type, gauge, screening, and gang allocation as first-class fields. The system of record for a flexo trade shop — not an offset MIS with custom workflow patches.
What it does
Everything a trade shop runs on — in one operating system.
Quote through cash, on a single record. No more reconciling three systems to answer 'where is the job and what did it cost us to make?'
Quoting by plate area, gauge, and screening
Your customer rate card is the engine. Pull plate area off the step-and-repeat, apply the right rate by plate type and substrate, and quote in seconds — not in a Friday-afternoon spreadsheet.
Live plate status from imaging to ship
Every plate carries a job ID through imaging, washout, drying, finishing, QC, and outbound shipping. CSRs and customers see live status without calling the floor.
Gang allocation across customer POs
When jobs share a plate, allocation runs automatically against the right customer POs and rate cards. No exported spreadsheets, no margin leakage on the rush gang.
Converter delivery & kit assembly
Build kits by job, generate carrier labels, and give converters real-time receiving status — the actual delivery flow trade shops run, not a tacked-on shipping module.
AR by brand, converter, and designer
Statements, aging, and payments routed to the right party — without month-end QuickBooks reconciliations and ledger guesswork.
How it fits your shop
Sits alongside your prepress workflow — replaces the rest of the stack.
Flexoworks does not replace Esko Automation Engine, Flexo Front End, or Kodak Prinergy. It replaces the spreadsheets, the offset MIS retrofit, and the QuickBooks workarounds that surround them.
Prepress workflow tools (Esko, Hybrid, Kodak)
Your existing workflow engine continues to handle RIPping, screening, step-and-repeat, and CDI imaging control. Flexoworks reads the imaged area off it — it doesn't replace it.
- Esko Automation Engine
- Esko Flexo Front End
- Hybrid CLOUDFLOW
- Kodak Prinergy
Spreadsheets, offset MIS, and QuickBooks gymnastics
Flexoworks consolidates the business layer that today lives across Excel, an outdated MIS, a CRM tab, and your accounting clerk's head. One record per customer, per job, per plate — auditable end to end.
- Quote & order tracking spreadsheets
- Offset-era MIS systems
- Manual gang allocation exports
- QuickBooks reconciliation workarounds
Who uses Flexoworks
Trade shops of every shape — independent, captive, and multi-site.
Independent flexo trade shops
100 to 10,000 plates a month. Family-owned to private-equity-backed. Already running prepress workflow tools but stitching the business side together with spreadsheets and a 15-year-old offset MIS.
Captive prepress at converters
In-house plate departments that bill internal cost centers and run alongside a converter ERP. Flexoworks gives you the plate-aware MIS layer without forcing the parent business onto a new ERP.
Multi-site plate operations
Two to ten plate rooms across regions. Consolidated customers, jobs, and AR across sites — with per-site rate cards, per-site imaging capacity, and one shared GL.
Plays nicely with your existing stack
Connects to the tools your shop already runs — instead of fighting them.
Flexoworks integrates with the workflow, accounting, shipping, and CRM systems most flexo trade shops have already invested in. The point is to replace the systems that don't fit a trade shop — not the ones that already do.
- Prepress workflow
- Esko Automation Engine
- Esko Flexo Front End
- Hybrid CLOUDFLOW
- Kodak Prinergy
- Accounting & GL
- QuickBooks Online
- Sage Intacct
- NetSuite ERP
- Shipping & logistics
- ShipStation
- FedEx Web Services
- UPS APIs
- Sales & CRM
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Pipedrive
Common questions
What trade shop owners ask before they switch.
Will Flexoworks replace our prepress workflow software?
No. Flexoworks is the MIS — the business layer. It connects to Esko Automation Engine, Esko Flexo Front End, Hybrid CLOUDFLOW, and Kodak Prinergy. Most trade shops keep their existing workflow engine and replace everything around it.What does it actually replace?
The spreadsheets, the offset-era MIS retrofit, and the QuickBooks reconciliations that surround your workflow engine. Quote tracking, job intake, plate status, gang allocation, converter delivery, customer ledgers, and AR all move into one system.How long does implementation take?
Most trade shops are live on quoting and intake in 2–4 weeks. Full migration — customer data, rate cards, AR, integrations — typically completes in 6–10 weeks depending on volume and stack complexity. We do the data load and rate card build.How is it priced?
Per active user with usage tiers based on monthly plate area billed. Plans start at $119/mo. Full breakdown at /pricing.Can we run two sites or two business units on it?
Yes. Multi-site shops run consolidated customers and AR across sites with per-site rate cards, imaging capacity, and shipping configs. Captive prepress departments inside converters use the same pattern for internal vs. external customers.
See it on your real shop data
A 30-minute walkthrough — on your plates, your customers, your AR.
Bring a quote, a job ticket, and a recent invoice. We'll show you the same job in Flexoworks end to end — quote, intake, plate area, gang allocation, ship, AR. No slideware.