PressWise

RATING:

4.6

(51)

About PressWise

PressWise is a cloud-based web-to-print solution that helps businesses of all sizes streamline printing operations via estimation, order management and more. It provides customers with a self-service portal that can attach mailing lists/artwork to orders and access information related to online proofs, billing, ticket status or reordering. Features of PressWise include catalog management, barcode generation, invoicing, payment processing, reporting, regulatory compliance, shipping management, role-based access, inventory tracking and more. Managers can configure workflows to create job tickets and validate requested orders, streamlining approval processes. Additionally, it allows users to record mailing data including job name, permit number or drop-off date and ex...

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PressWise print estimating
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PressWise Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for PressWise

1 - 5 of 51 Reviews

User Profile

Matthew

Verified reviewer

Printing

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2017

As moxy ox has grown, our scaling has been made easier with additional modules offered by PressWise.

1 Cost monitoring 2 Order tracking 3 Online customer ordering 4 Daily reporting 5 Sales tracking 6 Inventory control 7 Shipping made easy 8 Auto batching 9 Client correspondence monitoring 10 Major time savings across entire team

PROS

The fact that PressWise is always moving forward, adding new features and listens to their customers' needs is what keeps me with them. Even when I'm being a pain in the butt customer, I know they would gladly hop on a call to help out or shoot a quick video to step me through a process I can't grasp. My team contacts the PressWise team through the easy ticket system so that I don't have to answer everything for them.

CONS

Exporting accounting information has been our toughest challenge. Integrating it into the accounting software we were already using. We have created a work around, but still not ideal.

Brian

Printing, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2022

Life Changing Upgrade for our center

Excellent - life changing really for our shop. Workflow significantly improved with print files going directly to press, ready and imposed. Has freed up our graphics team to do what they do best, and CSRs have more time to consult with customers versus just keying orders all day long. Support team has been amazing. Everyone is friendly and super responsive. They want to know about problems, issues, or wishes and resolve things quickly. I've never worked with a software company that continuously improves their product the way PressWise does.

PROS

The estimating system is solid and intuitive. "Favorites" make every day jobs easy to write up. The most impactful parts however, are the asset management, integration with our existing online ordering system, and built in shipping module. Reorders are a breeze. Print files go right to the press device without ever having to touch the prepress department. Online order integration easily saves the work of a full time CSR every day. Ticketless workflow in production has taken our efficiency to the next level.

CONS

Integration with Quickbooks was new way of doing business for us, but we have adapted. Initially we were missing some information in reports we were used to having on hand, but the PW team helped us develop reports to get us what we needed. Shipping module is really helpful but still waiting on the new version to allow for shipments with multiple boxes per location. This will be another big event for us when released.

Reasons for switching to PressWise

We outgrew Vision and needed a system that had the next-level features that PressWise offers.

Vendor Response

What a wonderful review to read. I shared your post with our support and development teams, who were thrilled to hear your feedback on all their hard work.

Replied May 2022

Jeff

Printing, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed January 2024

Review of PressWise

We are 50/50. The QB integration is terrible. The ability to manage customer data and our team across multiple locations is very easy.

PROS

Ability to manage multiple locations, teams, and customer files is very convenient. Our delivery team and customers love the electronic delivery signatures and tracking.

CONS

Lack of integration with Quickbooks. Full data and descriptions do not import into QB. You only receive a brief line item. Orders are marked closed when data is sent to QB for accurate payment information and recording. The issue is that the order may still be in production and must be reopened. While this is a small step, it's doubling the manual actions needed to complete the order. Implementation was very slow. Even though you can "test", the issues did not show themselves until we jumped into using the software.

Reason for choosing PressWise

The ability to track deliveries with electronic signatures and photos when needed. We were told that the product integrates with QB. It does not very well.

Reasons for switching to PressWise

We were using Presidio (now owned by DocketManager).

User Profile

Beth

Verified reviewer

Printing, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2023

PressWise

PROS

Web-based, multiple users allowed, estimating tool

CONS

Look of the store-front. Not very professional looking right out of the box.

Reason for choosing PressWise

We mainly used cost to make the decision. The Fiery product was much more expensive and more cumbersome to implement.

Reasons for switching to PressWise

Needed more functionality and web-to-print options

Justin

Printing, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2021

Why we changed to PressWise

overall experience has been great. We procrastinated on our end and it was great having their team nudge us a long to get this software up and going.

PROS

Being on the cloud has been very useful to our sales and PressWise just fits our shop very well for digital and large format. If you are looking for a system and changing from an old software I would highly recommend PressWise simply how it easy it is to navigate through it coming from an old system.

CONS

Just like any new change it just took time getting use to. There are some items we liked a little better on our old software, but the pros defiantly out way the cons.

Reason for choosing PressWise

Simply the navigation was the main reason plus putting our clients to order online and have everything under one system was also a bonus for us.

Reasons for switching to PressWise

It was only server base and didn't feel like it catered to large format or digital printing very well.

Vendor Response

Thanks for your kind words, Justin. It has been great to see your company's progress over the past 18 months. Send us an email with any of your 'wish it would do it this way' items and we'll definitely review them with the team!

Replied November 2021