SmartSoft Shows Off the Whys of PressWise

Automation. Eliminating “touches.” The Cloud. Web storefronts. These topics dominate today’s conversations about prepress and workflow. Understanding how these elements and others work in a practical production setting, and why they have become such important issues, are the focus of this year’s Workflow & Design/Prepress Show Floor Pavilion. The exhibitors in this show floor area are demonstrating the latest new features and enhancements to their flagship and peripheral products. 

In Booth 539, SmartSoft is highlighting the latest enhancements to PressWise, its shop management software. PressWise, an all-in-one, cloud-based MIS and print automation platform, is designed to help printers grow their businesses while eliminating “touches” from their workflow. PressWise includes web-to-print storefronts, estimating, order management, production automation, shipping and fulfillment, and mail processing.

The new features that the company is demonstrating at GRAPH EXPO include improvements to PressWise’s print estimating, web storefront, job editor, and production management tools, as well as added enhanced support for third-party APIs. The company is also showing some of the recent user experience enhancements designed to make the system easier and faster to use.

For example, the user interface has been improved for greater ease of use, including a new customized user account widget and a more functional footer that provides easier access to frequently used features within the system. Formatting has been improved across documents including purchase orders, job tickets, invoices, and quotes. 

Storefront improvements include new support for cash and check payments, additional data import/export options for storefront templates, catalogs and categories, as well as inventory summaries.

“We are constantly looking for ways to improve PressWise and our enhancements are a combination of user requests and innovations from our talented product development team” said Tony Tarpey, Executive Vice President of SmartSoft. “The GRAPH EXPO show floor is a very dynamic environment, where we get to meet customers new and old, hear about their unique workflow challenges, and show them how the PressWise product and team can help them overcome those challenges in a collaborative way.”

The company also says there are additional surprises in store for GRAPH EXPO attendees, with new features that haven’t been announced prior to this week.