Rates per client
Every client’s own price rules, so one job is never priced from another client’s card.
Print costing and quotes · for brands and their estates
Print costing, built before the job runs
Costing built before the job runs, not reconciled after it. Each client’s own rates price a brief into a draft quote as it is written, confirming it for print locks the price, and margins and cost approval follow every campaign through to the invoice.
The problem
Reconciled after the event
Too often the cost of a campaign is worked out once the invoices arrive. By then the margin is whatever it turned out to be, and the conversation about it comes too late to change anything. A quote priced from memory is the same problem the other way round.
How it works
Print costing and quotes, step by step
01
Rate cards
Each client’s rates held as rules and edited in one place.
02
Brief priced
A brief prices itself into a draft quote as it is written.
03
Locked for print
Confirming the job for print locks the price, so the quote and the invoice agree.
04
Invoiced
Quotes, budgets and invoices kept together — money in one room, from the first quote to the last invoice.
What it does
Print costing and quotes: what it does
Draft quotes from the brief
The quote is ready as soon as the brief is, not a day later.
Price locked on confirmation
What was confirmed is what is invoiced.
Margin and cost approval
Margins visible and cost approved per campaign before the work starts.
Budget pots
Spend set against the budgets it comes out of, so overspend shows before it happens.
Quotes to invoices
The book of jobs — booked, priced, confirmed and invoiced — in one list.
Questions
Print costing and quotes: what people ask
Where do the prices come from?
From each client’s own rate card, held as rules, so a brief prices itself into a draft quote.
Can a quote change after it is confirmed?
Confirming a job for print locks its price, so the confirmed quote is what gets invoiced.
Can we see margin before the job runs?
Yes. Margin and cost approval sit with each campaign, before the work is done rather than after the invoices land.
Can spend be held against a budget?
Yes. Budget pots hold spend against the budget it comes out of, so an overspend shows before it happens rather than after.
Works with
Licensed on its own, better together
Every module shares one estate and one sign-in, so adding the next is a decision, not a migration.
Print management
Approved lines become print orders, priced across trade printers and tracked to the door.
Reporting and audit
The order book read back, an audit log of every change and imports with a dry run.
Print estimating
Size and quantity in, a priced press plan out, and a job bag raised onto the schedule.
Campaign management
One brief allocated across every store by profile, packed, sent and proved in place.
Request access
Get your estate on Inkari
Access is by invitation — tell us about your estate and we will set it up properly, with your stores, your products and your suppliers in place from day one. We reply within one working day.
- A guided walkthrough with your own campaign as the example
- Your estate structured before you first sign in
- Licence only the modules you need — add more when they earn their place
- No self-serve trial to fight with — a person, then a portal
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