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PRESSFLOW HELP CENTRE
Make more of your print shop.
From your first product to your next production run. Find practical guides for every part of PressFlow.
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Getting started
Check a print product before customers can buy it
Run a focused product, checkout, artwork and production acceptance check.
Create your first buyable print product
A complete route from a draft simple product to a checked, published print configurator.
Install PressFlow and prepare WooCommerce
Install the uploadable ZIP, check requirements and prepare the store before configuring print products.
PressFlow glossary: print and shop terms
Plain-language definitions for pricing, artwork and production terms.
Start here: how PressFlow fits your print shop
Understand products, print jobs, artwork, quotes and the parts handled by WooCommerce.
Use demo products, orders and quotes safely
Explore realistic examples without confusing draft catalogue products with live production.
Product setup
Add clear options, illustrations and helpful guidance
Make print specifications understandable with customer labels, visual choices and concise explanations.
Control which print options work together
Hide irrelevant options, limit choices and explain combinations you cannot produce.
Match PressFlow to your shop without overwhelming it
Choose restrained front-end and admin colours, accessible button text and a product-page layout.
Place the product description below the configurator
Write product content in WooCommerce and choose Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery or a theme template.
Reuse a product setup without copying mistakes
Load built-in or shop templates, copy options safely and understand the limits of price transfer.
Set production speeds and estimated dispatch dates
Build useful quantity/date choices and understand when a displayed estimate becomes a confirmed completion date.
The seven-step product setup: what to enter where
Use the guided editor without needing internal field names or technical pricing rules.
Understand drafts, autosave and publishing changes
Keep private setup drafts separate from the product customers can order.
Pricing
Check example prices and product-wide price coverage
Find missing or overlapping prices and understand the checks required before enabling ordering.
Choose the right pricing method
Choose complete-job, quantity, option, area, size-band or quote pricing with the correct units.
Enter quantity, stock and production prices
Enter or paste a base-job price grid, understand shared rows and add option-specific prices.
Increase or decrease prices across a product
Preview percentage or fixed changes, choose the right scope and publish only after checking.
Price custom sizes and understand m² × copies
Calculate charged area or size-band prices without mistaking the result for paper usage or sheet imposition.
Set an honest From price and starting specification
Advertise a genuine complete-job starting price with its quantity and specification.
Set up VAT and explain inclusive and exclusive prices
Configure WooCommerce tax rates, understand the price-entry basis and check paired VAT displays.
Show a product discount throughout the shop
Assign a verified public WooCommerce percentage coupon to a print product without discounting twice.
Use extras, minimum charges and setup charges correctly
Avoid doubled costs by distinguishing per-job, per-copy and area charges.
Artwork
Define artwork requirements customers can follow
Set finished sizes, bleed, resolution and page counts, and understand the limits of automatic checking.
Review artwork and resolve checking issues
Accept the current artwork set, request corrections or record a justified manual clearance.
Send proofs and obtain version-specific approval
Supply the current proof, handle requested changes and prevent printing from an old approval.
Customer guides
Approve a proof and follow your print job
Find the next action, request changes and understand production updates.
Choose your print specification and place an order
Understand the configurator, job totals, production choices and artwork steps.
Save your choices, duplicate a job or reorder
Reuse specifications while checking current prices, availability and artwork.
Upload, replace or share artwork for your print job
Supply files at the product, basket, checkout or order workspace and understand artwork status.
Quotes
Manage quote requests and send a buyable offer
Turn a specification into a versioned, tax-aware offer and a normal WooCommerce payment journey.
Production
Assign teams, machines, priorities and completion dates
Plan the daily queue while keeping capacity decisions under staff control.
Flag a job, block printing or put it on hold
Distinguish information, attention and blocking flags from an explicit production hold.
Record delivery or collection and update the customer
Save a job-level fulfilment record, tracking link and public message without confusing order completion.
Use the production list, board and job ticket
Find individual print jobs and understand the readiness gates behind their stages.
Store management
Configure caching, scheduled tasks and hosting
Avoid cached private workspaces and keep cleanup, indexing, notifications and licence checks running.
Configure customer notifications and diagnose delivery
Control print-job and quote emails, understand queued status and retry current failures.
Manage private artwork, retention and backups
Understand database storage, automatic expiry, effective upload limits and access controls.
PressFlow data and privacy: a guide for shop owners
Understand artwork storage, licence requests, retention and customer-data responsibilities on your own shop.
Update PressFlow, back up your shop and move sites
Keep configurations, orders and private files safe through plugin updates and domain changes.
Troubleshooting
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about products, price units, artwork, quotes, production and integrations.
Get useful support without sharing private data
Collect a small reproducible example and safe diagnostics so the right problem can be resolved quickly.
Troubleshoot missing, incorrect or unchanged prices
Follow a symptom-led checklist for starting prices, matrices, VAT and offers.
Troubleshoot setup, licences and missing admin screens
Resolve permissions, stale drafts, activation errors, account routes and queue indexing.
Troubleshoot uploads, proofs and private access
Identify file-limit, save, expiry, account and production-lock issues without bypassing access checks.
Developer reference
Customise customer email templates safely
Override WooCommerce-style PressFlow emails while preserving private access and current event data.
Developer integration: start with the supported boundaries
Extend presentation and workflows without bypassing job pricing, private access or WooCommerce calculations.
Import and export price tables with CSV
Use product-specific headings, stable choice IDs and complete replacement semantics.
Integrate VAT pairs, catalogue prices and public offers
Use current server-calculated amounts and distinguish built-in theme integration from an optional adapter.
Job data, snapshots, private files and security boundaries
Read WooCommerce records safely and keep internal storage and authorisation separate from public APIs.
PressFlow hooks: names, arguments and examples
The complete emitted PressFlow hook inventory for 1.25.3, with return contracts and safe examples.
Shortcodes and template placement
Render the configurator, description, starting price and artwork controls once in an appropriate template.
Style PressFlow with scoped CSS and appearance tokens
Keep custom presentation compatible with selected states, user colours and responsive layout.
Test a PressFlow extension or theme integration
An acceptance matrix for pricing, VAT, checkout, artwork access and production invariants.
Worked examples
Worked example: a bespoke product sold by quote
Capture a useful enquiry and test offer review, acceptance and payment without inventing a catalogue price.
Worked example: business cards with quantities and extras
Build a small, understandable card setup and check complete-job versus per-copy charges.
Worked example: custom-size signs priced by area
Check area rounding, copies, minimum charge, setup and a per-copy finishing extra.