Head to head
Printavo vs DecoNetwork
The two names decorated-apparel shops actually shortlist: Printavo for a calm shop-management workflow, DecoNetwork for selling through branded online stores.
This is the real decision in decorated apparel, and it usually gets framed as a feature race when it is closer to a business-model question. Printavo manages the shop: quotes, approvals, a status pipeline, payments. DecoNetwork is built around customer-facing online stores, with shop management attached behind them.
So the honest first question isn't which is better, it's whether branded team stores are how you sell. If they are, DecoNetwork's front end is the product and Printavo has nothing equivalent. If they aren't, you are carrying store-first complexity for a door most of your customers never walk through, and Printavo will feel dramatically lighter.
Where the two converge is the floor. Printavo tracks an order as one position on a linear status list and shows production as a calendar; DecoNetwork's batching is the complaint decorators return to most in reviews. Neither organises work the way a decoration floor actually batches it — by ink colours, screen sets, garment shade, hoop type — and both have raised prices enough that long-time customers say so publicly.
What you actually get
Printavo
The best-known shop management tool for screen printers and apparel decorators.
Apparel shops who want the best-known name in the trade, are happy pricing from one status pipeline, and are on a plan that includes the pricing matrices.
Where shops get stuck
- → A quote isn't a real document — it's an invoice with a quote status, so approving one doesn't produce a separate order record.
- → One linear status per order: a job is in exactly one place, so "art approved, waiting on stock, half printed" has nowhere to live.
- → Per-size upcharges need the same line duplicated per size — the documented workaround, on every apparel quote that charges more for 2XL.
- → Pricing matrices are a higher-tier feature, not part of the entry plan.
DecoNetwork
Business hub + online stores for decorated-apparel shops.
Decorators whose business runs on branded online stores, and who are happy to manage production around them.
Where shops get stuck
- → Production batching is the consistent complaint in decorator reviews — the floor view is weaker than the store front-end.
- → Store-first complexity even if e-commerce isn't your model.
- → Steep price increases reported by long-time customers.
Which should you choose?
Choose Printavo if…
Your business is contract and custom decoration, you want the calmest, best-known workflow in the trade, and you don't need an online store.
Choose DecoNetwork if…
Branded online stores are how you sell — team stores, company stores, fundraisers — and you want the shop-management side to hang off that.
Choose PrinterFlo if…
The bottleneck is production, not the storefront. PrinterFlo prices run charges on the quantity-and-colours grid without holding it back for a higher tier, batches the board by the setups the floor actually shares, and turns an approved quote into a deposit request without anyone remembering to send one.
Printavo vs DecoNetwork — FAQ
Which is better for a screen printing shop, Printavo or DecoNetwork?
For most contract and custom shops, Printavo — it is quicker to learn and the workflow is calmer. DecoNetwork wins when branded online stores are genuinely how you sell, because that front end is the whole point of it and Printavo has no equivalent.
Do either of them handle per-size upcharges properly?
Printavo's documented answer is to duplicate the line per size, so a 2XL upcharge means two lines for one garment. That's worth testing on your own price sheet during a trial, whichever way you lean — it shows up on nearly every apparel quote.
We do embroidery and signs. Does either fit?
Neither comfortably. Both are apparel-shaped, and a banner or a channel-letter set has to be forced into a garment-sized hole. PrinterFlo quotes stitch-and-quantity embroidery pricing and square-foot sign pricing on the same document, which is the reason mixed shops end up looking outside the decoration category.
There is a third option
PrinterFlo prices your materials properly, writes each job's production checklist from the quote, and lets your customer approve the proof and pay the deposit from one link. No workflow to configure first.