Tellency
Industry · Printing ERP

ERP software for printing companies connect materials, production and finance.

Evaluate Tellency for the operational backbone of a commercial printer, sign shop or packaging business: customer enquiries, material records, bills of materials, work orders, quality outcomes and accounting. Bring your specialist estimating and press requirements to the demonstration so the proposal identifies the configuration or integration each needs.

Materials
BOM revisions and cost estimates
Production
Work orders and quality outcomes
Platform pricing
From $79 USD / user / mo
Deployment
Managed cloud or self-hosted
01 — Buyer's guide

Follow a print job from customer requirement to review

Use a representative job and a repeat order as acceptance scenarios. The examples below describe how to evaluate the platform; they are not customer results or a promise that every specialist print workflow is already configured.

Keep the customer request connected to the sales process

01

Tellency supports lead imports, duplicate handling, ownership, qualification, conversion and opportunity stages. For a printer, use those workflows to demonstrate how an enquiry reaches the responsible salesperson and becomes an agreed customer requirement. Include quantities, delivery expectations and specification changes in the walkthrough. Demonstrate any required quote templates, artwork attachments, approval history and repeat-order handoff separately before including them in the implementation scope.

Build a controlled material and BOM baseline

02

Tellency supports bill-of-materials revisions, approval, activation, component explosion and cost estimates using recorded quantities, unit costs and manufacturing overhead. Evaluate those capabilities with your paper, ink, substrates or packaging components. Review which revision is active and which values drive the estimate. A BOM cost estimate does not establish press-rate estimating, imposition, cutting optimisation, waste calculations or a selling-price quotation; demonstrate those requirements explicitly.

Use units that can be reconciled

03

The product supports conversions between compatible units of the same type. Show the units used in purchasing, stock records and production, and reconcile the resulting quantities. Converting a carton into sheets or a roll into printable area may require item-specific packaging, dimensions or yield rules. Do not assume a general unit conversion supplies those rules. Include partial packs, damaged material and counting differences in the acceptance examples.

Track production status and quality decisions

04

Manufacturing work orders support release, start, hold, resume and completion, with an associated financial transaction on completion. Quality inspections support passed, failed, rework and scrap outcomes. Demonstrate a held job, a failed inspection and the follow-up decision. If your operation needs artwork proofing, prepress approvals, machine-specific routing, finite-capacity scheduling, subcontracting or operation-level time capture, obtain a separate demonstration and written scope for each.

Move stock with a visible operational handoff

05

Stock transfers support approval, shipment, receipt and posting. For a multi-location printer, use a transfer between the material store and another location to review responsibilities and the quantities at each stage. Lot-expiry monitoring is also available where relevant. Test reservations, replenishment calculations, partial receipts and any automatic purchasing requirement individually rather than inferring them from the presence of inventory screens.

Review the financial controls behind the job

06

Tellency supports bank-statement import, matching and reconciliation approvals, recurring invoice and bill drafts, and overdue reminders with sending logs. Demonstrate how your required production, invoicing and payment records reach the reports used by finance. Agree job-margin reporting, work-in-progress treatment, corrections and stock valuation as acceptance requirements. Tax configuration, exemption documentation and statutory submissions require jurisdiction-specific validation with your advisers; this page does not establish automatic filing support.

Agree the rollout and the specialist interfaces

07

Prepare sample customers, suppliers, materials, BOMs, open orders, stock quantities and balances. Identify any existing print MIS, estimating, artwork, shipping or ecommerce system that must exchange data with the ERP. Define ownership, failed-transfer handling, reconciliation and cutover acceptance. Tellency platform pricing starts at $79 USD per user per month; services, hosting and usage are scoped in the proposal. Around eight weeks is a planning reference, with the actual schedule determined by data, configuration, integrations and acceptance.

02 — FAQ

Printing ERP: buyer questions

Does Tellency offer ERP workflows for printing businesses?
Tellency provides CRM, material and BOM records, manufacturing work orders, quality outcomes, stock-transfer controls and finance workflows that can be evaluated for a printing operation. Fit depends on demonstrating the required job, reporting and specialist print processes.
Is a BOM cost estimate the same as specialist print estimating?
No. Tellency BOM estimates use recorded component quantities, unit costs and manufacturing overhead. Press-rate calculations, imposition, yield, finishing quotations and automated quote-to-production conversion need their own demonstration and agreed scope.
Can Tellency handle print production and quality exceptions?
Work orders support release, start, hold, resume and completion. Inspections support passed, failed, rework and scrap outcomes. Demonstrate the exact prepress, press, finishing and approval requirements before accepting a configuration.
Can we convert rolls, cartons and sheets automatically?
Compatible units of the same type can be converted. Item-specific pack sizes, sheet counts, dimensions and yield rules need separate validation; they are not established by general unit conversion alone.
How should a print shop plan migration?
Start with sample material and customer records, BOMs, open work and financial balances. Agree mappings, reconciliation, specialist integrations, training and acceptance before committing to a go-live date.
Next step

Bring a print job and its exceptions to the walkthrough.

Review materials, production, quality and finance together, then agree the specialist requirements and implementation scope.