ERP Built for Promotional Product Decorators
Manage artwork, proofs, production scheduling, work orders, inventory, shipping, and accounting from one connected platform designed specifically for screen printers, embroiderers, DTF, DTG, laser engraving, UV printing, and other decoration operations. Increase production throughput, reduce artwork delays, and keep every job moving from approval to shipment.
Real outcomes for decorators
Decorators running on Advance ship more work per shift, reduce rework, and cut artwork approval cycles in half.
higher production throughput
less rework and reprints
faster artwork approval cycle
of manual tasks automated
These are the results one customer achieved. How much can you improve?
Every decoration method. One connected shop.
Whether you run one machine or a full production floor across multiple methods, Advance was designed for how decorators actually work.
Every job routed. Nothing missed.
Advance automatically routes every job through your workflow, ensuring nothing is missed and eliminating manual follow-up.
Production Management Built for Decorators
Production Dashboard
Live visibility into every open job, every work center, and every station on the floor - so managers, artists, and shift leads all work from the same real-time production state.
Production Calendar & Work Centers
Model each press, embroidery machine, DTF unit, or laser as a work center with its own queue, run rates, and setup times. Drag and drop jobs across the calendar to rebalance capacity in seconds.
Flexible Production Workflows
Configure the exact sequence of steps for each decoration method - screen print, embroidery, DTF, DTG, laser, UV, sublimation - and Advance moves each job through the right route automatically.
Automated Production Routing
The Dynamic Workflow Engine automatically routes every job through your workflow, ensuring nothing is missed and eliminating manual follow-up.
Proactive Alerts
Get notified the moment there is a missed deadline, artwork delay, inventory shortage, machine scheduling conflict, or customer approval delay - before it slows the floor down.
Artwork & Proof Management
Proof Approvals & Version History
Send electronic proofs, capture time-stamped approvals, and keep a complete version history of every revision. Nothing gets lost between emails and file folders.
Revision Tracking & Comments
Customer comments, internal notes, and revision history are all attached to the job, so artists see the full context every time a proof comes back.
Automated Art Feedback
Declined proofs are automatically routed back to the assigned artist with the customer's notes, so revisions move without a chase call or a lost email.
AI Production Assistant
Antera's AI helps with brand compliance checks, artwork review, production recommendations, order summaries, customer communications, and proof assistance - reducing the manual work that lives in the artwork queue.
PromoStandards & Order Automation
Blank Availability Verification
Automatically verify blank apparel inventory availability through PromoStandards before production begins - so your presses aren't waiting on garments that haven't been shipped yet.
Automated Order Intake
Corporate stores, distributor orders, API orders, and manual orders all arrive in the same production queue, in the same format, ready for artwork and scheduling.
Live Production Visibility
Every department knows exactly where every job is: artwork waiting approval, in production, in quality control, shipping, or completed - updated in real time.
Barcode Scanning
Track every step of the job with barcodes: receiving, production, shipping, and inventory. Decorators love barcode workflows because scans are faster than clicks.
Financials & Job Costing
Job Costing & Margins
Every job carries its own cost and margin. Understand the true profitability of each order, each customer, and each decoration method at a glance.
Production Costs & Commissions
Track labor, materials, machine time, and sales commissions on every job. Payroll, purchasing, and sales all reconcile from the same source of truth.
Accounting Integrations
Push invoices, purchase orders, vendor payments, customer statements, commissions, and credit memos into QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite, or Microsoft Dynamics - no double entry.
Production Visibility & Enterprise Scalability
Exception-Based Production Management
Instead of chasing every job, your team is alerted only when something falls behind, is at risk, or requires attention - turning production management into managing the exceptions that matter.
Single Source of Truth
Artwork, production, shipping, inventory, customer communication, and machine status all live in one connected platform. Every department sees the same real-time truth.
Enterprise Scalability
Whether you're operating a single embroidery machine or multiple production facilities, Advance scales with your business without requiring you to replace your software.
Built by people who understand the shop floor
Advance is not a generic ERP - it was designed alongside real decoration operations, from single-machine embroidery shops to multi-site production floors.
Production-First
Work centers, machine scheduling, and decoration workflows are treated as first-class citizens - not bolt-on modules.
Artwork That Actually Flows
Proofs, revisions, version history, comments, and AI assistance all live in one system decorators actually use every day.
Every Decoration Method
Screen printing, embroidery, DTF, DTG, heat transfer, laser, UV, pad printing, sublimation, wide format - all supported natively.
Exception-Based Management
Your team gets alerted only when a job is at risk, so you can manage the exceptions instead of chasing every order.
Job Costing & Margins
Understand the true profitability of every order, customer, and decoration method - not just aggregate revenue.
End-to-End Order Lifecycle
One connected platform from quote to invoice - CRM, artwork, production, inventory, shipping, and accounting all in sync.