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From Spreadsheets to a Connected System - How a 12-Person Print Shop Eliminated Order Errors

A screen printing shop replaced spreadsheets with Shop Titan and reduced order errors from 8-10 per month to zero in 6 weeks.

Shop

DTLA Print

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Team Size

12

Methods

Screen Printing, DTG, Embroidery

Before Shop Titan

Spreadsheets for everything - orders, inventory, production tracking, customer info. 4 different Google Sheets, none connected.

Spreadsheets Were Costing Real Money

The shop was running on spreadsheets for 3 years. As order volume grew past 150 orders/month, the cracks became impossible to ignore.

close8-10 order errors per month - wrong sizes, wrong colors, missing items
close2 employees spending 6+ hours/week just updating spreadsheets
closeInventory counts wrong by the time anyone checked them
closeCustomer calls about order status took 10-15 minutes to answer
closeNew hires took 3+ weeks to learn the spreadsheet system

The Solution

Website + FileMaker - Deployed in 6 weeks from kickoff to go-live

We deployed the complete system - FileMaker for back-office operations and a connected ecommerce storefront. Existing customer data, product catalog, and pricing were imported from their spreadsheets during week 1.

checkOrder Management
checkInventory Tracking
checkProduction Workflow
checkCustomer Database
checkEcommerce Storefront

The Results

Zero Order Errors. 6 Hours Saved Per Week.

Order errors/month

8-10

0

Time on manual tracking

6+ hrs/week

0 hrs/week

Order status lookup

10-15 min

< 30 sec

New hire onboarding

3+ weeks

3 days

Within the first month, order errors dropped to zero. The two employees who spent hours updating spreadsheets now focus on production. Customer calls about order status are answered in seconds because the system tracks everything in real time.

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"We did not realize how much time we were wasting until we stopped wasting it. The system paid for itself in the first month just from the errors we stopped making."

Shop Owner

DTLA Print

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