Practical guides for shops that decorate for promotional products distributors — reading the purchase orders you receive, avoiding the errors that cost margin, and getting paid on time.
Distributor purchase orders
The contract decorator's guide to distributor POs
Why you are the "supplier" on your own PO, which fields decide whether the job makes money, and how to get paid on terms.
commonsku purchase orders
Why your PO is a different document from the supplier's, why one job arrives as three POs, and where the artwork actually lives.
Facilisgroup / Syncore purchase orders
Design Name, Decoration Location and Method as structured fields, line-item artwork, and why decorator POs still arrive by email.
Turning a PO into a job without retyping it
The four walls every attempt at automating this hits, and what good intake actually looks like.