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Order management for five-person promo shops

A five-person promo shop is the most common shape in the industry and the worst-served by software. Enterprise tools (commonsku, ESP) are overkill. Spreadsheets are now actively dangerous. The right tool fits your team shape: one operations lead, two sales reps, one art coordinator, one owner.

Your file never hits disk
Anonymous uploads are parsed in RAM and dropped on the floor when the response sends.
No login. No watermark.
Use it once. Use it every day. Same output either way.
Built on a real shop floor
I run a promo shop. Every tool here exists because I needed it on a Tuesday.
Free, no asterisk
Sign up and the rate limit goes away. That’s the whole pitch.

Role-based access matters more than you think

Sales reps see their own customers and orders. Operations sees everything. Art coordinator sees only orders with active art work. The owner sees the dashboard. DECADE.promo's ppd-user and ppd-admin roles cover this; you do not need to build a permission matrix from scratch.

The shared inboxes that kill productivity

A "sales@" inbox where everyone fights over which rep claims a lead. A "production@" inbox where art files pile up. A "billing@" inbox where invoice questions go to die. Replace each with a structured queue: Leads inbox (assigned to a rep), Art Requests (assigned to art coordinator), Invoice messages (routed via Stripe with notification to billing).

The owner's dashboard

Revenue this month vs last month, profit margin trend, top customers by revenue, top suppliers by spend, anything in danger of missing an in-hands date. The owner spends ten minutes a morning on this view and runs the rest of the day on exceptions.

Five people, four roles, one shared tool. Get the access permissions right and the team stops stepping on each other.

What we built differently in DECADE.promo

Unlimited AI on the GOAT plan

AI mockups, Product Capture (browser-extension AI scraping of supplier sites), AI vectorization, and AI image upscale - all unlimited on one flat-price tier. No credit metering, no per-feature add-ons.

AI Product Capture extension

Browse any supplier website - SAGE, Hit Promo, Koozie Group, anywhere - click the browser extension, and our AI reads the page. SKUs, pricing tiers, setup fees, colors, lead times, and images are extracted in seconds and import directly to your products catalog.

Tightly integrated with SAGE

Bring your own SAGE Connect subscription. Search, adopt products, and pull pricing tiers without leaving DECADE.promo. Sales decks, quotes, and POs reuse the SAGE data automatically.

Transparent pricing

Free tier for solo distributors, flat per-distributor pricing for teams, and no per-seat tax. Customers always free. Suppliers always free.

One platform. Two free accounts. One public layer for everyone else.

The tool you’re using is one feature in a much bigger app. Here’s the rest, by which side of the order you’re on.

Public tool
Free · No account
  • Every public tool on this site
  • 5 conversions a day per IP
  • One file at a time
  • Output dropped after the request
  • No account, no nag
For distributors
Free trial · Then plans from $0/mo
  • Every public tool, no rate limit
  • Batch 10 files at once
  • 30-day download history
  • AI vectorization (the $50-redraw replacement)
  • AI mockup generator, white-label proofs
  • SAGE catalog, 1M+ products
  • Quotes, POs, invoices, projects
  • Storefront under your brand
  • Blind-ship POs to suppliers
  • Saved thread palettes per customer
  • Email automation for every status
Start free trial
For customers
Always free · No credit card
  • Every public tool, no rate limit
  • Every order in one place
  • Approve proofs without email tag
  • Two-click reorder
  • Saved shipping + tax-exempt files
  • Real-time status pings
  • See and pay invoices online
  • Message your distributor inside the app
  • Always free. No card.
Create your account

See it in your workflow

Free tier, no credit card, no contract. Start with one project and decide from there.

Distributor
Catalog, customers, quotes, POs, invoices, projects. Plus the AI tools, plus the public tools.
Customer
Free. Track orders, approve proofs, reorder. Your distributor invites you in.
Just visiting
Use the free tools above. Bookmark the page. We won’t make you sign up to use them.

No card. Cancel whenever. Or just keep using the free tools - I’m not going to email you.

Last reviewed 2026-04-27. Spot something inaccurate or out of date? Email hello@decade.promo and we will update it.