Promo distributor software on a budget
A working promo distributor stack is far more capable in 2026 than the $300-a-month tools were a decade ago, and it is fewer moving parts. The savings no longer come from stitching together free tools - they come from one subscription doing the job that used to take a CRM, an order tracker, a proofing tool, an invoicing add-on, and a pile of spreadsheets.
The minimum viable stack
DECADE.promo: one plan, every feature, no per-seat surprise until you actually hire someone (then seats are 50% each). SAGE Connect entry: about $35/month, billed by SAGE, and you bring your own. Stripe: no base fee, you pay per transaction. Google Workspace: about $6/month for professional email. A domain: roughly $1/month amortized.
That is five line items and only two of them are real fixed software costs. Compare it honestly against the alternative - a CRM subscription, a separate order system, a proofing tool, an invoicing add-on - and the consolidation is where the budget actually comes from.
What you are not giving up
Nothing is held back to sell you an upgrade later. There is one plan: unlimited customers, unlimited orders, customer portals, the AI tools, the Capture Tool, the SAGE integration, art services, and the public tools. Customer accounts are free forever and always have been - your clients never pay to track an order or approve a proof.
Where the money actually goes
Two places worth budgeting for beyond the software: SAGE Connect if you want live catalog search, and your own product photography for the items you sell most. Both do more for your close rate than any amount of tool-shopping.
If you add a teammate, the second seat is half price. That is the only line on the bill that changes as you grow.
What we built differently in DECADE.promo
Every AI tool on the GOAT plan
AI mockups, Product Capture (browser-extension AI scraping of supplier sites), AI vectorization, and AI image upscale - all included on the flat-price GOAT tier with generous daily fair-use limits. No per-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.
Art that is actually print-ready
Image Enhance upscales a low-res logo to real print size without going soft, removes backgrounds to a transparent PNG, and lets you set the finished size in inches at your target DPI. The file a customer emails is almost never the file you can print - this closes that gap inside the same app that runs the order.
Transparent pricing
One plan for the whole distributor - no tiers to decode. Flat per-distributor pricing; extra GOAT team seats are 50% of the plan price, only when you add them. Customers free. Suppliers free.
One platform. Two ways in. 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
See it in your workflow
One plan, every feature, no contract. Start with one project and decide from there.