Tools for promo distributors with in-house decoration
A promo distributor with in-house decoration is two businesses in one: a sales operation and a production shop. The data needs are bigger. You need machine utilization data, decorator productivity rates, blank inventory, and a production schedule that lines up with the sales calendar.
Production scheduling without a separate tool
Each order has an in-hands date. Each decoration job has a setup time and a per-unit time. Your schedule is the rolling capacity that fits incoming orders into available decorator hours. DECADE.promo handles this with a project bucket per machine: each order gets bucketed by decoration method (screen, embroidery, DTG), and the bucket rolls up to a weekly capacity view.
Blank inventory: the part nobody talks about
Most in-house decorators stock 2,000 to 5,000 units of common blanks (Bella+Canvas 3001 in basic colors, Gildan 5000 in black/white/navy, S&S Activewear basics). Inventory tracking against orders means a customer's in-hands date is realistic only if you have stock or can hit the supplier ship-time. Tag your top blanks as "stocked" in your catalog and the quote workflow can prefer them when timing is tight.
Decorator rates that actually float
Your in-house decorator cost is real money. Track per-job decorator hours and back-out per-unit decoration cost. The data tells you when a job should be quoted at premium pricing (rush, complex registration) vs standard. Many shops underprice complex decoration because they do not measure decorator time.
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.
- 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
Free tier, no credit card, no contract. Start with one project and decide from there.