Order management software for garment decoration and workwear suppliers

In short

Choose a decorator platform if most orders start in online stores, or a quote-to-job system like Zigaflow if they start as quotes and reorders. Count where your last 50 orders came from before booking demos.

If most of your orders start on your own website or in a customer's online store, shortlist a decorator platform such as DecoNetwork. If most start as an email, a phone call or a reorder from an account you already serve, shortlist a quote-to-job system such as Zigaflow, which is built around garment decoration and workwear suppliers. Either way, the software should do three things: pull blank-garment catalogs and trade prices into the quote, tie artwork approval to the order line before anything is bought, and show which jobs are ready for production.

That is the whole decision. The rest of this guide explains why where your orders come from matters more than any feature checklist, and what each option does and does not do.

What a decorator actually has to coordinate

A decoration business has three dependencies that a normal quoting tool ignores. The blank garments come from one or more wholesalers, each with its own catalog, size runs, colors and stock levels. The artwork has to be digitized, approved by the customer and kept for the next reorder. And the machines, whether screen print, DTF or embroidery, have to be loaded in the right order once both of the first two are settled.

A job can stall at any of those points. A quote built on an out-of-date garment price loses margin before the order starts. A logo approved by email and then lost in an inbox holds up the run. A blank ordered before the artwork is signed off sits on a shelf if the customer changes their mind. Good software removes the retyping between those steps. The choice between categories is really a question about which of those steps you retype most today.

Option one: print-shop management software

DecoNetwork describes itself as print shop management software for online stores, quotes, orders, artwork, supplier products and production. Its own site says it is built for screen printers, embroiderers, DTF and DTG printers, promotional product businesses and garment decorators. Its homepage lists online stores where customers personalize products, product mockups, quotes and orders, and production management with a production calendar, job assignment and batch production for store orders. It also says you can browse supplier catalogs and check product availability inside the platform.

That is a strong fit when the store is the front door. If you run team, school or club stores where dozens of people order individually, and the orders then need grouping into one production batch, software designed around that flow saves real work. DecoNetwork's pricing page lists three tiers (Standard, Premium and Enterprise) that differ mainly in staff accounts and the number of online stores, with a Standard plan covering 3 staff accounts and 1 online store. The text of the page I read showed add-ons at £10 a month but no plan prices, so treat the plan prices as "ask the vendor" until you have a quote.

What to check before you sign: how its supplier catalogs map to the wholesalers you really buy from in your own country, and whether your accounting package is among its supported apps. Its site says it connects to apps for accounting, shipping and embroidery but does not list them on the pages I read.

Option two: a quote-to-job system with live supplier catalogs

Zigaflow works the other way round. It starts with the quote and carries one record through to the purchase order, the delivery note and the invoice. On the decorator side, blanks, decoration, setup and carriage are separate quote lines with their own supplier cost, so you see margin per line rather than per invoice. Artwork approval is an eForm attached to the line it belongs to. Purchase orders to your wholesalers are raised from the job.

The supplier catalogs are the part decorators ask about first. The Ralawise integration shows garments with full size runs and color options inside the quote, pulls through your negotiated trade prices, checks live stock, and converts an accepted quote into a Ralawise purchase order with the size and color breakdown. The Pencarrie integration does the same for its range, and syncs order confirmations and dispatch updates back to the job. Zigaflow's pages are clear that these are blank-garment costs: embroidery, screen print and transfer decoration are priced separately in your own decoration structure. Both are UK wholesalers, so if you buy from wholesalers elsewhere, ask for the supplier list before you commit.

For reorders, which is where uniform and workwear accounts make their money, a company store lets an account order at agreed prices with approved artwork already attached, and the order lands as a job instead of an email. That is a customer ordering portal, not a product designer. If your customers expect to build a design on screen and see a live mockup, DecoNetwork's pages describe that capability and Zigaflow's do not.

Where the orders come from decides the shortlist

Put your last 50 orders into three piles: placed by the customer through a store or portal, requested by email or phone, and repeats of earlier jobs. Then read the result.

• Mostly self-serve store orders from teams, schools and clubs: a decorator platform with an online designer and batch production fits. Quoting is secondary.
• Mostly quoted B2B work, with workwear and uniform accounts that reorder: a quote-to-job system fits, because the pain is the chain from quote to supplier PO to invoice, and the margin lost in between.
• A mix: be honest about which half is growing. Pick the one that handles the bigger and more profitable half, then work around the other.

The same test applies to the quote itself. If prices from a wholesaler arrive after the customer has been given a number, the catalog link is worth more than any production screen.

What it costs and what it includes

On Zigaflow's pricing page, three users cost £217 a month on Essentials, £278 on Go and £399 on Momentum, all excluding tax. The Ralawise and Pencarrie pages both state that live supplier feeds are included on the Go and Momentum plans, so for a decorator who wants catalog pricing in the quote, Go is the practical starting point. Extra users are £79 each on Go. Customer-store access is a paid module at £199 a month for 25 customer logins, so add that if reorders are your main business.

DecoNetwork's plan prices were not visible on the page text I read, so compare on what is included: staff accounts, number of stores and catalog integrations.

Questions to ask in any demo

1. Show a quote for 40 polos in three colors with a logo on the chest and sleeve. Where does the garment price come from, and is it my trade price?
2. Show the artwork being approved. What stops the blank being ordered before it is signed off?
3. Show a reorder from last year. How does the approved artwork reach the new job?
4. Show the purchase order going to my wholesaler, and what comes back when the delivery is short.
5. Show the invoice reaching my accounting package without retyping.

A vendor that can run all five on your own products has earned a place on the shortlist. One that answers with slides has not.

Sources

• Zigaflow pricingZigaflow · accessed 2026-11-09
• Garment decoration software - ZigaflowZigaflow · accessed 2026-11-09
• Ralawise + Zigaflow integrationZigaflow · accessed 2026-11-09
• Pencarrie + Zigaflow integrationZigaflow · accessed 2026-11-09
• Print Shop Management & Online Stores for Garment PrintersDecoNetwork · accessed 2026-11-09
• Pricing | DecoNetworkDecoNetwork · accessed 2026-11-09