Selling from the production floor
The counter-style screen: favourites, search, the cart, and the live process rail.
Production is built for the counter: someone walks in, wants 200 flyers, and you need a job on a machine in under a minute. It works like a point-of-sale screen — tap products into a cart, check out, done.
The screen
| Area | What it does |
|---|---|
| Favourites | Six quick-add cards for your most-used products. |
| Search and grid | Everything else in your catalogue. |
| Cart | What this job will contain. Lines can be edited or removed before checkout. |
| Process rail | Down the right edge: what is queued and what is running now. |
Adding to the cart
Tap a product and you are asked two things: the quantity, and the machine it should run on. Both are per line, so one job can put flyers on the digital press and banners on the wide-format.
“No Machine” is a valid answer
For hand-finished or outsourced work, leave the machine unset. The job still tracks materials and cost; it simply takes no part in machine scheduling and gets no time estimate.
Checking out
Checkout creates a single job containing every cart line, at status *Queued*. It is not started — walk over to the press, then start it from Production Jobs so the clock reflects reality. See Running a production job.
Why no customer is required
Counter trade rarely justifies a customer record, and forcing one would slow the queue down for no benefit. Jobs created here show as walk-in trade in reports. If you need a named customer, an address or a delivery, raise a quotation instead.
The process rail
The rail refreshes on its own every few seconds and shows a progress ring per machine with the time remaining beneath. When elapsed time passes the estimate, the icon becomes a flag meaning probably done — a nudge to go and look, never an automatic completion.
A machine already busy with another job is flagged here too, which is usually the answer to “why will this job not start?”. See How jobs share machines.
Note
The dashboard carries a compact Quick Production version of this screen, for when you are already looking at your day and just want to send one job to the queue.
Open the production floor
Related guides
Running a production job
Start to finish: starting a job, watching progress, logging errors, and marking it done.
Job statuses explained
What Queued, In Production, Completed, Delivered and Cancelled each mean, and what moves between them.
Building a product recipe
Tell PrintERP what one unit of a product consumes: materials, paper, ink, and waste allowance.