Printing & signage — United Arab Emirates
Print and signage work is quoted job by job — 500 business cards over the counter one hour, a 12-metre fascia sign for a mall unit the next. Tallium AI gives your press one app for quotes, deposits, VAT-ready invoices, counter POS, and live stock of vinyl, boards, ink and media, so you always know what a job cost and what it earned. Unlimited users on every plan, so designers, printers, installers and your accountant all work in the same system without paying per seat.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
A client asks for a price on 200 A2 posters, you reply on WhatsApp, take 50% by card, and the job starts. Weeks later nobody can find the agreed price, what was paid, or whether the balance was ever collected — and the deposit never made it into the accounts as an advance.
Photocopies, lamination and urgent name cards need a fast receipt at the counter. A hotel signage package needs a proper tax invoice with your TRN, the client's TRN, line-by-line VAT and payment terms. Running two systems for the two halves of the same business creates two sets of numbers.
A pull-up banner uses media, ink, a stand, an hour of design and a delivery run. Because material is bought in rolls and sheets but sold by the square metre or by the piece, the true cost per job is guesswork — so you discover a loss-making client only after months of work.
Vinyl rolls, ACP sheets, foam board, toner and ink sit in the back store with no record. You over-order some items, run dry on the popular white gloss mid-job, and end up buying at retail prices from Deira to save an installation deadline.
Send a branded quotation, and when the client approves, turn it into a job with the deposit recorded against it. The balance invoice shows the advance already received and only the amount still due. Every version, payment and note stays on the same record so anyone in the shop can answer "what did we agree?" in seconds.
POS handles fast walk-in sales — cards, cash, digital wallets — with a receipt in seconds. The same account produces full tax invoices for corporate and government clients with your TRN, the customer's details, per-line VAT and due dates. Both flows post to the same ledger, so your revenue figure is one number, not two.
Consume vinyl by the metre, boards by the sheet and ink by the job straight from stock as you produce. Tallium AI values what each job consumed against what you invoiced, so gross margin per job, per client and per product type is visible in reports — and repeat jobs get quoted from real numbers instead of a rough guess.
Track rolls, sheets, consumables and finished stock like stands and frames, with low-stock alerts before a busy week. Raise purchase orders to your suppliers, receive them against the order, and let the supplier bill land in your payables automatically — no more emergency retail buying at three times the price.
Branded quotes, deposit requests and VAT-ready tax invoices with your TRN, plus automatic payment reminders for the balance on completed jobs.
Apply the correct VAT treatment per line, keep tax invoice details in one place, and pull the figures you need for your periodic VAT return (VAT201).
Fast counter sales for printing, copying, lamination and small signage — card, cash or wallet — with receipts that post straight to your accounts.
Track vinyl rolls, boards, ink and consumables by the unit you actually use, with reorder points so a job never stalls waiting for material.
Order media and hardware from your suppliers, receive part-deliveries, and match supplier bills to what actually arrived in the store.
Build your plan in a minute — pay only for the parts of your business you run. From $79/month per shop.
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