Decorators
Antera Software's Advance platform is specifically engineered to streamline the complex, multi-step workflows inherent to decorators such as screenprinters and embroiderers. By centralizing production management and automating communication with partners, decorators can move away from rigid, linear systems to a more agile, exception-based operation.
Specialized Decoration Workflow Management
Fully Configurable Processes
Decorators can define their unique fulfillment steps, from initial quoting and artwork approval to production scheduling and final invoicing.
Dynamic Task Automation
The system eliminates manual follow-ups by automatically triggering the next production step-such as sending artwork to the floor or pushing an invoice to accounting-only once the previous step is validated.
Proactive Alerts
The workflow engine includes 'timeouts' that alert teams if a production step falls behind schedule, ensuring greater process control and on-time delivery.
Streamlined Artwork and Brand Accuracy
AI-Enhanced Brand Assist
This tool helps decorators ensure consistency by quickly analyzing a client's brand assets to verify that logo colors and decoration methods are compliant before the order begins.
Reduced Errors
By automating the cross-referencing of brand guidelines, decorators can speed up the sales cycle and dramatically reduce costly artwork-related mistakes.
Integrated Industry Connectivity
PromoStandards Integration
Decorators gain real-time data flow for product changes and live inventory, which is critical for ensuring that the blank goods needed for a job are actually in stock at the supplier.
Automated Order Flow
For decorators running webstores via Aether, orders flow directly into Advance as ready-to-process sales orders, eliminating the need for manual data entry.
Seamless Financials
Integrations with QuickBooks, Xero, and Sage allow financial data to flow without duplicate entry, ensuring that margins are accurately tracked for every job.
Operational Control and Scalability
Managing by Exception
Instead of tracking every standard order, the system flags high-value jobs or those with low margins for manager approval, allowing the team to focus on high-priority tasks.
Single Source of Truth
By centralizing artwork status, inventory, and shipping data, every team member-from the front office to the production floor-works from the same information.
Built for Growth
Advance is designed for businesses that have outgrown entry-level tools, providing a stable foundation that can manage a $5 million operation as easily as a $50 million+ one.
Industry-Expert Implementation
Strategic Implementation
Rather than a generic setup, Antera Software uses a discovery process and workflow mapping to ensure the software aligns with the decorator's specific business model.
Knowledgeable Support
The support team understands industry-specific nuances such as decoration complexities and PromoStandards data, providing more than just generic software troubleshooting.