Learning center
Learn the OS in short, practical guides.
Start with the first six steps, then read the guides for your role. Each one takes a few minutes.
Start here
Your first day with the OS, in six steps.
1. Sign in and open your shop
We create your OS with the email you gave us. Go to os.gratefulprintsph.com/login and sign in with that email. Google sign-in works for Gmail addresses, and Facebook, Apple and mobile number sign-in are also available.
Your shop opens on the Today screen. Bookmark it on your phone's home screen so it opens like an app.
2. Finish the setup guide
On Today, tap Finish setting up your shop. Fill in the business basics: shop name, main branch, opening hours, working days and payroll schedule.
Every other step can be skipped and done later. The guide remembers what is done.
Today, then Finish setting up your shop3. Add your team and their roles
Add each person with their role and department, then send them their invite link. They sign in with their own Grateful Prints account, so you never handle their passwords.
- Manager: runs the day with you.
- Billing or cashier: orders, payments and customers.
- Designer: the design queue and proofs.
- Production: their jobs on the production board.
- Inventory: stock and purchases.
- Quality control: the QC queue.
- Delivery: release and delivery.
4. Add your products and prices
Add each product with its unit (piece, box, square foot), its regular, reseller and wholesale prices, any bulk prices, and its costs. If you add the materials it uses, stock comes down on its own when you produce it.
More, then Products and pricing5. Add your stock
Add your ink, paper, vinyl, tarpaulin, shirts and other materials with how much you have. Set a reorder level for each, so the OS warns you before you run out.
Inventory, then Add an item6. Take your first order
Tap New order, or Walk-in for a quick counter sale. Choose or add the customer, add the items with their specs, and set the deadline. The job ticket is created with the order and shows up on the production board.
Orders, then New orderFor owners
Run the shop from the numbers, not from memory.
Read your Today screen
Today shows money (sales, expenses, estimated profit, unpaid balances), orders and production (new, in production, due today, overdue, ready), stock, machines and who came in. Anything that needs action is listed under Needs attention, and each line opens the right screen.
Record a payment or deposit
Open the order and tap Receive payment. Choose deposit or payment, the method (cash, GCash, Maya, bank, card or other) and the amount. The order shows paid, partial or unpaid, and the balance follows the job to release.
Price a job with a quotation
Open Quotations and tap New quotation. Materials, production, finishing and labor, plus your markup, give the selling price. When the customer agrees, turn the quotation into an order.
Orders, then QuotationsCheck your numbers
Open Sales, then Reports. Choose a report (sales, expenses, profit, best sellers, turnaround, waste, balances and more) and a period: today, this week, this month or your own dates. Download any report as a spreadsheet.
Set your quality check list PRO
Write the checks every job must pass before it is ready, for example color, size, spelling and trimming. Rejects and reprints are counted, and they show in the waste report.
More, then Shop settings, then Payroll and QCGet help from Grateful Prints support
Open a support window when you want our team to look at your OS with you. Support can look but not change anything, the window closes on its own within 72 hours, and every page they open is written to your audit trail.
More, then Shop settings, then GP support accessConnect to the Grateful Prints marketplace (optional)
When you want marketplace orders, connect your OS to your approved Grateful Prints partner account. Marketplace orders then arrive as job tickets on your production board. Your own records stay as they are.
More, then IntegrationsFor staff
Know your jobs and keep them moving.
Find your jobs
Open Production and choose My jobs to see only your work, or open Team, then My day.
Move a job forward
On the job card, tap Start when you begin, Pause if you have to stop, and Complete when you finish. The job moves to its next stage, like finishing or quality check, and the next person sees it.
Report a problem on a job
Tap Report issue on the job and say what is wrong: machine, material, artwork or other. The owner and manager see it on Today, so nobody has to go looking for them.
Time in and out
Open Team, then My day. Time in when you arrive and time out when you leave. If you forget to time out, the OS reminds you. Ask for overtime, leave or an advance under Team, then Requests.
Release a ready job
Open the ready order and choose how it goes out: picked up or out for delivery. If the order still has a balance, collect it first. The OS flags ready jobs with a balance.
For designers
Files that print right the first time.
Print-ready files: the basics
| Size | Design at the final print size. |
|---|---|
| Resolution | 300 dpi at final size for small prints like cards, stickers and photos. Tarpaulin is viewed from a distance, so 100 to 150 dpi at full size is enough. |
| Color | Design in CMYK for print. Very bright screen colors, like neon green or electric blue, print duller. |
| Bleed | Add 3 mm (0.125 in) on every side of anything that is trimmed. |
| Safe area | Keep text and logos at least 3 mm inside the trim line. |
| Fonts | Convert text to outlines or embed the fonts. |
| File | A print-quality PDF, or PNG or JPG at full size. Keep the editable file (AI, PSD, CDR) in case the shop needs to adjust it. |
Tarpaulin layouts
Set up the artboard at the exact size in feet or inches, for example 3 x 6 ft. Leave about 1 inch clear around the edges for eyelets, and keep important text well inside that margin.
A 3 x 6 ft tarpaulin at 100 dpi is 3,600 x 7,200 pixels. Send it as a PDF or a high-quality JPG.
Stickers and cut lines
Draw the cut line as its own path on a separate layer, as a spot color the cutter recognizes (many shops name it CutContour). Extend the artwork 2 to 3 mm past the cut line, and keep text at least 3 mm inside it. Ask the shop which name their cutter uses.
Shirt prints
Send the artwork at final print size, 300 dpi, as a PNG with a transparent background. Ask the shop about the method (for example DTF, sublimation or vinyl), because each one has its own limits on fabric and color.
Proofs and approval in the OS
Open the order and tap Add artwork. Choose what you are adding: a file from the customer, a proof for the customer or the final print file. If the job needs the customer's approval, it waits in Customer approval until the proof is approved. Mark it internal when no customer approval is needed.
Ask GP COMMAND
Ask your shop a question, in Bisaya or English.
How to ask
Open More, then Ask GP, and type a plain question. Ask GP answers from your shop's own records and links you to the screen with the details. Each person only sees answers their role allows: production staff asking about sales get "no access", never the number.
| Money | "Pila sales today?" · "Pila among gasto this month?" · "Profit this week" |
|---|---|
| Orders | "Which orders are overdue?" · "Unsay humanon karon?" · "Show orders ready for pickup." |
| Balances | "Kinsa wala pa nakabayad?" |
| Stock | "Unsay low stock?" · "Unsay paliton?" |
| Team | "Kinsa absent?" · "Who is working?" · "My jobs" |
| Products | "Unsay pinaka daghan nabaligya?" · "Best sellers this month" |
| Machines | "Unsay guba nga makina?" |