Marketing Ideas for Printers Knowledge Base

E-mail Auto-responders

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

E-mail auto-responders may be set through your webmail interface at mail.MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. After logging into the web interface, click the menu button located in the upper right corner (next to your email address) and choose "Settings" from the pop-up menu. Then choose "Incoming Email" from the sidebar of the settings window. You may es

Video Hero: The Website Homepage Background Video

Published September 11th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Overview Video Hero is a website homepage style that plays a short background video behind the homepage banner instead of rotating image sliders. It's a great option if you have footage of your shop, equipment, or products in action and want your homepage to feel more dynamic. When Video Hero is turned on, the homepage displays a looping, muted vide

E-Mail Acceptable Use Policy

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

For the security and protection of all our customers, bulk mailings are not allowed to be sent from our mail servers. Servers used to send bulk e-mails can become listed on third-party blacklists, which may cause their mail delivery to be blocked by recipients' mail servers. Blacklisting is difficult to reverse and can result in the blocking of legi

07 - Order Forms: Private Reorder Forms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Private Reorder Forms let you create order forms for products printbuyers order regularly. In the Control Center, these forms are called Reorder Forms Library items. You can tailor each form to the Client’s product and make it available only to the people you designate. The form builder lets you create them without web programming. The perfect tool

An overview of the form editor

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The custom form editor tools allow you to build order forms for any situation. This article takes a look at every option that's available to you, and explains how it is used in the system. The form editor is split into several parts, accessible through the following links in the sidebar menu: Product Info Questions & Answers Customers (Reorder F

Blocklist Addresses, Domains, and IP Addresses in Rackspace Email (Individual Mailbox)

Published December 15th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

This article explains how to add an email address, domain, or IP address to your personal Blocklist in the Rackspace Email Webmail interface to protect your mailbox from unwanted mail. Why Use a Blocklist? When you Blocklist an email address, domain, or IP address, this creates a rule that rejects any mail sent from the source that you specified

How Does the E-mail System Determine Spam?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Spam Problem An estimated 85% of all email traffic on the Internet is spam.This issue results in millions of dollars lost annually due to reduced productivity and increased infrastructure costs. Spammers continue to evolve, finding new ways to bypass common defenses and infiltrate inboxes. Solving the Problem Our Spam DNA Filtering® system conti

13 - Proofing

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your Marketing Ideas For Printers website includes tools for sending proofs and recording customer responses. You can upload a proof for an online order or send a stand-alone proof for a project that began outside the website. The customer receives an email with a link to view the proof and can approve it or request changes through your website. Ben

How To Accept Credit Card Payments Through Your Website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Ecommerce Suite is a website add-on that features a collection of tools that allow your print buyers to purchase printing or other services directly through your website. This article will walk you through the necessary steps to set up your website to accept credit card payments with the Ecommerce Suite. Establishing A Payment Gateway In order t

uDesignIT!: Powered by Pageflex Studio

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

What Is uDesignIt!? uDesignIt! is the variable-data personalization feature of a Marketing Ideas For Printers website. It allows print buyers to customize products, such as business cards, using templates connected to your order forms or Reorder Forms Library. How It Works 1. The print buyer enters information into fields such as Name, Address, and

Pageflex Studio: Purchase Information

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

There are two ways to add uDesignIT! functionality to your Reorder Form Library items. You may either request MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com to build individual documents for you, or you may purchase the Pageflex Studio software in order be able to build uDesignIT! documents on your own. If you choose to purchase Pageflex Studio, the software may be

Request a Custom Color for Your Website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

In addition to the standard colors available for your website design, you can request a custom color that better matches your branding. Submit a custom color request 1. Select My Website from the Control Center menu. 2. Select Website Colors from the Website Settings sidebar. 3. Enter your desired color in the Primary Color field. You may provid

Advanced SEO & Search Engine Optimization

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Advanced SEO Services Search engines continually scan the web to index web pages, helping users find relevant content. When search engine "bots" visit your website, they evaluate the text and metadata to determine what your pages are about. Proper Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ensures that your website is visi

Ecommerce Suite

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Ecommerce Suite includes essential tools that allow you to set up safe and secure credit card processing, integrated ShipLeap delivery settings, sales tax collection and many other features. The Ecommerce Suite is split into several parts, accessible through the following links: PRICING Advanced Pricing Calculator Quantity Pricing Methods Advanc

Company Managers: Managing Print Buyer Accounts

Published August 15th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your website lets you designate a company contact as a Company Manager. Company Managers can manage contacts within their company, including creating accounts for employees or inviting employees to register. This can help your customer manage who can log in, place orders, and access their company’s forms. Once a contact has Company Manager access, t

Reorder Forms Library: Pricing Schedule

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

If you'd like additional Reorder Form Library items created, we'd be happy to help! The number of order forms you need created will determine the cost of your project. A minimum charge of $50 covers the creation of up to 10 Reorder Forms Library items. Your price per item decreases with each form after that, so the more the merrier! Quantity 1-10 Qu

Get A Free Estimate Form

Published June 18th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

The Get A Free Estimate form is a floating contact widget that appears on your website, making it easy for visitors to request a print estimate without navigating away from the page they're on. How it works When enabled, a button appears in the corner of every page on your website. On desktop — clicking the button opens a compact estimate request fo

Why Host Your Domain With MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question What are the advantages and disadvantages of transferring our domain to your control? Answer Here's a quick rundown of the advantages and disadvantages of transferring your domain: Advantages Highly redundant name servers, ensuring virtually 100% uptime for your site. We maintain your domain name registration and pay for renewals, so you do

Adding a Custom Navigation Tab

Published August 25th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Adding a Custom Navigation Tab Your website's top navigation bar comes with six built-in tabs — Products, Services, Resources, Help Center, About Us, and Contact Us. If one more spot is needed in that bar for something those don't cover Who We Serve or industry-vertical focused pages, a seasonal promotion, a partner page, a "Request a Quote" link, t

Getting Started with Authorize.net

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

An Authorize.Net Payment Gateway account provides you with a secure bridge between your MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com website and the credit card processing networks. In addition to a seamless integration with your MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com website, each Authorize.Net Payment Gateway account includes: Online access to transaction information and

Glossary of Printing Terms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Where to Find and Reorder the Glossary of Printing Terms Print buyers can find the Glossary of Printing Terms under the Resources navigation tab on your website’s homepage. The glossary includes common printing and graphic arts terms with clear, easy-to-understand definitions. Change the link’s position To change where Glossary of Printing Terms app

Add Custom Shopping Cart Questions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Shopping cart questions let you collect information that applies to an entire order during checkout. For example, you might ask for delivery instructions or a reference number that does not belong on an individual order form. Every shopping cart includes an Additional Comments or Instructions question by default. You can add questions, choose how cl

Shortcode List for MI4P Plugin

Published October 21st, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Shortcodes for Your MI4P WordPress Plugin Shortcodes can be a WordPress user’s best friend. If you’re not familiar with shortcodes in WordPress, they are your shortcut to doing things inside of WordPress with minimal effort. In other words, shortcodes are shortened bits of code that allow you to execute code inside of WordPress without having to wri

Additional Domain Names

Published September 26th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Do you wish to have multiple domain names pointing to your MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com website? These are called aliased domains; an aliased domain is an additional website address that points to your primary website content. A common use for an aliased domain is to point the .net version of your domain name to the same content as the .com version

Aliased Domain Names

Published September 26th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Aliased Domain Names Do you wish to have multiple domain names pointing to your Marketing Ideas For Printers website? These are called aliased domains; an aliased domain is an additional website address that points to your primary website content. A common use for an aliased domain is to point the .net version of your domain name to the same content

Customers Tab

Published February 17th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Use the Customers tab in the Reorder Form Editor to choose which customers can see a reorder form when they log in. New reorder forms start as Unassigned. This gives you time to finish setting up the form before customers can access it. Make a Reorder Form Viewable When the form is ready: 1. Open the Customers tab in the Reorder Form Editor. 2. Se

03 - Customer Accounts

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You can create customer accounts, using the tools in the Control Center's Accounts section. New visitors can also create their own accounts through your website when placing their first estimate or order. You can add as little or as much customer information as you like. At a minimum, a user account must have an email address. On this page: How cust

File Transfer Size Limits

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question How large of a file can be sent using the website's file transfer tools? Answer 2GB Click here for a tool which you may use to help estimate the time required to transfer files at various connection speeds. Please note: This tool is not provided or endorsed by MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com; we are providing a link to this tool for informat

Pageflex: Handling Font Errors in Output Files

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

What Causes Font Errors on the Server? When a Pagflex project uses a font that has not been installed on the website's Pageflex server engine, an error is generated every time that font is used. Such errors typically prevent the live preview from displaying on the screen when users fill out a form. This is because fonts used in a project must match

E-mail Account Specifications

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The following information provides details and specifications for your e-mail accounts through MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. Message Storage on Server Retention: Unlimited. Messages remain on the mail server until: Retrieved by your e-mail software (if set to remove messages immediately or within a set number of days), or Deleted manually through t

uDesignIt!: Adding Dynamic QR Codes

Published December 19th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Adding Personalized QR Codes to uDesignIt! uDesignIt! allows print buyers to automatically generate personalized QR codes directly within their print designs using the information they enter. For example, a business card template can create a QR code from the print buyer’s contact details, eliminating the need to create and upload a separate code. T

Authorize.net Security Upgrade: Response/Receipt URL section

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The below video is directed to any of our Marketing Ideas For Printers customers that are currently using Authorize.net as their payment gateway. You may need to double-check that your domain URL has been added as part of the Response/Receipt URLs security upgrade from August 15th, 2019. Also, users will need to ensure all Private Label Websites URL

uDesignIT!: Font Management

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

How uDesignIt! Handles Fonts in Your Templates uDesignIt!, powered by Pageflex, uses the fonts packaged with your project when creating or updating templates. Existing Templates Existing templates continue to use their configured fonts. No changes are needed unless you are updating the template or its fonts. New or Updated Templates When you create

Transferring Your Domain and E-mail Services to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Throughout your MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com 30-day Live Trial period, your domain name (website address) has remained under the control of your previous host. Your website went live with MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com because your previous host redirected web requests to our web servers. Your e-mail accounts associated with this domain are currentl

Email Marketing: What You Need To Know

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Marketing Ideas for Printers has partnered with MailJet to provide you with world-class Email Marketing capabilities. Below are helpful links to aid in getting started with our Email Marketing tool. Getting Started with Email Marketing Getting Started Guide Additional helpful links for navigating some of the main aspects of Email Marketing: Newslett

Email Deliver-ability

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

To ensure email notifications from the website make it to your inbox, white-list the following email address: no_reply@*.secureprintorder.com or the following IP addresses: 166.78.68.101 166.78.68.102 162.242.201.69

MI4P WordPress Plugin: Generating API Keys for WordPress Plugin

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Obtaining API Keys Log into your Info Center: https://www.mi4p.info/<MI4PID>/api_keys/ where <MI4PID> is your Marketing Ideas For Printers ID. If you do not recall what your log-in credentials are or your MI4P ID, please contact Customer Care at customercare@mi4p.com or 1-800-736-0688 You will be presented with two sections: ‘Active API

Transferring Your Domain and E-mail Services to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com — Option 1

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

To complete the transition to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com, you have selected Option 1 — Transfer Your Domain to Our Administrative Control. To start the process of this final transition, please provide us with a list of all the e-mail accounts you intend to use with your domain name, and the passwords you desire to use with those accounts. If you

Information about the MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com Mail System

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com has partnered with Rackspace in order to bring you the highest quality e-mail service. This partnership allows MarketingIdeasPrinters.com to offer the following e-mail-related benefits: World class network Highly redundant systems 99.99% uptime Directory Harvest Attack protection 24x7 monitoring User configurable spam f

E-mail Services: Additional Capacity

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We will provide you with as many e-mail accounts for your domain as needed. If necessary, we can upgrade your email accounts to allow for a higher capacity based on the following rates: Capacity Price 25 GB (Rackspace) $30.00 per month per email address 30 GB (Google Workspace Starter) $17.00 per month per email address 2 TB (Google Workspace Busi

Graphics Formats Used in Pageflex Studio

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

While Pageflex Studio supports the use of many graphics formats (including EPS and TIF graphics), we have found that PDF files have the best results. You'll experience a better-rendered uDesignIT! preview image, and other more subtle benefits when using PDF as your format of choice. If you use EPS or TIF formatted graphics in your native documents,

04 - Order Forms: An Overview

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your website includes prebuilt order forms that you can customize, along with tools to create your own order forms from scratch. You can make an order form available to everyone or restrict a private reorder form to specific users. This page introduces prebuilt and custom order forms. The next three articles in the ‘Getting Started Series’ explain h

How Price Approval Works

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your website supports two price approval processes. The option being used determines whether a print buyer can complete cart checkout immediately or must approve a selling price entered by your team before the order moves into production. Price Approval Not Required Price Approval Required When checkout occurs Immediately after th

Transferring Your Domain and E-mail Services to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com — Option 2

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

To complete the transition to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com, you have selected Option 2 — Transfer DNS Control. To start the process of this final transition, please provide us with a list of all the e-mail accounts you intend to use with your domain name, and the passwords you desire to use with those accounts. If you don't provide us with a passwo

Authorize.net Gateway Fees

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

While the integration of Authorize.net is provided to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com customers at no additional charge, there are fees assessed by Authorize.net. For the current rates, please visit Authorize.net's pricing page, or contact Authorize.net at 888.323.4289.

E-mail: Adjusting Spam Settings

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When the MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com mail system identifies Spam e-mail, the spam will be processed according to the preferences established in your e-mail account. To view or change your Spam settings: Login to your e-mail account at mail.MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. Click the three horizontal lines in the upper right corner of the webmail inte

Pageflex Studio Tips and Tricks

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

In addition to the information provided in the Pageflex Studio online training videos, we also maintain a list of tips and tricks to help you tap into the power of Pageflex Studio. Here are some additional Knowledgebase articles you may find helpful: Pageflex Studio: Creating Your Own uDesignIT! Document Pageflex Studio Support Multiple Documents an

Pageflex Studio Support

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Pageflex Studio is the application used to create variable data documents in the format used with uDesignIT!. While there is a "learning curve" that will be experienced when beginning to use Pageflex Studio, we believe the learning curve you'll experience will prove to be a pleasant experience. If you (or your staff) are comfortable using page layou

Add QR Code Variables to Pageflex Projects

Published February 6th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Overview The QR Code Generator Plugin used in Pageflex projects stores its configuration inside variables within the project file ( .pf ), . Many QR-related settings—such as encoding mode (Byte) and internal flags—cannot be reliably changed through Pageflex Studio. The only way to view or modify these settings is by editing the .pf file directly. Th

Manage Website Notification Recipients

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Many activities on your website generate email notifications. The notification settings determine who receives each type of message. You can establish site-wide default recipients or customize the settings for a specific company, branch, or contact. Understand the Notification Settings Customer Rep Customer Rep is an assignment rather than a notif

10 - Setting up Payment Options for your customers

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Setting up payment options is a two-step process, similar to setting up shipping options. First, create the payment options your website will offer. Then, choose which payment options are available to all clients or assign specific payment options to a company, branch, or contact. For example, you might allow all clients to pay by credit card while

Custom Pages: Working With Custom Pages

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Custom Pages make it easy to add new pages to your website without any coding experience. Creating A Custom Page To create a Custom Page: 1. Choose ‘Web Page’s' from the Control Center's top menu 2. Choose ‘Custom Pages’ from the sidebar menu 3. Select the green "Create New Custom Page" button 4. Complete the ‘Custom Page Editor’, which includes

Creating Custom Callout Boxes For Your Home Page

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Callout boxes are an excellent way to draw extra attention to pages both on or off your site. MI4P websites come with several pre-made options to direct users to pages throughout your website, but you also have the ability to create your own. This article will show you how. How to Create Custom Callout Boxes 1. Select "Web Pages" from the Control Ce

MI4P WordPress Plugin: Install and Activate WordPress plugin

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Install and Activate WordPress Plugin Installation of Marketing Ideas For Printers WordPress Plugin Download the MI4P WordPress plugin at the following location: https://www.marketingideasforprinters.com/plugin/wordpress-plugin-download/ Save the zip file to a location on your computer that you'll remember‎ Log into your WordPress website: https:

Working With Estimates

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Printbuyers can request an estimate through your website before placing an order. You can review the request, send pricing, and manage their response in the Control Center. This allows new customers who may not yet be ready to commit to an order to still use the order form to give you the information needed to provide them a complete estimate. Meanw

Creating Custom Slides For Your Home Page

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

One of the most prominent features of your website is the slideshow that appears on the home page. We've created several slides to help you "hit the ground running". But if you wish to customize your website even further, you also have the ability to create your own slides, as well as turning off some or all of the pre-built sliders. How to Create C

Working With Sidebar Ads

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Sidebar ads appear on several interior pages of your website and highlight the pages or services you want Clients to notice. This guide shows you how to set them up. How Sidebar Ads Are Used Several interior pages of your website display three clickable images along the right side. You can choose the images and where they link to, highlighting produ

ShipLeap Settings: Setting Up Overrides

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Adjusting USPS Services for All Customers To manage USPS service availability for your customers, follow these steps: Disabling USPS at Checkout Navigate to 'USPS Account' and select 'Available' to the right. This action will disable USPS rates from appearing at checkout for all customers. Disabling Specific USPS Services For individual services lik

Why Shared Accounts Are Not Recommended

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

It's rarely beneficial for two or more customers to share a user login. This article explains an important reason why it doesn't usually work out, and outlines some possible alternative ways to accomplish what you're looking for. Put simply, shared logins are confusing If you're reading this article, you may be thinking about setting up a "shared" l

Product Info Tab

Published February 17th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

About the Form Editors When you edit a Public Order Form, you’ll see the Order Form Editor. When you edit a Reorder Form, you’ll see the Reorder Form Editor. The Reorder Form Editor also has Customers and Inventory tabs for settings specific to reorder forms. The Product Info tab is the first tab you’ll see when creating a Public Order Form or Reo

IMAP vs POP3

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Depending on how you handle emails can impact your decision as to whether to go with IMAP or POP3 for your incoming mail protocol. The below discusses why you may choose one protocol over the other. IMAP (Best for those who check email across multiple devices) Advantage - As a copy of all emails are stored on the Email Server, you can access your ma

Early Access: Previewing and Requesting the New Storefront

Published September 21st, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Overview We’re modernizing storefronts page by page with an updated design. Early Access gives you two ways to experience the new storefront as it develops: Preview it in your browser to explore the updated pages privately. Request Early Access for your website when you’re ready for all website visitors to see the updated pages. Both options are ava

Navigating E-Mail Quotas

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your email account from MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com has a maximum amount of data that can be stored on the server. This article discusses what to do when you reach the limit. About Quotas How To Tell When You've Reached Your Quota What To Do When You've Reached Your Quota How To Prevent Reaching Your Quota About Quotas By default, your email accou

Working With Footer Links

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You can choose which standard pages appear in your website footer and add links to Custom Pages you’ve created. This guide shows you how to manage those links using the Footer Links tool in the Control Center. How Footer Links Are Used The footer appears on every page of your website and gives visitors quick access to other pages. With the Footer Li

The Domain Name Transfer Process

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Beginning the Domain Transfer Process To start the domain transfer process, we'll need to obtain your registrar account login information. This is the process that will allow us to make the changes to your website domain's Domain Name Servers. Locate your registrar in the list below (an e-mail was sent to you when your website was first registered w

Preflight Pro

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Preflight Pro checks PDF files directly on your website, so print buyers do not need to download additional software. Whether they upload a PDF through an order form or Send a File, Preflight Pro automatically checks the file and provides a file health report as part of the preflight process. Upload a PDF through an order form If an order form inclu

ShipLeap Settings: Setting up Markups

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Setting up Markups at a Printshop, Company, Branch, or Contact level Within the 'ShipLeap settings' section, there is the ability to set markups based on either per line item or per order. Accessing markups If you are subscribed to the Ecommerce Suite add-in, you will notice a 'ShipLeap Connection' tab within the My Website's E-Commerce Settings tab

Getting Started with the Instant Sales Tax Calculator

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com E-Commerce Suite includes an easy-to-use Instant Sales Tax Calculator which allows you to collect the appropriate sales tax for each online purchase, based on the address and zip code of the location in which the product will exchange hands. Here's how to use the Instant Sales Tax Calculator. In your website's Contr

How to Create and Edit Private Label Websites

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Private Label Websites feature gives you the tools to build a customized storefront for your clients that completely removes all of your branding — a growing number of print buyers are requesting this feature, and now you can provide it! And our simple what-you-see-is-what-you-get interface makes setup and activation fast and easy. What Private

Shipping Weight Tab

Published February 17th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Set Up Shipping Weights for an Order Form Shipping weights help your website calculate an order’s total weight and use it to determine shipping costs. The calculation can: Calculate product weight based on the quantity ordered Add the weight of the shipping box Account for how many pieces fit in each box Adjust product weight based on selected optio

Using Promotional Codes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Promotional codes (available through the E-Commerce Suite add-on) give you the ability to reward your most loyal customers with special discounts, or to gain new customers with special promotional pricing. As with Shipping and Billing options, setting up Promotional Codes is a two-step process. You first set up the Promotional Code, then you activat

06 - Order Forms: Custom Order Forms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Custom order forms let you create forms tailored to the products you sell and the way your printshop works. You can build them from scratch using the form builder, with no web programming required. How to create a custom order form There are two ways to start. You can open a category and add a new order form there, or create the order form first and

Harmony - What Is It?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Harmony occurs when divergent systems or objects work together toward a common goal. Harmony is our name for the communication tools that allow WebsitesForPrinters.com websites and MIS systems to "talk" with each other. And ... it's more than just talk; it's intelligent, robust two-way communication. Harmony adheres to cXML specifications. All print

How to connect your order forms to your Printer's Plan MIS

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Summary: Our Harmony system, available with the Ecommerce Suite Add-on, allows you to associate your order forms with templates you have set up in your Printer's Plan Management Information System (MIS). This association enables the website to send new orders directly into Printer's Plan, and for the order forms on your website to seamlessly display

Activating Harmony for Printer's Plan on your Website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

There are a few things we need to do behind the scenes to get your website ready to use the Harmony system to communicate with your Printer's Plan system. All we need to know from you is where to send the data. What you will need The connection to Harmony requires the "Web2Plan" feature available on your Printer's Plan software. The Printer's Plan t

Harmony: A Sample Job Status Update (Order Complete)

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

<cXML payloadID="ORDER-STATUS:448745" timestamp="09/01/2009 10:05:01" xml:lang="en-US"> <Header> <From> <Credential domain="ws4p"> <Identity>2358</Identity> </Credential> </From> <To> <Credential domain="Test MIS"> <Identity>MIS2358</Identity> </Credential> </To> <

Harmony: Contact Information

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The heart of any MIS system is its contact data. The same holds for a WS4P website. Consequently, passing contact information seamlessly between the two systems is critical to building an integrated solution. Every cXML transaction that occurs between a WS4P website and an MIS system includes full <Contact> information for the buyer making the

Harmony: A Sample Request for Quote

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

<cXML payloadID="RFQ:913678" timestamp="09/01/2009 08:59:48" xml:lang="en-US"> <Header> <From> <Credential domain="ws4p"> <Identity>2358</Identity> </Credential> </From> <To> <Credential domain="Test_MIS"> <Identity>MIS2358</Identity> </Credential> </To> <Sender&g

Harmony: Project Details (ItemOut)

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The WS4P system allows customers to enter multiple items (jobs) into a single shopping cart, to make online purchases more efficient. Details for these jobs appear under the <ItemOut> designation. Each job is given its own <ItemOut> record, so a single cXML transaction may include several <ItemOut> entries. <ItemOut quantity="44

How to Find an Order Form in the Control Center

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Public Order Forms can be found by product category or in an alphabetical list. Private Reorder Forms are listed in the Reorder Forms Library, where you can also filter by person, category, or keyword. Find a Public Order Form by Category 1. Select Order Forms from the Control Center’s main menu. 2. Select Product Categories under Public Order For

Display LoyaltyLoop Testimonials on Your MI4P Website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Overview If you use LoyaltyLoop’s Testimonial Publisher, MI4P can help place its testimonial widget on your website. Once the widget is installed, you can choose which approved testimonials to publish from your LoyaltyLoop account. Request Your Widget Code Log in to your LoyaltyLoop account or contact LoyaltyLoop support for the widget code you want

Multiple Documents and Jobs in Pageflex Studio

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Pageflex jobs may contain multiple templates but should have only one project file. Although the uDesignIT! training video shows one business card template to be used as the onscreen proof as well as the production file (PDF), in reality it's possible you'll have separate Pageflex Studio templates for the preview image and the production file. As an

Google reCAPTCHA

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Setting Up Google reCAPTCHA on Your Website Google reCAPTCHA helps reduce automated spam, fake account registrations, and unwanted form submissions on your website. Although reCAPTCHA can significantly reduce this activity, no spam-prevention method can guarantee that every unwanted submission will be stopped. Sophisticated automated tools may somet

White Paper Content

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Sales and Marketing White Papers Print buyers can find Sales and Marketing White Papers under the Resources navigation tab on your website’s homepage. Your subscription provides access to 12 white paper PDFs covering sales and marketing topics. Each quarter, a new white paper is written, designed, and branded for your printing firm. Above: The /reso

Adjusting Spam Filtering Preferences

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com Mail Server has powerful spam filtering capabilities. Our Spam DNA Filtering(r) system accomplishes this by gathering real-time spam intelligence from a number of sources and then actively using this intelligence to block the spam. We track tens of thousands of live spam email characteristics ("DNA"), which alone id

Importing Pricing From A Spreadsheet

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

It's possible to import your pricing from a spreadsheet when you're using the Advanced Pricing: Tables method. This quick guide will show you how. Importing pricing, step by step Click "Create a New Pricing Table" Choose a Display Name (this is what will be shown to the end user as a subtotal in the Online Price box) Choose the field that will be us

Pageflex Studio Templates, Part 2

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

This tutorial builds on the Name Tag that we built in the first Pageflex tutorial. In this lesson, we learn how to add graphics, position page elements with precision, and use a copy-fitting rule to handle input that might not otherwise fit. Building a better Name Tag After completing the initial Pageflex tutorial, you now have a working Name Tag or

uDesignIT: A Fast Return on Investment

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

uDesignIt!: A Fast Return on Investment Even a few orders each month can make a meaningful difference in the time your team spends preparing personalized print jobs. Using business cards as an example, four uDesignIt! orders per month could free up one hour of staff time worth $70 at your design rate. How the Time Savings Add Up For this example, as

Why does my Pageflex Studio zip file take so long to upload?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When you choose "File > Make Packager Zip..." in Pageflex Studio, every file that is in the same directory (folder) as the Project File (.pf) will be added to the Zip file. Since the native files, any zip files, or other supporting documents will not be needed on the server, it is a good idea to store them in a separate folder so that they will n

Renewing your Domain Name Registration

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You are likely reading this because we notified you that the registration of your domain name will soon expire. Here are your renewal options and actions you can take to ensure uninterrupted service for your website and e-mail accounts. Option 1: Transfer Domain Management to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com With your domain name registration expiring

05 - Order Forms: Starter Forms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Starter Forms are ready-to-use order forms with common choices for size, color, paper, finishing, and more. They give your printshop a starting point for selling online. Market research? Check! When we built our websites, we conducted extensive market research to help printshops compete with major online printers. We looked at the products those pri

14 - Client Support Tab

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Control Center is designed to make your website’s settings and tools easy to manage. When you need additional guidance, the Client Support section connects you with helpful instructions, Knowledgebase articles, and our Support Request system. Find the help you need When you have a question, you can: Review the instructions and help icons on the

Other Payment Gateways

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Adding Other Payment Gateways If you do not currently use USAePay as your E-Commerce Merchant, here are a few other options: Authorize.net eProcessing Network InternetSecure PayPal USAePay First, choose "My Website" from the Control Center's main menu Then choose "E-Commerce Settings" From the "E-Commerce Settings" menu, choose "Payment Gateways"

Pageflex Studio: Suppressing Printing of Elements

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

As you're using Pageflex Studio to create variable data documents you may encounter scenarios in which you wish to display items or objects on the web preview image but suppress the printing of that object on the production PDF generated by uDesignIT!. It's easy to accomplish such an outcome by using the following procedure. Open your document in Pa

How Do I Set Up an Auto-Reply for My E-Mail?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question: I'm planning to go on vacation and want to set up an auto-reply for my e-mail. How do I do this? Answer: You can set up a vacation message through the webmail interface. Go to mail.marketingideasforprinters.com (no www). Log into your e-mail account. Open the settings menu by clicking the three vertical bars in the upper right corner next

02 - Exploring the Control Center

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Control Center is where you use all the customization and administrative features of your website. This article will give you a quick tour of the Control Center and explain what each of its sub-menus are used to accomplish. We'll be diving into some of those categories more thoroughly in the following Knowledgebase articles. The Control Center i

2023 Marketing Ideas For Printers Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening at Marketing Ideas For Printers... Released: 12/11/2023 Update Twitter to X We have systematically replaced all instances of 'Twitter' with 'X' throughout your website. This enhancement is visible in multiple sections, including, but not limited to, the 'Contact Us' page and the footer under 'Connect.' Released: 11/06/20

ShipLeap Settings: Overview

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Enhanced Shopping Cart: ShipLeap Settings As part of our release of the enhanced shopping cart, Marketing Ideas For Printers has partnered with ShipLeap to provide you enhanced shipping rates from USPS, FedEx, UPS and more. This ensures seamless integration for payment processing, shipping, and accurate tax rate calculations. ShipLeap offers expande

How to Set Up Inventory Management on Order Forms

Published December 1st, 2025 by Justin Carlson

This guide explains how to enable and configure inventory management for products inside the Document Library Editor. By following these steps, you can automatically track inventory levels, control ordering availability, and receive low-stock notifications. Accessing Inventory Settings Open the Document Library Editor. Navigate to the Inventory tab.

Establishing Your Account with Authorize.net

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When establishing your account with Authorize.net you will be asked to complete your application through a secure Authorize.net web page. When establishing your account, there are some questions asked by Authorize.net which may leave you grasping for the right answers! Here are the questions, and the answers we suggest you provide: Question: Who is

Defining Customer Portals

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

What Is a Customer Portal? “Customer portal” can mean different things. On your website, it may refer to an account where a customer places orders, a private collection of products, or a website experience branded for a particular customer. Here’s how those options differ. Customer Accounts Customers can sign in to your website with an email address

Harmony: Shopping Cart Information

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

On a typical WS4P website, certain information pertaining to an order gets entered only after an item has been placed in the shopping cart. This shopping cart information is parsed out in the cXML file using the fields indicated below: <Payment><![CDATA[New test]]></Payment> <Shipping><Description><![CDATA[per pound]

Create or Edit a Product Category

Published March 2nd, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Product categories organize your public order forms on your website. Use the category settings to add a name, description, image, SEO details, and applicable promotional codes. Find Product Categories 1. Select Order Forms from the Control Center’s main menu. 2. Select Product Categories under Public Order Forms in the sidebar. The Product Categ

2021 Marketing Ideas For Printers Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening at Marketing Ideas For Printers... Released: 12/13/2021 Updated uDesignIT server updated It was found that the server that powers uDesignIT was not optimally performing in order to show the preview at the bottom of order form. We made an update to prevent this issue from occurring. Global Questions pricing updated It was

Creating a Customized Email Newsletter

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

If your site is still using our older "Level 1" platform, switch over to our Custom Printer@Work instructions for Level 1 Sites. Question How can I customize the content that goes out with the Email Newsletter? Answer The first thing you will need to do is switch your subscription from "basic" to "custom." This will allow you to create custom conten

uDesignIT! Pricing Schedule, Revisions, and Turnaround Times

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

MI4P can build uDesignIt! templates for your website. Development rates depend on the template’s complexity and requirements. Most templates fall into the Standard pricing category. For a project estimate, contact us to review your layout, personalization needs, and order form requirements. Template Setup Pricing Category Description Setup Cost Each

2024 Marketing Ideas For Printers Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening at Marketing Ideas For Printers... Released: 12/30/2024 Updates Default 'Featured Products' Card List All website themes now default to displaying the 6 'Featured Products' card list, ensuring a consistent and engaging showcase of products across all MI4P website demo themes. New EM4P Callout Box A new callout box relate

2025 Marketing Ideas For Printers Release Notes

Published October 7th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening at Marketing Ideas For Printers... Released: 11/18/2025 Updates Promo Codes at cart checkout The Enhanced Shopping Cart checkout experience has been updated so printbuyers will now only see the “Add Promo Code” option when a valid promo code is active. If no promo code is enabled at the Order Form, Category, or Account

Company/Branch Managers

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Company/Branch Managers The Company and Branch Manager designations are intended to allow a print buyer access to manage their company's Contacts and Orders, as well as create reports based on Orders submitted by their employees under the respective Company/Branch in which the Manager has said designation. NOTE: Giving a contact the designation of C

Pageflex Studio: Creating Your Own uDesignIT! Document

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Not only will MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com build uDesignIT! documents for you, we also give you the opportunity to access the exact same tools we use to build those documents. You can now have total control over the creation of variable data documents from start to finish. This total control is provided by one software application: Pageflex Studio.

DesignEdit Marketing Kit: Importing html files into various email platforms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Scenario 1 (Outlook): Open the file email.html with your browser Ensure all the images are loaded properly Open Outlook Select "New" to create a new message Click on the 'Customize Quick Access Toolbar' button located in the top bar Choose 'Attach File' Add the 'Attach File' to the Quick Access Toolbar Click on "Attach file" in the Quick Access Tool

Portfolio Setup

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Set Up Your Portfolio Use your Portfolio featured page to organize examples of your work into categories, such as Flyers, Brochures, or Signs. 1. In the Control Center, select Web Pages from the top menu 2. Select Featured Pages from the left menu. 3. Select Portfolio from the Featured Pages list. 4. Review the example Welcome Text 5. Edit it

Domain Name Renewal

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Every so often we get a call from a customer that goes something like this: "I just received a renewal notice for my domain name, but I thought you guys were handling my registration for me. Should I renew my domain?" If you get such a letter you should, of course, carefully read the letter. But in our experience the answer is almost always, "No, do

Registrar Transfer Request

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com requests a registrar transfer, the domain's contact will receive an e-mail asking them to authorize the transfer. The e-mail request will be sent from world-serv.net internet services using the e-mail address info@transfer-approval.com. The e-mail's subject will be Domain Transfer Request for DOMAINNAME. The conten

Storing E-mail Messages on the Mail Server

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Most standards-compliant e-mail software allows you to choose whether to store messages on the mail server.For example, Apple Mail accounts are set to store messages on the server for seven days by default. 👉 Recommendation: We generally recommend that messages are not stored on the server, with the following exceptions: Exception 1: Accessing E-Mai

Artwork Layout Templates

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Where to Find Artwork Layout Templates Print buyers can access Artwork Layout Templates in two locations from your website’s homepage: 1. Open the Help Center navigation tab. 2. Under Helpful Resources, select Artwork Layout Templates. 3. Scroll down to the footer, select Templates under HELP AND SUPPORT. Templates are available for use with the f

Fix “Font Not Installed” Error in uDesignIt Templates

Published March 27th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

If your uDesignIt template preview is showing a “No Image” placeholder along with a font error, this guide will walk you through how to resolve it. 🔍 Problem Overview When viewing your product preview, instead of a rendered JPEG, you may see: Document 1 - Font not installed - Archivo Condensed Medium (critical error) Job failed due to one or more cr

Create, Edit, Price, and Delete Global Form Questions and Elements

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Create a Global Question Edit a Global Question Price a Global Question Delete a Global Question Global Questions let you create a question once and use it on multiple order forms. When you edit the Global Question, the change is applied to every order form using it. For example, you could create a Global Question listing your paper choices and add

Managing Your Social Media Accounts: MI4P's Social Media Marketing For Printers Platform

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Our Social Media Marketing For Printers platform feature provides you with flexible options to manage your social media accounts efficiently. You can either link your accounts yourself or have MI4P manage them for you. Below, we outline the steps for both options, along with video walkthroughs to assist you in the process. Option 1: Linking Your Own

Harmony: Header Information - IDs and Shared Secrets

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The key to Harmony is its use of IDs and shared secrets (passwords). IDs are used by both the website and the MIS system to communicate, assure proper routing and delivery, and ensure the veracity and integrity of the information moving between them. Primary IDs and Shared Secrets The web server generates an ID and shared secret by which it identifi

09 - Setting up Shipping Options for your customers

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Setting up shipping and delivery options takes two steps: first, create the options your website can offer; then, choose who can use each one. For example, you might offer Pick up' to all printbuyer and reserve a local delivery option for certain accounts. Courier services such as UPS, FedEx, and USPS are configured separately under My Website → E-C

uDesignIT!: Supported Font Formats

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Font Requirements for uDesignIt! Templates When creating documents for uDesignIt!, make sure the fonts you use are compatible with our server environment. The uDesignIt! server is Windows-based, so: All fonts used in your document must be installed on our servers. Fonts must be compatible with Windows. ✅Recommended Format: Static OpenType Fonts 👉 St

Questions & Answers Tab

Published February 17th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Use the Questions & Answers tab to choose how customers enter a quantity and to add the questions they’ll answer when ordering a product. This tab also includes controls for the form’s visibility. Public vs Private Order Forms At the top of the tab, choose whether the form is Public or Private: Private Order Forms Belong to specific companies or

Safelist Addresses, Domains, and IPs in Rackspace Email

Published December 15th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

This article explains how to add an email address, IP address, or domain to a safelist in the Rackspace Email webmail interface to ensure that the system delivers important messages to your inbox. Why use a safelist? Safelisting an address creates a rule that moves any message flagged as spamfrom the address you safelisted to the Inbox so that you

2022 Marketing Ideas For Printers Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening at Marketing Ideas For Printers... Released: 12/20/2022 Updated Control Center > Services tab We made an update to ensure the 'Services' tab continues to display all expected content when paragraphs/line breaks are used within this tab. uDesignIT jpeg pop-up Preview The uDesignIT! jpeg pop-up preview window now shows

MI4P WordPress Plugin: Getting Started with the WordPress plugin

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Marketing Ideas For Printers WordPress Plugin give access to various website subscriptions, such as Order Forms, Reorder Forms Library, DesignEdit and additional add-ons. Below you will find links to Knowledgebase Articles to get you started: Generating API Keys Install and Activate WordPress Plugin Installing WordPress plugin Short Codes If you

01 - What It's All About

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your Marketing Ideas For Printers website has been designed with a particular focus on making it easy for your customers to buy printing from you. This Getting Started series is a collection of articles available in our Knowledgebase that are designed to help you hit the ground running to accomplish exactly that. The Big Picture: Sell more printing

Help Center

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

How to Edit Help Center FAQs The Help Center appears as its own navigation tab on your website’s homepage when you subscribe to this feature. It provides information to help print buyers understand the printing process and find answers to common questions. The Help Center contains more than 105 articles and FAQs covering a variety of printing topics

11 -The Shopping Cart

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Like other e-commerce websites, your website allows clients to add multiple products to a shopping cart and submit them together as one order. After an order is submitted, the system sends email notifications to the appropriate recipients based on your account settings. How clients submit an order 1. After completing an order form, the printbuyer se

Website Builder: The Basics

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your first experience with a MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com demo website is the Website Builder. We'll walk you through the section of the Website Builder called The Basics, which is designed to collect the basic information we need to be able to successfully launch a website for you. After watching this video be sure to continue to the next video, W

Advertising On Hold

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Advertising On Hold files are available on the 15th of each month, two months before their scheduled use. Download your files 1. Log in to the MI4P Info Center . 2. Select Download Direct Mail Files in the middle of the page, or select Direct Mail Downloads under Quick Links. 3. Under Advertising On Hold, select Download. 4. Choose Save File o

MI4P WordPress Plugin: Email Newsletter Instructions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Before getting started with the email newsletter, be sure you have sent us a high-quality logo of your print shop as this will be used when sending a custom email newsletter. You will have the ability to customize the content within the Email Newsletter using the tools within the Control Center of your demo website. Making adjustments prior to the E

Testimonials Setup

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Add Testimonials to Your Website Testimonials let you share feedback from printbuyers on your website. 1. In the Control Center, select Web Pages from the top menu 2. Select Featured Pages from the left menu. 3. Select Testimonials near the top of the ‘Featured Pages’ list. 4. Review and edit the example Introduction Paragraph. Your website start

Add a Custom Page to Your Website Navigation

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We’ve done the preliminary work of providing content-rich pages into your Navigation Bar at the top of your website. But now you are ready to add your own Custom Pages. How do you do this? Read on to find out! After you create a Custom Page, you can add a link to it in the About Us menu at the top of your website. 1. In the Control Center, select

Working with company-specific account creation links

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

For security purposes, customers creating their own accounts must be manually assigned to companies in your system. But it can be tedious to create every new customer account that needs to be associated with a particular company account, so what's a printer to do? There's an easier way: give them a special link that automatically associates its user

Quantity Pricing Methods

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When preparing pricing for display in the Instant Online Pricing calculator you may choose from one of two quantity based options, described below. (The calculator will default to the Sum Pricing Method.) Step Pricing While the unit charge may vary depending on the different quantity breaks assigned, each item's unit charge will be exactly the same

Email Newsletter: Editing in the Control Center

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Once you are subscribed to the Email Newsletter, there will be 6 tabs available to you in the Control Center that allow you to customize the Email Newsletter, add Subscribers, and more. Select 'My Website' tab Select 'Email Newsletter' tab on the left You will see the following 6 tabs for you to edit: Basic / Custom Alerts Subscribers "From" & "

Website Keywords

Published February 4th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Keywords are words and phrases people may use when searching online for your business or the products and services you offer. The Website Keywords field has limited impact on search engine optimization (SEO). Search engines place greater importance on your website’s visible content and page structure, including page titles, headings, page content, a

E-mail Password Requirements

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com, in an effort to minimize the vulnerability of e-mail accounts that could be compromised by outside sources, has established the following requirements for e-mail passwords: The password cannot be "password" The password cannot contain your domain name The password cannot contain your user name The password cannot conta

Harmony: A Sample Order

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

<cXML payloadID="ORDER:448745" timestamp="09/01/2009 08:44:25" xml:lang="en-US"> <Header> <From> <Credential domain="ws4p"> <Identity>2358</Identity> </Credential> </From> <To> <Credential domain="Test MIS"> <Identity>MIS2358</Identity> </Credential> </To> <Sender

Website Analytics: What You Need To Know

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Marketing Ideas for Printers has created a method to generate important insights about your website and online visitors. Below are a few tidbits on MI4P's Website Analytics product. Why Website Analytics you ask? You can see how people find your website (organic, social media, other websites, and directly into search) You can track what people do wh

Reorder Form Library Drop Shadows

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question How do you get those nice drop shadows on Reorder Form Library images? Answer We are often asked how we get those nice drop shadows on Reorder Form Library items. When preparing images to use with Reorder Form Library items, how do you go from this... ...to an image with a nice drop shadow, like this? It's pretty easy, really. We start by o

How Approvals Work

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The approvals process gives your corporate print buyers more control over the print orders placed for their organization. This article details how the approvals process works on your site. A Necessity For Corporate Users Managing expenses is an important strategy in any business. So it's natural that sooner or later you'll have a corporate print buy

Create and Manage Employee Accounts

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Employee accounts allow members of your team to sign in to the Control Center, serve as Client Representatives, or appear on your website’s staff page. Each employee should have their own account using an individual email address. This helps you manage access appropriately and avoids sharing login credentials. Create an Employee Account 1. Select Ac

Harmony: A Sample Job Journal Entry

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

<cXML payloadID="JOB-STATUS:913636" timestamp="09/01/2009 09:42:31" xml:lang="en-US"> <Header> <From> <Credential domain="ws4p"> <Identity>2358</Identity> </Credential> </From> <To> <Credential domain="Test MIS"> <Identity>MIS2358</Identity> </Credential> </To> <S

12 - Workflow

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Workflow section is where you and your employees manage most day-to-day website activity. It contains your clients’ orders, estimate requests, submitted files, and related job information. From Workflow, you can locate a job, review its details, access files, send proofs, provide pricing, communicate with the printbuyer, update the job’s status,

ShipLeap Settings: Setting Up Shipping Weights

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

To ensure USPS, FedEx, UPS, and other carriers receive accurate weights for calculating shipping costs, follow these steps: Open the product's 'Order Form Editor' (for public or private/reorder form library products) by selecting 'Edit.' Go to the 'Shipping Weight' tab. Answer each question under the 'Standard Calculator' section to ensure ShipLeap

Track Website Traffic with Google Analytics

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is a website measurement tool that can help you understand how visitors find and use your website. Best of all, it's free! MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com encourages you to take advantage of Google Analytics to measure your website traffic. Google Analytics can help you review information such as: How many people visit your we

Harmony: Pricing & Address Information

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Pricing Pricing is handled in one of two ways, depending on the pricing method utilized on the website's order form. If Instant Pricing is used to calculate the pricing, all of the pricing elements in the cXML file are housed within an <InstantPricing> tag. Otherwise, the <InstantPricing> tag is omitted. The example below shows the <I

Terms and Conditions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Managing Your Terms and Conditions Page There are two ways to publish Terms and Conditions on your website: If your website includes the Help Center Add-on, update its existing Terms and Conditions page: Default "Terms and Conditions" If you do not have the Help Center Add-on, create a Custom Page for your Terms and Conditions: Create a Custom "Term

uDesignIt Tab

Published February 17th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Use the uDesignIT! tab to connect an order form to a Pageflex Studio project. You’ll find this tab in the Order Form Editor when editing a public order form and in the Reorder Form Editor when editing a reorder form. A connected project lets customers personalize products such as business cards or postcards, enabling variable data printing and custo

Harmony: Request Types and IDs

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Identifying and verifying the source of the cXML data is only the first step in ensuring proper data flow between the website and the MIS system. Linking the details of the request itself and the end-user customer who made that request are also vitally important. The <Request> portion of the cXML file provides these links through the use of ad

08 - Pricing

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You can leave an order form unpriced, add simple quantity-based pricing, or use an advanced method for products with more pricing variables. If you use the E-Commerce Suite add-on, your website can also calculate sales tax based on your tax settings. Meet The Pricing Methods There are several ways to apply pricing to your order forms. Here is a brie

ShipLeap Settings: Combine multiple products into one shipment (one box)

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Overview This article provides a guide on using the Combine Products into One Box feature in ShipLeap settings to optimize shipping costs. This feature allows printers to combine multiple products into one shipment based on weight limits, minimizing shipping fees. Enabling the 'Combine into One Box' Feature Access ShipLeap Settings: Go to Control Ce

Using Variable Fonts in PageFlex Studio: Limitations, Identification, and Solutions

Published November 19th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Overview ❗ PageFlex Studio does not support variable fonts. It can only use traditional, non-variable (static) OpenType or TrueType fonts. This means that if you attempt to load a variable font—many of which are now the default versions shipped by Google Fonts and other modern type families—PageFlex may fail to import the font, may not display the c

Turnaround Times: Add a Percent Markup

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You can add a flat-fee upcharge for Turnaround Times in the Global Questions of your website, following the steps provided in this Knowledge Base article (Click on the "Price a Global Question" link at the top: /en_US/12) but this only allows for a flat-fee amount per Turnaround Time selection. But what if you get a 10,000 Quantity Rush-Order that n

Inventory Tab

Published February 17th, 2026 by Justin Carlson

Managing Inventory for an Order Form Use the Inventory tab to track available quantities, review inventory changes, and set up low-inventory notifications. You’ll find this section in the Reorder Form Editor for a reorder form. Set the current inventory 1. Select ‘edit’ next to the right of the reorder form you want to manage. 2. Select Inventory

Website Downtime Information

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

If the MI4P websites experience downtime, below is information to help answer some of your questions. Website Downtime: What to Expect MI4P websites may have some moments of downtime. However, these instances are very rare and almost always solved by something simple, such as restarting the server that the websites reside on. Actual significant infr

Privacy Policy

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com respects your privacy and will be careful to do things right. This means: We will not sell or rent personal information to third parties. We will use the contact information you provide to keep you updated with regular developments at MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com Furthermore, when using the website service provided by

MI4P WordPress Plugin: Using WordPress Plugin Short Codes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Ensure you have installed and activated the Marketing Ideas For Printers WordPress Plugin before continuing below. Viewing available short codes Select 'MI4P Plugin' in the lower-left of the WordPress toolbar Select the 'Information' tab The ' Marketing Ideas For Printers - Information' window displays a list of short codes that can be embedded on n

Working With Services

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your Services page helps Clients discover what you offer beyond printing. You can use it to describe services such as mailing and letterpress, and explain how they can support a project. How Clients Use The Services Page Clients can open the page by selecting Services from your website’s main menu. They can also hover over Services and choose a sp

Security

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Sometimes, your customers will ask you questions about the security of your website. You can tell them with confidence that your website is indeed secure. All actions relating to customer orders are protected behind an SSL-secured webpage which must be accessed by a user login and password. The security model currently in place is AES-128. Financial

Email Setup and Server Settings

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Are you looking to configure your Marketing Ideas For Printers email account? This Knowledge Base article contains the information you need to setup or re-configure your email for your preferred Mail Client. Starting From Scratch If you are ready to configure your mail client for the first time, try using the Help Tool: help.emailsrvr.com. This tool