Marketing Ideas for Printers Knowledge Base

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

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:

Odyssey v1 Latest Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening in Odyssey v1... Released: 08/15/2022 Updated Odyssey Orders and Estimates page load speeds increased We have implemented an update that significantly increases the load speed on the Orders and Estimates pages in Odyssey. Released: 10/19/2021 Version: 1.0.40 Updated Odyssey pricing now showing on Odyssey-connected order

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 $7.50 per month per email address 30 GB (Google Workspace) $15.00 per month per email address Note: Storage upgrades are applied to all email ad

Information needed to create uDesignIT! projects

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Below is a list of needed information we will need from you before we can begin creating your uDesignIt! project. They are as follows: A production-ready PDF of what you want the final product to look like. Please indicate if the Production PDF should include crop marks and bleed area, and/or is printed multi-up on the print area (include an example

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

Ignore First Row

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Select Yes if the first record in your import file contains sample information. It is a common practice for the first record to contain a description of the information in each field to make it easier to map the record to the import. If this is the case, you'd want to use the information to make it easier to map the import, but you wouldn't want to

Printer@Work Notification E-mail

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question What is the Printer@Work Welcome Message? Answer When adding a new subscriber to the Printer@Work e-mail newsletter's distribution list, an option is available to send them a Welcome Message. The Welcome Message is sent as a simple text e-mail; the message is shown here:Hi Subscriber's Name, Your web address is happy to announce a new benef

ISP: Industry Standard Pricing - Adding Markups

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Advanced Pricing: Tables pricing method allows for a quick entry to add a markup to any order form that is connected to Industry Standard Pricing (or ISP for short). Below are the simple steps to add a positive or negative markup (as a percentage) to any ISP order form. Adding a positive or negative markup to an ISP order form Select 'Order Fo

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

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

Website Add-On: Advertising On Hold

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Advertising On Hold is sent on the 15th of each month, two months ahead of scheduled use. To download your Advertising on Hold subscription: Log in to your Info Center: https://www.mi4p.info/<MI4P ID>/ Select 'Download Direct Mail Files' in the middle of your screen or 'Direct Mail Downloads' as found under 'Quick Links' Select 'Download' unde

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

Font Management For uDesignIT!

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The font-handling process of the uDesignIT! system (powered by Pageflex) has recently been upgraded, with Pageflex Studio version 9.0.5. This is a change for the better, and provides a streamlined way to use new fonts in templates. Here's how it will affect you: 1. If you have existing templates on your site, nothing has changed on them. Your templa

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

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

Testimonials Setup

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

How to add Testimonials to your Website: **Note: The testimonials will be arranged in the order you add them (bottom to top) so you may want to consider the order you'd like them to appear in if you're adding multiple testimonials. The testimonials page can be edited in the Control Center by going to Web Pages on the top, Featured Pages on the left,

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 that this tool is not provided or endorsed by MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com, we are providing a link to this tool for infor

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

E-Mail Acceptable Use Policy

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

For the security and protection of all our customers, we do not allow bulk mailings to be sent from our mail servers. Servers used to send bulk e-mails can become listed on third-party blacklists and consequentially have their mail delivery blocked by some recipients' mail servers. Such blacklisting is difficult to undo and can result in the blockin

Fun at Work Articles

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Fun at Work articles appear in the left-most column on each issue of the Email Newsletter newsletter. Use the Turn It On/Off button to toggle the display of each article. You may also preview each article by clicking the article's respective "Click to view..." link.

Harmony: A Sample Job Journal Entry

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

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What Font Formats are Supported by uDesignIT!?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question What are the font requirements for creating uDesignIT!-based documents? Answer One of the requirements of creating uDesignIT!-based documents is that the fonts used for the uDesignIT!-based document be installed on our servers. The server is a Windows-based server, therefore it follows that the fonts are Windows-based fonts. We realize that

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

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

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

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 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 customers create

Working With Footer Links

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You are able to choose which of your website's standard pages appear in the bottom section of your website, as well as add new links to any custom pages you have built. This is done through the Control Center's Footer Links tool, and this guide will show you how to set those up. How Footer Links Are Used There is a footer section applied to every on

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

Import Source (Optional)

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You may wish to tag each record with the source of the import for future reference. For instance, if you created an import list based on the contents of your Outlook Express address book on a specific date you may wish to enter "Outlook Express 07-04-2007" as the Import Source.

Why Isn't My Website Live Yet?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question I was told my website was live now, but I'm still seeing my old website. Why? Answer There's a certain amount of irony when we say that just about everyone in the whole world can see your new website with the possible exception of you and your employees. Here's why. You likely visited your website shortly before all the technical details of

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

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.

The MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com 30-Day Live Trial Program

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You have built your demo website and you like what you see. Now it's time to let your website prove its worth in the Real World. When you go live with the MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com 30-Day Live Trial program you'll be able to learn exactly how a MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com website can help make a difference where it really matters - with your c

Working With Employee Accounts

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

This article will show you how to create new employee accounts and edit them, and also explains what those admin access settings mean. Creating an Employee Account Creating new employee accounts is very straight-forward, and requires only a single form. To create a new employee account: Choose "Accounts" from the Control Center's main menu Choose "E

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

Custom Printer@Work Article Teaser Image

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Teaser Image and Teaser Text appear immediately below the T.G.I.Monday cartoon and help draw the reader to the content. Select 'TGIMonday' tab, then 'Change Image' to launch the Image Library, allowing you to select or add the Teaser Image of your choice. Selecting an image from the 'Image Library' automatically saves the new image to be used.

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

uDesignIT! (Powered by Pageflex)

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

What is it? uDesignIT! is the variable-data component of a MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com website, allowing you to extend the functionality of Document Library items. Think of a business card. Your website will ask questions like Name, Address, Phone Number, etc. and blend those answers into a predefined template of the business card. The result is a

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

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

Replace Distribution List

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Selecting Yes for this question will permanently remove any existing members of the Printer@Work Distribution List and replace them with the list being imported.

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

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

Going Live with Your Website -- Registering Your Website Address

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You have indicated that you do not have a website address. (Back to this question...) This will be easy! Because you don't already have a website address, we'll register the website address of your choice on your behalf. Simply provide your desired website address when you complete the 30-Day Website Onboarding period, and we'll take care of the res

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,

11 -The Shopping Cart

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

As with any e-commerce site, your customers are able to order several items at a time, placing them all into a "shopping cart", where they may continue to to complete their order. The system notifies you of orders that are placed, and you have the ability to assign who receives those notifications. How customers submit an order on your website After

Portfolio Setup

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

How to set up your Portfolio: The portfolio page can be edited in the Control Center by going to Web Pages on the top, Featured Pages on the left, Portfolio is about half way down in the Featured Pages list. Your portfolio begins completely empty with just some example Welcome Text. You'll want to review and edit the Welcome Text where you feel it's

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

Terms and Conditions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Terms and Conditions When considering publishing "Terms and Conditions" on your website, there are two possibilities: Update the Default "Terms and Conditions" Create a Custom "Terms and Conditions" Page 1) Update the Default "Terms and Conditions ": When a new demo website is created, the default text lists the printshop name as "Acme Printing" wi

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

Preflight Pro

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Preflight Pro allows for PDF preflight without printbuyers needing to download additional software. Whether a PDF is uploaded from an order form or via the "Send a File" utility on your website, your customers will enjoy instant preflighting along with an instant file health check report. Adding a PDF file to an order form If an order form has a '

DNS Redirects

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Our client has retained the services of MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com to provide web site content for their printing firm. You are currently hosting our client's domain. In order to provide the smoothest possible transition for our client, we would like to ask that you make the following entries in your Domain Name Server for our client's domain: @

Send Now

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

(This button is available only on unsent issues of the custom Printer@Work.) When you have built your Custom Printer@Work and are ready to send it, click the Send Now button. The issue displayed will be sent to all subscribers in your distribution list, using the e-mail subject entered in the Subject box. It is important to note that when Printer@Wo

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

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

Working With Estimates

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

In addition to placing orders on your website, your customers have the ability to request an estimate. Your Control Center gives you the tools you need to respond to the client. Here's how the process works. How Customers Request Estimates Through Your Website By default, every order form on your website that does not have pricing activated has a "R

Import

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Click the Import button to complete the import with the options you have specified. After the import is complete you will be given a brief summary of the import results.

Exclusive Territory Guarantee

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com guarantees that the website we provide will be unique to you! When you allow MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com to provide your website, we'll make sure that no one else in your immediate area uses the exact same website design. Here's what we do... Using our mapping software, we drop a pin in the map for your company's loca

Custom Printer@Work Articles

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Click Add Article to begin creating your custom Printer@Work article. The custom articles consist of several elements; you will be taken to the custom article editor to customize each element. You are free to create your own articles, but you will also always have access to the articles from the most recent Printer@Work created by MarketingIdeasForP

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

14 - Client Support Tab

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We hope you'll agree that it's pretty easy to work your way through the Control Center and that it's clear what the settings do. If you ever run into trouble, though, the Client Support tab will point you in the right direction. With our growing knowledgebase of answers to the most common questions and our online support request system, you can be s

Price Approval Methods

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your Marketing Ideas For Printers website has two distinct options when it comes to requiring customers to approve a price for each job before it moves into production. In the first method, price approval is not required. In the second, it is. Here's a flowchart that details how each process works. Price Approval NOT Required The print buyer chooses

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

10 - Setting up Payment Options for your customers

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Using payment options on your website is a 2-step process, very much like the shipping options. First, you set up all of the payment options that will be used on your website. Second, you assign those options to the people who will be using them. Payment options are a 2-step process Setting up payment options for your website takes two steps. The fi

uDesignIT! Pricing Schedule

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We can build uDesignIT! templates for you. Our development rates are based on the template itself, which falls into one of these categories: Simple Standard Complex Custom Description NameTags, Simple Letterhead, Simple Envelopes Business Cards, Postcards, Flyers, Envelopes, Multi-page variable documents, variable layout/design documents Multiple Do

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

Website Add-On: Glossary of Printing Terms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Glossary of Printing Terms is found under the 'Resources' navigation tab on the homepage of your website. Your print buyers will be provided with a list of common printing and graphic-arts terms, with simple, straightforward definitions they're sure to understand. You may choose the order in which you would like the 'Glossary of Printing Terms'

Custom Pages: Adding a Custom Page Link to the Navigation Bar (NavBar)

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! Once you create a Custom Page, you can add a link for that custom page from your Navigation Bar at the top of your website in the “About Us”

"Reply To" Name

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

If a recipient replies to the Printer@Work e-mail newsletter, the reply will automatically be addressed to the name entered here. This entry is optional. If this entry is left blank, replies will be be addressed to the "From" Name.

Order Confirmation Screen: Change Thumbnail

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When a print buyer submits an Order on your website, they receive a Confirmation screen thanking them for their Order. On the top-right of the "Thank You For Your Order!" screen, there is an image thumbnail that looks like the below: Thank You For Your Order screen The system also puts your Default Customer Rep's name at the bottom of the little not

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

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 ones. How to Create Cust

Custom Pages: Working With Custom Pages

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Custom Pages give you the ability to add new web pages to your website in a quick and easy way with no prior coding knowledge required. Creating A Custom Page To create a Custom Page: Choose Web Pages from the Control Center's top menu Choose Custom Pages from the sidebar menu Choose "Add New Custom Page" link from the sidebar list OR select the g

2019 Odyssey v1 Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening in Odyssey v1... Released: 12/09/2019 Version: 1.0.32 Updated Adding same invoice to to-be-posted list It was found that the search feature on the invoicing page was including invoices that are already in the to-be-posted list in the results. We've now cleaned this up to return only orders that are not invoiced or ready

Create/Edit/Price/Delete Global Form Question 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 CREATE Global Questions : Global Questions are used to define Order Form "Questions & Answers" that are frequently used in multiple Order Forms. By using Global Questions, you can make a single change that immediately updates every Order Form using t

Working With Sidebar Links

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Sidebar links appear on several of your website's interior pages, and allow you to call attention to the areas of your website that you want to feature. This guide will show you how to set those up. How Sidebar Links Are Used Several of your websites's interior pages have three clickable images along the right edge. You can customize those images an

Gathering Site Statistics with Google Analytics

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Google Analytics is a powerful tool for collecting website data that can help you market to your clients more effectively. Best of all, it's free! MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com encourages you to take advantage of Google Analytics to measure your website traffic. Here are some reasons why using Google Analytics is essential: It’s free! Google’s resou

04 - Order Forms: An Overview

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your website contains pre-built order forms, as well as easy form-builder tools that allow you to customize them or to build your own fully custom order forms from the ground up. Order forms can be publicly available or set as private reorder forms with access restricted to specific users. This page provides a brief overview of the two kinds of orde

Redirecting Web Requests to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Our client has retained the services of MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com to provide web site content for their print shop. You are currently hosting our client's domain. Our client has decided to continue to use your company to provide e-mail services. In order to allow MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com to provide web content services, we would like to ask

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

Registrar Account Information - Network Solutions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your domain information is managed at Network Solutions. Please provide us with your Network Solutions User ID and Password and we will begin the process of moving your website address from your current website host to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. If a third party (such as your current website host) registered your domain for you, they may have th

Registrar Account Information - GoDaddy.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your domain information is managed at GoDaddy.com. Please provide us with your GoDaddy.com Customer Number or Login Name and Password and we will begin the process of moving your website address from your current website host to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. If a third party (such as your current website host) registered your domain for you, they m

Printer@Work Status

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

When the Active checkbox is selected, the Printer@Work e-newsletter is enabled for distribution, and the Printer@Work icon will be displayed on your website. The Printer@Work newsletter will not be distributed if this box is not selected. Click the Update button to save your changes.

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

Bulk Ordering: Adding multiple jobs from a single order form

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Bulk Ordering is a feature allowing a printbuyer to place multiple items in their cart from the same order form without having to navigate away from the order form. It really is a one-stop-shop for bulk ordering from the same order form! Bulk Ordering - All On One Order Form To begin bulk ordering: Navigate to a public or private order form Fill out

Understanding Notifications

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Many activities on your website generate email notifications to one or more email addresses. The notifications settings help you manage who gets those notifications. Understanding Notifications There are several different notification lists: Customer Rep Technically, not a list. You can assign one employee as the Customer Rep for your entire website

Website Add-On: Help Center

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Help Center is its own navigation tab on the homepage of your website. When you subscribe to the Help Center, it has the information needed to inform, educate, and guide your customers through the printing process. It contains over 105 articles and FAQs on a wide variety of topics. The articles are short enough to be read in only minutes but det

How to request a custom color for your website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

In addition to the standard color options that are available for your website design, you are also able to request a color of your own. How to request a custom color Choose "My Website" from the Control Center menu. Click "Website Colors", found in the Website Settings sidebar. Type the code for your desired color into the "Primary Color" field. You

ISP: Industry Standard Pricing

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Industry Standard Pricing (or ISP for short) is just that- pricing that is generally accepted across the printing industry for a particular product. ISP is part of the Ecommerce Calculator add-on and is found within Advanced Pricing: Tables when editing an order form. Users are able to bring in ISP pricing for over 20 order forms. Adding ISP to an

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

Custom Shopping Cart Questions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Sometimes you need additional information from your customers that just doesn't fit right in an order form. With our custom shopping cart questions tool, you can ask your customers for that extra information as part of the checkout process. It uses tools very similar to the ones used to build customer order forms, but places the questions at the end

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

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

Going Live with Your Website -- Do You Have a Website Address?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We're glad you've tried MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com 30 day website onboarding guarantee. There are several methods we can use in order to bring your website to life. We will help determine which method is best for you by asking you a few short questions. Here's the first question... Do you currently own a website address? YES NO More I

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

"From" E-mail

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The e-mail address entered here will display on the recipient's e-mail message as the e-mail address from which the Printer@Work e-mail newsletter was sent. If the recipient replies to the e-mail message, the reply will be sent to this address (unless, of course, the recipient alters the e-mail address when preparing their reply). Please ensure that

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

2020 Odyssey v1 Release Notes

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Here's what's been happening in Odyssey v1... Released: 11/30/2020 Version: 1.0.38 Updated Streamlined company/invoice lookup in Payments section We've refined the lookup tools in the Payments section to resolve timing issues that periodically prevented the search from completing, or falsely showing that there were no invoices for the selected compa

Working With Services

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your Services page gives you an excellent platform to show your customers that you do a lot more than "printing", and helps you to educate your customers on the value of all the other things you do to help their projects be a success. How Customers Use The Services Page Your customers access the Services page by clicking the Services link on your we

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" & "

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

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

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

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

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

How Does the E-mail System Determine Spam?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The Spam Problem We estimate that 85% of all email traffic on the Internet is spam. Spam is the most complex problem facing the Internet today. The problem has already led to millions of dollars in lost productivity and additional infrastructure costs for businesses and service providers. Spammers are growing wiser on a daily basis, learning new met

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

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. Number of Days Messages are Allowed on Server: Unlimited E-mail messages will remain on the mail server until they are retrieved by your e-mail software (assuming your e-mail software is set to remove message immediately or w

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

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

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

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

Registrar Account Information - Enom.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your domain information is managed at Enom.com. Please provide us with your Enom.com User ID and Password and we will begin the process of moving your website address from your current website host to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. If a third party (such as your current website host) registered your domain for you, they may have the required login i

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

When Will (Fill In the Blank) Be Available?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

It is a matter of policy at MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com that we don't announce timelines and dates of availability regarding new products and enhancements. That's not to say that we don't have timelines in place ... instead, we have made a decision to not selectively "pre-announce" products and services. Why? There are many reasons, but here are t

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

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

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 have access to 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

05 - Order Forms: Starter Forms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Starter forms are ready-to-use order forms, with size, color, paper, finishing and a broad range of other options pre-programmed to help your printshop be competitive in the internet marketplace. Market research? Check! When we built our new websites, we conducted extensive market research to help our customers be as competitive as possible with the

Development Charges: Customizing Your Website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Customizing your website is one of the best ways for your print company to add personalized touches to your website and stand out. Here's how website customizations are handled at Marketing Ideas For Printers: If your website customizations can be made from within the Control Center using the help of our Tech Support Team, we will be happy to assist

Fun@Work

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Use this section to determine which Fun@Work features will be displayed in your newsletter. Each Fun@Work feature selected here will appear as a clickable link in the Printer@Work newsletter, with the feature's content appearing on your website. Mark the checkbox of all desired features you wish to display in your Printer@Work newsletter, and then c

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

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

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

Adding a Custom Video to your website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

If you want to prepare your own custom video, here’s what you need to know in order to ensure it will work as expected across all devices: Ensure the video is a resolution of 853x480 pixels Save the video in three formats: .mp4 .webm .ogv. Each video file will ideally be less than 3 MB in size. Send an image you’d like to use for the thumbnail to re

Website Add-On: Artwork Layout Templates

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Artwork Layout Templates are found under the Helpful Resources section of the 'Help Center' navigation tab on the homepage of your website. Within the link for Layout Templates, your print buyers will find templates for the following applications: InDesign Illustrator Photoshop QuarkXpress CorelDRAW Microsoft Publisher Each template is available in

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

Setting Up Loyalty Loop Testimonials on Your MI4P Website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Setting Up Loyalty Loop Testimonials on Your MI4P Website Overview This article provides step-by-step instructions for integrating the Loyalty Loop Testimonials widget on your MI4P website. Loyalty Loop makes it easy to showcase customer testimonials directly on your site, providing social proof and enhancing your credibility. Step 1: Request the Lo

Going Live with Your Website -- Are You Using E-mail Accounts?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You have indicated that you already have a registered website address. (Back to this question...) Because you already have a registered website address (domain name), we now would like to learn about any e-mail services (or other services) that are associated with your domain. Are you currently using any e-mail accounts associated with your website

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

Going Live with Your Website -- Two Options: Not using e-mail accounts associated with your website

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You have indicated that you already have a registered website address. (Back to this question...) You have indicated that you are not using e-mail accounts associated with your website address. (Back to this question...) Because you already have a website address and are not using e-mail associated with your website address, we will plan to go live

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

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

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

How to locate an order form in the Control Center

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Summary: Order forms are grouped as public forms and private forms, with a number of different ways available to locate the form you need. How to find a public document in the Control Center By category: Choose "Order Forms" from your Control Center's main menu. Select "Product Categories", located in the sidebar under "Public Order Forms". Choose "

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> <

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

Registrar Account Information - Register.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your domain information is managed at Register.com. Please provide us with your Register.com User Name and Password, and we will begin the process of moving your website address from your current website host to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. If a third party (such as your current website host) registered your domain for you, they may have the requi

Registrar Account Information - Tucows

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your domain information is managed by a Tucows Reseller. Please provide us with your User Name and Password and we will begin the process of moving your website address from your current website host to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com. If a third party (such as your current website host) registered your domain for you, they may have the required login

Storing E-mail Messages on the Mail Server

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

All standards-compliant e-mail software will allow you the option to store messages on the mail server. In fact, accounts created in Apple Mail are set to store messages on the server for seven days by default. We recommend that messages are not stored on the server. There are three exceptions. Exception 1 - You are accessing your e-mail through the

Delete Issue

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Clicking the 'Delete' button will permanently remove the issue from your custom Email Newsletter issue list.

13 - Proofing

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your Marketing Ideas For Printers website makes proofing easy. With our tools, you are able to provide a proof file to your customer, and they are able to approve it or request changes, all through the website! The proofing process Your website provides tools to allow you to upload a file to a customer's order in the system, or even to make a proof

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

Is Printer@Work SPAM?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Commercial e-mail such as the Printer@Work newsletter is now regulated by congressional legislation, and Printer@Work conforms to that legislation. Here is a summary of the CAN-SPAM act: The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act requires unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to be labeled (though not by a

Additional Websites Pricing

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Question Do you offer a discount for additional websites? Answer Yes! If you would like an additional unique website for your organization, everything is half-price. Please note that if you intend on using your existing site with the same content (the sites do not need to appear unique) ... but with an additional web address, we can provide that ser

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

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

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

Global Questions

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

If you find yourself asking your print buyers the same questions over and over again, you'll probably want to use Global Questions. Any item appearing in this list is available for frequent use in any of your Order Forms. Using Global Questions allows you to define a question once and easily reuse it in any of your Order Forms. Also, any changes mad

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

Google reCAPTCHA v3: Steps to setting up

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Marketing Ideas For Printers now offers Google reCAPTCHA support, which will prevent spam bots from setting up fake accounts on your website. To set up reCAPTCHA on your website, please refer to the rest of this document. Go to the Google reCAPTCHA Administration site: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ At the top of the screen, choose V3 Admin Conso

How To Use DesignEdit

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Now's your chance to take on the "big-box-stores" in the online printing world! With DesignEdit, your customers have access to several product types with thousands of templates pre-designed for a wide range of industries and organizations. Your customers even have the ability to customize the text any way they wish: formatting, position, color, anyt

Going Live with Your Website -- Two Options: Using email associated with your website address

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You have indicated that you already have a registered website address. (Back to this question...) You have indicated that you are using e-mail accounts associated with your website address. (Back to this question...) Because you already have a website address and are using e-mail associated with your website address, we will plan to go live by redir

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

Amazon Associates ID

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

After joining the Amazon.com Associates program, you are eligible to receive a commission on all books purchased via a referral from your web site. These referrals typically originate through a link from the Ideas Collection in your web site. Go to Amazon.com for more information about the Amazon.com Associates program. After you have been accepted

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

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]

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

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

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

uDesignIT: A Fast Return on Investment

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

In a related KnowledgeBase document we made this claim: If your customers use uDesignIT! only four times in any given month, uDesignIT! will pay for itself in the efficiency it creates. Here's the math that allows us to make that statement: Let's start with some assumptions: While uDesignIT! may be used for any document, one of the most common uses

Website Add-On: White Paper Content

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

White Paper Content - named 'Sales and Marketing White Papers' - is found under the 'Resources' navigation tab on the homepage of your website. Within the White Papers link, your print buyers will have access to 12 different white paper PDFs. Each quarter, we’ll provide you with white paper content covering a fresh, new topic, written, designed, and

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

Our Development List

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We may tell you sometimes that your request is "on the development list", or that we're putting your request on the development list. Here's a little "peek behind the curtain", so to speak, at what the development list is and how we use it. What The Development List Is Simply put, our development list is our central collection of every idea for impr

Renewing your Domain Name Registration

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You are likely reading the information on this page because we notified you that the registration of your domain name will soon be expiring. We would like to take this opportunity to alert you to several domain name renewal options and specific actions you should take to ensure your domain name stays registered, providing uninterrupted service for y

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

Transitioning your E-mail from Your Current E-mail Provider to MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

We recommend the following procedures for successfully transitioning your e-mail service. These procedures will help prevent losing any e-mail during the transition. Please keep in mind that e-mail sent to you will end up at one of two locations while the transition is taking place. Messages will either end up on the mail server provided by your cur

06 - Order Forms: Custom Order Forms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Custom order forms give you the ability to create specialized order forms that are highly tailored to the way you do business. Our convenient tools allow you to build your order forms from scratch without having to know any web programming at all. How to create custom order forms You can create your own order forms, and there are two different ways

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 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 infrastructure downt

09 - Setting up Shipping Options for your customers

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Using shipping options on your website is a 2-step process. First, you set up all of the shipping options that will be used on your website. Then, you assign those options to the people who will be using them. Setting up shipping options is a 2-step process There are two steps to take when setting up shipping options. The first step is to set up all

Going Live: Registrar or Host?

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Your site can be brought live by making changes with either your domain name's registrar or your domain name's host. Simply stated, the registrar is the organization that ensures that your domain name continues to belong to you, and your host is the organization that makes sure that your domain name works. So there are really two options available t

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

Defining Customer Portals

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

What exactly is a customer portal? In our experience, it depends on who's talking! To help clear the air, here are links to several different Knowledgebase articles in our system that discuss the various things that our customers typically mean when they ask us about "customer portals". Customer Accounts When your customers place orders on your site

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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. Our 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 Select "Web Pages" from the Control Center

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

08 - Pricing

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

You have the option to price your order forms using a standard, quantity-based pricing mode, or apply one of the advanced pricing methods for more robust pricing scenarios. Your website is also able to calculate the correct tax rates. Meet The Pricing Methods There are several ways to apply pricing to your order forms. Here is a brief overview of th

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

07 - Order Forms: Private Reorder Forms

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

Private Reorder Forms, in the "Reorder Forms Library", give you the ability to provide your repeat customers with order forms that are highly tailored to their specific products and secure those order forms in a private library accessible only to those customers. Our convenient tools allow you to build your order forms from scratch without having to

uDesignIT! Pricing Schedule Evaluation Criteria

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

MarketingIdeasForPrinters.com offers to help customers build their uDesignIT documents. Our rates for the three different levels of uDesignIT! forms are as follows: Simple uDesignIT! Form - $70 (first revision is free, each additional revision is $20) Standard uDesignIT! Form - $110 (first revision is free, each additional revision is $25) Complex u

12 - Workflow

Published June 17th, 2025 by Justin Carlson

The workflow area is where you and your employees will do the bulk of your day-to-day work on your website, because the workflow section is where every customer transaction can be found and managed. The main workflow page contains several filtering tools to help you locate the item you want to work with. You can select any item in the list to view d

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