For Business Cards
Enquiries for 500 matt-lam, 250 spot-UV, 1,000 with rounded corners — MaxPax reads each email, prices it from your sheet, and replies while you get on with the actual print run.
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Hi there, Can I get a price on 500 business cards, standard 90×55mm, double-sided full colour? We'd like 350gsm matt with a soft-touch lamination both sides. Artwork is ready on our end. Thanks, Jane
And the reply that goes out
MaxPax does not invent a new email format. The reply lands in your customer's inbox the way your own replies always have, signed off in your name.
Hi Jane, Thanks for your enquiry. Here is the quote for 500 double-sided business cards on 350gsm matt with soft-touch lamination both sides. Quantity: 500 Size: 90 × 55 mm Sides: Double-sided, full colour Stock: 350gsm matt Finish: Soft-touch lamination, both sides Total: $168.00 Turnaround is 5 business days from artwork approval. Send the file as a press-ready PDF, or we can do final prep on this end. Either way, just let me know. Cheers, Sarah
Your template, your signature, your turnaround language. MaxPax fills in the priced bit.
Restraint, by design
Not every enquiry comes with a clear spec. MaxPax is built to know when it does not know.
Hi, Just chasing a rough idea on price for some business cards. Around 500 I think, maybe 1,000. Looking for something nice, premium feel. Will come back to you with full specs once I've decided. Cheers, Aaron
MaxPax reads this as an enquiry, not a quotable spec. The quantity is a range. "Premium feel" is not a stock on your sheet. So the email lands in your review queue with a note attached: "Quote not sent. Quantity range, finish unspecified." You reply when Aaron comes back with details, or now with a rough estimate. The system stays out of the call.
Why MaxPax
Generic print quoting software assumes every print job looks the same. It doesn't. MaxPax uses your own pricing sheet as the source of truth — so it quotes business cards the way your shop already does.
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350gsm matt, 400gsm silk, recycled kraft, spot-UV — your stock matrix is unique to your shop. MaxPax reads the enquiry against your own pricing sheet, so it quotes the stocks you actually carry, at the prices you actually charge.
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A 250-card enquiry takes the same ten minutes of back-and-forth as a 5,000-card one. Automating the reply means the small orders stop being a drag on your day.
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The lawyer who ordered 500 cards in January is ordering 500 more in July. They don't want to wait until tomorrow for a price they already know.
What your customer sees
You are on the press. You have not seen the enquiry arrive. Here is what shows up on Jane's end.
One paragraph in plain English. The kind of email your shop gets every day.
Same address as the enquiry. Your signature. The spec read back correctly. The total itemised. The turnaround named. About a minute, start to finish. Jane has not had time to open a second tab.
"Looks great, please proceed." That reply lands in your inbox. The next thing you do is start the job, not work out a price.
You see all of this in your sent folder later, exactly as if you had typed each reply yourself.
Setting it up
Ten to fifteen minutes the first time. Once.
| Field | Type | Cell | Required | Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity | Number | B2 | Yes | — |
| Size | Select | B3 | Yes | 85×55mm, 90×55mm, US 3.5×2" |
| Sides | Select | B4 | Yes | Single, Double |
| Stock | Select | B5 | Yes | 350gsm matt, 400gsm silk, 600gsm luxe |
| Finish | Select | B6 | No | None, Matt lam, Gloss lam, Soft-touch, Spot UV |
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
A plain-English blurb describing what this product is. MaxPax uses it to route incoming emails to the right product, even when the customer uses different words for the same thing.
OUTPUT
The single cell on your sheet that holds the final price. MaxPax writes the inputs above into your sheet, lets it calculate, and reads this cell back.
Why this works
MaxPax does not decide what "premium" means at your shop. It does not assume the per-card cost of a soft-touch finish, the surcharge for spot UV, or the discount you quietly give the agency down the road. Your sheet does all of that, and it always has.
What MaxPax does is mechanical and narrow. It reads the customer's enquiry. It writes the values it found into the input cells you nominated on your sheet. It waits for the sheet to recalculate. It reads the output cell. That number, whatever it is, is what goes into the reply. The AI never invents a price, never rounds, never applies a markup of its own. The math is yours.
This matters when paper prices jump. Or when you decide that 600gsm luxe deserves a quieter premium. Or when the agency down the road earns a tier discount you have not written down anywhere except in your head. You open the sheet, change the formula, save. The next quote runs on the new number. No ticket to us. No new version of MaxPax. No waiting. The sheet you keep is the sheet that runs your shop.
Try it before you build
MaxPax ships with a demo workbook that has Business Cards pre-configured. Sign in, send a test email to your sandbox inbox, watch the quote come back. No pricing sheet of your own required to try it.
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