For Signs & Banners
PVC vinyl, mesh, fabric, corflute, backlit. Hemmed edges, eyelets, pole pockets, heat-welded seams. MaxPax reads the dimensions and finishing and reads the cell your sheet hands back.
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Hey, Chasing a quote on 3 banners for the city marathon next weekend. 6m × 1m each, PVC vinyl, full colour, eyelets every 500mm along the top and bottom edges. Need them delivered by Friday at the latest. Let me know what you can do. Connor
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 Connor, Thanks for the enquiry. Here is the quote for 3 banners, each 6m × 1m, full colour on PVC vinyl with eyelets every 500mm along top and bottom edges. Quantity: 3 Size: 6 × 1 m each (18 sqm total) Material: 13oz PVC vinyl Colour: Full colour Finishing: Eyelets, 500mm spacing (hemmed edges included) Total: $684.00 Turnaround is 3 business days from artwork approval. We can have them ready for pickup Thursday morning, or courier Friday for the Sunday event. Cheers, Sarah
Your template, your signature, your turnaround language. MaxPax fills in the priced bit.
Restraint, by design
Site signage rarely comes as a single item. MaxPax knows when an enquiry needs a human to break it apart.
Hi, We have a new construction site opening next month and need a mix of signage. Probably some safety boards, a couple of large banners for the hoarding, and maybe some smaller directional signs. Not sure on exact specs yet. Can you give me ballpark pricing so we can budget? Thanks, Rita
MaxPax reads this as a multi-product budgeting enquiry. Safety boards, hoarding banners, and directional signs each price differently on your sheet, and none of the sizes or materials have been nominated. The email lands in your review queue with a note: "Quote not sent. Multi-product enquiry, specs not yet defined." You reply when you can ask Rita for the site plan, or with a range for each line.
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 signs and banners the way your shop already does.
01
Your sheet has quantity breaks built into the per-sqm rate. A 6m banner is not the same per-metre price as a 1m banner. MaxPax reads the dimensions, calculates the area, and pulls the right break from your grid, the same way you would.
02
Hemmed edges, eyelets every 300mm or every 500mm, pole pockets, heat-welded seams. Each one is a different line on your sheet. The customer mentions it once, in passing. MaxPax catches it and prices it.
03
A grand opening Saturday means the quote needs to land Monday, the artwork Tuesday, the print Wednesday. The shop that quotes by Monday morning gets the job. The one that quotes by Tuesday afternoon usually does not.
What your customer sees
You are on the press. You have not seen the enquiry arrive. Here is what shows up on Connor'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. Connor 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
Fifteen minutes the first time. Once.
| Field | Type | Cell | Required | Options |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantity | Number | B2 | Yes | — |
| Width | Number | B3 | Yes | Metres |
| Height | Number | B4 | Yes | Metres |
| Material | Select | B5 | Yes | PVC vinyl, Mesh, Fabric, Corflute, Backlit |
| Colour | Select | B6 | Yes | Full colour, Spot colour, B&W |
| Finishing | Select | B7 | No | None, Hemmed, Eyelets 500mm, Eyelets 300mm, Pole pockets |
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 material to recommend for a 6m hoarding banner. It does not assume the per-sqm cost of upgrading from PVC to mesh, the surcharge for eyelets every 300mm instead of 500mm, or the standing rate you give the events company that books you for four marathons a year. Your sheet does all of that, and it always has.
What MaxPax does is mechanical and narrow. It reads the enquiry. It writes the dimensions, material, quantity, and finishing into the input cells you nominated on your sheet. It waits for the sheet to calculate the per-sqm rate against the area. It reads the output cell. That number, whatever it is, is what goes into the reply. The AI never invents a material, never rounds the dimensions, never picks a finishing the customer did not name. The math is yours.
This matters when PVC prices change in February and every quote from Monday needs the new rate. Or when you trial a free hemming offer for outdoor jobs and want every banner quoted with it. Or when the construction company down the road earns a 12% standing discount you do not want recorded anywhere except on the sheet. 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.