How Tally Works

From product setup to print-ready order.

Tally connects your Shopify products to guided builders, live pricing, artwork tools, production files, dashboards, reordering, and optional fulfillment—without forcing every print workflow into the same box.

Install Tally Explore Every Feature
1Connect Shopify
2Choose a Product Type
3Configure Settings
4Customer Builds
5Tally Processes
6You Produce
7Reorder or Fulfill
Step 01 / Connect

Install once. Build inside Shopify.

Install Tally, select the Shopify products you want to power, and choose the workflow that matches what you sell. Each product keeps its own pricing, production rules, tools, and customer experience.

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Connect your store

Install from the Shopify App Store, open Tally, and connect the products that need uploads, builders, pricing, or fulfillment.

  • No separate checkout
  • Your Shopify products
  • Your storefront branding
  • Your customer accounts
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Configure product by product

A DTF transfer does not need the same rules as a sticker, embroidered hoodie, business card, or gangsheet. Tally keeps item settings separated so you can control the correct measurements, pricing, materials, decoration methods, files, and features for each product.

  • Area, sheet, pack, and garment pricing
  • Quantity and print-area discounts
  • Materials, sides, sizes, and output limits
  • AI-guided Pricing & Templates setup
Step 02 / Choose

Start with the product experience you need.

Tally now supports far more than three product types. Choose one builder or combine multiple workflows across your catalog.

Tally By Size builder for DTF, UV DTF and sublimation
Exact dimensions

By Size Items

Customers upload artwork, choose width, height, and quantity, and receive live pricing with quality feedback.

  • DTF
  • UV DTF
  • Sublimation
Tally manual and Auto Build Gangsheet Builder
Manual + Auto Build

Gangsheets

Customers compose full sheets or let Tally automatically size, duplicate, and nest artwork for efficient material use.

  • DTF
  • UV DTF
  • Sublimation
Decorated apparel

Merch Products

Shoppers choose garments, colors, size quantities, decoration methods, print sides, artwork, and production review details.

  • DTF / DTG
  • Embroidery
  • Screen Print
Tally FlexContour sticker editor
FlexContour

Stickers

Customers build individual die-cut stickers with automatic contours, materials, copies, backgrounds, text, QR codes, and spot gloss.

  • CutContour
  • Materials
  • Spot Gloss
Tally Sticker Sheet Builder
Complete sheets

Sticker Sheets

Customers arrange repeated stickers, gallery art, emojis, backgrounds, and decoration-only artwork on a finished sheet.

  • Inner Cuts
  • Outer Cuts
  • Print Ready
YOUR BRANDFront · Back · Stock · Quantity · Finish
Finished print products

Business Cards

Guide customers through front and back artwork, templates, pack quantities, stock options, finishes, and proof review.

  • Two Sides
  • Templates
  • Pack Pricing
Step 03 / Configure

Set the rules once. Let Tally quote the order.

Configure the pricing and production boundaries that make an order profitable. Tally applies those rules as customers change sizes, quantities, materials, decoration methods, sides, or finishes.

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Choose a pricing model

Use area pricing, fixed sheet prices, garment and decoration fees, sticker material increases, business-card pack prices, or a combination.

Live pricing
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Define production limits

Set minimums, maximum sizes, sheet output, print areas, margins, spacing, colors, materials, file types, sides, and supported capabilities.

Valid orders
3

Add discounts and fees

Encourage larger carts with quantity or print-area discounts while protecting margin with setup, side, image, screen, rush, or order fees.

Protected margin
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Turn on customer tools

Choose background removal, upscale, vectoring, halftone, mockups, color tools, Auto Sizer, galleries, custom fonts, names, numbers, and more.

Your experience
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Use the setup agent

Tell Pricing & Templates AI what you want configured. It keeps context from your settings and can change existing prices, materials, discounts, templates, and fees.

Faster setup
Steps 04–05 / Build & Process

The customer builds. Tally carries the details.

Your shopper stays on your product page and follows the builder designed for that item. Tally validates the choices, calculates the price, and sends structured details into the Shopify cart and order.

Tally Auto Build turning uploaded artwork into an optimized gangsheet
A guided storefront journey

Less back-and-forth before checkout.

  • Customers see only the sizes, materials, sides, tools, and methods you enabled.
  • Pricing changes immediately with quantity, area, material, decoration, finish, and discounts.
  • DPI warnings, previews, contours, placement bounds, and review screens catch common problems.
  • Auto-save and session recovery help customers return without losing unfinished work.
  • Artwork, sizes, quantities, pricing details, mockups, notes, and production selections follow the order.
  • Automatic nesting and generated output reduce manual file preparation after payment.
Step 06 / Produce

Move paid orders into production.

Use Tally’s dashboards and production helpers to review, prepare, download, reprocess, scan, and organize work without asking the customer to repeat the order.

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Print Dashboard

Access saved customer artwork, folders, order notes, finished sheets, production files, and a faster path from paid order to print.

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Order Analytics

Review order activity and production data from a dashboard built around custom-print workflows.

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QR Scan Workflows

Carry scannable order information into print-floor handoffs, pickup, and supported production steps.

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Reprocess Files

Remove or replace one bad image, adjust quantities or dimensions, and rebuild the production file without a new order.

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Artwork Helpers

Upscale, vector, halftone, clean transparency, change colors, create mockups, and prepare personalized names and numbers.

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Production Output

Download the files and supporting order data created for the product’s configured print and finishing workflow.

Step 07 / Fulfill

Produce it yourself—or use Tally Drop.

Tally supports shops with their own equipment and merchants who want to launch selected print products through a preferred fulfillment partner.

Tally production workflow for print shops producing their own orders

Your Production Shop

Keep the order in your own workflow. Download production output, use print summaries and QR tools, organize customer artwork, reprocess files, and fulfill with your normal shipping or pickup process.

  • Your equipment and materials
  • Your production schedule
  • Your shipping rules
  • Your customer relationship
Tally Drop fulfillment partner workflow

Tally Drop

Add supported DTF, UV DTF, and sticker products, set your margin, sell through your Shopify storefront, and route eligible paid print-ready orders to a preferred Tally Drop Print Partner.

  • Partner-supported product costs
  • You control retail pricing
  • Preferred partner production
  • No Tally usage fees on Tally Drop orders
The loop / Grow

Every completed order makes the next one easier.

Tally is designed for repeat print business. Customer files stay organized, prior configurations can be restored, and merchants can keep improving pricing and settings without rebuilding products from scratch.

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Fast Reordering

Customers return to saved images, sheets, sticker designs, or merch configurations and reorder with fewer steps.

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Saved Print Library

Organize artwork into named folders so customers and production teams can find approved files again.

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Settings That Evolve

Update prices, materials, discounts, templates, fees, output rules, and enabled tools as your shop grows.

Choose your first Tally workflow.

Start with By Size, Gangsheets, Merch, Stickers, Sticker Sheets, Business Cards, or Tally Drop—and add more product experiences when your store is ready.

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