When people think personalised product, they usually think the most important element is a customisation or preview tool for their website and ask their web team if they can develop one. Although we do agree this is a critical [...]
We believe strongly that you have to provide workflow options for the whole on demand supply chain and not just for the print facility - this is what makes Custom Gateway different from other on demand fulfilment system suppliers. [...]
The on demand business model is becoming an increasingly popular way to sell more products. With our software and network, it's easier than ever to create products, add them to your website and manage orders. Using the on demand [...]
The Custom Gateway OMS platform is now connected with the ShipStation API. This allows suppliers to connect and book in consignments with a huge range of connected carriers. ShipStation are a leading Shipping Aggregator, who enable customers to [...]
A great feature in OMS is the ability to live edit print jobs created by customers. This allows customer services to manage updates to print jobs, to fix customer errors such as spelling mistakes or image placement and then [...]
This well establish feature is extremely valuable to retailers and suppliers alike. The Custom Gateway Order Management System (OMS) portal can accept orders in CSV format, and can then process and generate artwork as needed, to push it [...]
Integrated label sheets are a simple but very effective way of improving your workflow when producing orders of single products. They can now be used in 3 separate areas of our OMS Workflow which are explained below Job Sheet [...]
One of the most powerful and popular features of our Order & Workflow Manager is the ability to auto route and / or batch orders. This is traditional done based on product type or retailer but we have been asked [...]
Dropship or On Demand Product Fulfilment is becoming an increasingly popular option for website owners who want to expand their product ranges without extra investment in stock. The mass customisation business model means that all orders are "On Demand" so [...]
The improvement of decoration technology has been one of the four main drivers in the rise of mass customisation A key part of the Custom Gateway strategy is to partner with the leading printer & equipment suppliers so we can [...]
Last year we pioneered a new workflow to enable embroidery on demand.so this year we are delighted to announce our new partnership with Mid West Machinery the UK distributor for Happy Embroidery Machines In our new Personalisation Zone we have [...]
We thought it might be useful to explain how easy it is to start using barcodes to manage your personalised products workflow and why we think they are so useful. Detailed below is an overview of what they can be [...]
In Gateway OMS we have a comprehensive off the shelf system designed especially for the management of orders and artwork for personalised & customised products. However not all suppliers need a full system as they may have their own systems [...]
Customisable Products are a blank canvas and enable the end user to create a completely custom / bespoke product using their own content. Personalised or pre-designed products are when you add a design to the print area on a customised [...]
Everybody involved in producing personalised products knows that to make money from batches of 1 your production needs to be super efficient so we think these new features in our Order Management System are a really important addition to the [...]
Customer Service for Personalised Products can be a bit of a challenge as many orders are in a batch of 1 so there is potential for a high volume of calls / problems if you are not organisers and on [...]
The Amazon marketplace is probably the leading eCommerce sales platform in the world for on demand products with millions sold everyday so we thought it was important that you could both publish your print on demand products from Gateway CPP [...]
For many years now Gateway OMS has been processing thousands of orders a day for personalised and on demand products either creating the artwork and managing the full production process or routing the orders/artwork to other systems. This [...]
Modern printing and decorating equipment means there are now many different decoration options for Personalised Products. The short presentation below showcasing some of the more popular methods. Gateway OMS creates artwork in the correct format for each of these methods [...]
There has been a lot of talk of the next industrial revolution and for many Industry 4.0 is considered to be the 4th Industrial revolution. When you start to look at what Industry 4.0 means then you cannot avoid the [...]
One of the key benefits of our software is the fact that it creates print ready artwork as well as realistic on screen previews. The artwork production process can be fairly server intensive because it involves the manipulation of images [...]
