The production OS for
custom print shops
KOVA turns your customers' designs into barcoded units, nests them onto DTF gang sheets that waste the least film, drives your RIP, and routes every pressed shirt through bin consolidation to a shipping label. From their design to your dock — one system.
Runs on the stack you already have
One barcoded unit, from their click to your dock
Every physical shirt becomes a single unit with a single QR code, tracked through one state machine. Scan it at any station and KOVA tells the operator exactly what to do next.
They upload art, place it, and pass a live DPI gate on your storefront.
Units auto-pack onto gang sheets that waste the least film.
Files land in your NeoStampa hot folder — zero file-shuffling.
Scan the unit; mockup and artwork verify before you press.
Scan to a bin, consolidate the order, buy the label in one tap.
Your customer builds the print-ready file
A Kittl-style editor lives on your storefront. Customers upload art, place it on the garment, and watch a live DPI gate turn green — before they ever check out. You receive a validated spec, not a low-res email attachment.
- Live DPI meter: green ≥300, amber ≥150, red below
- True-to-scale print area with drag, scale, and rotate
- The customer generates their own mockup, in-browser
- Blurry-art refunds caught before a cent of film is spent
Waste less film. Automatically.
Film is the number-one DTF consumable. KOVA's deterministic strip-packing engine arranges every pending design onto gang sheets to consume the least film across the roll — and reports utilization per sheet.
- Skyline bottom-left packing with 90° rotation
- A scannable QR label reserved beside every design
- Print files rasterized to exactly 300 DPI
- Deterministic — a reprint comes out byte-for-byte identical
Multi-item orders never ship half-empty
After pressing, the packer scans a shirt and a bin number lights up the size of a billboard. KOVA runs the consolidation state machine and tells them the exact moment an order is whole — then offers the label.
- "Put in A1 — 2 more to come" — readable across the table
- Single-item orders skip bins: "pack and ship now"
- One-tap carrier-agnostic labels with rate shopping
- Every unit flips to shipped with tracking captured
Run your shop by conversation
An in-app AI assistant, grounded in the real product, that answers your staff's questions and handles setup. Ask how the day is going, or tell it to build a rack of bins — every change waits for a single confirm click.
- Pulls live shop stats and recent orders on demand
- Creates bins, products, and manual orders conversationally
- Grounded in the real app — never invents your data
- Human-in-the-loop: writes require an explicit confirm
Sell anywhere. Produce in one place.
Shopify, a public Orders API, hosted checkout, and walk-in orders all funnel into one idempotent intake that explodes each order into individually-barcoded units. Webhook delivered twice? It never double-creates.
Unit-level traceability
Trace any single shirt from the customer's design to the exact gang sheet it printed on, to its tracking number.
Catch problems early
Low-DPI artwork is flagged at the customer's screen and re-flagged for the operator at every step before film is committed.
Security-grade intake
Raw-body webhook HMAC, signed OAuth state, and per-tenant isolation — a shop's data never touches another's.
Auto-restock blanks
KOVA computes exactly which blanks to buy for open orders and pushes the cart to your S&S Activewear account.
Demoable in minutes
Every integration has a working mock fallback, so you can walk the whole pipeline before connecting a single account.
Built on your stack
Shopify, S&S, NeoStampa, EasyPost, Stripe — KOVA glues your tools together instead of replacing them.
Plans that scale the way a print shop scales
Priced on the metrics that actually grow your operation — monthly orders, staff seats, and number of printers. Start free.
For shops getting started with custom DTF orders.
- 300 orders / month
- 2 staff seats
- 1 printer
- Design Studio + hosted checkout
- Gang-sheet nesting engine
- Bin consolidation + labels
- Email support
For growing shops running daily production.
- 2,000 orders / month
- 6 staff seats
- 3 printers
- Design Studio + hosted checkout
- Gang-sheet nesting engine
- Bin consolidation + labels
- Priority support
- KOVA Copilot
- Auto-restock (S&S Activewear)
For high-volume operations with multiple printers.
- 10,000 orders / month
- 20 staff seats
- 10 printers
- Design Studio + hosted checkout
- Gang-sheet nesting engine
- Bin consolidation + labels
- Priority support
- KOVA Copilot
- Auto-restock (S&S Activewear)
- Multi-printer routing
- Onboarding assistance
Run your whole shop on one system
From their design to your dock. Start free — every integration has a working demo mode, so you can walk the entire pipeline before you connect a thing.