Many commercial printers already run on Avanti Slingshot, an established Print Management Information System that handles production workflow on the shop floor. Rather than replacing it, we built a Power Platform system that handles what Slingshot doesn't: creating customer offers and managing the orders that follow.

Customers interact through a Power Pages portal - a public-facing web platform where they review offers and place orders, without ever touching the shop's internal systems directly.

Internally, print shop staff work inside Canvas Apps built specifically for how their offer-to-order process actually runs day to day, rather than a generic form-based tool retrofitted to fit.

Power Automate connects the two sides, moving an order through its stages automatically instead of requiring someone to manually hand it between systems, with Dataverse holding it all as a single structured source of truth.

The system integrates directly with Slingshot, so information created in the offer and order platform reaches the shop's existing production system without duplicate data entry or a second login. From the customer's and the staff's point of view, it works as one connected system - even though the underlying software wasn't built as one.

That's the same principle behind our system integration work generally: building the platform a business actually needs, and connecting it cleanly to the legacy systems they already depend on, instead of asking them to rip everything out and start over.