HSH Design
Pricing

Three systems. Buy the one you actually need.

They solve different problems for different people, so they are priced apart rather than bundled into tiers you have to work through. Designing in the Design Studio is free for everybody — the Studio plan is what buys its print-resolution export.

01 · Proof System

Artwork out, signed off, printed

The one that is finished, in daily use, and has the numbers behind it. Comparable print-shop software starts at $99 to $109 a month before you add a second user. It climbs in four rungs, each a strict superset of the rung below — the free plan's meters are visible in the app long before you reach them, and moving up is a plan switch, not a migration.

Free Free $0 forever

Run real proofs through it. No card, no trial clock counting down.

  • 20 active jobs on the board at once
  • 5 jobs proofed a month — revisions of a proofed job are free
  • Your customer approves from their phone, no login
  • Pins, drawing and notes on the proof itself
  • The client portal, so customers submit their own work
  • The prepress tools, wired into your jobs
  • Approval pages carry HSH branding
Start free
When the meters fill Proofing $12 / month

A shop whose month no longer fits in five proofed jobs and twenty live tickets.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited active jobs, unlimited proofed jobs
  • White-labelled — your logo, your name, your details
  • Your own customers under your own tenant
  • Automatic follow-up when a proof goes quiet
Start on Proofing
The whole platform Studio $29 / month

Artwork made in the browser, then proofed, printed and billed like everything else.

  • Everything in Proofing + Billing
  • The Design Studio with saves, versions and comments
  • Print-resolution export — PDF at 300dpi with bleed and trim marks
Start on Studio

02 · Social Workspace

Facebook and Instagram

Everything from the brief through to the recap, with the client approving each post before it goes anywhere. It publishes to Facebook and Instagram. LinkedIn, TikTok and X are planned but not built — each needs approval from the platform itself before anyone can publish to it programmatically, and those queues are not ours to hurry. Until then the calendar tracks those posts and somebody puts them up by hand.

Tools with client-approval workflows in them start around $79 a month. This is priced under that on purpose, because of the paragraph above.

With Proof System Both $39 / month

Shops and agencies running print and social side by side, on one login.

  • Everything in Proofing + Billing
  • Everything in Social Workspace
  • One login, one client list, one invoice
  • Saves $9 a month against buying them apart
Start on both

03 · Design Studio

Free to design in, for everyone
Design Studio $0 Free to design in
Print export on Studio

Design it free. Then get it printed. A canvas in your browser with the sizes already set up for print — business cards, postcards, flyers, A4, posters — at 300dpi with the bleed drawn in.

We do not charge for it because we would rather print what you make than charge you to make it.

  • Shapes, text, images, effects, layers, grouping and locking
  • Print presets at 300dpi with bleed shown, and social presets at each platform's current size
  • No account at all to design — it opens straight into the canvas, and the design stays in your own browser
  • Versions on every design; saved-online designs and comment threads come with the Studio plan
  • Designing and screen-resolution download are free — right for social and the web. Print-ready PDF with bleed and trim marks comes with the Studio plan, or we print it for you
Open the studio Get print export

And the five prepress tools are free with no account at all — use them right now

Printing in Australia? We work with four printing presses there, so we can quote the print itself — stock, finish, quantity, delivery — and put a proof in front of you before anything runs. Ask for a print quote. Outside Australia the software is exactly the same; the printing is the part we cannot post to you.

What this costs elsewhere

August 2026
Printavo

From $109 a month for two users. Print shop management with proofing attached.

$109 / month · 2 users
shopVOX Express

$99 a month plus $19 for every user. A three-person shop is $156 before anything else.

$99 + $19 per user
ProofStuff · PageProof · Ziflow

$75 to $160 a month by proof volume, or from $249 for the agency-shaped tools. Proofing only — no jobs, no quotes, no invoices.

$75–$249 / month
Agorapulse · Sprout Social

$79 a month for agency social with approvals, up to $199 and beyond per seat. More platforms than we publish to, at three times the price.

$79–$199+ / month
Their free plans

Filestage allows five files a month. Ziflow allows two users. Ours runs twenty live jobs on the board with five of them proofed a month, the client portal and the prepress tools switched on — and a revision never counts against you, because a free plan you cannot do a real week's work on is an advert rather than a plan.

20 jobs · 5 proofed / month, free

The awkward questions

01 / 08
Why is designing free when there is a Studio plan?

Designing is free because we would rather print what you make than charge you to make it — and on its own the canvas would be up against Canva and Figma, both free at the level most people need. What the Studio plan buys is the working version: your designs saved with versions and comments, and the print-resolution export.

How do I actually pay?

By invoice, monthly. We do not take card payments and hold no card details — there is nothing to breach, and nobody is billed by an automatic renewal they forgot about.

Is the free plan a trial?

No. There is no clock and no card. If twenty live jobs and five proofed a month is all you need, stay on it — plenty of small shops will.

What counts as one of the five?

A job proofed for the first time that calendar month. Send one proof of it or twelve revisions, it is still one — counting revisions would charge you for the back-and-forth this thing exists to encourage.

What happens if I go over the free limit?

The meter is on the page long before it matters — "3 of 5 proof jobs used" — and reaching it only blocks starting the next one. Everything already made stays visible, revisions of proofed jobs still go out, no customer of yours ever sees an error because of our billing, and nothing is ever deleted. The proof counter resets on the first of the month, and archiving finished jobs frees room on the board.

Can I start on one and add the other later?

Yes, and it is the same login — the two systems already sit in one application with your client list shared between them. Adding the second is a switch, not a migration.

What happens to my files if we stop?

You take them. Print-ready artwork is yours as it is produced, and we will export your job history and customer list on request.

Can you just do the work instead?

Yes — that is the retainer below, and it is a different thing from a software plan.

USD, billed monthly by invoice. No card details are held. Change plan or stop any month.

DONE FOR YOU

Or we do the work as well.

Everything above is the software. If you want the artwork drawn, the paths cut, the film edited and the social actually run, that is a retainer — priced against your real month rather than off a page.

Project work

Quoted per job. A shopfront, a wrap, a rebrand, a product film — work with an end. Includes a login to watch it move.

Retained print

Your production run on the platform with our studio behind it. Prepress absorbed rather than itemised.

Retained social

Briefed, made, approved by you and published on schedule, with a recap of what went out.

Bring one real month — how many jobs, how many proofs, how many went back — and we will price against that instead of a guess

Start free today, and decide later.

No card, no trial clock. If it does not fit your shop you have lost nothing.

Start free