Krino is sign shop software made in Australia for sign makers, from one-person studios to busy multi-machine shops. Quote signage accurately, handle mixed substrates and sizes, plan your cuts, and invoice in Australian dollars with GST handled correctly, all in one modern system. There are no per-user fees, no overseas call centre, and AI features no local competitor puts in front of you.
Signage quoting is fiddly, and getting it wrong quietly eats your margin. A single job might combine printed vinyl, an ACM panel, laminate, install time and freight, each with its own cost and waste. Krino builds these into your quote in minutes, so the number you send the customer reflects what the job really costs. Save your common products as templates, set your rates once, and stop rebuilding the same estimate from a blank spreadsheet. If you want to sanity-check your approach, our guide to pricing print jobs walks through the logic.
Sign work is rarely standard. You cut different sheet sizes, run different materials, and switch between them all day. Krino tracks your substrates and pricing so a 2440 by 1220 ACM sheet and a roll of cast vinyl are both costed correctly on the quote, and the material is deducted from the job as it moves. That keeps your estimates honest and your stock figures closer to reality.
The fastest way to lose an afternoon is a print queue that jumps between materials and sizes. Krino uses AI job scheduling to group work by substrate and machine, so you load a sheet or roll once and knock out everything that suits it before changing over. Fewer setups means more billable output from the same machines and staff, without a planner rearranging the board by hand.
Offcuts are cash in the bin. Before you commit a job, work out the best layout with the ACP cutting list tool, then check your yield and offcut with the material waste calculator. Nesting panels well across a sheet can be the difference between a job that makes money and one that just about breaks even, especially on rigid substrates where a full sheet is expensive.
Sign jobs live and die on approvals. A colour that was signed off, a size that changed at the last minute, a proof that never came back; any of these can turn a profitable job into a remake at your cost. Krino keeps quotes, proofs, approvals and job notes together on each job, so there is one clear record of what the customer agreed to. When a query comes in weeks later, you are not digging through email threads to work out what was approved.
From the first enquiry to the final install, Krino shows where every job is at a glance. You can see what is waiting on artwork, what is on the printer, what is in fabrication and what is ready to go out the door. That visibility means fewer jobs slip, tighter due dates you can actually hit, and less time spent walking the floor asking where a job is up to.
Good pricing starts with knowing what an hour on each machine and each person actually costs you. Use the charge-out rate calculator to work out your real hourly cost, including power, rent, consumables and downtime, then feed that rate into Krino so every quote is built on numbers that hold up.
Krino is Australian software, so it speaks your language out of the box. Quotes and invoices are in Australian dollars, GST is applied correctly, and everything syncs to your accounts through our native Xero integration. Approve a job, raise the invoice, and it lands in Xero without double entry or a monthly export dance.
When you need help, you talk to an Australian team that understands sign shops, not a script in another time zone. And because Krino is one flat price with no per-user fees, you can add your whole team, from designers to installers, without watching the bill climb every time you hire.
Yes. You can build quotes that combine printed media, rigid panels, laminates, install labour and freight in one job, so complex signage is costed as accurately as a simple banner.
Yes. Krino is built for small and mid-sized Australian shops. The flat price and included AI mean a small team gets the same quoting and scheduling power as a large trade shop, without paying per seat.
Yes. Krino has native Xero integration, so approved invoices flow straight into your accounts in AUD with GST applied, with no manual re-keying.
