What does switching from shopVOX cost?

Nothing up front: Sign OS has no onboarding fees and the 7-day trial is free with no card. Bring customers, materials and suppliers across by CSV import and run your next quotes in Sign OS while existing jobs finish in shopVOX.

Is Sign OS really cheaper for a 10-person shop?

The Sign OS Workshop plan is AUD $169/month for 10 users, all-inclusive with no onboarding fee. Published shopVOX pricing as reviewed mid-2026 was roughly US$399–$739/month at 10 users depending on tier. Check both pricing pages for current numbers — ours is public at signos.com.au/pricing.

Does Sign OS integrate with Xero like shopVOX does?

Yes — two-way: invoices sync to Xero or QuickBooks and payment status flows back so job margins stay live. A MYOB connection is written and tested, but MYOB charges for developer access, so it is not switched on yet.

What about online ordering for repeat customers?

The Scale plan includes your own online storefront plus VIP client portals — login-gated catalogues where account customers order at their agreed prices, and orders create jobs automatically.

Can I get my data out of shopVOX and into Sign OS?

The practical route is CSV: export customers, materials and suppliers and bulk-import them into Sign OS in an afternoon. Products are rebuilt rather than imported, because Sign OS prices from recipes — materials, waste, machine minutes, labour — instead of stored templates, and that rebuild is where the quoting accuracy comes from. Most shops build their five most-quoted products in the first week and add the rest as jobs come in.

Do I have to cut over on a set date?

No. Run both in parallel — new quotes in Sign OS, existing jobs finishing where they are. There's no migration weekend and no consultant, and because the trial is free with no card, stopping costs you nothing but the time you spent looking.

Is Sign OS as feature-complete as shopVOX?

Not across every category — shopVOX has years on us and covers apparel and promotional work we don't. Sign OS is deeper where Australian sign and print shops actually spend their day: recipe-computed quoting, department production scheduling with capacity warnings, QR job travelers and floor time clocking, versioned artwork approvals, and GST-native documents with two-way Xero sync. The home page carries an honest status board of what ships today.

What happens to my pricing if the Australian dollar moves?

Nothing — you're billed in AUD. A US-dollar subscription means a core operating cost that moves with the exchange rate and a bill you can't forecast twelve months out. That's a smaller line item than the headline price difference, but it's the one that surprises people.

A shopVOX alternative priced for Australian shops

shopVOX is a capable US platform — but for an Australian sign shop, the fit costs you twice: US-dollar, per-user pricing that climbs as you hire, and a product that treats Australia as an export market. Sign OS is the local alternative: AUD plans with user buckets instead of per-seat fees, Xero sync built for how Australian shops actually invoice, and support in your timezone.

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The per-user problem

Per-seat pricing punishes exactly the behaviour good software should encourage — getting your whole team into the system. When adding your fabricator, your installer and your Saturday casual each costs another monthly fee, shops ration logins and half the workflow stays on paper.

Sign OS plans include user buckets: 3 users on Launch ($89 AUD/month), 10 on Workshop ($169), 20 on Scale ($249). Inside the bucket, adding a user costs nothing. Published shopVOX pricing (as reviewed mid-2026) runs roughly US$399–$739 a month for a 10-user shop depending on tier — before onboarding. The Sign OS Workshop plan covers those 10 users for AUD $169, onboarding free, self-serve.

User buckets, not per-seat fees — whole team in the system
AUD pricing — no exchange-rate drift on your software bill
No onboarding fees: the trial is the onboarding
Yearly billing takes a further 20% off

Quoting your team can defend

Sign OS quotes are computed from product recipes — substrates, machine minutes, labour, waste and markup tiers — deterministically. Any team member produces the same price your best estimator would, and every dollar on the quote can be traced to a line in the recipe. An approval-gated AI assistant handles the legwork: finding records, drafting quotes and follow-ups.

Sheet, roll, sqm and lm native — signage units, not generic lines
Waste and yield calculated per material
Quote → job in one click, prices frozen
Tablet floor boards and QR job sheets for production

What you're actually comparing

Both platforms cover the same territory on paper — quoting, jobs, production, purchasing, invoicing — so the comparison that matters is not a feature checklist, it's four structural differences that don't change with a release note. Where the company is, what currency and pricing model you're billed in, which accounting package the integration was designed around, and whether the quoting engine computes prices or stores worked examples.

Everything below about shopVOX is from published material as reviewed mid-2026 and is worth re-checking on their own site; platforms change, and we'd rather you verified than took our word for it.

Billing: Sign OS in AUD by user bucket — shopVOX publishes US-dollar per-user tiers
Cost at 10 users: AUD $169/month all-in — published shopVOX tiers ran roughly US$399–$739/month
Onboarding: no fee, the trial is the onboarding — incumbents commonly quote implementation
Base: built and supported in Victoria, Australia — shopVOX is US-based
Accounting: two-way Xero and QuickBooks live; MYOB built, not switched on
Trial: free 7 days, no card, cancel by stopping

Where shopVOX is the stronger choice

An honest alternative page should tell you when not to switch, so: shopVOX has been in market far longer than we have, and that history shows in breadth. If your shop runs significant apparel and promotional-product work alongside signage, if you have US operations where local support and US-dollar billing are the advantage rather than the cost, or if you need a long tail of integrations built up over a decade, the incumbent is a reasonable answer and we'll say so.

Sign OS is the better fit when your work is Australian, signage- and print-led, priced from materials and machine time rather than templates, and you'd rather put your whole team into the system than ration logins to keep the per-seat bill down.

Switching is a trial, not a project

You don't migrate to Sign OS — you trial it in parallel. Bulk CSV import brings customers, materials and suppliers across in an afternoon; the shared catalogue gives you a head start on products; and your next few new quotes run in Sign OS while old jobs finish where they are. If it doesn't earn its keep in seven days, you've lost nothing — the demo is free and doesn't ask for a card.

Bulk CSV import: customers, materials, suppliers
Shared global catalogue of materials, machines and processes
Run in parallel — no cut-over day, no consultants
Free 7-day demo, no card, cancel by simply stopping

What the first fortnight actually looks like

Week one: import your customers, materials and suppliers from CSV, set your departments and their labour rates, add your machines and their running rates, and build your five most-quoted products — from premade ones, guided building, or by describing what you make and correcting the draft. Then price your three hardest recent jobs and compare the numbers against what you charged.

Week two: run a handful of live quotes through Sign OS in parallel with whatever you use today, take one of them all the way to a job, through production, to a synced invoice. Have your least technical staff member quote something unsupervised — that is the test that actually predicts whether a system gets used. Nothing has been cut over and nothing has been paid; if it hasn't earned its place by then, you stop.

Week one: import, rates, machines, your five most-quoted products
Price your three hardest recent jobs and compare to what you charged
Week two: live quotes in parallel, one job end to end to a synced invoice
Let your least technical person quote unsupervised — the real UX test

Built where your business is

GST-aware invoicing end to end, two-way Xero and QuickBooks sync live today (MYOB built, not yet switched on), terms under Victorian law, prices in AUD. Sign OS is built in Australia by people from the sign trade — the roadmap is public on the site and shaped by shops like yours.

Frequently asked questions

What does switching from shopVOX cost?: Nothing up front: Sign OS has no onboarding fees and the 7-day trial is free with no card. Bring customers, materials and suppliers across by CSV import and run your next quotes in Sign OS while existing jobs finish in shopVOX.
Is Sign OS really cheaper for a 10-person shop?: The Sign OS Workshop plan is AUD $169/month for 10 users, all-inclusive with no onboarding fee. Published shopVOX pricing as reviewed mid-2026 was roughly US$399–$739/month at 10 users depending on tier. Check both pricing pages for current numbers — ours is public at signos.com.au/pricing.
Does Sign OS integrate with Xero like shopVOX does?: Yes — two-way: invoices sync to Xero or QuickBooks and payment status flows back so job margins stay live. A MYOB connection is written and tested, but MYOB charges for developer access, so it is not switched on yet.
What about online ordering for repeat customers?: The Scale plan includes your own online storefront plus VIP client portals — login-gated catalogues where account customers order at their agreed prices, and orders create jobs automatically.
Can I get my data out of shopVOX and into Sign OS?: The practical route is CSV: export customers, materials and suppliers and bulk-import them into Sign OS in an afternoon. Products are rebuilt rather than imported, because Sign OS prices from recipes — materials, waste, machine minutes, labour — instead of stored templates, and that rebuild is where the quoting accuracy comes from. Most shops build their five most-quoted products in the first week and add the rest as jobs come in.
Do I have to cut over on a set date?: No. Run both in parallel — new quotes in Sign OS, existing jobs finishing where they are. There's no migration weekend and no consultant, and because the trial is free with no card, stopping costs you nothing but the time you spent looking.
Is Sign OS as feature-complete as shopVOX?: Not across every category — shopVOX has years on us and covers apparel and promotional work we don't. Sign OS is deeper where Australian sign and print shops actually spend their day: recipe-computed quoting, department production scheduling with capacity warnings, QR job travelers and floor time clocking, versioned artwork approvals, and GST-native documents with two-way Xero sync. The home page carries an honest status board of what ships today.
What happens to my pricing if the Australian dollar moves?: Nothing — you're billed in AUD. A US-dollar subscription means a core operating cost that moves with the exchange rate and a bill you can't forecast twelve months out. That's a smaller line item than the headline price difference, but it's the one that surprises people.