Terry Howe Printing | PWA with Dynamic Online Print Ordering

After more than ten years working together, JABA rebuilt Terry Howe Printing as a Progressive Web App with a self-service ordering system for customised print, including instant previews and repeat ordering.

 

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Project Snapshot

• Client: Terry Howe Printing
• Industry: Printing, Design & Signage
• Location: Adelaide, South Australia
• Services Delivered: PWA / Website Development, Online Ordering System, Copywriting, Photography
• Relationship: JABA client for more than ten years

 

The Problem

Print ordering is an unusually manual process for both sides. A customer wanting business cards supplies details, waits for a proof, requests a change, waits again, and approves, with every step running through email or a phone call. The printer absorbs that back and forth on every job, including the small repeat orders that generate the least margin. For Terry Howe Printing, a long-standing client with an evolving business, the new site needed to do more than present the services: it needed to take the routine, repeatable part of the ordering process and let customers handle it themselves.

 

What JABA Built

JABA delivered a fresh, modern site built as a Progressive Web App, with a seamless experience across all devices, ultra-fast performance and intuitive navigation. At its core is a fully dynamic online ordering system built specifically to streamline print ordering, letting users customise and order business cards easily with instant previews and repeat ordering. The platform is designed to expand across the wider product range, including flyers, posters and signage, toward a complete end-to-end digital ordering solution. Alongside the build, JABA delivered professional copywriting communicating the value of the services in the company's approachable, solutions-focused tone, and custom photography showing the business in action for a more authentic feel.

 

What Was Technically Interesting

Web-to-print is one of the harder things to build well in e-commerce, because the customer is not buying a product from a shelf, they are specifying one. Instant preview is what makes that workable: seeing the card as it will print, immediately, replaces the proof-and-revise cycle that otherwise consumes days and staff time on every order. Repeat ordering solves the other recurring frustration, since a business reordering the same cards for a new staff member should not have to specify everything again from scratch, and making that a single action turns an occasional customer into a returning one. Building it as a PWA keeps the configuration experience fast and responsive on any device, and the platform was structured so additional product types can be added to the same ordering engine rather than each requiring its own bespoke build.

 

Business Outcome

Terry Howe Printing has a platform where customers can configure, preview and order print themselves, which improves convenience for them and removes administrative handling internally. Professional copywriting and custom photography give the site an authentic, personal feel that reflects an established family business rather than a generic print portal, and the ordering system is built to grow across the product range as it expands.

 

Why JABA Was Chosen

Terry Howe Printing has partnered with JABA for over ten years. This project reflects that trusted relationship: the client returned not simply for a refreshed website, but to have a custom ordering system built into the centre of how their business takes work.

 

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Like What You See?

This is the kind of system JABA builds when your products are configured rather than picked off a shelf: previews, repeat ordering and self-service built around how your customers actually buy. If your team is handling orders that a website could take, we would love to help. Get a free quote for your project today.