Print Order Tracker with Pickup Board and Balance Check

Print Order Tracker is an offline app (one HTML file in a zip) for the counter of a small print shop. Each order gets a number, a due date, a stage and a price. Payments are recorded inside the order, so the app always knows the deposit and the balance. The board shows where every job is, the Today page shows what is due, late and ready, and each ready job has a WhatsApp message written for you.

The problem it removes: Customers phone all day to ask if their job is ready, jobs are printed before the deposit is paid, and a finished order sits on a shelf for weeks because nobody chased it. Jobs also leave with a balance still owed. This app keeps one list with a stage for every job, refuses to start printing without the deposit or leave without payment (unless the customer is an account customer), and lists what has waited too long on the shelf.

What is inside:

• Order list with due date, stage, price, payments, deposit and balance owed
• A board with a column for each stage from Received to Collected, with the value in each column
• Rules: no printing before the proof is approved and the deposit is in, no collection with a balance owed unless the customer is on account
• Today page: due today, late jobs, ready for pickup, ready but waiting too long, and balances to collect
• A written WhatsApp message for ready jobs and late jobs, opened for you to send
• Printable job ticket for the shop floor and a pickup slip with the balance and a signature line
• Example data you can load in one click, a Start here guide and an Honest limits panel
• JSON backup and restore, CSV export, and CSV import with a check of every row before anything is added

Who it is for: owners and counter staff of small print shops, copy centres, sign makers and promotional printers who take orders by walk-in, phone and WhatsApp and want one place to see every job.

What it is NOT: It does not price jobs (use a quote tool for that), hold artwork files or proofs, track paper stock or machines, or send messages by itself. The deposit rule uses a percentage you enter and does not know your own terms. It is not an accounting system and does not issue tax invoices. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice, it is not connected to any government system, bank or messaging service, and it does not file or send anything by itself. UAE e-invoicing is not part of it.

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Verified by us: scripted tests in Chromium (139 checks through the real screens: adding, editing and deleting records in every table, required-field messages, backup then clear then restore, CSV export then import, keyboard order, print layouts rendered to PDF, no horizontal scrolling at 375 and 1280 pixels, no network requests) and an independent recalculation by a separately written Python evaluator of 736 calculated values (25 randomised rows plus the example data) with 0 mismatches. Safari engine (WebKit): smoke test passed. Not tested: Firefox beyond what is stated here, and no real printer was used (print layouts were checked as PDF).