Print portals that keep your brand intact across every location — without bottlenecking your teams or manually policing every order.
Materials
Anchor is a print portal for franchises and multi-location brands — handling the materials your teams need most, personalized where it matters, locked where it doesn’t.
Users personalize their contact details while brand standards stay locked in place.
Locations customize messaging to fit their needs, but the design stays consistent across all materials.
Content changes based on use, but specifications remain fixed to ensure compliance.
Information updates as locations require, but execution stays controlled through locked templates.
Proof Points
Built for one office or hundreds of locations coordinating complex print catalogs.
Active portals
40+
Single-location businesses to national franchise networks managing complex catalogs.
Annual print orders
10,000+
Business cards to comprehensive material libraries across all portal types.
Brand compliance rate
100%
Template-level controls prevent off-brand ordering before production begins.
Largest active catalog
70+
Franchise network managing marketing, operational, and compliance materials across 100+ locations.
How It Works
Brand standards lock in automatically. Users get what they need. You maintain control without gatekeeping.
We load pre-approved templates with fixed specifications for logo placement, color accuracy, and typography. Every order follows these locked rules. Off-brand ordering and manual overrides simply don’t exist.
Users personalize approved elements: names, titles, locations, contact details. Department-specific messaging stays within your brand parameters. When organizational complexity requires it, we layer in approval workflows and budget controls that match how your teams actually work.
One dashboard shows every order across all locations. You see order history for fast reordering, real-time tracking on shipments, and budget visibility when you need it. At managed service levels, advanced reporting and analytics give you deeper insight. When something needs attention, you see it immediately.
Why Slade
Your orders don’t get brokered to outside vendors. They go straight to our production floor.
We don’t just host your templates — we print from them. That means we can lock specifications at the source and enforce them through production. Color profiles that load at the template level match the press profiles on our floor. Logo files in the system are the same files we use to image. There’s no translation layer where brand standards get lost.
Portal configuration, template control, production, and fulfillment all happen under one roof. No separation between software vendor and print vendor. When a template needs adjustment or a proof requires review, one team handles it. When something goes wrong, one team fixes it.
These aren’t generic storefronts with brand guidelines attached. We build portals specifically to prevent off-brand ordering — not through manual approval chains, but through system design. The platform won’t let users place orders that violate locked specifications. Governance happens before the order is placed, not after.
Under the Hood
We control brands at the template level. Users personalize content, specifications stay locked, and off-brand ordering never becomes an option.
We load your color profiles, logo files, typography specifications, and layout rules at the template level. Users work within the parameters you’ve defined. They can’t adjust what’s locked. Standards enforce automatically without manual oversight.
Users customize approved elements: contact details, location information, departmental messaging, personalized copy. Templates control what can change and what stays fixed. Content updates. Brand standards don’t drift.
We configure role-based permissions that determine what each user sees and orders. Approval workflows route orders based on item type, cost threshold, or user role. Budget controls prevent overspending before orders process.
We manage logo files, brand assets, and approved imagery across all templates. Update a logo once, and every template reflects the change immediately. You archive discontinued materials when needed. Version history tracks every change.
Find Your Fit
Four service levels match catalog complexity and governance requirements.
Essential templates for business cards, stationery, and core print materials. Built for single-location businesses managing 5-20 items with straightforward ordering.
Expanded template library with role-based permissions and enhanced reporting. Handles 20-75 items across multiple departments or locations.
Customizable approval workflows, budget controls, and dedicated account management. Active governance for 75+ item catalogs with ongoing additions and complex permissions.
SSO integration, advanced reporting, and unlimited catalog capacity. Built for national organizations with complex compliance and integration requirements.
Our Process
We configure your portal, load your templates, set your rules. You own the system. We handle the technology and production.
Case Studies
Built for brands that need every piece to match every time.
As Parlor Doughnuts expanded across the country, inconsistent materials from dozens of vendors were putting the brand at risk. We built a centralized print portal that gave headquarters control and gave franchisees the freedom to order what they need — without ever going off-brand.
As Azzip Pizza expanded across multiple locations, they needed more than a vendor — they needed a system. We built a scalable brand execution program covering signage, murals, apparel, and new hire kits, giving Azzip a single partner and a repeatable process that grows with them.
When T-Mobile acquired Metronet, thousands of employees across 300 locations needed new uniforms — fast. We managed design, embroidery, and fulfillment entirely in-house to deliver a brand-accurate rollout across 19 states, even as inventory shortages and shifting timelines tested the schedule.
Schedule a 30-minute demo. We'll walk through live portal examples, discuss your catalog requirements, recommend the right service level, and outline next steps if it's a good fit.
