Products / Make & Print
Hoq Make
Custom orders from brief to proof to job ticket, approved by the customer online.
What it does
Make runs made-to-order work. A customer commissions a project. The project holds items, each built from a product type with its own spec form. Art for each item moves through numbered revisions.
When the art is ready you send a proof. The customer opens a link with no account, sees one revision per item, pins notes on the art, and approves or asks for changes. Approval is recorded against the exact files they saw, in a hash-chained log.
An approved project becomes a production run. The run pins the approved revisions and prints a job ticket as a PDF. Your own staff work it from the console, or you hand an outside maker a vendor link that shows the ticket and lets them mark it started and done.
In numbers
9project stages from brief to archived
3built-in product templates: laces, sticker, generic
0accounts a customer needs to approve a proof
Specifications
| Where a workspace lives | One document per workspace in the owner's Hoq Storage drive. Art files sit beside it as ordinary files in Make/<workspace>/art/. |
|---|---|
| Customer access | A proof link at /p/{token}. No account, no cookies needed. |
| Outside makers | A vendor link at /r/{token} shows the job ticket and takes start and finish. |
| Approval record | Each approval is a hash-chained event that stores the SHA-256 of every file approved. A chain check verifies it later. |
| Proofs and tickets | One template each for the web page and the PDF, so the PDF matches what the customer saw. |
| Product types | Built-in templates for laces, stickers and a generic item, plus your own types with required and conditional fields. |
| Project stages | Brief, design, proofing, approved, in production, done, plus on hold, cancelled and archived. |
| Your own hostname | Proof and vendor pages can be served on a shop's own domain after a DNS TXT check. |
Features
18 features, all shipped. Listed from the product's code and documentation; each row shows the day it was last checked.
| Projects board | Shows every open project by stage and moves it along. | |
| Hold and resume | Puts a project on hold and brings it back to the stage it left. | |
| Customers | Keeps the customers who commission projects. | |
| Product types | Defines a type's spec fields, with built-ins you can reset. |
| Uploads | Drops art onto an item; the file is stored in your drive and thumbnailed. | |
| Revisions | Numbers each version of an item's art; a revision freezes once it is proofed. | |
| Feedback pins | Lets the customer pin a note on the art, and you reply and resolve it. |
| Send a proof | Composes one revision per item and sends a link; sending freezes it. | |
| Approve or request changes | The customer approves or asks for changes on the proof page. | |
| Rotate or revoke a link | Issues a new proof link or shuts the old one. | |
| Verify the chain | Checks the approval log has not been altered. | |
| Proof PDF | Renders the proof as a PDF from the same template as the page. |
| Production runs | Pins approved revisions into a run for staff or a vendor. | |
| Job ticket | Prints the run's ticket as a PDF. | |
| Vendor link | Gives an outside maker a page to see the ticket and mark progress. | |
| Quality check | Records a QC step on a run. |
| Several workspaces | Keeps more than one workspace per person or organisation, each with its own address. | |
| Sign in with Hoq ID | Uses a Hoq account and its organisation for access. |
Works with
- storageArt and the workspace document are files in your Hoq Storage drive.
- KerfPlanned: Kerf die lines on sticker items (not built).
Your data
| Where it is kept | The workspace document and every art file are in the owner's Hoq Storage drive. |
|---|---|
| Getting it out | Not documented in the repo. The document and art are ordinary files in your drive. |
| If you leave | Not documented in the repo. |
APIs and standards
- JSON door: POST /api/make/w/{key} with a session or Bearer key (scope make:use)
- Proof page /p/{token} and vendor page /r/{token}
- Standard: PDF
Compared
| Checked 2026-11-01 | Hoq Make | Printavo | YoPrint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price per month | Not published | $109 (Lite, 20 quotes or invoices a month)1 | $69 billed monthly, $59 billed annually (Basic)2 |
| Users on the entry plan | Not published | 21 | 1, then $10 a user a month2 |
| Customer approves art online | Yes, by link, no account | Collects customer and artwork approvals1 | Artwork and quote approval on both plans2 |
| Approval tied to the exact files | Yes, SHA-256 of each file in a hash-chained log | not published1 | not published2 |
| Quotes and invoices | No | Yes1 | Yes2 |
| Production calendar | No; a board by stage | Power Scheduler on Premium1 | Production calendar, timeline and department views on Basic2 |
| Outside maker gets a work page | Yes, a vendor link | not published1 | not published2 |
| Customer portal on your domain | Proof and vendor pages, after a DNS TXT check | not published1 | Pro plan2 |