If your team is copying purchase order details from emails into ShopWorks by hand, every line item, every customer detail, every order spec, that stops today. Trelium's ShopWorks PO entry automation agent now handles the entire workflow, from inbox to ShopWorks, without a single manual step.
Why Manual PO Entry Into ShopWorks Kills Productivity
ShopWorks OnSite is a powerful all-in-one management system built specifically for screen printers, embroidery shops, promotional product companies, and decorated apparel businesses. But ShopWorks only works once a human opens it.
Between a PO landing in your inbox and the job being live in ShopWorks, every order requires someone to:
- Reading and interpreting the email and attached PO document
- Extracting customer details, line items, quantities, and decoration specs
- Cross-referencing supplier and inventory details
- Manually entering every field into ShopWorks OnSite
- Creating the job and notifying the production team
On a focused day with zero interruptions, that's 15–30 minutes per PO. On a normal day in a busy print shop, with production fires, staff questions, and phone calls, it gets pushed to after lunch, after the press run, first thing tomorrow.
The orders pile up. Errors creep in. Jobs get delayed before production even starts.
The Real Cost of Manual PO Entry
If your shop receives 20 purchase orders per week and each one takes an average of 20 minutes to manually enter, that's over 6 hours of admin work every single week, just on data entry.
That's 6 hours not spent on production, fulfillment, client communication, or growing your business.
If even 2 orders per week get delayed or entered incorrectly due to manual handling, the downstream cost in reprints, missed deadlines, and lost repeat clients compounds fast.
At an average job value of $500, the operational drag from manual PO entry is a problem your business cannot afford to ignore as you scale.
How Trelium Automates ShopWorks PO Entry
Trelium's AI Agent connects to your inbox and your ShopWorks account. The moment a PO email arrives, the agent handles everything automatically.
The Full Workflow, Automated
- Inbox Monitoring, Tracks incoming PO emails 24/7, zero missed orders
- Intelligent Extraction, Reads and captures customer info, line items, quantities, decoration specs, and order details from any email format
- ShopWorks Job Creation, Creates the complete job in ShopWorks OnSite instantly, confirmed and accurate
- Team Notification, Alerts your team the moment the order is live and ready for production
A PO that previously took 15–30 minutes of manual entry is processed in seconds.
Built for Print and Promo Businesses Running on ShopWorks
Trelium is purpose-built for print and promo shops. Whether you run screen printing, embroidery, digital printing, or a full promotional products operation, if purchase orders are coming in by email, Trelium automates the entire ShopWorks PO entry automation process end-to-end.
- Handle 50+ POs per day without adding headcount
- Eliminate manual data entry errors completely
- Free your team to focus on production and fulfillment
- Scale your order volume without scaling your admin workload
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Trelium replace ShopWorks OnSite?
No. Trelium works alongside ShopWorks OnSite, not instead of it. Trelium connects to your existing ShopWorks account and creates jobs automatically from incoming email POs. Your team keeps using ShopWorks exactly as before, the difference is that data entry now happens without human intervention.
What email and PO formats does Trelium handle for ShopWorks?
Trelium handles any email format, structured or plain text, with PDFs, spreadsheets, or inline tables. The AI extraction layer reads the content, identifies line items, quantities, customer details, and decoration specs, and maps them correctly to ShopWorks OnSite fields regardless of how the sender formatted their PO.
How quickly can we go live with automated PO entry into ShopWorks?
Most print shops are live within days of setup. Trelium connects to your existing email inbox and ShopWorks account, no new workflows, no disruption to current operations, and no learning curve for your team.
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Trelium connects to your existing email and ShopWorks setup. No new workflows. No disruption to your current operations. Your first automated PO can be live within days of setup.
Ritanshu Dokania
Co-Founder
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