ShopWorks is the product we designed when JAM Graphics Inc., A growing and respected apparel graphics company, and The Apparel Graphics Institute, joined forces to develop the smartest and most affordable industry-specific computer software offered in our industry.

By early 1993 JAM Graphics had been growing at 50% per year and suffering through growing pains associated with this growth. Information on orders was not traveling fast enough to keep up with the sales volume, bad information was rampant, and getting important business information took days of sifting through paperwork (sound familiar!?).

At this point it was evident that something had to be done to automate their business. Manual methods were not able to keep up with the demand for more and better information. After researching the problem and investigating existing programs, JAM Grafx decided that no programs existed that matched their budget, and more importantly, did what they wanted it to do.

After much deliberation, they decided to design and program their own industry specific system for in-house use. The initial program contained basic features, with new modules being added over the years. In 1995, after years of improvements, JAM Grafx decided to form a new company with Mark Venit, industry consultant and Impressions columnist. The purpose of this company (later named ShopWorks), was to make the program the best and most cost efficient industry specific software available.

We believe that our combination of computer skills and industry experience enables us to provide you with not only COMPUTER solutions, but BUSINESS solutions. Our perspective is your perspective. We have pulled a squeegee, threaded a needle and called a customer to collect on an account. All of this experience has been translated into our product.