3D printing business software for a small shop

A 3D print and laser shop sells printed parts, prototypes, replacement parts and engraving, often to people who have never ordered a print before. They arrive with a file, a photo of a broken part or a logo, and want to know the material, the price and the date.

The software made for print shops is mostly quoting: upload a model, get a price. That is valuable for a shop that lives on uploads. A small shop also needs the rest of the office: the estimate, the minimum and setup fee, the pickup or shipped text and getting paid.

• Instant price on your site. Customers arrive with a file and want a price now, and many will upload to a marketplace instead if they have to wait.
• Price book. Prints are priced by the part, the batch and the hour, with a minimum and a setup fee that make small orders worth slicing.
• Invoices and online payments. Orders are picked up or shipped, and the customer should pay before the part leaves.
• Estimates. Custom parts, replacement parts and engraving orders need a written quote with the material and the date.
• Calls answered by AI. One person changing filament or watching a laser cannot answer every call.
• Review requests. Customers look for photos of real parts and reviews that say accurate and fast.

These are the lines on a 3D printing and laser estimate. The unit is how each one is usually priced.

In Koira these go on your price list once. Every estimate, instant price and invoice pulls from it, so a 3D print shop never types the same line twice, and Koira never writes a number that is not in your records.

• The customer's file on the quote request
• A minimum charge and a setup fee on every order
• Per part and per batch pricing for runs
• A rush fee when a job jumps the queue
• A deposit on custom design and long runs
• Pickup or shipped, with a tracking number
• A pay link before the part leaves
• A review ask after every order

Instant price on your site. On Office, the free plan, the quote form on your Koira site takes STL, STEP, DXF, SVG and PDF files. Get a price answers from your own price list, such as a minimum or a price per engraved item; Koira does not read the model to price it.

Price book. Your price list holds per part, per batch and hourly lines, with a setup fee, a minimum charge and a rush percentage that ride on every estimate and carry to the invoice.

Invoices and online payments. Mark a job Ready or shipped, add the tracking number, and Koira texts the customer with the pay link (from your Koira number on Grow).

Estimates. Estimates are written from your price list, with up to three options on one page, signed and paid on the same page.

Calls answered by AI. On Grow, Koira answers on your number and texts back missed calls, asking for the item, the material, how many and when, and whether they will pick up or need it shipped.

Review requests. Every paid job gets the review ask, on every plan.

We read the industries pages of the companies we compare on koira.ai and noted which ones name this trade. AutoQuote3D is in the tables below.

• AutoQuote3D names it as 3D Printing Quote Software. Read on AutoQuote3D pricing.

Read on October 10, 2026 from each company's own page. A company not named here may still serve 3D print and laser shops; it just does not name the trade on that page, so ask.

The features that matter most to a 3D print shop, and where each first appears on each company's public pricing page, then the people, usage, card and add-on rows every company gets. It is not a full feature list for anyone, including us.

From AutoQuote3D pricing, checked October 10, 2026; Jobber pricing, checked October 8, 2026; QuoteIQ pricing, checked November 3, 2026. Jobber's pricing page blocks a plain fetch and changes its prices with a team size picker, so we read it in a real browser. The $29 a month per added user is in the note behind each plan's user count. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.

Every plan in the same columns: price, people, usage, card rates and add-ons. Koira has no per-person fee on any plan, and Office costs nothing a month.

What comes on top: people, card payments and add-ons

From AutoQuote3D pricing, checked October 10, 2026; Jobber pricing, checked October 8, 2026; QuoteIQ pricing, checked November 3, 2026. Jobber's pricing page blocks a plain fetch and changes its prices with a team size picker, so we read it in a real browser. The $29 a month per added user is in the note behind each plan's user count. A cell names the lowest plan that lists the feature; "Not listed" means we did not see it, so ask. Prices change often, so check the page before you buy.

Card rates as each company publishes them, checked October 9, 2026; QuoteIQ online payments, checked November 3, 2026. Koira's is Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ for a US card plus Koira's share, which pays for Office in place of a monthly fee.

If you live on uploads from strangers and want each model priced by its volume automatically, a quoting tool like AutoQuote3D is built for that, from $25 a month. If you need the whole office around the quote, Koira covers that on Office, free.

Some shops use both: a model quoter for uploads, and Koira for the estimate, the minimum and setup fees, the pickup or shipped text and the payment.

Whichever you try, put one real week of 3d printing jobs through it before you commit. Koira's Office plan is free with no time limit: start on Office, free, or see every plan on the pricing page. The others offer free trials or demos, so ask.