From a 5-printer Bambu farm to a 200-printer multi-site operation
Print farms tell us they save 10 to 15 hours per week with SimplyPrint and roughly double their capacity. That outcome scales only if the people side of the operation scales too: provisioning new operators in bulk, giving the right people the right permissions without giving everyone everything, and routing balance and usage data into the systems that already run the business.
"SimplyPrint is a game changer"
"SimplyPrint is a game changer - it allows you to increase your work output without increasing your workload."
168 fine-grained permissions across 8 categories
Every farm needs the answer to "who can do what". SimplyPrint ships with two starter groups - Administrator and Operator - and lets you create unlimited custom groups (Shift lead, External contractor, Service technician, Sales engineer, whatever your operation calls them).
Each group binds to a permission matrix of 168 permissions organised into 8 categories: Printing, Print Queue, Slicer, Courses, Filament System, Users, Organisation Management and Maintenance. Search by keyword, expand a single category, compare two groups side-by-side to spot the differences, or baseline a new custom group against an existing one. Reassign all members when you delete a group - no orphaned users, no broken permission chains.
Invite operators by direct email or by shared link
Two invite paths fit two operational realities. Direct email invites pre-assign group, language and locale, then let the user accept on their own time. Invite links are great for hiring waves and contractor onboarding: generate a link tied to a specific user group ("Operators"), set an expiry, send it out, and every accepted invite lands in the right group automatically. Same controls apply to both: existing users can't be re-invited by accident, and every invite is logged in the company audit log.
One users table for the whole operation
Every member of your farm or enterprise lives on the Users page: search, filter by group, sort by joined date or last seen, expand a row for the full detail card, and act on a user (manage quota, change group, disable, remove, resend invite) from the row actions. Bulk actions for multi-user changes: bulk-change group, bulk-reset quotas, bulk-disable. Export the full list to CSV for HR or compliance with one click.
See the multiple-users feature page
Balance in usage-tracking mode: never blocks a print, always logs the cost
The balance system is on the School and Enterprise plans. Enterprise farms typically run it in Usage tracking mode rather than Enforced mode: every print writes a cost transaction against the user (and by extension, the user's group / department / client), but it never refuses a print. The result is a clean ledger that finance and billing systems can pull from for departmental chargeback, customer invoicing, or PaperCut-style integrations.
Pick Enforced mode when the print should be blocked until balance covers it, or Usage tracking mode when you just want a clean ledger for invoicing. Auto-refill on a daily, weekly, monthly or custom-day cadence keeps internal accounts whole. Discount rules with optional start and end dates handle promotional pricing. Every balance event - charge, refund, refill, adjustment - emits a webhook your existing systems can consume.
Feature unlocks: progressive onboarding for new operators
Don't give a brand-new contractor the keys to the printer farm on day one. Feature unlocks let you progressively grant permissions instead. Build rules that grant a feature when a user:
- Completes one or more Academy courses ("How to safely operate a 3D printer", "Filament basics")
- Has been signed up for a configured number of days
- Has completed a configured number of successful prints
API and MCP access for the systems already running your operation
The most successful print farms on SimplyPrint integrate it with whatever they're already running. One customer built a ShipStation auto-queue integration so e-commerce orders automatically land on the production queue. Another routes filament-usage events into their accounting system. We've shipped both an enhanced API (Print Farm+) and an MCP server (Pro+) so your AI tooling can drive printers, reorder filament, approve queue items and pull statistics directly.
OAuth2 with PKCE handles third-party integrations (Zapier, n8n, Make, your custom apps). Webhooks fire on every balance change, quota event, print state transition, queue submission and AutoPrint action. Everything documented at apidocs.simplyprint.io and the MCP server registry.
SAML single sign-on, IP whitelisting and required 2FA on Enterprise
Enterprise IT teams almost always run a vendor review before adding a tool. SimplyPrint clears the standard checklist:
- SAML 2.0 SSO - Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Federation-based SAML, any SAML 2.0 IdP. Attribute mapping for first name, last name, email and group assignment, plus auto-import on first login into a default group of your choice.
- IP whitelisting - lock panel access to your corporate ranges.
- Required 2FA for all members (Enterprise plan).
- In-product Data Processing Agreement - sign the DPA from inside the panel.
- Company audit log with export (Enterprise) - full history of organisation actions for compliance review.
- SLA with uptime guarantee (Enterprise) - dedicated support, phone support, Slack Connect channel.
Company audit log, DPA signing and the paperwork your security team will ask for
Security-related settings - the full company audit log with export, panel IP restrictions, required 2FA enforcement, the in-product Data Processing Agreement and support access approval - all live in the Data and security area, linked straight from the Organisation tab. The audit log and in-product DPA signing are on the School and Enterprise plans. Audit-log export, required 2FA enforcement and the SLA uptime guarantee are Enterprise-only.
Five tabs, every audit your IT team will run
Each tab below is a real surface inside the Data and security area. Built so a security review can be answered with a single screenshot instead of a back-and-forth email thread.
Every security-relevant action, filterable by user, action, method and date.
CSV export with 24 columns (Enterprise only) for compliance archives.
Required 2FA enforcement plus IP whitelisting with granular block scopes.
Download, sign and upload the SimplyPrint DPA from inside the panel.
Require approval before SimplyPrint support can ever reach your account.
The Hub: a kiosk-style page for the shop floor
Your account gets a dedicated public-facing Hub at simplyprint.io/hub/{your-organisation-id} - a stripped-down printer-room interface meant for a wall-mounted display or floor terminal. Same logins as the main panel, way less to click through. Lock it to specific IPs or approved computers so only the shop terminal can reach it, toggle dark mode, redirect new signups straight to the Hub, and pick remember-me sessions for staff or auto-logout for shared shift terminals.
Which farm and enterprise features come on which plan
Multi-user collaboration, the Hub, custom fields, feature unlocks and webhooks come in on the Print Farm plan. Queue approval, the quota and balance system, SSO, the audit log and the in-product DPA are reserved for the School and Enterprise plans where shared-printer operations need the most control. Required 2FA enforcement, audit-log export and the SLA uptime guarantee are Enterprise only.
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Multiple users
Invite operators, contractors and admins with separate logins.
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Public Hub interface
A kiosk-style printer-room page at simplyprint.io/hub/{your-id}.
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Custom fields
Capture arbitrary metadata on prints, queue items, users and more.
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Feature unlocks
Reward operators with new permissions after courses, prints, or time thresholds.
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Enhanced API access
Programmatic control of every part of your fleet, with OAuth2 and webhooks.
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Webhooks
Real-time event delivery for balance, quotas, queue, prints and AutoPrint.
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Quotas, limits and balance
Periodic quotas, per-job limits, prepaid balance with enforced or tracking modes.
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Queue approval workflow
Route every submission past an approver before it hits the live queue.
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SAML single sign-on
Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Auth0, Federation-based SAML or any SAML 2.0 IdP.
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Company audit log
Full history of organisation actions, with export on the Enterprise plan.
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IP whitelisting
Lock panel access to your corporate IP ranges.
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Required 2FA
Enforce two-factor authentication for every member of the account.
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SLA with uptime guarantee
Contractual uptime, dedicated support, phone support, Slack Connect channel.
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