No. KOVA rides on top of the stack you already run. Keep your Shopify storefront and checkout — orders flow into KOVA automatically via webhooks, already linked to the exact design the customer built.

KOVA drives your RIP through a tiny, zero-dependency on-prem agent that drops print-ready files into your NeoStampa hot folder. It writes atomically so the RIP never grabs a half-finished file, and routes to the right hot folder per printer and film width.

The nesting engine uses deterministic skyline strip-packing with 90° rotation to arrange every pending design onto gang sheets with the least wasted film across the roll — and it reports utilization per sheet. Because it's deterministic, a reprint of a sheet comes out identical.

Yes — that's the front door. The Design Studio is a Kittl-style editor where customers upload art, place it on the garment, and see a live DPI quality gate. You receive a print-ready, resolution-validated spec instead of a low-res email attachment.

They live in the same pipeline as e-commerce. Shopify, a public Orders API, hosted checkout, and manual entry all funnel into one idempotent order intake that explodes each order into individually-barcoded units.

Yes. Start on any plan and explore the full pipeline. Plans scale with the metrics that actually grow a print shop — monthly order volume, staff seats, and number of printers.