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# Ready-made workflows: Basic post-processing, School pickup, Item finishing and the order workflows

Workflows in SimplyPrint comes with five ready-made workflows you can copy into your account and change as you like. This guide covers adding one and what each of them does, stage by stage.

|| **Not live for everyone yet.** Workflows is rolling out to a closed pilot first, so some accounts won't see it yet. Once it opens up, it is part of the Print Farm, School and Enterprise plans.

You don't have to build a workflow from nothing. **Settings > Workflows** offers five ready-made workflows under **Ready-made workflows**. Adding one copies it into your account. From that moment it is yours to [edit](/en/article/building-editing-and-publishing-a-workflow-9pzfmw/): rename its stages, delete what you don't need, add tasks. This article is part of the [Workflows guide](/en/article/workflows-the-stages-and-tasks-work-follows-after-it-prints-1gh5hy8/).

![Settings > Workflows, the Ready-made workflows section: five rows with name, stage count badge, description, "For: ..." line and an Add button.](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/f/f/2/2/ff22a914001c1000/02-workflows-ready-made-wfread_b5l6tk.png)

## Table of contents
- [Adding a ready-made workflow](#2-adding-a-ready-made-workflow)
- [Basic post-processing (print jobs)](#2-basic-post-processing-print-jobs)
- [School pickup (print jobs)](#2-school-pickup-print-jobs)
- [Item finishing (Shop items)](#2-item-finishing-shop-items)
- [Order pipeline (Shop orders)](#2-order-pipeline-shop-orders)
- [Packing & shipping (Shop orders)](#2-packing-shipping-shop-orders)
- [Which one should I start with?](#2-which-one-should-i-start-with)

## Adding a ready-made workflow
1. Open **Settings > Workflows** and scroll to **Ready-made workflows**.
2. Click **Add** next to the one you want. The confirmation says it is copied into your account and that editing it will never change work already in progress.
3. Click **Add it**.
4. For Basic post-processing, School pickup, Item finishing and the order workflows, SimplyPrint then offers to use it for everything of that kind, such as **Use it for every new print job?** Click **Use it** to add that rule now, or **Not now** to add a rule later. If something of that kind already has a workflow, this question is skipped; change it under the workflow's rules instead.

Once added, a ready-made workflow disappears from the Ready-made list and appears under **Your workflows**, already published.

|| A copy never updates itself. If SimplyPrint improves a ready-made workflow later, the copy in your account stays as you left it.

## Basic post-processing (print jobs)
"Printing, then a short finishing checklist." For any account that prints and then tidies up.

| Stage | Moves in | Tasks |
| ----- | -------- | ----- |
| Queued | | |
| Printing | When the print starts | |
| Post-processing | When the print finishes | **Remove supports** (required, only when the plate used supports, about 5 min). **Inspect** (required, about 2 min) |
| Done | | Finishes the job |

Post-processing can't be left until its [required tasks](/en/article/how-a-workflow-works-stages-tasks-conditions-and-checks-yqf8sa/) are done.

## School pickup (print jobs)
"Post-processing, then an email to whoever asked for the print telling them it is ready to collect." Built for schools, where the student who sent a print usually isn't in the room when it finishes.

| Stage | Moves in | Tasks and actions |
| ----- | -------- | ----------------- |
| Printing | When the print starts | |
| Post-processing | When the print finishes | **Remove supports** (required, only when the plate used supports) |
| Ready for collection | | Emails whoever asked for the print. Shown to them as "Ready to collect" |
| Collected | | Finishes the job |

The email links to the [run's own page](/en/article/working-through-a-workflow-ticking-tasks-notes-waiving-blocking-and-moving-on-7eyr9e/), which the student can open without any workflow permission.

## Item finishing (Shop items)
"Printing, then a bench checklist that opens with the first finished piece, then ready for the order. Each step moves on by itself." This is the [item workflow for the Shop](/en/article/workflows-in-the-shop-order-and-item-workflows-accepted-pieces-and-moving-on-by-itself-1tkpyzp/).

| Stage | Moves on | Tasks |
| ----- | -------- | ----- |
| Printing | By itself, once the first piece is accepted | |
| Finishing | By itself, once every piece is accepted and the required tasks are done | **Remove supports** (required, only when the plate used supports, about 5 min). **Inspect** (required, once for every piece, about 2 min) |
| Ready for the order | | Finishes the item. Can only be entered once every piece is accepted |

Because Finishing waits for at least one accepted piece, nobody is asked to remove supports before anything is printed.

## Order pipeline (Shop orders)
"How an order moves from arriving to shipped. Moving it into Queued releases it to the print queue."

| Stage | Notes |
| ----- | ----- |
| Action needed | |
| Ready to release | |
| Queued | Asks "Release this order to the print queue?" before entering, then releases the order |
| In production | Moves on by itself |
| Ready to pack | Can only be entered once every item's workflow is finished and every piece is accepted |
| Packed | |
| Shipped | Finishes the order |

## Packing & shipping (Shop orders)
"Wait for every item, then pick, pack and ship. Moves to Ready to pack on its own once everything is accepted."

| Stage | Tasks and checks |
| ----- | ---------------- |
| In production | Moves on by itself |
| Ready to pack | Entered once every item's workflow is finished and every piece is accepted. **Pick the items** (required) and **Pack the box** (required, asks for a note) must be done to leave |
| Packed | |
| Shipped | Finishes the order |

|| Pack the box asks for a note, not a photo. Photo evidence isn't available yet.

## Which one should I start with?
- **You print and finish parts, no Shop:** Basic post-processing.
- **You're a school and students collect their prints:** School pickup.
- **You use the Shop:** Item finishing as the item workflow, plus Packing & shipping as the order workflow. Use Order pipeline instead if you want orders to wait for someone to release them to the print queue.

You can add more than one. [Rules](/en/article/workflow-rules-choosing-which-workflow-applies-by-account-label-or-product-1cd6r50/) decide which one applies to what.

## Related articles
### Workflows
- [Workflows: the stages and tasks work follows after it prints](/en/article/workflows-the-stages-and-tasks-work-follows-after-it-prints-1gh5hy8/)
- [How a workflow works: stages, tasks, conditions and checks](/en/article/how-a-workflow-works-stages-tasks-conditions-and-checks-yqf8sa/)
- [Building, editing and publishing a workflow](/en/article/building-editing-and-publishing-a-workflow-9pzfmw/)
- [Workflow rules: choosing which workflow applies, by account, label or product](/en/article/workflow-rules-choosing-which-workflow-applies-by-account-label-or-product-1cd6r50/)

### Running the work
- [The Workflows board: see every print, item and order in its stage](/en/article/the-workflows-board-see-every-print-item-and-order-in-its-stage-fn0n4w/)
- [Working through a workflow: ticking tasks, notes, waiving, blocking and moving on](/en/article/working-through-a-workflow-ticking-tasks-notes-waiving-blocking-and-moving-on-7eyr9e/)

### Shop, schools and the print queue
- [Workflows in the Shop: order and item workflows, accepted pieces and moving on by itself](/en/article/workflows-in-the-shop-order-and-item-workflows-accepted-pieces-and-moving-on-by-itself-1tkpyzp/)
- [The Shop: run your 3D printing orders from store to shipped](/en/article/the-shop-run-your-3d-printing-orders-from-store-to-shipped-11v71lf/)
- [Shop packing and shipping: pack, ship and mark orders shipped in your store](/en/article/shop-packing-and-shipping-pack-ship-and-mark-orders-shipped-in-your-store-69j2j7/)
- [School and makerspace workflows: from teacher-led to student-led printing](/en/article/school-and-makerspace-workflows-from-teacher-led-to-student-led-printing-cfmow0/)
- [The print queue: manage, schedule and automate your prints](/en/article/the-print-queue-manage-schedule-and-automate-your-prints-1syc86o/)