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.
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: rename its stages, delete what you don't need, add tasks. This article is part of the Workflows guide.
Table of contents
- Adding a ready-made workflow
- Basic post-processing (print jobs)
- School pickup (print jobs)
- Item finishing (Shop items)
- Order pipeline (Shop orders)
- Packing & shipping (Shop orders)
- Which one should I start with?
Adding a ready-made workflow
- Open Settings > Workflows and scroll to Ready-made workflows.
- 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.
- Click Add it.
- 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.
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 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, 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.
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 |
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 decide which one applies to what.
Related articles
Workflows
- Workflows: the stages and tasks work follows after it prints
- How a workflow works: stages, tasks, conditions and checks
- Building, editing and publishing a workflow
- Workflow rules: choosing which workflow applies, by account, label or product
Running the work
- The Workflows board: see every print, item and order in its stage
- Working through a workflow: ticking tasks, notes, waiving, blocking and moving on
Shop, schools and the print queue
- Workflows in the Shop: order and item workflows, accepted pieces and moving on by itself
- The Shop: run your 3D printing orders from store to shipped
- Shop packing and shipping: pack, ship and mark orders shipped in your store
- School and makerspace workflows: from teacher-led to student-led printing
- The print queue: manage, schedule and automate your prints
Updated on: 06/11/2026
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