Most surface designers don't have a Print Approval Lab — they have Photoshop, Placeit, Canva, and a Google search history. This 4-minute audit grades your workflow against what a real Print Approval Lab actually does, and shows you what your current setup is costing you in dollars and lost collections.
Free. No email required to take it.
"Let me tell all you designers out there: BUY IT NOW!!! I cannot get over how quick it was and how much time I saved exporting 4 sizes of a 5-design collection in three colorways! Worth. Every. Penny."
"Absolutely LOVING this app! I've been loading up patterns into my shop so much faster using PatternPAL!"
"I signed up for a subscription today, and this service is going to save me so much time going forward. It's great in every way!"
Pick the answer that's closest to your reality, not your goal.
$0 in software + 0 hours in manual prep this year
That's roughly 0 collections you didn't ship because the prep work ate the time.
Drop your first name and email. I'll send you your full Pattern Prep Audit as a PDF — your grade, your real cost, your collections-not-shipped number — to come back to whenever you need a reminder of what your workflow is actually costing you.
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The 7 functions:
If your workflow doesn't do all 7, you have a pattern tester. Or you're patching together graphic-designer software and forcing it to do something it was never built for. Neither one is a Print Approval Lab.
This isn't just money. It's the collections you didn't ship. The licensing submissions you didn't send. The Spoonflower drops you pushed to next month because you couldn't face the prep work again.
Surface designers got handed graphic-designer tools and told to be grateful. That's been the deal for 30 years. It's the reason most serious designers ship 3–5 collections a year when they could ship 15–20. It's the reason talented designers stay stuck at hobby-revenue level — not because the work isn't good, but because the prep work eats the time that would have built the business.
A Print Approval Lab fixes that. Not by being a better Photoshop. By being something else entirely — the workspace built for the post-creation work no other tool was ever built to do.
I built PatternPAL Pro because I got tired of watching surface designers — including my own students — stitch together $65–99/mo of subscriptions to do work that should take one tab.
If you want to run your actual patterns through it, the first 3 tests are free, no account needed. Testing stays free with a free account. The full 44-mockup library, batch print export, your logo watermark, and Pattern Analysis are Pro ($7.99/mo or $79/yr).
No discount code. No "limited time offer." If the audit told you what you needed to hear, the rest is just the obvious next step.
— Mandy
Amanda Grace Design