Signage project software for sign companies
Planqix keeps the sign location plan, message schedule, counts, artwork and braille in one project. Your team stops retyping the same change into five files, and your client sees the whole job on a single page.
No credit card needed.
The problem
The location plan lives in CAD or a PDF. The message schedule lives in a spreadsheet. Counts get tallied by hand for the estimate. Artwork and braille live in Illustrator, and the client gets a stack of emailed PDFs. When the architect renames a room, every one of them has to be found and changed — and the one that gets missed is the one that ends up on the wall.
The plan, schedule, counts, artwork, braille and the client’s page are built from that one project, so they are already up to date.
How it works
The same project carries the job through every stage, so nothing is re-entered when it moves from one person to the next.
Upload the architect’s sheets one per level: PDF, CAD (DWG, DXF), Illustrator, EPS, SVG or an image.
Click each location on the plan. Counts by type and floor are ready for your estimate before a single message is written.
Type each message once. Your sign type artwork draws it, braille is translated to Unified English Braille automatically, and copy that won’t fit is flagged.
Send the client one link for review and redlines, export production files, and hand the crew the plan on their phones.
Client review
No more matching a location plan against a message schedule and a folder of sign PDFs. Send your client one link: every floor, every sign location, its message and a preview of the sign, together on one screen and always on the current revision.
For your team
Each role picks up where the last one left off, in the same project.
Sign counts by type and floor from the first pass, filterable to code-required signs or optional wayfinding, ready to price.
One place for messages, revisions and client redlines. Accept a redline and the change lands in every document.
Import your own sign type artwork from Illustrator, PDF, EPS or SVG. Messages, braille and pictograms fill in per location, and export as production-ready vector art.
The mobile app edits locations and messages on site. The Install App gives crews the plan offline, with photos and notes on every sign.
Your workflow
Bring in what you already have and send out whatever the next person needs, in formats they already use. Any part of a project can come in or go out, so Planqix fits around your process with as little friction as possible.
ADA checks
Planqix flags any location that fails before it reaches the shop.
Checks help you catch problems early; they don’t replace your own review against the codes for the job.
Pricing
The client review page is always free. Prices in US dollars.
For one estimator or designer
$30$25/month
30 days free, no credit card needed. Then billed monthly once you add a card. Cancel any time.Then $300 billed yearly once you add a card.
For companies
For a team sharing projects
$65$55/month
30 days free for up to 3 users, no credit card needed. Then billed monthly once you add a card. Cancel any time.Then $660 billed yearly once you add a card.
Extra storage is $10/month per 20 GB ($8/month on annual plans). Questions about a larger rollout? .
FAQ
Yes. You set up your own sign types with your own artwork, sizes, and copy height per type, so the previews and exports follow your standards, not ours. Exterior and glass-mounted signs can get their own type suffix (A4 becomes A4.X or A4.V, or whatever suffix your office uses) so they count separately when they are fabricated differently.
Planqix produces the production art: the Braille SVG export lays out every sign as vector art with its message and Unified English Braille (Grade 2), ready for a router or engraver. Your sign location plan, message schedule, and sign counts come from the same project, so a message change updates all of them.
Every message is translated into Unified English Braille (Grade 2) automatically as you type it, so nothing is typed twice. Planqix then checks each sign against the ADA code using the font it prints in: character height, sans-serif and upright letters, letter proportions and stroke thickness, character and line spacing, braille under raised copy and 3/8 inch clear of other raised copy and the sign border, contrast against the artwork, and the 6-inch pictogram field. Plain text boxes get the size and contrast checks. Anything that fails is flagged on the plan with the rule and the measurement; it is a check to help you, not a certification.
No. Send them the link to the project's viewer and they open it straight away; they only type their name, so you know who made each change. They can review every floor, message and sign preview on one screen, and make redlines and changes right in the viewer for you to approve. The viewer is free for your clients; exports from the free viewer carry a small Planqix watermark.
The built-in checks cover the ADA items above. For anything local, set the copy height each sign type needs to match your spec, and mark which signs are code-required. Messages and Counts can then be filtered to code-required signs only, or to optional wayfinding only, when you price.
Yes, that is the usual first pass. Mark every location with just a sign type, then open Counts for a type-by-floor total you can price from. Messages and artwork come in the second pass, on the same project.
No. Keep designing your sign types in Illustrator, Inkscape, or whatever you use now and upload them as Illustrator, SVG, PDF, EPS, PNG, or JPG. Planqix handles the placement, schedules, counts, braille, and client redlines around them. The advanced editor imports that artwork as it is, with no special setup, and turns its message text, braille, pictograms and icons into dynamic fields in a few clicks.
Yes. The mobile app comes free with every Solo and Business account: open Planqix on your phone to add, move or delete sign locations, change a message, and pin notes and photos to the plan while you walk the building. The office sees the changes in the editor. The Install App is the separate app for installation crews: included for every user on Business, and an add-on for Solo.
Three users working in one shared project workspace, so everyone on the team opens the same jobs, sign types and messages. The Install App comes with every user at no extra charge, and a crew login that only uses the Install App counts as one of the users. Each user past three is added to the same subscription.
Yes. Annual billing is about a quarter off the monthly price on both plans; the toggle on the pricing section shows both. Monthly plans can be cancelled any time.
No. Solo and Business both start with a 30-day free trial and no card. Add one in Settings, Billing whenever you're ready; if you don't, the plan simply ends with the trial and nothing is charged. A Business trial covers the three included users, and more can be added once the paid plan starts.
Try it on a live job. 30 days free on Solo or Business, no credit card needed.
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