SchiffOps is the operating system for powder coating, industrial coatings, and anodizing shops — built by a coater, for coaters. Three trades. One codebase. Built where the work actually happens.
Printavo was built for screen printers chasing t-shirt orders. CCC was built for collision shops with insurance billing. QuickBooks was built for everyone — which is to say, no one in particular.
So coaters live in spreadsheets. Whiteboards. Group texts. The work gets done, but margin leaks out everywhere — wrong quotes, missed reorders, jobs that lost money before the powder ever hit the rack.
SchiffOps is the answer. Built by someone who runs the floor. Configured at signup for your exact trade. No more bending your shop to fit your software.
We chose three coating and finishing verticals where founder credibility actually transfers — and we’re going deep, not wide. Two products are live now. The third is in early access.
Why only three? Vertical SaaS wins by going deep, not wide. ServiceTitan was just HVAC for years. Toast was just restaurants. SchiffOps will be the best in coating and anodizing before it’s anything else.
Jim Schiffman runs a powder shop. Every feature came out of a real problem on a real floor. You’ll feel the difference in the first 10 minutes.
We focus on coatings and anodizing — trades that share customers, suppliers, and workflow DNA. We’re not building generic shop software. We’re building the best tool in three specific worlds.
The numbers your accountant can’t pull from QuickBooks. Color cost, prep time, chemistry, energy, labor — all rolled into one honest number per job.
I’m Jim Schiffman. I’ve been in coatings since 2004 — most of those years selling them at the distribution level. The last three I’ve been on the sales side at an industrial coatings contractor, and the last two doing the same at a powder coating shop. From all three angles, the tools were broken. The shops I worked with duct-taped QuickBooks, Excel, and a whiteboard together and called it shop management.
So I started building. Color-batched run schedule. AI quoting that knows the prep time. Profit per job in real time. Bid spec reader for the contractors. Other operators saw it and asked when they could buy it. SchiffOps is the answer.
14-day free trial. No credit card. Onboarding call with a coater, not a sales rep.