Hi, I'm Robert. I built Manuflo because the boring problem nobody fixes in 3D printing is the same boring problem I spent a decade fixing in logistics: the order never connects to the work.
For the last 12 years I've worked in IT as an application specialist for transportation, logistics, and warehousing companies. The last 6 of those have been hands-on with the integrations layer, the part nobody photographs for the company website. Order systems talking to warehouse management systems. WMS talking to carrier APIs. Carrier rates flowing back to the customer's checkout. Tracking events landing back in the order record so the support team isn't refreshing carrier websites in 14 tabs.
None of that work is glamorous. It is the work that decides whether a shipment goes out today or sits on the floor. When the integrations are right, a 50-line order moves through the building in an hour. When they are wrong, the warehouse calls IT, the customer calls support, and someone is reading an Excel file by hand at 9 PM.
Two years ago I started running prints for friends, then for paying customers. I expected the print farm side of the world to have the same kind of integration glue that logistics has. It does not. The slicer is great. The printer firmware is great. The fleet tools cover printer monitoring fine. But the customer asks for a price, the file lands in someone's queue, and there is nothing in between. No quote engine. No deposit. No invoice. No shipping label. Print farm owners are running spreadsheets, Discord DMs, PayPal links, and hand-written labels. Worse: they're paying for two SaaS tools to cover what should be one.
That gap is exactly what I spent my career filling for warehouses. Manuflo is that bridge applied to print farms, with the printer ops layer built in. One platform. From customer click to shipped box. Real-time printer ops over OctoPrint, Klipper, Mainsail, Bambu, and Prusa. Slicer, queue, filament, customer CRM, Stripe deposits, invoices, Shippo labels, supplier and PO. The job is to make the boring part disappear and stop the SaaS sprawl while we do it.
Manuflo is not vibe-coded. It is built on the same patterns I used to ship logistics integrations for clients you have heard of. Postgres for the database. Real webhooks. Real OAuth. Real backups that get tested. Real retry logic on every integration call. The whole thing is built so that when one of your customers hits "checkout" at 2 AM, the order is still in your dashboard, slicer-priced and deposit-paid, by the time you walk into the shop.
Robert Dunn
Founder, Manuflo · [email protected]