The app window
A tour of every region of the interface, what belongs in it, and why it is where it is.
The six tabs
Everything lives behind six tabs along the top. They are ordered roughly in the sequence you use them the first time, and after that you will mostly live in two of them.
| Tab | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Designer | Where labels are drawn. The tab you spend the most time in. |
| Products | Your imported catalogue. Search, tick the products you want, send them to print. |
| Import | The five-step wizard for bringing in a spreadsheet. |
| Printer, copies, preview and export. The last stop before paper. | |
| Projects | Designs you have saved, so next week is one click rather than a redesign. |
| Settings | Licence details, which computers are activated, print history, updates. |
The status strip
Along the very top right, next to the tabs, sits your plan name and — on a trial — how many labels you have left. If a number is shown there, it is counting down.
Coloured bars under the tabs
| Bar | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Blue: "Working offline" | The app has not reached our licence server recently. Nothing stops working. It tells you the date access continues until, which is at least a week away. |
| Amber: trial labels remaining | Appears when 20 or fewer trial labels are left, with a link to the plans page. |
| Blue: version available | A newer release exists. Clicking through opens the download page in your browser. Nothing is installed behind your back. |
The Designer, region by region
The designer splits into five areas. Left to right, top to bottom:
1. The toolbar
Across the top. Templates, the nine element tools, undo and redo, theme, stacking, alignment, grouping, view toggles, zoom, and Save. Every button is documented in the toolbar reference.
2. The layers panel
Down the left. Lists everything on the label, topmost first — which is how designers think about stacking, even though the file stores them back-to-front.
- Click a row to select that element
- Shift or Ctrl click to add to the selection
- The ◉ icon hides an element while you work on what is underneath
- The 🔓 icon locks it, so you stop dragging the background by accident
- The two arrow buttons at the top move the selection forward and backward in the stack
Two small markers can appear next to a name. A chain link means the element belongs to a group. A question mark means it has a visibility condition — it will not print on every product.
3. The canvas
The middle. One label, shown at whatever zoom you have set — not the whole sheet. The sheet layout is set in the properties panel and shown in the print preview.
The surround is deliberately a plain dark grey. Everything else in the app is coloured, but not this: judging a red banner against a tinted backdrop is impossible, and this is software where colour decisions end up on paper.
4. The properties panel
Down the right. It shows one of two things:
- Nothing selected — label size, sheet layout and page margins
- Something selected — every property of that element
Select several elements and it shows the first one's values, but changes apply to all of them. Full detail in the properties reference.
5. The status bar
Along the bottom. Three things, left to right:
- How many elements are on the label, and its size — or how many are selected
- Any problem with the design. Red is an error that will stop printing; amber is a warning worth reading
- Every data field the design uses, so you can see at a glance what columns your spreadsheet needs
The Products tab
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search box | Searches product name, SKU and barcode at once. Results appear as you type, even with a hundred thousand products. |
| Category filter | Narrows to one category. The count next to each name is how many products are in it. |
| Send all | Queues every product matching the current search and filter — not just the visible page. |
| Send N to print | Queues only the ticked rows. |
| Header tickbox | Ticks or unticks everything currently visible. |
Clicking anywhere on a row toggles its tick, which is faster than aiming at the small box. A blue bar under the toolbar confirms how many products are queued for printing.
The Projects tab
Everything you have saved with Ctrl+S. Each row shows when it was created, when it was last saved, and its version number — which increments every save, so you can tell an actively edited design from a settled one.
Open loads it into the designer. Delete is permanent and asks first.
The Settings tab
| Section | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Your licence | Plan, masked key, status, how many computers you may use, labels remaining on a trial, and when the licence was last verified. |
| Check now | Forces an immediate licence check. Useful after upgrading a plan — it pulls the new entitlements straight away rather than waiting for the next background check. |
| Release this computer | Frees your licence slot so you can activate on a different machine. Nothing on this computer is deleted. |
| Features on your plan | Exactly what your licence unlocks. Worth checking before wondering why a button is missing. |
| Recent print jobs | The last twenty jobs, with destination, label count and result. The first place to look when someone asks what was printed yesterday. |
| About | Version, platform, and buttons for updates, the user guide and support. |
Menus
The menu bar duplicates most shortcuts, and is worth browsing once — a few options (like starting a print run part-way down a sheet) are much easier to find there than by guessing at a keystroke.
| Menu | Contains |
|---|---|
| File | New, open, save, import products, import Azuri templates, print, export PDF. |
| Edit | Undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, duplicate, select all, delete. |
| View | Zoom, actual size, grid, snapping, full screen. |
| Help | User guide, keyboard shortcuts, licence and devices, check for updates, contact support, about. |