Most shops are live in an afternoon. No consultant, no onboarding fee, no data held hostage, in either direction.
Sign up with your shop name and email. Your board stages and a starter product library are created for you, edit them, do not rebuild them.
Export a CSV from your old system (or a spreadsheet). Upload it: columns are matched automatically, you check the match on a preview screen, then import. Wrong file? One-click undo removes exactly what the import added.
Import a price list the same way, or tune the starter recipes (banner, rigid panel, decal, channel letters, yard sign, window graphic, vehicle wrap) to your rates.
Owners, sales, floor, installers, all included in the one price. The floor sees jobs and steps only, never prices.
Some systems export customers fine but leave quote and sales-order line items and notes behind. Bring what the export gives you; your history of customers and products is what matters day to day, and new quotes build their own clean history here. If you later leave SignShopApp, the export includes line items, notes and full product recipes, that is written into how the export is built, not a favour.