Built for wide-format and reprographics dealers
Meter, price, and invoice your wide-format fleet from one system.
Summit collects counters from every machine you've placed, prices them against each customer's agreement, and builds the invoices — automatically, every month.
- One agent per site
- Bucket-by-bucket metering
- Pooled allowances
DesignJet T950
SG-4471180C
+ 12,480 pages
1 Aug 2026
Priced against the agreement
- Monthly base · 5,000 included
- $150.00
- Overage · 7,480 at bucket rates
- $328.60
Invoiced
$478.60
Sound familiar
“Our readings live in a spreadsheet.”
Someone chases counters at the end of every month. A machine gets missed, and nobody finds out until the customer disputes the invoice.
“We’re paying too much for click tracking.”
A platform bill arrives every month, and what it buys is meter collection — no service desk, no tickets. Every dollar of it comes out of the equipment margin.
That’s what Summit is: monitoring, billing and service on the same records — one affordable view of the whole equipment business.
How it works
Three steps, then it runs
Setup is a site visit. After that the meters, the pricing and the invoices take care of themselves.
- 01
Install once per site
One agent covers a location, not a machine. Install it once at a customer site and it picks up every printer it can reach there.
- 02
Counters arrive on their own
Raw snapshots come in roughly daily, and the billable checkpoint is taken once per period. Nobody types a counter.
- 03
Bills build themselves
There is no button to press. Summit builds bills nightly for periods that have closed, and immediately when something changes that affects an open one.
Built for wide-format
Wide-format billing, modelled properly
Wide-format machines do not meter like an office copier, and pricing them like one leaves money on the table in both directions.
Every bucket the machine meters
This machine meters five ways — mono, color, low density, high density and premium — and each bucket prices at its own rate. Another model may report three. Summit reads whatever buckets the device meters and bills every one of them, across makes, with per-model handling for the devices that report a counter you should not charge for.
One square foot of output
- Mono$0.04
- Color$0.28
- Low density$0.19
- High density$0.46
- Premium$0.92
Allowances that actually pool
One allowance, shared across every machine in a pool, spread across bucket positions and funded from the cheapest rate first. Being under on one machine offsets being over on another — which is the entire reason your customer asked for a pool.
Moving a machine between pools changes what two customers pay, so Summit treats it as a billing decision rather than a filing decision.
Billed separately
5,000 included — under by 2,000
5,000 included — over by 2,000
Overage charged on 2,000 pages.
10,000 included — nothing over the allowance
Small-format machines are welcome here too. Non-bucketed devices and straightforward mono/color agreements price through exactly the same engine.
Billing
Billing you can defend
An invoice is a claim about money. Summit is built so you can still stand behind last quarter's.
One engine computes every charge
A single reading and the monthly pool bill are priced by the same code, so they cannot disagree with each other.
Closed periods stay closed
Terms are frozen onto each row the moment it is priced. A correction made in March does not restate January's invoice.
Readiness checks before you invoice
A report tells you whether a period is safe to invoice before you send anything, rather than after a customer calls.
The arithmetic is enforced by the database
Base, overage, tax and total have to reconcile or the record does not save. Not a convention — a constraint.
Billing readiness — August 2026
- Every billable machine has a reading
- All agreements carry pricing terms
- No readings priced under stale terms
- Two machines have not reported this period
The period is not blocked. You just know before you invoice, instead of afterwards.
January 2026 · 214 invoice lines
ClosedPriced under the terms that were in force, and staying that way.
Service
The service desk is not a separate product
Most systems that read your meters stop at the meter. Summit runs the work as well — on the same equipment records the counters came from.
Tickets
Service requests built from templates, so the same kind of job is captured the same way every time, moving through the statuses your business actually uses.
Preventative maintenance
Visits calculated from each machine's own schedule, whether or not anybody has raised a ticket — so the work shows up before the customer calls about it.
Parts
A parts catalog, and a record of what was consumed on which ticket and which machine. Ask what a device has cost you and there is an answer.
Technician time
Who worked when, against what, feeding the activity reporting rather than a second timesheet nobody reconciles.
List
- #4182Service callMeridian Engineering
- #4183MaintenanceCornerstone AEC
- #4184InstallHalvorsen Architects
- #4185Service callBlueline Reprographics
Map
Calendar
Because the ticket, the machine, its readings and its agreement are the same record, a technician can see what a device is contracted for before deciding what to charge for — and coverage for labor, parts and consumables follows from the agreement rather than from somebody's memory.
Customers raise their own service and supplies requests through the portal, and those arrive as tickets rather than as email somebody has to retype. Approvals and site surveys go out as links that need no login.
Pull up a customer and the whole relationship is there — every location, every machine, every alert, every invoice — one record instead of three systems.
Printer Monitor agent · Meridian Engineering
HP T950
184,220
Canon TX-4100
92,015
Epson T5470
311,904
HP Z9+ Pro
48,772
Kyocera 7054ci
127,338
Canon TZ-30000
76,051
- Meridian EngineeringReporting
- Cornerstone AECReporting
- Halvorsen ArchitectsGone quiet
Monitoring
Monitoring that earns its place
Machines report themselves, and the alerts you get are the ones worth acting on.
One agent covers a location
Install it once on a computer that stays on, and it polls every printer it can reach at that site — including other sites you link to it.
Supplies before the machine stops
Consumable levels come back with every poll, with a depletion projection per cartridge, so ink ships ahead of the problem.
Alerts that wait before they fire
Some conditions are held pending and only escalate if they still hold when the timer expires. A jam cleared in thirty seconds by whoever was standing at the machine never becomes a service call.
You can see the agents themselves
Which installations are reporting, which have gone quiet, and which sites need reinstallation — before a silent machine turns into a missing invoice line.
Customer portal
Your customers can serve themselves
Every supplies request that arrives as a phone call is a request somebody has to type in twice.
A portal per customer
Their equipment, their supplies requests, their service requests — without a support call and without a licence.
Customer-submitted readings
For machines the agent cannot reach, the customer submits the counters themselves and they price through the same pipeline as everything else.
Signed links, no login
Approvals, site surveys and feedback go out as a link that works for the person you sent it to, with nothing to sign up for.
Included
Your customers are not billed as users. The portal is part of the product, not a seat.
Cornerstone AEC · portal
Not a seat
- Arrived as a ticket
Supplies request
Matte black ink, 2 × 300 ml
- Priced like any other
Meter reading
Scanner the agent cannot reach
- No login needed
Site survey
Sent as a signed link
Your data
Your data, and a way out of it
A platform that makes your own numbers hard to get at is a platform you cannot leave.
- Monitoring
- Billing & sales
- Equipment
- Service
- Security
Around thirty reports
Grouped by what they are about — monitoring, billing and sales, equipment, service and security — rather than by which screen they were bolted onto.
Export what you are looking at
CSV from any list, carrying the filters, columns and sort you had applied. Not the whole table with your work thrown away.
A documented API
A JSON API with generated OpenAPI documentation, so the data reaches whatever else you run your business on.
Saved views
The filter set you rebuild every Monday, saved once — privately, or shared with the whole team.
Configuration
Configured to how you actually sell
No two dealers describe an agreement the same way, and a system that insists on its own vocabulary makes everybody translate.
Your agreement types
Sales types are records you define, not a fixed list — your names, and your own rules for whether labor, parts and consumables are covered.
Your roles
Granular permissions per role, so billing staff see billing and technicians see service.
Your alert rules
Which conditions raise an alert, how often they are checked, and who hears about them.
Your views
Filters, columns and sort saved per person or shared across the team, with a shared order everyone sees the same way.
Pricing
Pricing that matches what you run
Your fleet is what drives the price, so that is what we quote against.
Priced per monitored device.
No per-seat licences.
No per-module fees.
Your customers use the portal for free.
Tell us what you have placed and we will put a number on it.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
What kind of printers does Summit monitor?
A wide variety of equipment across makes — HP, Canon, Kyocera, Epson and more — wherever the agent can reach the machine on the customer network. Coverage goes down to individual consumables, with handling for the per-model quirks that come with a mixed fleet. Tell us what you have placed and we will confirm it before you commit to anything.
Do I have to install something on every machine?
No. One agent covers a location, not a machine. It runs on a computer at the customer site that stays on, and picks up every printer it can reach there — including other sites you link to it.
What about machines the agent cannot reach?
They are still first-class. Readings can be entered by hand, or submitted by the customer through a link you send them, and they price through exactly the same pipeline as automatic ones.
Does Summit handle small-format equipment too?
Yes. Non-bucketed machines and straightforward mono/color agreements run through the same billing engine as the bucketed wide-format devices.
Does it handle service work, or only meters?
Service is a first-class part of the product: tickets, preventative maintenance schedules, parts consumption and technician time, all on the same equipment records the meters come from. Work the queue as a list, plan the route on a map, or see the month on a calendar.
Can my customers submit their own readings?
Yes, through a signed link for their location that needs no login and no account. What they submit becomes a billable reading like any other.
Is there an API?
Yes — a documented JSON API with generated OpenAPI documentation, so your fleet, customer and billing data reaches whatever else you run.
How does pricing work?
Per monitored device. There are no per-seat licences, no per-module fees, and your customers are not charged for using the portal. We will quote against your actual fleet.
How do we get started?
Request a demo. We will walk through your fleet, your agreement types and how you bill today, and show you what that looks like in Summit.
See it against your own fleet
Tell us what you have placed and how you bill it today, and we will show you what that looks like in Summit.
- A walk through your fleet and how you bill it today
- Your agreement types, buckets and pools, modelled in Summit
- Straight answers on device coverage for what you have placed
Would rather just write? hello@summitmeter.com