Maddy Alcala
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eCommerce Infrastructure

OrderMesh: Modern Order Management Infrastructure for Print-on-Demand

Over the last decade, Gooten has operated deep in print-on-demand: fulfilling millions of items, supporting recognizable brands, and navigating the complexity of made-to-order production at scale.

We've seen the pain points: brittle integrations, misrouted orders, exception overload, production blackouts, inconsistent SKU data, and hours lost to spreadsheets. The takeaway is simple: print-on-demand isn't hard because of the printing. It's hard because of inadequate infrastructure and technology.

That's why we built OrderMesh. It wasn't a side project for Gooten—it was the biggest bet we ever made, starting in 2021. We needed new infrastructure: something modern and API-first, with platform security rigorous enough to withstand enterprise compliance vetting.

That's what OrderMesh delivers. It's the most strategic investment we've made as a company, and it now forms the foundation for Gooten as part of Taylor Corporation.

What It Does

OrderMesh is an order management platform built for the print-on-demand supply chain. It connects brands, marketplaces, decorators, printers, and distributors, orchestrating how orders move across vendors, methods, and systems.

Dynamic routing and exception handling.

Use OrderMesh to route orders across locations, vendors, or print methods based on customer requirements, available capacity, supplier preference, and performance, with real-time exception management built in.

Plug-and-play integrations.

Our growing ecosystem of vendor plugins, platform connectors, and open APIs makes it straightforward to manage fulfillment networks and connect sales channels without engineering bottlenecks.

Product normalization and catalog control.

OrderMesh normalizes catalog data across producers, creating a single source of truth and making multi-node vendor networks functional.

Operational visibility.

Every order is traceable. Monitor margin, SLA, throughput, and facility performance—all tracked and visible.

Where Gooten Fits In

OrderMesh doesn't replace Gooten—it expands what Gooten can do. Our Fulfillment Network now operates within the OrderMesh platform: a network ten times larger and truly global, a catalog expanding from hundreds of thousands of SKUs to millions, more integrations, more routing flexibility, fewer bottlenecks.

Gooten can act as a "vendor" for your business through this Fulfillment Network, but the power of OrderMesh is the tooling that gives you the ability to transact directly with print-on-demand suppliers as well. You own the commercial relationships; we're just the software layer that makes it easy to do business.

eCommerce Infrastructure
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Maddy Alcala, President at OrderMesh and Gooten. Maddy oversees the entirety of OrderMesh's go-to-market organization, ranging from marketing to customer service, and cites her favorite part of her job as working with her incredible team that supports clients of all sizes, from small startups to the world's largest brands across marketplaces, retailers, and manufacturers.

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