MARVIA VS CANVA

When Your Brand Needs More Than Just a Design Tool

While Canva excels at individual design freedom, multi-location brands and franchises choose Marvia to solve their unique local marketing challenges.

Brands with distributed teams get:
  • Location-specific marketing that maintains perfect brand consistency
  • Automated campaign distribution across all channels and locations
  • Dramatically reduced time-to-market for local promotional materials.

Trusted by leading brands to deliver marketing impact

How Marvia delivers what brands need


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Enable non-designers to create on-brand materials
Simple interface, guardrails for brand compliance

User-friendly design tools
Reduce time spent creating local marketing materials
Ready-to-use templates pre-approved for all locations

Design templates available
Maintain brand consistency across all locations
Locked brand elements with local customization options

Limited brand governance for distributed teams
Distribute content seamlessly across all channels and locations
One platform to manage print, digital, social & local campaigns

Manual distribution, limited channels
Execute location-specific social media at scale  
Organic posts and hyperlocal ads with creative automation 

Basic scheduling for organic posts only
Order materials directly from approved vendors
Integrated shop for ordering from your preferred suppliers


Limited print options only

Streamline creative requests across your organization
Built-in workflow for requesting, approving, and delivering custom designs

No creative request management
Track brand asset usage
Full visibility into usage across locations

Limited print options only
Scale pricing efficiently with your brand growth
Designed for distributed networks

Per-user pricing model
Receive expert support for distributed marketing
Dedicated Customer Success team 

General support only

How does Marvia differ from Canva?


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Pricing Competitive & Scalable Individuals-Focused
Centralized Brand Asset Management
Distributed marketing workflows
Seamlessly broadcast brand-consistent content across all channels.
Marketing Shop
A true one-stop-shop for ordering brand and promotional materials from all your suppliers.
Social Campaigns
World's first platform to combine hyperlocal social media and creative automation. 
Creative Requests
Centralize all your creative requests and collaborate seamlessly from beginning to end. 
Ideal for Franchises/Multi-Location Brands
Dedicated Customer Success Managers
Analytics on Brand Asset Usage

Easy to use for non-marketers

What this means for your business

Localized 360° marketing

60% faster campaign rollouts across all partners and channels.

While Canva helps create digital assets, Marvia drives your entire marketing ecosystem from creation to implementation

Effortless branded customization

100% brand consistency with complete local relevance for every location

No more waiting, workarounds, or off-brand content, just the perfect balance of guardrails and freedom

Partnership-level support

Dedicated success team with that understands distributed marketing challenges. 

Beyond basic support, we're partners invested in your local marketing success at every location.

Made for brands and agencies like yours

Franchises, multi-location brands, channel partners, and their agencies need to balance central brand control with local marketing effectiveness. When headquarters and local teams are aligned, marketing drives results at every location. Marvia bridges this gap to turn your brand's potential into local business success.

Escape the traditional limitations

The Complete Solution

Marvia is a single platform that seamlessly manages your brand, both print and digitally. Ensuring consistency across all channels.

  • On-brand tailored templates for both print and digital campaigns, to personalize materials with safeguards
  • Automate distribution for hands-off, personalized marketing rollouts, including on social media 
  • Provide analytics and reports, giving insights into usage and effectiveness 
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Customize in under a minute

User-Friendly and Flexible

While traditional web-to-print solutions can be cumbersome and require extensive training, Marvia’s platform is designed to be easy for users of all levels. 

  • An intuitive interface made for self-service, removing the learning curve while increasing usage
  • Unparalleled customization options with a branded portal
  • Effortlessly scales, localizes, and automates with your growing needs
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Adjusts to your needs, not the other way around

Advanced Integrations and Support

Build stronger relationships through Marvia's advanced integration capabilities and support.

  • Adjust the workflows to your usage, and connect with social media, suppliers, and more
  • Benefit from biweekly updates for security, enhancements, and new features
  • Get exceptional customer support with our dedicated team ensuring smooth operations
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Features You'll Love

Content Automation Automates content creation with custom DNA data for impactful, on-brand delivery—eliminates bottlenecks and errors instantly.  
Digital Asset Management Say goodbye to lost files and scattered brand materials. Centralize your assets boosting efficiency and consistency.  
Marketing Calendar Gets rid of long email threads or static PDFs and keeps everyone working with your brand in sync.  
Webshop Consolidates your preferred suppliers' shops into one, offering a convenient one-stop shopping experience.  
Analytics & Reporting Delivers insights on portal use and campaign success to enhance engagement and marketing tactics.  
Template Studio Turns your designs into dynamic, editable templates in seconds, allowing your users to easily create on-brand content.   

"All you need for distributed marketing in one platform"

StefanLocal Store Marketing Manager - Domino's Pizza
Marvia enables us to provide our franchisees the possibility to develop local marketing activities and campaigns, while the HQ can control the quality of the designs that are being used locally without costing too much time. In addition, the ordering and distribution process of materials for national campaigns is completely automated and offers a lot possibilities for personalization to franchisees.”
AliceBrand Coordinator - KidStrong
The Marvia support team excels in their dedication. They consistently work hard to ensure positive experiences for both our company and our franchisees. Marvia is continually improving its product, and I've seen impactful updates and features that enhance the user experience.
NienkeCOO - fit20
"Marvia offers us consistent communication, with a clear corporate identity, on a global level. Thanks to the Dynamic Templates, franchisees around the world have direct access to the latest marketing creative and can make it relevant locally."
UlrikeHead of Marketing - New York Pizza
We are incredibly happy to now be able to allow our franchise partners to receive customized marketing materials in a simple way with this toolbox. In addition, the toolbox not only facilitates our work in marketing through dynamic adaptations and automations but also helps our partners, such as our creative agency, to deliver faster and with greater quality assurance. We are sure that this will enable us to further advance our marketing and sales goals 
WalimeJohnny's Burgers
"All restaurants are now provided with the right Johnny's Burger marketing materials. We have a much better on-brand visibility on all channels: in-store, offline, and online. Marvia's solutions offer a scalable marketing tool to support Johnny's Burger in national growth." 
RosalindaMarketing & Communication Advisor

Using Marvia not only saves us a lot of time, but we also know for sure that the communications are fully in line with our brand identity. Very important, especially in a franchise organization! Marvia is easy to use: our franchisees can easily and quickly find all the information they need to get started with their local marketing. Furthermore, Marvia is always developing, so the platform always remains up to date.

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Transform your marketing today

Discover how much local marketing impact you're currently leaving on the table. Our personalized demo shows exactly how Marvia can transform your specific marketing challenges into measurable results.

What you'll see in your custom demo

  • Your brand materials seamlessly adapted for local markets
  • How Marvia streamlines what Canva can't: distribution, implementation, and tracking
  • Side-by-side comparison of your current process vs. the Marvia approach 


"In just 30 minutes, Marvia showed us how to solve brand challenges we'd been struggling with for years. We moved beyond just designing materials to actually implementing them across all our locations."

Marketing Director // Food Franchise