What does Printify and Shopify have in common? Both platforms allow you to sell products online and work together to offer a print-on demand fulfillment process. A print-on demand store, where designs are printed only once a customer orders them, requires two elements: an ecommerce platform to build an online store and a product and fulfillment platform. Shopify is the ecommerce platform that allows you to create an online store. Printify is the product design/fulfillment platform. This article will show you how to integrate Printify with Shopify and create a product design/fulfillment platform.
We will discuss everything, from the basics of Printify and Shopify to how to make the integration.
There are many other ecommerce platforms, such as Bigcommerce and WooCommerce, and other print-on demand tools like Printful and TeeLaunch. But we are focusing on Printify with Shopify because both offer affordable pricing (it is completely free for Printify) and simple tools that anyone can get into print-on–demand.
Printify and Shopify can be used to print-on-demand fulfillment.
What’s Printify?
Printify is a print-on-demand standalone service that offers these solutions and tools.
- Online designer for creating your product designs and mockups.
- There are over 300 high-quality products, including t-shirts, leggings and phone cases. All of these items can be printed with your design.
- Large print network to get products in different countries designed and shipped to the right people.
- Print-on-demand fulfillment is a process that links to your shop and sends orders to the appropriate fulfillment centers for printing.
- Shopify App for instant integration with your store
- You can create everything, from product mockups to profit margins, using the pricing and product page module.
- Integrations are available with many marketplaces, such as eBay and Etsy. This allows you to sell not only on your ecommerce site, but also anywhere else on the internet.
- You can order samples of products before you sell them to customers at a discount price.
Printify enables online merchants to create product designs and have them printed on products. Printify allows you to buy in bulk, but not wholesale quantities. It has a network printing and fulfillment centers that will only print the order and then ship it to the customer.
Printify also offers a powerful product creator, a mockup maker, and an app that allows for quick integration with your Shopify shop (covered below).
Printify costs what? Printify is even more amazing because of that. Once you have made a sale, you don’t need to pay anything. Printify offers a free plan with five accounts that can support unlimited products and supports up to five stores. This includes the mockup generator, integration with Shopify, Etsy and eBay marketplace connections, and customer support. The Premium plan starts at $24.99 per Month and offers some interesting benefits, including custom order imports and discounts up to 20% on regular product prices.
What’s Shopify?
Shopify is, however, one of most popular ecommerce platforms.
It has features such as:
- A complete website designer.
- Templates for launching a site design that is based on your branding needs.
- Drag and drop builder to create your homepage.
- The system includes a world-class ecommerce shopping Cart.
- You can create product pages and list them on your website using these tools.
- There are many payment gateway integrations available. Most of them require only a click and account registration. Payment gateways allow you to collect money from all your sales.
- Store management tools for dropshipping, refunds and customer groups.
- You can use marketing and SEO features to create online ads, sell on Facebook and offer discounts. Your Shopify dashboard allows you to run complete email marketing campaigns.
- Unlimited product support, as well as more exclusive items such digital products and those that require a subscription.
- Web hosting and domain names are available so you don’t need to search for your own.
- An app that allows you to manage your inventory and order.
- Support available 24/7 and an extensive online knowledge base.
- An analytics center to monitor your sales.
- App marketplace to expand the functionality of your store by adding apps for marketing, social media, accounting, and other services.
Printify can integrate with Shopify’s ecommerce store by using a third party app.
Shopify is your main website, ecommerce hub and where you can manage everything, from marketing to discounts to analytics to SEO.
What is Shopify’s pricing? To get a feel for Shopify, you can sign up to a 14-day trial. You can connect Printify with Shopify for two weeks, set up your store, and then see if a printing-on-demand company suits you. All this without any cost or commitment.
You’ll then be asked to create a Shopify account. You can view our guide on Shopify pricing . However, we recommend the $79 per monthly Shopify plan, especially if you are a print-on demand business. You have other options, such as the Basic Shopify plan at $29.9 per month, Advanced Shopify at $299 per month, and Shopify Plus at $2,000 per month for enterprises. You can also purchase a $9 Shopify Lite plan, but this is not a viable option if your goal is to integrate Printify with your print-on-demand business.
What is the best way to work together?
Printify can be connected to Shopify using the Printify App, located in the Shopify App Store.
Shopify then handles web design, order management and payment processing. Printify is a trusted partner of Shopify. You can create your products, mockups, and product pages and then sync them with your Shopify site. Printify is much more than an online design platform. Printify also has a network of fulfillment centers and printing companies.
Here is the step-by-step procedure:
- Printify allows you to upload your design and place it on a product. Next, you can configure details such as pricing, product descriptions and mockups.
- Shopify can sync all items and create product pages for each one in your online shop.
- Your ecommerce store is visited by a customer who purchases one of your items.
- Your payment processor approves the transaction and charges the customer’s credit card for the entire list price. The merchant receives full payment, less any credit card fees, into their merchant account.
- Shopify receives a notification about the sale and Printify sends it to Printify. Printify then prints the notification.
- Printify takes your order and prints it.
- Printify packs the product and sends it to your customer. Both you and your customer will receive a tracking code for your shipment.
- Printify will eventually charge you for the item’s production cost. This leaves you with a profit depending on how much you sell.
- Once the order is marked as complete in Shopify and Printify respectively, the process begins all over again.
This setup allows the merchant to do all of their warehousing and printing as well as storage and shipping. This setup allows for very low overhead costs and the benefit of not having wholesale merchandise to pay. Print-on-demand means that you only pay for the items once a customer orders them.
While there are many benefits to owning a business like this one, you should also be aware of some drawbacks. These include higher product costs per unit and the fact that your print quality control is not perfect. However, this can be fixed by ordering product samples to test before sending any product to customers.
How to connect Printify and Shopify
It’s easy to link Printify and Shopify. All of it is done through the Shopify app.
You already have a Shopify Account, so it is time to sign up at Printify. Printify is free, as long as you aren’t interested in purchasing the Premium version. This doesn’t make sense for new stores.
Go to the Printify website, and click one of the Sign Up or Start Selling buttons.
Follow these steps to create an account. You may be asked for basic personal information in order to make sure you have everything you need.
After you create an account, you will see the Printify dashboard.
Navigate to Stores and click the Manage My Store button. If there are no stores you have added, click on the button to add one.
You may see either past stores that you have created or a blank one. We want to create a new store so click the Add New Store button.
Printify can be integrated with many ecommerce platforms, including Shopify, Wix and WooCommerce. Printify can be connected to Etsy and other marketplaces.
Keep in mind, however, that Shopify is not the best platform for you.
We believe Shopify is the best option for Printify integration, and the most powerful tools to help you sell online.
Click on the Connect button to go to the Shopify section.
Printify will ask you to enter the URL of your Shopify store in the next window. You can find this information by going to the Shopify frontend. You can also find it in the dashboard.
Paste the URL into the box and click on Connect.
You will be taken back to Shopify Dashboard.
This page informs you that you are about to install Printify on Shopify. The page also informs you that Printify has access to your Shopify account data and product pages. After items are designed, these information are essential to push them to Shopify.
To complete the process, click the Install App button
Shopify will send you to the Printify dashboard after the installation is complete. Printify’s best feature is the ability to design products in Shopify, or return to the Printify dashboard for all your needs.
The Printify design center within Printify, as you can see from the screenshot is an embedded version of Printify’s Printify site within Shopify.
To verify that the integration has been recognized by Printify, we recommend you go back to the dashboard using a different browser. To check if the store is connected, click on the Stores dropdown at the upper right-hand corner.
Below that you’ll see a list with My Products and Other Products. This is where it is possible to add new products or manage them from Printify.
Printify and Shopify Tips: How to Sell Print-on-Demand Products
You have it! After integrating Printify with Shopify, and adding products to your store, you’re now the proud owner a print-on demand shop.
While we cannot cover every aspect of building and operating a POD online shop from start to finish here are some tips to help you.
- Never hesitate to order product samples. Until you have it in your hands, you will not know the quality of the product or its print. Printify offers substantial discounts on samples You’re only exposing yourself to customer complaints and possible returns if you trust a digital mockup rather than running your own quality control.
- Brand every aspect of your shop. While a logo is great, you should also consider customizing colors and fonts in Shopify.
- Take a look at the many ways you can get designs, even if your not a professional designer. There are many places where you can buy premade designs like Envato Elements or PlaceIt. You can also hire a professional designer.
- Make sure you have the correct receiving and fulfillment settings. You can accept returns, set up automated order routing and choose specific suppliers.
- Consider selling print-on demand items on marketplaces like Etsy and eBay. This will allow you to expand your customer base.
- Shopify offers many marketing options. You can think about search engine advertising, social media posts, ads, email marketing and abandoned cart recovery using coupons.
- Only work with Printify suppliers who offer quick shipping to your customers. Be open about shipping times, even if they take longer from some printers.
- Consider all costs of business when pricing products. Take into account shipping, billing, marketing and other factors.
- Provide all legal and informational pages.
- Find ways to manage customer service. Shopify can help with this, if you have Shopify apps that allow you to run live chats, handle emails and publish knowledgebase articles and blog posts. To integrate more advanced solutions, you might also consider tapping into the API.
- Understand how returns are handled. You don’t sell custom products so Printify won’t accept returns. You can return items that have been damaged in manufacturing or printed problems. You’ll need to create your own return policy. This could include collecting items at your home or office, throwing them out, or telling customers that returns are not possible.
In conclusion
The perfect configuration for a POD store is to combine Shopify and Printify . Printify is a cost-effective way to launch an ecommerce business. You don’t need to order large quantities and you don’t need to worry about shipping or storage.
We’d love to answer any questions you might have about creating a POD ecommerce store using Printify and Shopify.
