Starting an online store is a lot like trying to cook something from scratch: it can be overwhelming if you don’t have a list of ingredients and a clear recipe.
So hi, I’m Juliana, and I’ll be your ecommerce chef today! To help you get started, we’ll go over my step-by-step recipe to create a print-on-demand online store with Printful.
By the end of this blog post, you’ll have your ecommerce store baked and ready and be well on your way to making your first sale.
Here’s a video that will help get you started:
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Just go to our page, click Sign up and fill in your info. It\u2019s quick and completely free.\n\nFind your business niche\nBefore you move on to store and product setup, you should have a good understanding of your business idea and your target audience. You know the old saying: \u201cWhen you\u2019re selling to everyone, you\u2019re selling to no one.\u201d\n\nCreate a product template\nSo you have your Printful account and you know your target audience. The next step is to create your first product template. A product template is a Printful product with your added design\u2014like a ready-made item you can then quickly add to your store and sell. \n\nConnect your store to Printful\nIf you don\u2019t have an online store, you\u2019ll need to create one to start selling with us. You can set up your store on an ecommerce platform or an online marketplace. With your Printful account, you have a lot of options to choose from. \n\nAdd products to store\nThe next thing on your list is adding a product to your store. Choose the Product templates tab again. Pick the product template you want to add to your store and click Add to store. Here you can choose the colors and sizes of the product, add mockups, write your product description, and set your price. \n\nSet up pricing\nFiguring out your product pricing is a real balancing act between two prices\u2014the Printful price and your retail price. The Printful price is what you pay us for product fulfillment. The retail price is what your customers will see and pay you. Now you have to figure out how much profit you\u2019ll want to earn per product and add that on top of the product fulfillment price.\n\nAdd payment methods\nAnother thing you need to set up is payment methods. Here\u2019s what happens when a customer buys from your store:\nYour customer pays you the retail price on your store\u2019s platform\nYou pay Printful for fulfillment, shipping, and relevant taxes\nThe payments are not linked with each other. When your customer places an order in your shop, Printful does not have access to the money your customer pays for the order.\n\nPlace a sample order\nThis step isn\u2019t mandatory, but I\u2019d recommend that you order a sample of your products. Designs you see on the screen may look a little different when printed on fabric, so ordering samples will help you make sure that you\u2019re satisfied with the final result. \n\nStart marketing\nAlright. You\u2019ve got your store, your products, and your payment methods all set up. Now you can start selling. 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The first step in this recipe is creating your Printful account.
Source: Printful’s signup page
Sign up with your Facebook, Google, Apple, or email account. It’s completely free and easy to do.
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Step 2: Link your Printful account with an ecommerce platform
To choose which platform to sell on, log in to your Printful account, go to the side menu in your Dashboard, and click Stores to see your options.
Source: Printful Dashboard
You can connect Printful to 20+ ecommerce platforms and marketplaces. Click Choose platformto find a storefront that best suits your needs.
Ecommerce platforms
Online marketplaces
Your store is built as a standalone website
Your store is an account on the marketplace’s website
Traffic to your site comes from your marketing activities and search engines
Each marketplace comes with its own search engine that offers an additional source of traffic
Greater freedom to personalize your store as you see fit
Limited options for personalization determined by the marketplace
Payment processing is set up separately (most platforms offer apps or add-ons for this)
Most marketplaces offer built-in payment processing
Ideal for sellers looking to grow their own brand
Ideal for sellers who want to start out on an already known marketplace
Take a look at the chart I’ve created with information about every platform and how to connect them with Printful, arranged by price, from lowest to highest.
PLATFORM
TYPE
BEST FOR
SETUP TIME
PRICE
Shopify
Ecommerce platform
Small businesses
Very fast
$
Etsy
Marketplace
Artists, beginners
Very fast
$
Woocommerce
Ecommerce platform
Developers, large retailers
Moderate
$
Prestashop
Ecommerce platform
Developers, large retailers
Moderate
$
Square
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Moderate
$
Big Cartel
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Fast
$
Weebly
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Moderate
$
Magento
Ecommerce platform
Developers, large retailers
Slow
$
Gumroad
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Fast
$
Shipstation
Ecommerce platform
Developers, large retailers
Moderate
$
Launch Cart
3rd Party integration
Brands, influencers
Fast
$
Wix
Ecommerce platform
Small businesses
Fast
$$
Squarespace
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Moderate
$$
Webflow
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Moderate
$$
Ecwid
Ecommerce platform
Small businesses
Fast
$$
BigCommerce
Ecommerce platform
Small businesses
Fast
$$
Storenvy
Marketplace
Artists, beginners
Fast
$$
Nuvemshop / Tiendanube
Ecommerce platform
Artists, beginners
Moderate
$$
eBay
Marketplace
Small businesses
Slow
$$
Shift4Shop
3rd Party integration
Small businesses
Moderate
$$
Amazon
Marketplace
Small businesses
Slow
$$$
Source: Printful Integrations
If you’re in the US, you can also launch a store through Printful’s Quick Stores—a tool that allows you to sell products and manage your business directly from the Printful dashboard. It’s an ideal option for beginners to explore ecommerce before moving on to more advanced platforms and marketplaces. However, Quick Stores offers limited customization, allowing you to edit only your store name and logo.
If you’re a developer, you can choose Printful API to create custom solutions for your business. It’s simple to use and integrate into apps and services created with any modern programming language.
For the sake of example, I’ll be using Shopify. To connect Printful to Shopify, install Shopify’s app to integrate with Printful. Click Add app, enter your store’s URL, then log in to your Printful account. Your accounts will be linked automatically.
We’ve also cooked up a demo store using our Shopify integration so you can get inspired and steal a couple of good ideas.
Valuable read: Successful Print-on-Demand Store Examples and What You Can Learn From Them
Now that you’ve created your Printful account and connected it with your ecommerce platform or marketplace, it’s time to choose your main ingredients: the products you want to sell.
You can pick from Printful’s wide selection of products and make designs for different customization techniques like embroidery, all-over print, direct-to-garment (DTG), or direct-to-film (DTF) print. For some products, you can combine DTG prints with embroidery.
Learn more:DTG vs. DTF Printing: Which One Is Better?
Source: Printful’s catalog
If you’re unsure which product to sell, you can read our blog post on how to choose products for your print-on-demand store.
Learn more:
20 Trending Products to Sell Online
25 Bestselling Print-on-Demand Products
Step 4: Create or upload a design
Once you’ve picked a product, you’ll be redirected to Printful’s Design Maker, our free and easy-to-use design tool, to upload your own visuals or create new ones from scratch.
Upload your existing design on the Design Maker
The first step here is to cook up your product design with the software of your choice. If you need help choosing one, read our blog post about the best 16 free Photoshop alternatives.
Once your design is ready, download it as a JPEG or PNG file. Then, go back to your product on the Design Maker, select Uploads in the left menu, and you can upload your file.
For your design to come out the way you imagined, follow the design guidelines for each product on their product page.
You can also read up on how to prepare the perfect print file and how to create the ideal embroidery file to understand how to get colors, sharpness, and other details just right.
Create your own design
The Design Maker has built-in tools to easily create your visuals. You’ll get access to fonts, clipart collections, ready-made designs, and background patterns.
Source: Printful
You can use the Text Tool to find your favorite font and compose eye-catching messages, or choose from the pre-made Quick Designs and edit the colors, graphics, and texts to create your visual.
There are also over 300 customizable clipart collections you can use for free and 80M+ Premium Getty Images at $1 per order placement. Basically, everything you need!
Create product templates
If you have a design + product idea you don’t want to lose, save it as a product template. A product template is a combination of your design and a Printful product. You can go back and edit your templates at any time or add them to your store once they’re ready to be sold.
To access your templates, go to Dashboard > Product templates.
Source: Printful Dashboard
If you have various stores or many templates, you can organize them into collections.
Step 5: Add products to your store
Just like you can choose to bake, fry, or sauté potatoes, there are different ways to add products to your store:
From your Printful Dashboard > Product Templates > Add to store
From your Printful Dashboard > Stores > Add product
On any open product page, click Add to store
These three options will automatically redirect you to our step-by-step system to add items from your Printful account to your store.
1 – Select your product variants
You’ll first need to select your product colors and sizes (these depend on your selling region and preferences). When you’re done, click Continue.
Source: Printful
2 – Choose your mockups
The next thing you need to do is choose which mockups you want to use for your store.
Mockups show you what your designs will look like on the final product and make for awesome photos for your website—it’s like styling your plate to make the food look more appetizing.
You can choose between standardized templates (basic mockups) and customizable templates you can build yourself (custom mockups).
Source: Printful
If you pick basic mockups, you can pick flat lay mockups in preselected settings and visuals with different models. When you’re done, click Continue.
Source: Printful
You can customize any mockup by changing backgrounds, layouts, and props when choosing custom mockups.
Source: Printful
Once you’ve selected the mockup you want to personalize, press Select and continue.
Source: Printful
You’ll be taken to the window where you can change the background and design elements like text, clipart, and props.
Source: Printful
When you’re done, press Continue. Here’s a handy video if you’d like to get extra guidance and tips for this process:
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3 – Add product details
A title and a thorough description will let your customers know all the information they need on your product. Printful has ready-to-use descriptions, but we highly recommend customizing them and making them sound more true to your brand.
Not only are these product details a great way to show your brand’s personality, but a well-written product description can also boost your SEO, making it easier for potential customers to find your products when actively searching online.
When you’re done, click Continue.
Source: Printful
4 – Set your pricing and submit your product
When setting your prices, there are two things to think about. The Printful price is what we charge you for product fulfillment, and the retail price is what you sell the product for.
If the product costs $33 and your retail price is set at $45, the profit you make is $12. For some fresh tips on promoting your offering, make sure you look at our blog post on how to market premium products so they look like a steal.
In this step, you’ll see 3 different figures:
Printful’s price, which is what we charge for the products (it doesn’t include taxes, shipping, and other additional charges)
Retail price, which you can manually edit to increase/decrease your profit margins
Profit, which is what you’ll make out of every sale
Source: Printful
You can also select the option to offer free shipping on your products. Studies show that 68.2% of global shoppers were more likely to buy a product online when offered free delivery. If you turn this option on, the shipping costs will be automatically included in your retail price.
Once you’ve set your prices, click Submit to store to add the product to your storefront.
When you successfully add a product to your store, you’ll see it on your Printful Dashboard > Stores > View store, just like in the example below.
Source: Printful Dahsboard
And now, head to your ecommerce platform to check out what your product looks like there. You can see here what my product looks like on my Shopify store:
Source: Shopify
Set up your store’s taxes in three steps
Use our step-by-step guide to understand your tax obligations, learn how to find professional tax advice, and set up taxes on your storefront.
Step 6: Set up shipping
We are in the final steps of our ecommerce recipe. Next, let me show you how to think about your shipping pricing strategy. You need to keep two things in mind:
The shipping price you display on your store and charge your customers for
The shipping rate that Printful charges you to deliver products to your customers
Set up shipping on your store
It’s time to decide how you’ll charge your customers for shipping on your store—this will be your shipping pricing strategy. There are 3 different approaches you can take:
Let customers know and pay the total price for shipping (the same as Printful charges you)
Increase product prices to cover a percentage of shipping costs
Set up free shipping by incorporating shipping costs in product prices
Setting up shipping rates can be different for each platform. Look at your ecommerce platform’s FAQs to find out how to add shipping rates to your store.
Learn more: A Complete Guide to Ecommerce Shipping Pricing
Printful’s shipping prices
Printful supports two different types of shipping rates:
Flat rates are fixed prices we’ll charge for shipping that you should charge on your store. Our shipping rates vary based on product dimensions and weight, fulfillment location, and shipping destination for each order. Check our shipping rates page for your products to choose a pricing strategy that suits your needs.
Live rates are calculated in real time during checkout, meaning your customer is automatically given the best shipping rate available when an order’s placed. It’s available for Printful customers using Shopify, Woocommerce, Launch Cart, or the Printful API.
Head to Dashboard > Settings > Store settings > Shipping to enable Live rates.
Source: Printful Dashboard
Step 7: Set up a payment method
Your ecommerce store is almost ready to come out of the oven! Now you have to set up a payment method on your online platform so your customers can pay you, and a payment method in your Printful account so you can pay us for fulfilling your orders.
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Follow your ecommerce platform’s instructions to set up a billing method to charge your customers for orders. You can use many different payment processors, such as Paypal, Stripe, and Braintree.
Learn more: Your guide to Printful payments and pricing
To set up a billing method with Printful, go to your Printful Dashboard > More > Billing > Billing methods.
Source: Printful dashboard
All transactions go through your Printful Wallet that’s automatically created once you sign up with Printful. Each time an order goes through, your credit card, Paypal, or Sofort account will be billed, and money will be deposited in your Printful Wallet. Then we withdraw the cost of fulfillment from there. It’s an automatic process, but you’ll be able to see all the transactions if you look at your payment history.
Add funds to your Printful Wallet
Manually adding funds to your Printful Wallet is a safe and easy way to secure your payments and decrease failed transaction rates. When a new order comes in, the cost for fulfillment will be withdrawn directly from your Wallet without the need to bill your payment method first.
There are a lot of benefits to adding funds to your Printful Wallet:
Avoiding the risk of failed orders due to insufficient funds
Saving up on transaction fees
Having fewer pending payments on your credit card (since too many small payments can be seen as fraudulent activity by some credit card providers)
You can add money to your Wallet with a credit card, Paypal, Klarna, or other local payment options. To add money, go to Billing > Printful Wallet, click Add money, and choose your deposit amount.
Step 8: Market your products and start selling
Congratulations! You made it to the end of our ecommerce store recipe. We’ve gone over all the necessary ingredients, from setting up your accounts to getting paid for orders.
Use our Promo Maker to create original and captivating visuals for ads or social media branding. You can use 100+ templates in 6 different sizes for different platforms, create animated marketing materials, and do it all without leaving your dashboard.
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Try Quick Stores if you’re just starting
If you’re not using any platform yet but already have a stable audience, Printful’s built-in Quick Stores tool can be the perfect way to launch a store and promote products with your designs. It’s ideal if you’re just getting started and don’t have website-building knowledge.
Create a storefront using Quick Stores in less than 10 minutes, customize products with your designs, and publish them—that’s it! When it’s done, share your store with your customers or followers to start selling.
Watch this video on how to set up your Quick Store.
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Now it’s time to market your products to attract customers and start selling, so let me finish this blog post with some key marketing tips:
11 Effective Ways How to Market a Product
11 Proven Ways How to Get Sales with Print-on-Demand
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Go ahead and get started! Don’t get discouraged, and remember that it sometimes takes months to polish a recipe. If you get stuck on any of the steps, leave a comment below or let us know at [email protected], so we can help you.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes! It’s possible to sell directly from Printful using Quick Stores—a free tool that allows you to easily set up a storefront and publish products in just a few minutes.
Currently, the Quick Stores tool is only available for sellers and shoppers in the US. If you don’t live in the US, select one of our integrations instead.
Yes, you can make money with Printful. But please note that selling online takes time, and making that first sale is often the most challenging. That’s why it’s important to pick the right niche, create a product your customers want, and market it correctly.
It’s free to start with Printful: no setup costs or monthly fees. But you’ll have to cover manufacturing and shipping costs once your customer makes an order.
Your profit comes from the difference between the retail and fulfillment prices. You’ll receive your payout with the payment method you’ve added to the ecommerce platform you’re using.
Yes, by default, Printful charges you flat shipping rates. The flat shipping rate is location-based and will stay the same regardless of which facility fulfills the order. For example, we’ll charge the same fee for shipping your product to the US, whether fulfilled in the US or Europe.
Live rates are calculated in real-time during check-out, meaning your customer is automatically given the best shipping rate once an order’s placed. It’s available for Printful customers using Shopify, WooCommerce, and Launch Cart. Or, if you use the Printful API.
Yes, all mockups are completely free to create and download. All you have to do is log in to your account and start designing products.
If you’re not a registered Printful, sign up to Printful for free using your email, Google, or Facebook account.
