Selling Custom Merchandise on your Website using Printful

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5 years ago

Selling with Printful

Do you have a design of your own that you would like to print on clothing and sell to web visitors? Maybe a logo that you want to share but do not know where to get it made?

Do you want to learn an entry-level dropshipping approach?

I have found Printful to be an awesome company to work with. They offer a lot of quality products to choose from, and their prices are very competitive, therefore easy to add a nice mark-up to make profits on all of your sales.

Their website makes it very easy integrate and setup to your website with a custom plugin. After you setup the initial product design, and list it to your webstore then the hardest part is already done!

From there, you wait for a purchase through your site, then pay Printful, and then they will do the rest including product creation, and shipping fulfillment (they have a shipping calculator you can use on your site).

Below I am going to list the step by step process I use to add products from Printful into my webstore.

Create Account

Download and Install/Setup the Printful Wordpress Plugin

Verify Account Email and proceed to the Printful Dashboard

Upload the images you wish to use into your account's Media File Library

Go to 'Product Templates' and select and design the product you want to sell

Select the finished product and click the 'Add to Store' button

Once the product is uploaded into your webstore you will be able to go in and adjust the pricing/shipping options if needed. I personally prefer to use Printful's integrated shipping calculator on my site, that way the customer only pays what Printful charges for shipping. You do have the option still to mark up the shipping cost if you want to.

After a customer orders the product from your site, the data will automatically sync to Printful's website, and all that you need to do is go in and pay printful for the order.

Example: You design a t-shirt that Printful sells to you for $11.95, you then go list that t-shirt to your website and it sells for $19.95. You pay Printful the $11.95, and you are then left with the $8 dollars profit. Sell a hundred shirts and you make $800. Design a hundred shirts, and then sell a hundred of each, and you are left with $80,000.

Each product can also be set up and targeted for specific keyword/SEO data, the same as a regular article can be.

The nice thing is once you know your clientelle, you will know the type of topics and products that they are interested in, and then you can use that data to target specific keyword info and gain more organic traffic not only to your store, but to your blog as well.

Printful also offers an affiliate program, so through you sharing these abilities to use Printful with others, you can gain comission and affiliate payments in return. It is an awesome system, and a win/win situation in my eyes.

Here is my custom link if you would like to create Your Own Account and check it out!

Let me know if you have any questions about the process and I would be happy to assist you with getting Printful set up on your own website.

This is my first tutorial/blog, so bear with me please while I get everything figured out :) If you like this let me know in the comments and I will start to share more content and tutorials similar to this!

Thanks,

Gabriel G.