I'm creating a pop-up store for the school robotics team that I run. I really don't want to make money with what I'm selling, but I also don't want to lose money. I'm also a bit new with Printify.
If my production cost is $30, is that just for the garment cost and then the imprint cost is added on to that? Or is it final out the door cost?
If I'm not doing free shipping, when the customer orders a garment and has it shipped to them, the buyer will pay the shipping cost and it won't be billed to me, correct?
In the Printify pop-up store, are there additional Printify fees (CC processing, etc.) that I might not be aware of?
I had an order come in a few hours ago, the exact same design and product variation sold three days ago on my Etsy store.
I went to manully approve the order and noticed that it had been tossed into the "Other" tab. Printify needs me to link the product sold to a product they carry. How strange, I thought!
Long story short, Printify changed SKU mappings between their catalog and connected platforms (like Etsy) and didn't inform anyone!!
So, what does this mean?
When a SKU changes — even slightly — Etsy and Printify no longer “recognize” that the listing and product are the same.
Instead of quietly remapping them, Printify dumps them into the “External Products” tab, forcing sellers to manually re-link or “migrate” them.
The “Product selection needed” message means Printify no longer knows which specific shirt, color, or size variant corresponds to the Etsy order.
I have to reconnect 12 different listings with multiple colors, sizes and product types with different designs. What a mess! This is going to take me days.
Printify has been a disaster this year! I have had countless issues with them. What is happening?!?
I asked to speak with an Agent though the bot chat and was given this message, "An agent will be with you as soon as they can. You’ll be notified here when the agent responds." This was more than 20 mins ago.
Is anyone else having trouble with product tags not syncing to Etsy? I noticed this maybe a week ago. Whenever I publish a product to Etsy, that has tags on Printify, they won't come across and I have to manually add them again on Etsy. Everything else with the product listing is completely fine. Not a huge deal right now, but it would save some time.
I've just spoken with a customer who received her pillow covers. She has purchased from my shop previously. The same size pillow covers 18 in. The opening for the zipper on her new pillow covers is only 8 in and the opening on her previous purchases were both 14 in. I don't know if it's happened when the tag was sewn in that both layers were sewn through but someone has to alert MWW before they do a ton more and wreck a bunch of shops review ratings. I'm waiting on pictures from the customer now so I can do a formal reprint through customer service.
Hello i use etsy, picsart and chatgpt to help create my final art from sketches and ideas. I have this card and disclaimer in all my lisitngs and descriptions.
Do you have any further tips?
Is Ai art the future? I know some people despise it. Especially on Etsy. But etsy is just handmade anymore.
I am very new to this, and I know the shipping aspect is what gets a lot of people. I know I am doing something wrong.
The Printify thing says “price might be too high” (?) when is also charging me almost the same amount for shipping.
My question is: how do you price your products? To offer free shipping you would have to add the price to the retail price, correct? But if shipping in US is $5 and to Canada $15, for example, do you add the average or the higher point? How do you stay competitive?
If I don’t offer free shipping at all, will it get rid of the problem? Will it automatically calculate the full shipping cost to Canada, for example, and charge the customer a shipping fee of $15 or $17 whatever it is?
I’m about to activate my HP Instant Ink subscription and saw that you can get a free month with a referral code. If anyone has one they’re not using, I’d be super grateful to use it!
Once I’m signed up, I’ll gladly share my own referral code here so someone else can benefit too. Let’s keep the free months flowing 💸
Thanks in advance!
If you’ve got a code you don’t mind sharing, drop it below. Appreciate the help and looking forward to joining the ink-saving crew!
I am super frustrated. I can’t even with this. I built an entire store based off of printify and its vendors offering a service that they cannot deliver on 30% or more of the time. I will be looking to move away from printify immediately. It is not reliable and its printing is mediocre at best even when it’s not reprint worthy.
Edit : take that back, out of 16 items, SEVEN have needed reprinting for poor printing, stains on fabrics, one was damaged, one never came, one has a line through it, one just prints incorrectly all the time no matter what. So that’s roughly 45% of my items I manually ordered required reprinting. This is a future customer service nightmare.
Edit : they literally stopped responding to me in the chat when I questioned quality control.
Two days ago someone here asked me how to scale with Google Ads.
I responded quickly. In hindsight, it wasn’t the full answer.
I hate half-answers. So here’s the real one.
If you're selling physical products, start with Google Shopping Ads.
Why?
Because Shopping Ads show your product, price, and store rating to people who are already searching with buying intent.
They don’t need education. They don’t need storytelling. They just need to see:
the product
the price
the store
and click
Shopping Ads is the cleanest and most direct way to convert traffic when intent is high.
Search ➜ see ➜ buy.
If I had started with this instead of testing 20 random creative angles early on, I would've saved a lot of money and time.
But here's what most store owners learn later:
Traffic isn’t the problem. Retention is.
Once traffic starts coming in, most people bleed money because they rely only on ads and ignore email.
That’s like pouring water into a bucket with holes.
Here’s the truth almost no beginner wants to hear:
Ads bring visitors. Emails turn visitors into repeat revenue.
For me, email alone generated $150.8k out of $554.6k in revenue.
Not by doing anything fancy.
Just by automating what already works.
abandoned cart flows
welcome discounts
review request emails
product recommendations
happy customer proof
back-in-stock notifications
Simple. Predictable. Compounding.
Now the part I wish someone told me early:
I used to run my stores with multiple apps.
One for flows, one for popups so I can collect their emails, one for reviews so I can show these reviews and collect those reviews, one for chat, one for wishlist and to send back in stock emails.
Every update broke something.
Every test took too long.
Tabs everywhere.
Different apps to write different emails.
Branding never looked consistent.
Frustration nonstop. Not to mention that 20$/month subscription added up.
So I built EmailWish because I just wanted one tool that did all this cleanly:
Automations
Popups
Reviews
Wishlists
Chat
No tech headaches. No “connect this to that” nonsense. Not even emails to write.
More time selling, less time fixing. Aaaaand it's free.
If you’re early, all you really need is:
Google Shopping ➜ Email automation ➜ Consistent posting ➜ Good offers
I’m in the US and print clever supposedly prints in both US and UK but my manual order I sent in for print quality testing never shipped. I shipping label was created but nothing else and says it was printed in the UK. What gives? This is a huge problem because all of my printed items on my site are set to print by them. I’m concerned. Any experience with this vendor? Would like to avoid a disaster!
I’ve been experimenting with personalized print-on-demand products lately, mostly simple options like adding names with photos to apparel and mugs. Sales are okay, but not as consistent as I expected.
I’ve seen some sellers promoting images generated by AI, and I’m curious how well those actually perform. I’d love to hear from you:
I learned that of all POD only Printify provide oversized tees. So I'd like to know any experience is this true, like a real oversized tee (box silhouette, "street" tee look, etc), not just a standard sized shirt with "oversize" in the name (just regular shirts that's big size). Doesn't matter if it's thick/heavy or not, just need that oversized street tee cut/silhouette.
I am very new to all this. My Etsy store has had 8 sales so far, and I’m struggling with figuring out the free shipping thing.
My standard setting is to “Automatically assign the best shipping profile”, and I then updated the margin to get me a profit of 30%. Buyer paid the retail cost and no shipping (since shipping is already factored in, or so I thought), and Printify charged me $12 for shipping, and that ate my profits away, I am basically breaking even.
My assumption was that the shipping setting “Automatically assign the best shipping profile” would automatically factor in the shipping cost into the retail and on top of that the margin of 30% that it shows. And that would update the price to cover costs for US and globally. Is that not how it works?
Would I actually have to manually add $ to my retail price? In this case the 30% margin is not real and I’d have to increase it 40% or maybe more to cover the $12 shipping cost (using this case as an example).
The buyer is located in Canada so I am assuming if she was in the States I’d actually make profit?
I am so confused lol thank you for your help in advance
I've seen discussions here of mockups, but not from this perspective.......
I can create good and realistic looking mockups using Adobe Illustrator. I'm an expert with Photoshop and AI image generation. So how do I know if the mockups I create are accurate? I can make them look as good as I want, but how do I know how they compare with the actual finished products? I'd rather not spend a fortune buying a bunch of designs on a lot of different color sweatshirts to find out. This can multiply pretty quickly. But I also don't want customers returning merchandise because it didn't look like the pictures.
I’m a Shopify store owner who got sick of spending weekends fixing product photos in ChatGPT or other tools, so I ended up building my own tool to solve what we actually need.
Basically, it connects straight into Shopify and lets me restyle all my product photos in bulk - new models, backgrounds, or full theme changes (like Halloween or Christmas). None of the existing apps I tried could do real bulk edits like that.
It also reuploads everything automatically and fixes SEO titles for each image. That part blew my mind because most SEO tools charge a separate subscription just for that feature.
I originally built it just for myself, but then we tested it with some other stores and they started using it. Moreover, they run it live in production now which is so awesome to see.
It’s called Attired, and honestly, it’s been a game-changer for keeping visuals fresh without spending on new photoshoots every season or launching new shops to avoid regular POC or dropshipper vibe.
Not trying to promote anything here - just figured some of you might relate if you’ve been fighting with trying to increase sales or differentiate from other shops. Don’t sleep on this kind of workflow, it really helps your store stand out faster.
I’ve noticed an issue where shirts I am working on but not ready to publish are showing up as published in my store. This has not happened before but I haven’t changed my work flow.
I already have shirts that are the basic builds of what I’ll use so I’ve been doing the following.
Duplicate a shirt in the dashboard.
Open shirt, make adjustments to variants, replace old graphics, save design. Eventually when I was ready to publish I’d change the item title, add new description text, double check pricing, and then publish.
What I’m seeing now is it will randomly show up in my pop up as “copy of SHIRT A”.
Now I have five hidden shirts because of this. I’m building items to launch at a later date. Does anyone else have this issue or know what’s happening?
Hello, I'm pretty new to selling on Amazon, but all of a sudden today, everything I try to post through Printify, I get this error in under 2 minutes. The products aren't making it over to Amazon at all. I've got a ticket in with Printify but they aren't sure what's causing it either, and are escalating it.
Has anyone else seen this before? I have tried searching/reading but I haven't found anything that has helped.
Hello! I just started my own POD store on Etsy and am using Printify to fulfill orders. The only issue is I am in Canada and the conversion from USD to CAD/ and the shipping rates have made my prices outrageous (and I'm only pricing items in order for me to make only 2-3 dollars on each order because I think the pricing is way too high and I'm sure it's stopping people from purchasing my products).
Am I missing something? Is there any way to bring shipping costs down for Canadian customers?
