10 Things to Know Before Using Printify

If you're looking to start a print on demand business with Printify, I do want to give you many tips prior to ever starting or if you already have a print on demand Printify business open.

This article is going to be super information packed on things that I personally wish I knew prior to ever starting a print on demand business with Printify.

I want to say first of all welcome to my blog. If you are new here, my name is Ahmed. I have done 450k in revenue in my time with Etsy and Print on Demand. I have quit my 9 to 5 and now do do this full time.

With that being said, the main company I've used since the beginning of my print on demand business has been Printify. I have learned so much through the time working with Printify as a company that I wanted to share 10 different things that I wish I knew prior to starting with Printify.

That actually saved me quite a bit of money and time and made me more efficient in my print on demand business. Without further ado, we're going to hop straight into this topic.

What to know before Using Printify

Bestseller Product list in Printify

So the first thing to know is using the best seller area on Printify. Now if you go to the drop down of categories you can look at best Sellers. So what Printify does is they have a area that shows all the best selling products on their website. So this is across all platforms, we're talking Shopify, Etsy, Ebay and any other platform that integrates with Printify.

That list is showing you exactly what is selling and what's high in demand right now as far as product types go. So if you ever need ideas or inspiration or to know what to even sell in your first print on demand business, this is a really great place to start because you can see, oh this product really sells well and this list does get updated so maybe next month there might be new items on it.

So if you're ever looking to pull inspiration for what to design for and different products to create for, that's one of my favorite places to go because Printify has that data and you can find it all there on what's really selling for other sellers, which is a great indication to you what you can go into as well.

Creating designs in Printify

So the second thing to know is that you can design on Printify and you actually do not need any other design software if that is not within your budget.

I will say there is a lot of other programs that have free trials or free memberships that you can use such as Canva. Let's say you want to use certain graphics on Canva you can do so.

Another program I recommend is Creative Fabrica. You can pay for a full trial. You can sign up from this link and you will get a discount. So if you want to try that out, I also suggest finding graphics to use with text that you can add to Printify.

Printify actually has 300 different fonts that you can select from now. So that is a huge plus of again just using Printify and a benefit that you can just design and do everything in Printify, and too Printify is free.

Really, if you wanted to start an Etsy business, you could just do Printify and also Etsy. You just have to pay $0.20 per listing for Etsy, but also you could start a Printify Popup store and you don't have to pay Etsy listing fees.

If you have social media and maybe friends or family that you want to sell to on Printify Pop-Up, that is an option as well.

Creating Product templates

So the third thing is you can create product templates. And by product templates, this is where you create one product, you set the pricing, you can duplicate this and put in your design. So it makes the process of creating a lot of different products at once very quick.

So that's something that I personally do is I copy about five times every product that I create, especially if I'm creating different designs for one product. And it's really easy to do. And I highly recommend using the duplicate or copy feature on Printify under the My Products area. This is going to speed up your workflow so much quicker than just creating every product individually. And again, this is something that I wish I knew sooner.

Scaling designs to other Products

So the fourth thing to know is you can scale your designs to multiple product types really quickly by replacing the product in the My "Product" section. So, I am going to duplicate that product and I am going to just replace the product and that's going to take the design on one product and I can switch it to any other product that I would like.

And it's a really neat feature that again, I just wish I knew sooner in my print on demand business because then I would have been able to scale my business quite quicker knowing that I can take a design that goes on a T shirt, onto a mug and then onto a tote bag and I didn't have to individually create each product. I could just duplicate, replace product, duplicate, replace product.

Printify Premium Saves money!

So the fifth thing that I wish I knew was that Printify Premium actually saved me so much money. And by saving, I would say actually profit, because I made so much more profit.

By me using Printify Premium, it knocked off a dollar off of every order and once I hit the order volumes of over 25 to 30 individual products being sold, I was making back the money that it costs for Printify premium, which around 25 to $30. I haven't recently looked at it, but I think you save more by paying annually and I pay annually.

So it was literally so much money I was saving once I got to the threshold of 100 orders and then I hit 300 orders a month and then 500 orders a month and I got back in profit thousands of dollars over the course of a year.

So I highly recommend doing Printify Premium because you're going to keep so much more profit by switching to Printify Premium once you hit that threshold that it makes sense your business.

Printify supports their sellers

So the sixth thing to know is that Printify supports their sellers way more than I think is talked about. That I've seen throughout just the Etsy and just Print on demand community in general. And I've heard other people on other channels talking about it.

But this is something that maybe a lot of new sellers assume that Printify won't support you and help you as a seller. But it's actually the complete opposite. They want to support their sellers and business owners who are partnering with them.

And one way that they do that, if you have defective items or you have a missing package sent to your customer, Printify will replace that and not charge you unless it's outside of their policy, of course.

I do want to say, I would read Printify's policy. Usually it's a 30 day policy. So let's say your customer reports a item missing 45 days or 90 days after I actually had that happen, I had a customer who reported their package missing 90 days later.

I just want to say it was was really a tough scenario because I had to tell the customer no. And that was like the first time I had to say no. And they were not happy about it. Also to say a lot of postal carriers, they do have some sort of insurance and usually most of those postal carriers you have to contact within 30 to 60 day window or else Printify or any print on demand provider cannot file a claim.

So with that being said, if you have a lost package, if an item is defective, let's say a sleeve has a hole in it, that your customer is claiming that there's a hole or maybe there's a stain on the product, maybe the print was incorrect. Printify takes care of you.

All you have to do is submit a order issue underneath the order within usually it's a few weeks to 30 days, Printify will reach back out to you and in most cases they will replace or refund you so that you can refund the customer.

And they don't only just refund you the amount of the product, they refund the shipping. They also refund the taxes if you were charged for taxes. So I can't say enough that Printify actually really cares about you and your business and they will take care of you.

Shop integrating across platforms

So the seventh thing to know is that with Printify you can transfer and copy all of the products that you created on the my "Product" section to a completely different platform with a few clicks of a button.

So when you create that new shop on Printify's backend and you integrate it to let's say Shopify and you select all of your products on Etsy, you can copy to and select that new shop. After few minutes, all of those listings will be sent over to that new shop. And a lot of the times all you have to do is publish those listings.

So again you'll select all and publish if you want to do it all together in bulk. Or you can edit features of those listings prior to publishing to Shopify.

Order routing

So the next thing to know about Printify is that they have a feature called order routing.

So there are hundreds of print providers on Printify and one of the huge benefits of working with them is if, let's say a Gildan 5000 t-shirt that you sold in size small goes out of stock with one print provider that you selected. So let's say for example, maybe Monster Digital. Monster Digital is pretty reliable with their stock though, so I will say I haven't seen that happen. But let's say that did happen and Swift Pod had that Gildan 5000 in color white and size small in their inventory. Then you can route that order to Swift Pod and they will print, pack and ship that item and send it to that customer.

So this is one huge pro of Printify and one of the reasons why I really love this company because it has been able to save my butt, to be quite frank, I would say hundreds of times at this point I will say Printify is still a top choice for me for that reason of the order routing.

Apply for a resale certificate

So the ninth thing to know with Printify is that you can apply for a resale certificate. Now I want to say that I am not a tax professional so I cannot answer many questions as far as resale certificates go.

Now there is what Printify has on it, which is a resale tax certificate. And this will make you exempt from getting charged from Printify for that tax. However, I do want to say that this is based primarily per country that you live in and per States.

So you will want to talk to some type of tax expert or professional if you have any further questions. If you go to apply on Printify's website, they do provide more information on how to get what you need in order order to apply for this resale certificate.

Custom branding option

So the temp thing to know with Printify is that Printify has now custom branding options available for your print on demand business so they have custom inserts that can be inserted into packages.

With that being said, you can use Canva templates to create your own type of thank you message that you can send to each and every customer. And what I recommend for these branding inserts is to offer a coupon for people to come back and then also if you are on social media make sure to say follow on social media for maybe more promotions and discounts. And just little custom inserts like this can go a long way and also give your business some more repeat purchases as time goes on.

I will say this is only for certain print on demand providers so Monster Digital is one of them and Dimona Tee is another one of them. And you can also brand the inside labels of T shirts and other parts of products now with these two print on demand providers.

Read also: Printify vs Printful vs Gelato: Which Is Better?

I know that a lot of other print on demand providers will open up to doing this type of custom branding as time goes on so thought I would share that at the very end of this article. With that being guys, that's it for this article. Thank you so much for reading.