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Printful is a web-to-print software for Commerce businesses that helps them streamline operations related to on-demand printing, order fulfillment, and shipping. With Printful, retailers can categorize products in online catalogs, run marketing campaigns and generate sales reports on a unified platform. Additionally, managers can utilize mobile applications to receive notifications for order updates, view shipment details, and track inventories using Android and iOS devices.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
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For me, Printful is part of a whole strategy. I'm a bandleader and apart from providing music to people, I want to provide them with cool objects, like T shirts etc. Printful is part of this. I design T shirts with parts of the lyrics, meaningful messages people might find cool to wear. The colors and everything is designed to be fun and uplifting and soulful. Anyway, it's SUPER easy to upload your designs and turn them into products. They have preset mockups that look incredibly professional. It wasn't that long ago I'd have had to have stacks of stuff lying in my garage, and hope I could move it! It's just too easy nowadays....
Drop shipping takes longer but that's just part of the equation. I find it a little confusing to change designs and colors etc sometimes but hey, it's all pretty new to me and I have to say, the shirts are really, really nice. I can't really think of anything negative to say. You have to spend time with it in the beginning. I'm also not familiar with any of the competing services.
It's a way to create a deeper experience for people, once they've listened to our tracks. It's the beginning of a community of meaningful growth. Like I said, ordering 50 shirts in each size and having them sit in the basement....this just seems so much easier.
I love that there is such a wide variety of products to choose from. And each different kind of product has several options so you can weigh cost vs. quality. For example, there are about 15 different types of tee shirts to choose from. Some that are super light and thin. Some that are a little thicker and more durable. So depending on what you need the shirts for, you have options that can best suit your needs. I love that you can add branding to tags and packaging. The printing and shipping speed is great. It seamlessly connects to my woo-commerce store, so adding products is a breeze. I have been using this platform to fulfill orders on my website where I sell several art prints. Printful makes it so easy to add new products when I come up with new ideas for prints.
There isn't a whole lot that I dislike about Printful. One thing I wish was better, if I'm being picky, are the quality of mockups available. They've started adding a lot more kinds of mockups, but they all look somewhat generic. So I would be thrilled if they decided to expand the options for mockups. One other thing I dislike is the fact that you can only have 3 "in-house" addresses on file to sample products. There are a lot of times where I make 1-off products for friends and family and I cannot send it straight to them.
I am starting to create more merchandise and apparel, and with Printful, I do not need to worry about inventory issues. I don't have to take the risk of ordering 500 hoodies hoping I can sell them. I can use Printful to test ideas and if people start buying them, then I could buy in bulk elsewhere. I also no longer have to deal with shipping. I used to print and ship art myself and it was a huge hassle for me. I'd always end up taking way too long to get them shipped.
Easy to start business and I always recommend to everyone
All good on printful and nice product quantity
Always provide fast customer service
I am always needing to print many things in the office and this service is the best option to achieve it. That is why I hope to continue counting on the service and be able to make more customers interested in my company
Sometimes I have had problems with an order and the response time has not been the most indicated but in everything else I have no negative comments
I remember once that a customer needed a service and could not find where the solution could be. It was on that occasion that I used the service and since that day I have not stopped doing it
Integration with ship station , it makes it so easy to ship
At first I disliked the limitations on garments, but as theyve grown theyve added!!
At first I disliked the limitations on garments, but as theyve grown theyve added more and more, and I realized ship station is amazingly easy , pretty much no touch graphic design print, send!
I love the amount of merchandise options. The turnaround time. Product quality and the vast amount of other sites that they sync with.
New product request can take sometime before implemented. For example, printing on the sleeves took years of request before it became possible.
They are allowing me to create designs for my merchandise without having to pay for the upfront cost of production.
Printful was an amazing find for me. I learned about dropshipping many years back during the time when Ebay was huge in the early 2000's. I loved the concept, but there was always a bit of manual work required in taking the orders and sending them along to the dropshipper when an Ebay order came in. With the Printful system I can take myself out of the equation and trust that the system is automatically handling orders. Another helpful aspect was their vendor recommendations for photography. I was able to work through Printful's preferred vendor to have a photographer create great images with models wearing my shirts at a really reasonable cost.
Printful needs to be integrated with another system for people to purchase the items instantly, otherwise you'll need to input the orders yourself. This means tacking on another monthly cost to your business in order to provide something like a Shopify or Weebly store.
I found printful when looking for a way to provide a membership benefit to my organization. I wanted them to have the ability to get t-shirts, mugs and other items to showcase their membership, but didn't want to purchase large amounts of those items, store them, and distribute personally. Printful allowed me to offer these items without needing to think about a thing.
I like the user friendly interface for syncing items from your e-commerce platform. It makes it easy to sync up my products and handles all the packaging, shipping and handling to my customers. Fully customizable packaging sticker is a favorite of mine because my customers will know when they receive something from us. The lifestyle mockups are the best and makes it easy to showcase new products to customers.
I dislike the slow page loading speeds when making edits to the design and generating mockups. Sometimes the mockups don't load and I have to refresh the page to re-generate the files. Shipping speeds and fulfillment turn-arounds can be improved. It's taking more than the average 3-4 business days in the past few months from October 2018 to January 2019.
Printful helps me create custom apparel and drop ship to my customers. This saves me a lot of time and resources. The best part is the scalability of its solution.
I like the analytics and easy access to review orders, as well as nice extras like Perks and discounts on sample orders so you can see the actual product you're offering.
It can be extremely time consuming and labor-intensive to set up product templates, plus alternate products to use when the main item is out of stock. It's not at all intuitive to figure out how to fix orders that can't be fulfilled.
Printful has been a great tool for experimenting with fundraising for a nonprofit by selling merch. We use it in conjunction with Shopify, which allows us to share our store seamlessly on social media.
Printful's global logistics and diverse product range gives you the ability to reliably sell to every corner of the world with zero hassle.
Till now, Printful has made sure to meet all my demands. There is nothing I dislike about Printful.
Printful has delivered global fulfillment from multiple locations with reliable quality and streamlined experiences, this was a hurdle with other POD companies that were unsolved.