Printful

Sell your own products with help from Printful, a
dropshipping service that handles the storage,
production, and shipping for you.

What is Printful?

Printful is a dropshipping company that gives eCommerce merchants several ways to deal with the task of handling their inventory. You can build your selection of products with the variety of services they provide, all without worrying about minimum orders or monthly fees. Some of the benefits you can get from working with Printful are print-on-demand shipping; warehouse storage for your inventory; being about to print your designs on more than 160 different products; professional photography and editing; and leaving your own mark on the packaging with white-label dropshipping.

Sell custom T-shirts

Printful’s primary service is T-shirts of all kinds.
Whether you want to sell men’s, women’s, unisex, or children’s, this dropshipper can splash your designs on any tee you like.

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  • Print your brand on the sleeve, the inside label, the outside label, or a tear-away tag
  • Only high-quality materials, including 100% cotton, 100% polyester, and more
  • Crew necks, V-necks, and ringers available
  • Dozens of options for background colors
  • Sizes range from XS to 4XL, so your shirts can fit all your customers
More about T-shirts

More about T-shirts

While there may be other dropshippers that offer print on demand t-shirts, Printful takes the lead by offering many different variations of products that allow you to pick your products by cost, preference, or demographics.

Different Quality and Materials

Different Quality and Materials

Printful offers multiple brands that you can print your designs on. Each brand will vary in cost and quality, so the shirt you choose to plant your design on will be the one that most aligns with your target cost or target quality. Outside of multiple brands, each brand also offers its own tier of quality, some made with 100% ultra cotton, while others give the ability to have a tear away label and athletic fit. There are dozens of different types of t-shirts to choose from. The good news is, you’re not limited to just picking one, you can always add multiple variations of the same style.

Different Styles

Different Styles for Everyone

Not only can you pick your quality, but you can pick your style too. Outside of the basic t-shirt, some other examples in the t-shirt category include:

  • Tank tops in multiple fit variations
  • Track Shirts
  • Polos
  • Athletic tees
  • Crewneck tees
  • Ringer
  • Raw neck tees
  • Classic v-neck

And If you’d like, there are baseball shirts also available.

You can print your design on any of the aforementioned shirt styles with a pretty simple front, back, or sleeve print. However, they also offer “All over print” t-shirts which allow you to create designs that are for the entire shirt, covered from corner to corner. You can also get the inside label to be your brand for an extra cost.

The best part is they have unique products for Men, Women, and Kids, as well as unisex versions. One thing is for sure, you’re not sure on options when using Printful.

Set Your Own Price

Set Your Own Price

Printful provides you the cost for each t-shirt without any hidden fees and then allows you to determine what you want to charge for it. Not only that, you are able to set your price by the dollar amount, but you can also do it by the margin that you want to make on each design, and on each t-shirt size. This is where the cost of the t-shirt becomes important.

Offer dozens of different products with your designs

Do you want to see your logo on backpacks? Coffee mugs? Any kind of clothing other than T-shirts? Sell all these and even more with help from Printful.

  • Over 160 products in total
  • Plant your designs on home and living items, including aprons, pillows, and posters
  • Offer accessories like tote bags and phone cases
  • Sell as many or as few as you want
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More than just T-shirts

While starting a t-shirt store is all the rage these days, there is much more you can do with a dropshipping store. Printful offers a tremendous amount of options for online stores that want to expand their catalog and add their designs to multiple products.

Clothing

While T-shirts lead the pack, Printful offers other clothing options as part of their dropshipping offering. This includes warmer clothing like jackets, hoodies and sweatshirts. As well as bottoms like sweatpants, joggers, leggings and shorts!

For women, there are skirts, dresses, swimwear sports bras and available. For kids, there are bibs, leggings, baby bodysuits, and swimwear as well. Like we said, options are not an issue!

Accessories

If you’ve got other products on your site, that means you’ve got designs laying around collecting dust and not being utilized to their full potential. Ready designs can be used to expand your product offering and give your existing customers an opportunity to see their favoraite designs on other useful items. Printful’s accessory options include tote bags, drawstring bags, which can be good for the fitness enthusiast and even backpacks. Other accessories include iPhone and Samsungs cases, as well as jewelry and socks.

Home and Living

If you’re in the home or furniture space, Printful has also got your back with their “Home and Living” category. Your designs can be printed on simple things like mugs and posters. But also on more complex things like beanbags and throw pillows. This can make a perfect addition to any online furniture store. Beach towels are also available, which can pair well if you have swimsuit designs and embroidered aprons for those in the kitchen or food space.

Hats

If you’re selling t-shirts on your e-commerce website, you may want to throw in some products that can turn that shirt into an outfit. Hats are some of the best ways to do that. Printful offer every hat type imaginable that you can drop your design on, and the best part is that they are embroidered. This means that rather than a flat print, your design will be stitched into the hat.

Some of the hat types include:

  • Dad hats/Baseball Caps
  • Snapbacks
  • Trucker Hats
  • 5-panel hats
  • Mesh Hats
  • Beanies
  • Bucket Hats
  • And even Visors

Printful Products Summarized

Accessories
  • Bags
  • Tote bags
  • Drawstring bags
  • Fanny packs
  • Backpacks
  • Phone cases
  • iPhone cases
  • Samsung cases
  • Jewelry
  • Flip flops
  • Socks
Hats
  • Embroidered hats
  • Dad hats / Baseball caps
  • Snapbacks
  • Trucker hats
  • 5-panel hats
  • Mesh hats
  • Beanies
  • Bucket hats
  • Visors
Home and Living
  • Embroidered aprons
  • Coffee mugs
  • Pillows
  • Throw pillows
  • Pillow cases
  • Stickers
  • Wall art
  • Posters
  • Framed posters
  • Canvas prints
  • Beach towels
  • Bean bags
Kids & Youth Clothing
  • All shirts
  • T-shirts
  • All-over shirts
  • Tank tops
  • Baby bibs
  • Leggings
  • Baby bodysuits
  • Swimwear
Men’s Clothing
  • All shirts
  • T-shirts
  • All-over shirts
  • Tank tops
  • 3/4 sleeve shirts
  • Long sleeve shirts
  • Embroidered shirts
  • Jackets
  • Hoodies
  • Sweatshirts
  • Bottoms
  • Sweatpants & joggers
  • Leggings
  • Shorts
Women’s Clothing
  • All shirts
  • T-shirts
  • All-over shirts
  • Tank tops
  • Crop tops
  • Embroidered shirts
  • 3/4 sleeve shirts
  • Long sleeve shirts
  • All hoodies & sweatshirts
  • Hoodies
  • Sweatshirts
  • Jackets
  • Bottoms
  • Sweatpants & joggers
  • Leggings
  • Skirts
  • Shorts
  • Dresses
  • Swimwear
  • Sports bras
  • Bodysuits

Print your original designs on demand

Do you want to see your logo on backpacks? Coffee mugs?
Any kind of clothing other than T-shirts? Sell all these and even more with help from Printful.

  • No monthly fees — only print when customers place an order
  • Refine your designs online with their “mockup generator”
  • Pay for the production costs and pocket the mark-up

Let them handle your inventory for you

If you already manufacture your own products, Printful can still help with dropshipping. Instead of dealing with inventory and shipping on your own, they can do it all in your stead.

  • Leave your inventory in their warehouses
  • Have orders automatically fulfilled within a single day
  • Engage with customer support for any hang-ups
  • No charge for account maintenance
  • Fulfilment centers in both the United States and Europe
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Multiple Shipping Rates

One of the best thigns about Printful is they have many shipping options available. They give you the pricing of each shipping option that exists on their platform and you are able to pick the ones you want available to your customers to include those costs in your shipping checkout. Items like posters have their own shipping pricing which saves you time on calculation. The best part is you can also create one flat rate shipping option across the board. This helps when you don’t sell too many variations of items.

Shipping Rates

Request and receive high-quality
product photos

Your customers will want to see what your products look like before they buy. Show off their good side with the expertise and editing tools of Printful’s in-house photographers.

  • Experienced professionals work with your products
  • Every step is covered, from the first shot to the final edit
  • Receive a variety of samples immediately
  • Photographed products get a 20% discount on fulfillment
product photos

Slap your brand onto the packaging

Like a mysterious cowboy singlehandedly saving a Western town, Printful doesn’t need credit for doing their job. This white-label dropshipper allows you to customize the packaging so it looks distinctly yours.

  • Include your logo on packaging with branding stickers
  • Change the manufacturers’ label into yours on shirts
  • Bundle extra goodies with your products as “pack-ins”
your brand

How Printful Works

How Printful Works

1. You integrate your e-commerce store with Printful

The first step is t signup for a free Printful account and integrate your e-commerce store. Shift4Shop makes this process really simple.

2. Create Your Designs

The first step is to sign up for a free Printful account and integrate your eCommerce store. Shift4Shop makes this process simple with easy integration.

3. Upload Your Designs

Now its time to see your designs in action! This will be really easy as Printful has a great mockup generator and even lets you tweak the design on the spot with text and graphics. This is the part where you also include all of your product descriptions.

4. Setup Your rates

You can’t make money if you don't add your margin on top of the cost of the goods. Printful also makes this easy by adding either a dollar or percentage value to any product and product size. You’ll also want to set up your shipping rates to make sure your shipping isn’t cutting into the margins.

5. Lauch Your Products!

Now its time to show the world what you’ve created! The best part is, outside of marketing the products, it will be completely hands off for you at this point. Just watch the orders roll in and watch your bank account grow while Printful takes care of all your shopping needs.

How to integrate Printful in your store

Shift4Shop offers a special app for any customers interested in efficient and economical dropshipping. The Printful On-Demand Dropshipping Integration enables store owners to communicate with this company directly from their Shift4Shop interface. There are no monthly fees or set-up costs — all you need to get started is the app and an account.