CustomCat: Print on Demand

I use a bunch of POD's and CC is the easiest to use. The cool part is they "own" any issues if you contact them. Yes, I'll admit they aren't perfect - either am I haha. But when there is an issue they fix it quickly. Much easier than my other factory. Items are great but I do recommend testing them first. For example, our designs look great on mugs but not the flip-flops. Make sure you use hi-def, vector images and you will love their quick turnaround. Cheers

Ordered a couple sweatshirts for testing and I'm glad I did... the print quality was very faded and shoddy looking- white print residue spots outside of the design. Very linty and it had hairs on it. I believe I could heat transfer something that would look much better than this.

The embroidery on the other sweatshirt was ok in quality but it was only about half of the size of what it showed in the mock-up. Very small. They say on the site the embroidery area for the left breast is 4x4" but this was well under 3 inches. Very significant difference and not what would be expected from the end customer based on the expectations set. I wish I could post pics of my products for reference but I don't see a way to do that.

I have emailed customer support and will update when I hear back. Overall, largely disappointed as I was so hoping this service would live up to the hype I'm hearing everywhere..

Customization is extremely limited. Prices are okay for Canadians but I would prefer more customization and better mockups.

I finally decided to make a 1 star review to CustomCat. Every type of issue takes away 1 star and there are many issues at the moment so they should have received zero stars if it would be possible.

#1 Quality control issues - I sold thousands of face masks and it's unbelievable how much work I had with customer support. About 5% off all masks had quality issues, either the customer received the wrong product or the print was bad. Not just a bit off, it was noticably terrible.

#2 Shipping issues - CustomCat is offering an economy shipping option. The next decent shipping option is incredibly expensive compared to other POD services but is still basically standart shipping. About 5% of all orders were incredibly late and about 1% of all orders got lost with economy shipping. This isn't shipping, this is garbage.

#3 Production delays - According to CustomCat some orders had to be reprinted multiple times what lead to orders being in print for 2-3 weeks what is just insane. I highly doubt that's really the case but either way, if your orders need to be reprinted 6 times you are clearly doing something wrong as a company. Also, good luck explaining it to the customers why their order wasn't shipped for weeks.

#4 Issues with the apps order recognition - About 0.002% of all orders didn't get synched to CustomCat. That's not a high number but if you're making many sales, you can't check orders all the time if they are getting synched. It shouldn't happen in the first place but when contacting the support about this issue I was simply told to replace a manual order. Thanks a lot.

#5 Feedback ignorance - Regarding all these issues and reporting multiple times on customer complaints, product and quality issues nothing has changed at all. I had so many complaints about the product with detailed explanations but customcat didn't change anything at all about it.

These are the reasons why I believe they deserve a 1 star review because as someone who is selling a lot the company clearly limits someone in expanding and growing the business because you need hours every day to fix the issue they have caused. I understand that there are many issues these days but they just tried to cash grab as much as possible instead of limiting some of their services to keep the quality steady. That's bad business practice and hurt my brand a lot. I believe I'll take my christmas business somewhere else because it will simply not be an option, they will not be able to handle it at all.

Best app fulfillment POD product with fast shipping and high quality product. Very fast and good support team. Thank you

The app works very well. Loading products is very streamlined and fast once you get the hang of it. It seems like they built the app to upload lots of products at once. In terms of quality - they are much like every other app where sometimes there are issues. They always respond and replace the orders that were not satisfactory and the order that are satisfactory are always excellent quality.

It's the best POD fulfilment company in the United States.
Working with CustomCat for over 3 Years. Highly recommended to every seller!

Pros:
- Highly competitive base cost + shipping fee
- Fast production time: normally ~1-3 business days, in peak season ~2-5
- Large product catalogue: tees, mugs, accessories, ornament, bags and 50+ types
- Responsible policy: free replacement/refund for lost/defect/wrong packages
- Excellent support: via email, FB group and even FB messaging to staff/managers
- Powerful system: can upload 250 designs images, and generate over 1,000 products at once

Special thanks to Michael, Alex, Joshua and Brett for the great help in these years!

The app has a terrible interface unlike it predecessors modern easy to use interface. Plus the main reason for uninstalling is that they force you to use the vendor name of "CustomCat." Thats totally contradictory of making self branded merchandise. Not sure why they do this, by all means they don't have to since other on demand services don't require it, but it's likely a selfish from of marketing for them. Beware! Printful and Gooten are much better and more customizable.

I have rated the support 2 out of 5 to be fair but my honest opinion is 0/5 because all of shopify support is live. I live in the uk and if this product is ok for international use I shouldnt have to wait for the random chance that they see my email. I was trying to activate my account and kept getting the "Error
An error occurred while executing the application. Please try again or contact the administrator." easy to use and reliable rating is based on reviews by others. so annoyed that time is being wasted while I wait for someone to see my email

customcat app is an easy app to use. Their customer service is great. i have being using customcat to fulfill me product for years. Mr. mike is very helpful and very patient to answer my questions. i personally recommend customcat 100%