Gelato: Print on Demand

By far the best POD business for internationally-based businesses, I wish they had more stationery options like lined notebooks, hence the four stars. Other than that, great easy to set-up tool and fast delivery. Love it!

Actually I wanted to wait a few weeks before I write a review. But I've had Gelato for a week now and I've probably contacted the chat support 10 times already because I misunderstood or misinterpreted one or the other thing. The Gelato team has ALWAYS been FRIENDLY, FAST and DIRECT in helping me. I never had a wait longer than 5 minutes and my questions or problems were answered/solved in less than 5 minutes.

Lätt att använda på många sätt. Man får avsätta lite tid för att lära sig alla funktioner.

Alles heel duidelijk uitgelegd, verloopt vlot. Ook heel tevreden van de customer service via chat, wordt steeds vlot en snel opgelost.

So I tried Gelato for apparel and had some issues at first but in the end the support was very helpful. Pradeep from the support team did his very very best to help me with all of my issues. If each supplier had such a good support life would be much easier.
Thanks a lot! Original review
Hey guys, I want to share the trouble I had with gelato. My main problem with gelato is their promise " Sell globally, produce locally". Unfortunately this promise is far from the reality. My orders took serveral weeks to be fulfilled so asked them why my prints are produced in th U.S. altough I am situated in Germany where you have printers?
Gelato: "Sometimes, we may route an order to a different producer and ship the product internationally, rather than to the location closest to your customer." So I asked if they know that this would result in unnecesarry expenses and I and my costumers have to pay high costum fees?
Gelato: "We recommend adding a disclaimer on your store informing your customer that customs fees might be due depending on where the order is shipped from." In the end Gelato costed me money and nerves. Apparently all the worst case scenarios they describe in their help center usually happen. So if you want reliable shipping times and reliable costs for your costumer I would NOT recommend to order at Gelato. Hope this helps.

This is an excellent app with great integration.
You can easily connect to Shopify and start selling orders.
Also, Gelato's UI is great and simple to navigate.

Integracja z Shopify jest szybka i bezproblemowa. Pierwsze zamowienie odbyło się bez większych problemów

Endless problems with print quality and damaged prints. I used gelato for hundreds of photo, aluminium, and acrylic prints. I'm having to move my services to other providers after endless problems with items arriving damaged in post, and poor print quality.
"Museum Quality" prints are often scuffed and scratched. They do not appear to be high quality. Packaging is typically in a corrugated cardboard envelope that bends easily and damages the print. Gelato will offer reprints on damaged items for free, but often these reprints arrive with the same problems.
Wooden frames are extremely cheap, wood colour does not match that on the website.
"Aluminium Dibond" prints in New Zealand and Australia are not printed on 3mm dibond as advertised, but directly onto 1mm aluminium sheet. Again this often arrives bent. Packaging often has no corner protection. Occasionally the mounting bracket is attached upside down.
The app is intuitive and responsive. Customer service is excellent. But these don't help if the end products have such quality control issues.

We are only using Gelato and so far we're very happy with it! The integration with Shopify is just great and every process is very quick to get your product live to the store. They have also an amazing customer service support. A minor improvement could be the template design for mugs (could be nicer). It also has a premium feature, so you can't get everything for free.

Smooth integration with Shopify, very easy to setup/maintain products, great support, fast updates to Shopify and highly detailed order info/tracking.