Inkthreadable: Print on Demand

Really massive shame that this company couldn't live up to their promises. It has all the right ideas and had everything i wanted... printing, dropshipping, tags, packing slips etc but when it come down to it...it was the complete opposite. Deliveries up to 3 weeks, no customer interaction, the printing itself was almost see through it was that cheap and poorly done. I used them and had to stop immediately as they are damaging to a reputation. I was promised constantly that my clothing was being made as a priority but it was painfully obvious they just didn't have the stock...and when they finally did..they produced really terrible printing. Avoid completely if you want to maintain any sort of customer satisfaction and trust

System itself is at 4/5, Customer Service is fast and always available, although not always problem solving orientated 3/4. Product portfolio 4/5, process time 3/5, unfortunatly currently the software does not tell you if stock is available or not. So far 75% of my orders involved products out of stock and I had to get back to customers and find alternatives.
The team is working on developing the IT to include out of stock information, but currently this really is a show-stealer. Whitout this component in the future, the fulfillment is not really saving time and work. So unfortunatly, at the moment only 2/5.

EDIT: I just had to uninstall the App. Unfortunatly we had too many returns and quality issues. Labels were not printed as agreed, prints were not centered and either to much left or right, or to low, wrong sizes were sent, sometimes with packaging slip - sometimes without and and and. It is just not a reliable service (stock availability asweel... see above) and we can currently not use it and pass these problems on to our customers.

The team is always helpfull and available, but overall deliverytime from the UK to Germany is far too long (sometimes 10-14 days) The system is developing fast and it is visible the team is trying, it is just not at a usable point yet. perhaps we will retry in a year or two, currently it is costing us money, time and unhappy customers.

100% of orders have been delayed by 1-2 weeks.
Irritating UX at times especially when uploading an alternative colour design on multiple colour t-shirts. Every customer has emailed me asking where their order is, now as a brand new company, I have no trust and it's inkthredables fault. Believe me, I was so excited to use these guys and give them a great rating for a UK company, but they let themselves down. The chat team are mostly nice though, Liam being the most caring.

The worst print on demand company. Received an order from a customer, made payment instantly. Shipping status did not change for over a week. Followed up with an email, no reply. Called and got an answering machine. When I finally spoke to someone they said that the top was out of stock and they wouldn't get the top back in stock for 2 weeks. No emails received prior to informing me of this. Reassured they would send out to the customer on the 14th August. I have just received a refund into my bank on the 26th August with no explanation. Made my business look completely unprofessional and a customer lost.

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Very poor service, teeshirts often printed wrong and have to be redone, so the 3-5 days is not correct. They do not notify you that they printed your teeshirt wrong they just add extra days. I have a customer who has waited 12 days for a tee which was 5-10 days delivery the item has not been delivered now were told 30 days for a refund when it should of been delivered after ten. Had to order a replacement which will now take another 5+ days to send as they are going to make mistakes again for sure. Very Disappointed. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CUSTOMERS ONLY THEMSELVES

initially, I was impressed with the Inkthreadable app, the production and delivery SLA's given on their website and the range of items it offers. However, I started a phase of testing things started to go bad. I first set up a whole bunch of products that I wanted to sell and then went through the process of placing a test order, for a couple of reasons: 1. I wanted to check the quality of the goods I had chosen and the quality of the printing. 2. I wanted to test that Inkthreadable could stand up to their production and delivery SLA's.

Firstly the production SLA on their website states 3-5 business days my items were completed and shipped in 7 business days so in total 9 days from when I initially placed the order. Then the order took another 2 days to be delivered meaning that from the point an order was placed to the time it arrived at my address was 11 days. Sadly for me, this is simply not good enough, as a small business owner, if I put this kind of service into use on my shop, I would fully expect to receive bad reviews left, right and centre.

The next problem is with what was delivered, the packing slip was poorly printed in places it was overloaded with ink and in others, there was no ink at all! Not a very professional look, in my opinion.

Finally, there was the quality of the garments, the actual clothing was pretty much as I expected it to be (good) however the printing, looked rushed to the point fibres from the garments appeared to be poking through the prints.

All in all, I'd have to say I wouldn't trust Inkthreadable to produce and ship my orders for me.

A real shame being a uk company but far too expensive, £9 for a mug, I'd need to sell them at £15 to make it worth while, a test purchase done and blemishes in the finish, not good enough for a £9 mug!

The products look great on screen but just try to get them working and that's where everything falls apart.

A huge number of products simply don't transfer over to Shopify (for no discernable reason). I got in touch with the support team via the chat box on their website and was (eventually) told they'd run some tests but they haven't responded to me since.

And that's not to mention the testers I ordered only to receive an email that they couldn't print some of the colours they offered.

It would've been nice to switch to a supplier with more choice available but I wouldn't trust Inkthreadable for a second with a customer order.