Printful: Print on Demand

Printful used to be great, but ever since expanding by merging with others, quality and speed of fulfillment has gone downhill, even when ordering the “fast shipping” items. Also, the prices are so high it doesn’t make sense for a start up to use them unless planning to sell high prices for the same items people can just get from Amazon for 80% less.

The embroidery process is not good. I think they need updated equipment.

all items don't sync from pritnful to Shopify and it's frustrating - also Shopify changes the pricing of the items from prihtful so you have to change them again

it is not very clear how to navigate the site

Printful is great but keep in mind it is apparently impossible to migrate your store to a new login, or add a second account to your Printful store. According to their support team, they have no way to let you do this.

Since we've used our corporate Google emails to create our Printful accounts, I'd have to log in to my CEO's Google account to manage our Printful catalog. Grotesquely stupid, and short sighted. Printful, you really need to fix this! Until this gets fixed, I'll have to move to another printing provider!

having diffuculties witht the app

I’ve placed around 10–15 orders with Printful, and it’s been a mixed experience. Almost half of them have come with problems, either with printing, quality, or sizing. One mistake keeps happening.

I ordered a 4x4 sticker that showed up as 2.5x2.5, and when I contacted customer service (for the second time), Jerlyn told me that was the expected outcome (the first time they apologized and refunded). Let me repeat that, a 4x4 sticker came half the size, and they said that’s normal the second time. The 5x5 sticker, on the other hand, came out just fine.

I ended up having to stop offering some products. Their prices are cheaper than a lot of other companies, but you have to decide if saving $1 per item is worth the risk of constant issues and the extra time fixing them.

Their service was great and it’s been a favorite for years, however, there’s been a number of issues I’ve attempted to address with Staff regarding the quality of their shirts. We had very questionable amount of wear and tear over a short amount of time, I would say 4-6 weeks tops. Please look into the quality of the products.

The products are great but the integration is horrible. I have to upload a product multiple times before it'll say all sizes are in stock. For example, I'll upload a new t-shirt & it'll say all sizes are in stock besides Small. So I'll re-upload the product & it'll say all sizes are in stock besides Medium & 3XL. I have to do this over & over until it finally shows all sizes as "In stock". I've reached out to customer service & no one can find an answer or a resolution as to why this is happening.

The app is super buggy and extremely slow. Mockup are generated with the wrong embroidery colors. No matter what I do they don't update. The process to create products and publish is time consuming. They introduce new products then quickly discontinue them.