Printful: Print on Demand

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New business owners:
-Printful does everything it says. Drop shipping direct to customer and great design tools. Honestly they are probably the best option in this space.

However, be prepared to face long fulfillment times and angry customers. I would say 35% of all of my orders fulfilled by printful involved customers complaining about the ship times, resulting in many headaches as a business owner.
Oh and you might as well shut your store down during holiday season as printful took 3-4 weeks at times to fulfill some of my orders. I basically had to provide partial refunds due to the angry customer complaints I was getting.

-So this business model is great in theory, but you won't be able to sustain any kind of growth with it.

It's good. It's fairly easy to use and has good integration with Shopify, but doesn't have enough clothing choices for women, especially women's' hats and caps.

Also, the leggings and sports bras should have the option to be designed and sold as a set, since many people like to buy them that way. This also is an issue with product layout options on Shopify.

Additionally, your mockups are very limited. I have a PlaceIt subscription. The problem is their mockups don't always align with your products. For example, your skater skirt has a waist band; but, none of their mockups for the skater skirt have a waist band on the skirt. It should be better coordinated.

My advice to anyone thinking about building Printful into your business model is to AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Inconsistent quality and general incompetence across the board really makes me regret the countless hours and thousands of dollars I wasted on them. Best case scenario: you'll be able to easily produce amateurish clothing and overpriced prints to support your hobbies. If you take yourself, your business, or your brand seriously at all, you won't be happy... Worst case scenario: they cause irreparable damage to your brand in the eyes of your customers. DON'T DO IT!

Printful works exactly how it is marketed. You create apparel, sync it with your website, and it is al streamlined. I started using printful as a way to get people rocking my gear without having to front big sums of money for stock. Any issues I have ever had with printing get resolved with a quick picture and chat with their representatives. I have sold a few 100 items so I am unsure if I were to sell 1000s of items a month if there would be more issues. All in all, it has worked exactly as they say and I will continue using.

Great app! Before I was sort of playing a guessing game on what merch would sell, and how much I should order. Printful is a great app, I highly recommend.

Great, app is great. Quality of clothes is amazing. Thanks for everything. I only use prinrful and no other service.

Even if product's initial setup is quite long (hand pick designs for each t-shirt color and size one by one) service looks excellent so far. Quality of print is very good and the ability to order samples is awesome!

We’re having a blast with Printful—it just keeps getting better! Setting up shop was as easy as pie (actually, easier than pie; pie is tricky!), and with all those snazzy integrations, our products practically launched themselves. Want to unlock even more perks? Dive into our Membership program—your first 14 days are free, so you can test it out, no strings attached. Give it a whirl and let the good times roll!

I actually scrolled through all the one start reviews. Well I've used printful a year now and had no known issues. My customers get their orders and i get my samples with no worries. Now it is often we get an email that something is out of stock or not available. Form a business stand point, think of how many shopifiers are on the platform using this system! It should not be a surprise that's business. If you do not want to deal with it keep product on hand and ship items yourself.