Printify: Print on Demand

If there is a "potential" problem with the order Printify customer service is useless.
I am a premium member. I know what the average printing time and fulfillment time per printer should be.
Sometimes orders are marked as pending, way beyond when they should have been fulfilled/shipped. That indicates a problem.
Printify, does not have a direct phone line to the printeres on their platform to find out what the problem is. Apparently they email the printer and tell us to wait for a few days until we, maybe get an answer.
That is unacceptable. When an Etsy customer is expecting the product to be shipped and its way beyond the ship date, Printify should have a direct phone/chat line to any printer they use, around the world, to find out what the problem is, and when the ETA of the product is to be shipped. I can then go back to my Etsy or Shopify customer and explain, diffuse the situation and if needed adjust the shipping time.
This for me would be a reason to deal directly with printers instead of with Printify (an Aggregator). If they fix this and tweak some things in the Product mockup area they would get a 5 Star review! Btw, for me they are still one of the best POD Print Aggregators out there, but I look forward to improvements!

Print/Embroidery consistency and quality is hit or miss.

Making product color changes is buggy!

I see better on the computer

It works well with Shopify

Everything seems great until you realize that the words “automatic” and “integration” only work one way. Scammers target new businesses because both Printify and Shopify allow gaps to exist for new sellers—and scammers know this very well. ONLY ORDERS ARE FILLED AUTOMATICALLY. CANCELLATIONS MUST BE DONE ON EACH PLATFORM SEPARATELY. Shopify tells you that since the order is unfulfilled and the stores are connected, both accounts will stay synchronized—and that is false. Do not fall into the massive gap they leave open.

Needs more (name brand) products and cheaper prices. We have to increase prices to afford top tier shirts and other garments.

Love using the app, shipping rates for bulk orders are quite unrealistic to say the least.

It really needs a better editor. A version of word art is not even available. Straight font and you still need an external editor to make anything other than basic fonts.

I have been trying to build a clothing brand using Printify for about 4 years now. Here is what I can tell you...

First off, don't expect ANY support. There is no direct customer service line, only "activities" that you open for online chat help. That would be fine if there was enough employees to read and respond to those tickets. If I have an issue with an order I just placed today, and I open a ticket: the order would be delivered before anybody looked into that ticket.....who is that helping?

Secondly, The quality is all over the place. "Printify's Choice" gives you the best prices, but there is no consistency in the print. I had 2 products on the same order come from different providers. 1 product was about average, but the other looked like they only used half of the ink they should have. The design was a black box on a yellow shirt, and you could barely see the black box...

On the bright side, they do have the best prices in on-demand printing, as well as low production times. They are good about sending reprints for below acceptable prints, and usually get it right the second time. The setup is pretty simple if you don't have any special circumstances (like nonprofits).

In conclusion: They will get it right eventually, but not always on the first try. You get what you pay for, so the great prices come with some headaches if something goes wrong.

ALWAYS ORDER SAMPLES! The digital mocks can be extremely wrong sometimes.