A lot of people are confused between Printify and Printful, and they don't know the difference between them and which better to start with. So, what the distinction between these two platforms to launch a T-shirt business?
Print-on-demand business is really easy and great for people who don't have enough money to start an online business, and also for beginners who don't have sufficient experience.
Printify and Printful are considered as two popular and biggest in print-on-demand business.
In this comparison between these two platforms in the market, we will touch upon important factors: Ease of use, pricing, order fulfillment, customer support, print quality, and integrations.
Before this comparison, we will talk a little bit about print-on-demand.
What is Print on Demand business (POD)?
Print on demand is a model in which you work with a supplier to customize products (including T-shirts, Bags, Notebooks, hoodies, pillows, etc) with your own designs to sell on a per order basis under your brand, or on other marketplaces.
Today, easy to create an income in this business because it doesn't bother you by holding any inventory or pay any upfront fees until a product is sold to the buyer.
1. Ease of use
Printify
source: Printify
Who Is Printify?
Printify is a print on demand fulfillment company founded in 2015, in San Francisco, USA. Also has many print providers in different countries. This marketplace provides a vast group of clothing, and home & living products. Furthermore, it integrates with many e-commerce platforms like Esty.
How does it work?
Printify has a simple automated process that can help you to create print-on-demand products quickly.
Printify has a free Mockup Generator that helps you to upload easily your artwork, modify color options, and the better thing you can choose the product you want and add to your online shop. This tool really awesome for newbies.
It has a lot of products including mugs, hats, bags, t-shirts, posters, phone cases, notebooks, hoodies, stickers, hats, pillows, and so on.
When you choose your print provider you can request samples, and that can help you to make direct assessments of product quality and print design. You can add a variety of products to your store after you are satisfied with what you see.
Printify takes charge of the process of shipping when a customer purchases a product from your store.
Printful
source: Printful
Who Is Printful?
Printful is a print on demand fulfillment company founded in 2013, in Riga, Latvia. Also has many print providers in different countries. This marketplace provides clothing, accessories, and home & living products. Furthermore, it integrates with many e-commerce platforms like Esty, Shopify.
How does it work?
The first thing you do when you start dropshipping print-on-demand you need to integrate your online store with Printful and add your products.
Printful has also a mockup generator that helps you to add your artwork and then custom for your listed products.
There are more than 200 products choose from in Printful that allows you to import all the products designs to your online store (Etsy as an example).
Also, Printful takes care of the process of shipping the same as Printify.
Printful has higher quality printing and dropshipping.
For "Ease of use" we can say is the same whether in Printify or in Printful.
2.Pricing
Pricing Plans For Printify
In Printify three plans have benefits for the drop shipper include Advanced mockup generator, Integration with e-commerce platforms (like Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce, eBay, and more), 24/7 merchant support, Manual order creation, Self-serve help center.
Free plan
If you are a beginner this plan for you because Printify allows newbie merchants to start a business free. Also, you have better other options include 5 stores per account, and unlimited product designs.
This plan really awesome and easy, you've got nothing to lose by trying it.
Premium plan
If you get sales and you want to scale up a little more, this plan for you. Printify charges USD 24.99 / month for the premium plan. Also, you have great options include: billed annually, 10 stores per account, unlimited product designs, up to 20% discount on all products.
Enterprise plan
This plan for you if you get 10 000+ orders a day. Printify gives you a custom API integration that allows you unlimited stores per account also, unlimited product designs, and up to 20% discount on all products.
Pricing Plans For Printful
To display your brand on your products, Printful gives you better option-charges $2.49 per label-that can help you to make your brand more professional in the market.
Printful offer other services include;
Outside label – $2.49 per label
Long sleeve print- $ 5.95 per sleeve
Short sleeve print- $ 2.49 per sleeve
Embroidered logo- $2.95 per additional placement
Printful lets you build a design that captures your logo and prints on packing slips without cost. Many merchants apply this option to make a better relationship with customers.
Also, you will need to pay $0.75 per order, for pack-ins ( like flyers, business cards, or stickers). You can choose to pay this small charge to advertise your products.
There's a profit calculator to help you get down to the most practical profit margin suggestions. And Printful recommends a profit margin of at least 30%.
In the section on pricing, we can say that Printify is better than Printiful because the pricing in Printify is cheaper and appropriate for all, but the pricing isn’t clearly defined in Printiful.
3. Integrations
The two providers can integrate with Shopify and WooCommerce selling channels. Printful has a more extended integration list (like Weebly, Squarespace, Ecwid, PrestaShop, Big Cartel, Gumroad, Magneto, Wix). But Printify has only integrated with two marketplaces (Etsy and eBay).
In this section, we can say Printful better than Printify
4. Order fulfillment
Claimed average shipping time in Printful is 2-7 business days to make apparel products and 2-5 business days for non-apparel products.
Shipping time varies by product type and depends on where it has to be shipped to.
FedEx, DHL, and DPD are some of the listed shipping solutions.
For printed products like t-shirts, shorts, or sleeveless shirts, this is what your clients will require to pay for the shipping:
First product
USA: $3.99, Europe: $4.39, Canada: $6.49, Australia/ New Zealand: $6.99, Worldwide: $5.99
Additional product
USA: $1.25, Europe: $1.09, Canada: $1.25, Australia/ New Zealand: $1.25, Worldwide: $1.25.
Also, Printify has good transport companies.
Shipping solutions on Printify demand a long time to deliver international orders because they have a few fulfillment centers.
The shipping times depend on location:
USA: 7-15 business days, Canada: 10- 15 business days, International: 10-30 days.
In this section, we can say Printful is better because Printify unimproved for international orders.
5. Customer support
Printful has a good engagement with its customers. It has a resourceful blog and useful insights on how to start on print-on-demand business.
Also on Printify, you’ll find interesting articles like payments, integrations, shipping, production.
In this section, we can say both are equal.
6. Print quality
Printful invests a lot in printing machines also searching for winning product designs in the market. Printify, on the other hand, looks like a traditional channel with long-standing custom printed products(like T-shirts) and the quality is not good enough. So at this point, Printful is the top print quality.
To conclude, the two POD platforms are free and easy to integrate your store with. But, if you search for quality and customer fulfillment Printful is the better choice. You can start with Printify if you are a beginner!
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