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Print on demand is an amazing business model, and Etsy is an amazing platform to host it on. If you can find print on demand fulfillment companies that integrate with Etsy, you’ll be setting yourself for much more passive and automatic income. Which print on demand services integrate with Etsy? Which ones should you choose?
- Printfy
- Printful
- Printed Mint
- Gooten
- Shirtly
- Print Aura
- Art of Where
- TeeLaunch
Making sure that your Etsy store is integrated with great print on demand fulfillment companies will make the difference between a successful store and a business flop. Don’t be a flop. Let’s dive into some great choices to integrate with your Etsy store and start your business off on the right foot.
1. Printify: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
Printify is one of my favorite print on demand platforms that integrates with Etsy. They have a LOT of products. I mean a LOT. Like, 650. They’re also adding new products every week.
As you can see, Printify has a wide selection of products.
I absolutely love all of the options that Printify offers. Not only in regards to product types, but also location of print providers.
The majority of the platforms on this list will choose the location and print provider for you, mainly because they run their own fulfillment centers. With Printify, you get to choose.
If I want to sell a t-shirt, for example, I can choose my print provider based on price and location. These companies are not owned or run by Printify. They are independent print providers that Printify works with.
When an order is placed, Printify will manage everything, while giving you more freedom to choose a print provider that works for you.
You, as a seller, will always work with Printify. You don’t have to worry about dealing with the individual print providers.
So, Printify has a lot of great products and print providers, but what about their Etsy integration? Is it any great shakes? Yes, it is!
Printify’s Etsy integration is SO easy to set up and manage. Once your integration is set up, Printify will automatically scoop up any Etsy orders that are linked to your Printify account and process them.
It’s like magic.
No need to manually place orders or make sure that orders went through. As long as the integration is setup properly, any Etsy order placed for Printify products will automatically show up in your Printify dashboard and be processed.
Printify’s setup is great for people who want more freedom and choice with the production of their products. You can choose a print provider through Printify based on location, price, or processing time. This is a unique feature that no other print on demand company offers.
2. Printful: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
Printful is another one of my favorite print on demand fulfillment companies, in large part because of how seamlessly it integrates with Etsy.
You could have been camping for a week in the woods, completely disconnected and without internet or cell phone service. When you return to civilization, you might notice that orders came in, were scooped up by Printful, processed, and already shipped out.
I never have to touch 99% of the orders on my Etsy store that are connected to Printful. Talk about a hands-off, passive business.
Click here to sign up for your own free Printful account. You can do it from your desktop or phone. Even if you’re not sure if you’ll go with Printful yet, having an account will let you test out your designs on products and get a feel for how the platform works.
Of course, you will always have to deal with customer service on the Etsy end. People cancel (depending on your policies), enter the wrong addresses, fail to read about your processing times. People are people and no print on demand service can fix that.
But, when your customers are behaving, Printful proves itself to be one of the most hands-off and seamless companies I’ve found.
Important note: a lot of these print providers seem to offer similar products, but they aren’t as similar as they seem. For example, you’ll notice that a lot of them offer “apparel.” That’s really vague and broad.
Many of them offer differing types of apparel, even within the same categories, women’s shirts for example. There are TONS of different types of women’s shirts. They may offer different brands, styles, cuts, and more. And for differing prices.
That’s why it’s important to use more than one print on demand service. That way, you can comparison shop and pick various services depending on the product you’re looking for.
It’s important to look through the catalogs of the print providers you’re planning to work with to make sure that you know what they offer and for what price.
That’s why I HIGHLY suggest having both a Printful account and a Printify account, if not more. Printful and Printify at the very least. As you can see from what we just talked about, the companies work in slightly different ways. Depending on what products you’re creating, you may want to go with one platform or the other.
Luckily, it’s easy to integrate your Etsy store with both platforms. To find out more, read my post about using both Printful and Printify at the same time.
You’ll notice that Printful is a bit pricier than some of the other options on this list. Despite that, they are the platform I primarily use. For me, the ease and automaticity of their service is worth it. They also offer great print quality, which is no small thing.
Keep in mind that, unlike Printify, Printful staffs their own warehouses and print facilities. They are large and in various places across the world at this point, but they are run directly by Printful. You can’t choose between multiple print providers like you can with Printify.
If you’re new to print on demand and want a stress-free way to dip your toes into the print on demand world, I’d definitely suggest going with Printful.
Alright, onto one of the cutest print on demand platforms. You’ll know what I mean when you see their products!
3. Printed Mint: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
I love Printed Mint’s vibe. Just scroll through their website and you’ll end up with a smile on your face. They have so many great products and they offer a lot of unique products that you won’t find from other places.
Their services are just as adorable as their website. Just take a look at the packaging for their mugs! For no extra cost, they will package your mugs in cellophane, with your choice of bow at the top. Then, they’ll surround it with crinkle paper of the color of your choice, put it in a cute box and let you put a customized and branded sticker at the top. Talk about adorable and professional!
I’ve actually used Printed Mint a lot for mugs and have been pleased with the results. They have good customer service, great print quality, and a wide and varied product selection.
They are a bit pricey though, even in comparison to Printful.
They also don’t automatically process orders when they come in. Yes, they offer Etsy integration, but when an order comes in that’s synced with Printed Mint, it gets saved as a draft. You need to go in manually to authorize the charge and finalize the order.
The priceyness and lack of automatic processing is why I don’t use Printed Mint more often. I do love their products and high quality service though, so I do use them for certain products.
Sign up for Printed Mint here!
Before we move on, I want to make a disclaimer. The top 3 providers we’ve already talked about are the ones I use for my own PoD business on Etsy. I can’t personally vouch for the rest of the providers on this list, but they DO integrate with Etsy, so I wanted to be sure to include them.
4. Gooten: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
I haven’t used Gooten for my own Etsy store, but I have heard good things about them from other sellers. Yeah, I run in some PoD circles 🙂 Gooten has some fun and unique products, which I’ve toyed around with offering, like acrylic prints. They look like glass, but they’re not. Cool, right? They also have body pillows, baby beanies, car seat covers, napkins, neck ties, and more. Really, their product catalog is really fun to look through.
In fact, looking through their catalog again is making me wonder why I haven’t taken the plunge with Gooten. Give me a sec, I need to go order some products from them…
Gooten does integrate with Etsy. Like Printify, Gooten works with a number of different manufacturers. When an order comes in, Gooten’s system will automatically route each order to whichever manufacturer has the best combination of price, processing speed, and shipping cost.
5. Shirtly: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
As the name implies, Shirtly produces…shirts. Well, to be more specific, they produce apparel. In addition to shirts, they make sweatshirts, aprons, and baby bodysuits as well. They even make shirts for dogs. Shirtly is great for basics. They don’t have a huge catalog of apparel, but you can get your standard shirts at an inexpensive price.
If you’re planning on having a store that primarily sells t-shirts, Shirtly is a great option. They understand t-shirts and they make them well. I’ve heard good things about their work in my PoD circles.
6. Print Aura: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
Print Aura has a range of products from apparel to drinkware and wall art. They do have a wide variety of options, especially t-shirts. That said, they can be pricey and their platform is more clunky than the others. If I had to choose, I would pick Printful over Print Aura. They offer similar products, but their prices and interface don’t rival Printful’s.
If you’re interested in what Print Aura has to offer, they integrate with Etsy and automatically process and ship your orders when they come in.
7. Art of Where: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
Art of Where has a nice range of products and a sleek interface and website. In addition to the standard array of apparel, Art of Where has products you won’t find elsewhere like fabric, origami bags, silk scarves, and wood prints.
What I like about Art of Where is that they care about handmade products that support their local community. They are based in Montreal, Canada and they do everything themselves, from sewing the products to printing the designs.
This can be great if you’re looking for more of a friendly face in your production partner than a large, ambiguous business.
Art of Where does integrate with Etsy and always you to link your products to their platform.
Sign up for Art of Where here!
8. TeeLaunch: Print on Demand Integration with Etsy
If you hadn’t guessed, TeeLaunch sells t-shirts. But, they haven’t let their branding hold them back from selling other types of products as well. TeeLaunch sells more than shirts. On their platform, you can get mugs, tumblers, coasters, shoes, jewelry, personalized crystal wall art, electronics, balloons, and more. Yeah, they offer a lot more than t-shirts.
Ok, so this is an important thing about TeeLaunch. You need to have a Shopify store in order for the Etsy integration to work. TeeLaunch sets up the integration with Etsy through their Shopify app. This isn’t great if you’re looking to start a PoD store solely on Etsy. That’s why TeeLaunch is the last option on our list.
There we have it! Those are the main print on demand platforms that integrate with Etsy that can help you automate your success. Explore all 8 of these options and see which ones work the best for you. Again, my favorites are Printful, Printify, and Printed Mint. That doesn’t mean that the other options won’t be exactly what you need for your business, but they are a good place to start if you’re just beginning to navigate the PoD world.
Which Print on Demand Services Offer White Label Products?
White label products are those that show your own branding instead of the branding of the product. Without white labelling, your shirts, mugs, and other products will have tags and stamps associated with the brands that produced them – Hanes, Bella Canvas, Gildan, etc. When you choose to white label your products, they’ll show your brand name instead.
White labelling can be beneficial if you’re really looking to establish yourself as a brand. It can also add a level of professionalism.
By no means is white labeling something you need to do. I don’t white label my products and many PoD sellers don’t either. The reason why? It costs more.
Generally, there’s a fee of a few dollars a product to customize the branding of the products you sell. Also, white label products aren’t offered by all fulfillment providers.
When people talk about white labelling, they’re often referring to the products themselves. But, if we’re going to be specific, we have to say that all of the PoD providers listed here offer some degree of white labeling.
When you buy a product, they generally will not include information about their own company. Even though Etsy requires you to disclose your production partners (and you should anyways for transparency sake), packages won’t arrive to your customers with your fulfillment company’s brand stamped all over the place.
Be sure to look at each provider’s shipping options so that you know what your customers will be receiving.
Let’s go back to talking about white labeling the products themselves. From the list of print of demand providers we’ve talked about that integrate with Etsy, here are the ones that allow you to white label your products:
- Printfy – some of the print providers. Be sure to verify with the print provider you choose
- Printifful
- Gooten
- Print Aura
- Art of Where
Quite a few! If you’re looking to establish yourself as a brand, getting a white label tag can go a long way in making yourself a household name. Shop around and see who is currently offering the cheapest labels and factor that into your pricing strategy.
No matter which company you choose, know that it takes some trial and error to become successful with print on demand. Order some sample products, try to make a few listings, get a feel for what works. Try to have fun with it and don’t put too much pressure on yourself to get it right on the first try. Keep trying new things and you’ll figure out the products and providers that work best for you and your business.
Go forth and create great art!
Diana
Diana has been an artist for over 25 years and has training in drawing, painting, digital drawing and graphic design. Diana’s latest obsession is digitally drawing with Procreate and creating t-shirt designs with Canva. Diana has experience selling her art across a number of platforms and loves helping other artists learn how to make money from their art as well.