Printful

Avantages

catalogue produit très large
option de personnalisation de Branding et de packaging
délais de livraison très rapide
SAV rapide et efficace
plusieurs intégrations possibles (shopify, woocommerce, amazon, etsy...)
Bons guides, tutos et conseils

Inconvénients

Prix de certains produits élevée par rapport à la concurrence

Avantages

Printful allows you to easily upload your designs and apply it to different products such as t-shirts, hoodies or baseball caps. It also has the ability to connect your eBay and Etsy store which fully automates the order management process.

Inconvénients

T-shirt prices are a bit expensive but the rest of the platform features make up for this.

Avantages

I liked the variety of products and product colors.

Inconvénients

The print quality was somewhat dull on some of the garments.

Avantages

In the beginning, when you integrate your business with them, they are very helpful. After that, customer loyalty or care is negative, below 0...

Inconvénients

They have tried to take hold of my warehoused assets after paying them for three years. They have changed their policy, have hidden my postcards and packaging, have asked for absurd amount of money to recover my assets.

Avantages

They worked perfectly fine in the beginning with my sample orders- colorful and crisp.

Inconvénients

Once I placed a large order or shirts that I approved samples of more than half my prints were blurry. Costumer service has not address it well. I had to take individual photos of each item and provide an itemized list, to which some photos they blamed the fabric even though it’s no different than other shirts that printed clearly. They will not resolve it for me.

Avantages

The pricing for embroidery/print services is pretty comparable with most other options on the market. We are a small business, so syncing Printful's fulfillment with our website so that customers and employees can order items with our branding on it when they want is the most cost-effective way for us to have custom merch produced. We also use Printful for our own personal services to have items for the office, uniform shirts, etc. produced. Their website, design functionality, etc. works great, and you're able to do a lot more DIY with Printful as opposed to the other online custom printers, where you have to call to speak with a sales rep to request certain design features (which we don't always want to take the time to do). The quality of most everything has been decent, and when it hasn't, they've replaced it to make it right.

Inconvénients

As I mentioned, there have been times where the print or embroidery quality has been inconsistent. When this has occurred, they've made it right, but you do have to go through the process of submitting images of the products, waiting in the queue for the customer service rep, etc. when the items really shouldn't have been sent out like that in the first place. We tend to order embroidery more often from printful than we do screen printed items, as we've noticed the screen printed items do not last very long (it looks nice, but fades a ridiculous amount after the first couple washes). They could definitely add more variety to their inventory as well, as they don't have much a diversity in what they offer.

Avantages

Printful makes designing stuff easy. No inventory is great, so no shipping or worrying about getting something to someone myself. They do it all for you.

Inconvénients

There aren't as many choices of merch as some of their competitors.

Avantages

1) Intuitive user interface
2) Included Clip art
3) Digital Models with product Mockups
4) A graphics editor

Inconvénients

Lower prices would be nice, but I mostly like it.

Avantages

Printful was a great tool to get our online Print-on-demand store off the ground. This helped our organization completely outsource production, inventory management and shipping/fulfillment. It's a self-running machine.

Inconvénients

The profit margin with Printful is low. Since you are buying one item at a time, you're often making very low amounts per item when it all washes out with taxes and shipping. And some of the products really aren't the best quality.

Avantages

Not much. I can't think of one good thing to say about Printful.

Inconvénients

They have horrible customer service. I was on a chat for four hours the other day, and there was nothing they could do to resolve my issue. The person finally told me that they would get back to me.

Avantages

Its a great idea but they like playing dumb games loke 30% your first order for 16 hours. Its a joke just the first order for 30% off. They are not disabled friendly.

Avantages

- Firstly, their customer service is phenomenal. I've had no issues within the years I've used them and for any mis-prints or errors, they will promptly help out and make it right with either a refund or redelivery. - Variety of options, and ever increasing options for printing on, apparel, accessories, literal prints, and many more that they update. - Integrated world-wide shipping, allowing our business to essentially tap into the global market from the get go if needed, hassle free.- Really easy to set up and its literally free.

Inconvénients

- Print quality sometimes were less than satisfactory, but this was really dependent on your design as well as the product you pick (Base garment colour, etc.) - Fulfillment time and restocking, this might be their biggest weakness, which is ironically their popularity. I frequently find that several items on my site will always be out of stock, and this is not usually properly reflected onto the site so we always have to manually contact the customers each time. Fulfillment time is also hit or miss, your order could get done in 2 days or 8.

Avantages

None

Inconvénients

We have run into 3 issues where the products delivered were below standard and/or different than the website. The customer service people always explained it away as an error on our end. They NEVER wanted to support our customers in receiving what they paid for. Our small non-profit had to pick up the cost to make it right with our customers.

Avantages

I like how easy it is to create with it but also the shipping is working pretty fast.

Inconvénients

Sometimes pricing could be a bit lower but then again products have always been fine so guess can’t complain much.

Avantages

It' an easy way to develope good product without the need of big minimum and design software: easy use for everyone

Inconvénients

easy use and big product's catalogue; it's really important that now you also develope eco product because it's something very cool when you sell products

Avantages

user interface
job execution simplified
Order and inventory management streamlined

Inconvénients

Turnaround time
Pricing
Features are lacking

Avantages

Everything. Amazing drop shipping company that has a ton of products to choose to brand yourself with.

Inconvénients

Nothing. Honestly. I will continue to use them in the future.

Avantages

The quality of the prints are fantastic, and the fabric is durable.

Inconvénients

I wish there were more integrations with 3rd party apps.

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Avantages

Very simple and easy to set up and start designing your own products. Discounted sample orders every month are a very nice feature. Easy to integrate into all the platforms that I sell the products I have designed on Printful.

Inconvénients

Shipping and Processing times can be lengthily depending on where certain products are produced and the type of customization that you select, direct to garment or embroidering.

Avantages

Yu do not need a cent or even artistic ability to start an online store chock full of a myriad of popular and needed products. And, it is absolutely free. It syncs with your store on Etsy, Amazon, Ebay, and more and you do something once, push the product to your store, and everything is automated thereafter.

Inconvénients

I stated that Printful was $$$ Mid-tier earlier in teh evaluation of cost in this review. That is only referring to the cost of their products and fulfillment. The software is FREE to use and has online, apps, and more but as it is free they have a higher price for all their products. They are the best in the business worldwide, but other POD companies are also free with just as good of results in general...but Printful wins every time in consistency and quality and you pay for it in teh products.

Avantages

It is Direct. That is the most important aspect of Printful, most especially for POD newcomers. We went into the business with no knowledge about the industry. It isn't that Printful is exactly informative, rather they are extremely organized and the content isn't mired by ads.

Inconvénients

There is a curious lack of white-label products available. After using Printful for the first time in 2020, very few new items have debuted across the platform. When compared to its competitors, Printful offers very few avenues of POD merchandise and lines of collections.

Avantages

I liked Printful because it integrates with my Wix website and allows me to see everything that is taking place on the e-commerce side of my website. I also like Printful for the ability to brand my products with my company logo. I also like that Printful offers a variety of products on the market.

Inconvénients

I didn’t like that I have to pay and upfront charge for embroidery features. Some of their products are a bit pricey and doesn’t give much room for profit markups.

Avantages

Printful gives you a big choice of different products and varriaties. The are a lot of integrations with most popular e-commerce platforms which saves you time for uploading products and managing quantities.

Inconvénients

There are a great products but not all of them have most popular colors - black and white.

Avantages

Their website and navigation was easy. Looked like a solid contender for my online fitness services.

Inconvénients

Their shipment details was horrible. I ordered a sample T shirt for a TV show appearance and I never got my product. I finally looked back through my emails and the thread was connected to this out dated email weeks old. I e mailed them numerous times to let them know I won't be able to pick up my product and leave it at the front door. Printful just emailed me saying that if they have to re ship it more than three times they will donate my product to charity. I never got an actual person to talk with me.

Avantages

The choice of customizable products is pretty impressive, as are the base prices. I love the fact that you can set your own margins and am ecstatic that they handle the payment gateway, shipping and the entire logistical process. You can create your designs, set up your store and start selling with very little problem

Inconvénients

It took a little while to understand the best ways to manage in stock/out of stock situations for products. While there are a number of options for most products, their availability may vary wildly. I've found it's best to design to the most basic color sets, for example, because the more unusual colors are less popular and most likely to become unavailable without warning.