Which platform is the best to sell print-on-demand
Do you know which platform is best to sell your art as print-on-demand?
In this article, I will talk about the best platform where you can sell your art as print on demand.
What is print-on-demand?
Print-on-demand is a method where you make the design and your print-on-demand partner company prints the products and ships the product to the customer on your behalf.
How does print-on-demand work?
Firstly you have to select the company which you are interested in working with. After that, you have to make a contract with the company. At last, you can start your work with the company.
There are some platforms that are available print-on-demand:
- Saatchi art
- Fine art America
- Cafe press
- Merch by Amazon
- Zazzle
- Redbubble
- Printify
- Printful
- Shopify
- Big cartel
- Etsy
SAATCHI ART
Saatchi Art only has the option to print your artwork on canvas or Poster and no merch options such as mugs or t-shirts Or sweatshirts.
Saatchi Art payment methods for sellers: MasterCard, Discover, American Express, PayPal, and Bank Wire Transfer.
FINE ART AMERICA
Fine Art America has been around for years and they have a nice platform. On their platform, you can also see a nice range of products. You can upload up to 25 images for free. But if you wanted to go over 25 images you have to buy the premium package which is 30 dollars per year. The only downside of Fine Art America is their SEO(search engine optimization)is not very good. So it is very hard to find on Google search results.
FINE ART AMERICA payment methods for sellers: Check or PayPal.
CAFE PRESS
To work with cafe press you have two options. Either they can take 10 percent of the Commission from each sale and keep it at 10 dollars per month or you can just pay 6.95 dollars no matter what sale you make or not. I think the first one is a better option for beginners. They also have bonus options such as if you make a sale over a hundred dollars then they give you some kind of a bonus payment and such. The only downside again is the fact that they don’t have a high visibility so you have to attract traffic to your copy press page
CAFE PRESS payment methods for sellers: Check or PayPal.
MERCH BY AMAZON
They are by invitation only. This means that you can apply but in two or three weeks they get back to you and say that okay you’re accepted or you’re not accepted. If you are accepted you can start selling on Amazon and they only take 15% of the Commission. So if you’re accepted then you can start selling. In the beginning, you’re allowed only 25 designs. But if you sell more than 25 products Amazon promotes you to tier 2. In which you can sell up to 100 designs.
Amazon payment methods for sellers: You can withdraw your money to a bank account, PayPal, or Payoneer.
ZAZZLE
Zazzle is another website that I personally recommend actually. They take 15% per sale and they have up to 17% volume bonus. If you are interested in that
What I like about Zazzle is they have a very good SEO(search engine optimization).
ZAZZLE payment methods for sellers: Check or PayPal.
REDBUBBLE
Redbubble is also very popular as popular as zazzle and they are doing pretty well on search engines as well. With Redbubble you have a great selection of products. You can also sign up for free. If you want to calculate your royalties this should be your calculation
REDBUBBLE payment methods for sellers: Klarna, Paypal, Sofort, Apple pay.
PRINTIFY and PRINTFUL
Printify and Printful are actually really good. They are not search engines. But you can integrate them into your website or your Etsy or your Shopify and they will be a perfect third party to get Print on demand.
What is best between Printify and Printful?
Price-wise Printify is a little bit cheaper than Printful because Printify has more options.
Printful if you don’t know it let me tell you, Printful does their own printing and Printful has its own warehouses but Printify works with different suppliers.
When it comes to quality printful is better than printify.
But when it comes to more variety in colors and sizes Printify is better than Printful.
Printful has a lower cost of international shipping than Printify.
Finally, in Printful you can customize your packaging and you can add some discount coupons or whatever cards but with Printify unfortunately you don’t get that option.
PRINTIFY payment methods for sellers: PayPal, Payoneer, Google Pay, or Apple Pay.
PRINTFUL payment methods for sellers: The only transaction between Printful and sellers is Printful charging the seller’s Printful Wallet to cover the fulfillment costs.
SHOPIFY
Shopify is a very famous platform. Shopify is basically your store web page. You can have all the other amenities of a website can give you by just creating a page on Shopify. But if you want for example less from Shopify by not having many integrations and such then you can use Shopify lite which is nine dollars per month and you can integrate this button into your website or your sales page or landing page. But if you want to create a page and start selling from that store then the price starts from 29 dollars per month. Also, I want to say that 2.9 plus 30 cents is a very standard amount that people pay for credit card processing. So it will be taken out from your sales price as well.
Shopify payment methods for sellers: PayPal, Bank Account, and Wire Transfer. Access to specific payout methods depends on your country or region.
BIG CARTEL
If you don’t want to go with a big website like Shopify then Big Cartel is a very good choice for you. Big Cartel is a simple and small website. They allow you to have a free account for five products and for each product you can only upload one image. Unfortunately, they are not as established as Shopify. So they don’t have for example blogging option. But they have other really great perks such as you can offer discounts or promos or you can use a custom domain and also you have the shipment tracking option. If you want go above five images. You can upload 50 images for a monthly pay 9.99 dollars. If you wanted to go up to 500 images or products then you will have to pay 19.99 per month.
BIG CARTEL payment methods for sellers: PayPal and Stripe
ETSY
Etsy is an online platform where you can start print-on-demand. To use this platform, you need to open a store on the website. After opening your store, you can customize it. Once you arrange the store, you can post your product design and important information on your store. If you want a good number of customers in your store, you can advertise about your store on any platform, such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
Etsy payment methods for sellers: authorized credit and debit card transactions, some bank transfer services, PayPal, Etsy Gift Cards, Etsy Credits, Etsy Coupons, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Klarna, Payoneer, and third-party payment providers.
In my opinion, the best website is Merch by Amazon.
I also wrote a detailed article about Merch by Amazon.
If you like, you can check that article on the right blow.