What is Printful Integration?
Printful is a top-tier on-demand printing and fulfillment service that enables businesses to provide customized products without the hassle of inventory management, production, or shipping logistics. By connecting Printful to your Ecommerce platform, you can simplify your operations and expand your product range. Any changes made in your Printful store, such as product creation, removal, updates, or fulfillment processes, are automatically synchronized with your Ecommerce store in real-time.
What all the functionalities are offered in the Printful Integration?
- Product Import: Seamlessly import all your products from a specific Printful store to your selected Ecommerce store location.
- Product Synchronization: Sync your products between Printful and your eCommerce store, ensuring updates for creation, modification, and deletion are reflected in real-time.
- Order Creation: Automatically create orders in the connected Printful store whenever an order is placed in your eCommerce store.
- Order Fulfillment Sync: Keep your order fulfillment status up-to-date by syncing shipping information from Printful to your eCommerce store, including both partial and complete fulfillments.
- Notification based on order status: Once the order is fulfilled either partially or complete, the users will receive notifications via email. The shipping details will be shared by Printful's end.
Important Notes
- Product Publishing: Imported products will not be published to your eCommerce store by default; you must manually enable them. In the current version, product descriptions won’t be pulled from Printful.
- Product Retention: Upon uninstalling the Marketplace App, products will not be deleted from the LeadConnector store location.
- Multi-Location Support: A single Printful store can be connected to multiple LeadConnector store locations.
- Delivery Address Restrictions: Specific products can only be delivered in specified regions as defined by Printful’s end. If an order's delivery address in the eCommerce store is not supported by Printful, the order will not be created in your Printful account.
- Store Creation: If the "Create new store" option is selected during authorization, a new store named "LeadConnector Store" will be created.
What are the steps to Integrate Printful with Your Ecommerce Store?
1. Connecting Printful to Your Ecommerce Store: Begin by navigating to the Sub-Account > Settings > Integrations > Printful > View App > Install or directly search for Printful application in 'App Marketplace'.
2. Importing Products from Printful: Once the connection is established, select the desired Printful store and import products to your chosen Lead Connector eCommerce store location. If a store is not already available in Printful, a new one named Leadconnector will be automatically created.
- Select and Import products from the Printful Store to store. Store owners need to manually enable the imported products in their Ecommerce stores in order to publish them. If needed, select the "Create new store" option during integration setup to automatically create a new store named "LeadConnector Store."
3. Product Publishing: After importing products from Printful, few things are needed to be updated:
- After importing products, go to the Product page in the Payments section to publish them manually in your online store.
- Customize product details and descriptions directly in your Product details page as they are not pulled from Printful.
4. Orders Creation: Orders placed in the Ecommerce store will automatically create corresponding orders in the connected Printful store synchronously.
5. Partial and Complete fulfillment of Orders: The fulfillment status can be refreshed. The order fulfillment status will stay current by synchronizing shipping details from Printful to your eCommerce store, covering both partial and full fulfillments.
Things to Note:
- In this iteration, while importing the Products, the Description will not be pulled from Printful due to the Printful Store Limitations
- Users should publish the products with care and after verifying, as some of the products are only delivered to certain locations. This will be available in the product catalog of Printful
- The delivery address should be correct in order for the order to get synced with Printful, upon wrong delivery information, order will not get created (or) synced in Printful
By following these steps and understanding the key functionalities and important notes, you can effectively integrate Printful with your eCommerce store, enhancing your business operations and expanding your product offerings with ease.