Hey, it’s Noni from Printful!
Let me show you how to connect your Big Cartel store to Printful.
We’ll go through connecting Printful to your Big Cartel store, adding products, and
setting up shipping.
CONNECTING TO BIG CARTEL
Before connecting the two platforms, you’ll need to create accounts on both.
So if you’re not yet a Printful user, go to our website and create your free account.
Then do the same with Big Cartel.
In order to register in Big Cartel, you need to choose one of their payment plans.
There are four plans available for Big Cartel, in different price ranges, including the “Gold”
plan which is available for free.
All of these plans are compatible with Printful, but the major differences in these plans are
the number of products you’re able to post on your store, images per product, domain
name, page customization options, and other features.
We will leave a link to these plan descriptions below, so check out which plan works best
for you.
When that’s done, head to your Printful account and go to “Stores.”
Click on “Choose platform” and select Big Cartel.
There’s also a link in the description to our Big Cartel connect page for quick access.
So here, hit the “Connect to Big Cartel” button.
This redirects you to Big Cartel.
Select “Allow” and that’s it, your Big Cartel store is connected.
ADDING PRODUCTS
To start adding products directly from Printful to your Big Cartel shop with our product push
generator, hit "Add product" and choose the product category and model from our selection.
For this tutorial, I'm going to go to men’s clothing, select a men’s t-shirt, and then
I’ll choose this model.
Next, create your design.
You can create a design using our text and clipart tools, or you can upload your own.
First, choose where you want the design to go.
Then, click “upload file” to choose a file to upload from your computer or pick
a design from our sample files, by clicking here.
I`ll choose this design.
Now you can resize and reposition your print file.
Make sure to follow along with the print quality information over here for the best results.
Once that’s done, under the “Product” tab select the colors and sizes you want to
offer the t-shirt in.
And now hit “Proceed to mockups.”
Here you can choose the type of mockups you want to show on your store as product photos,
and you can also choose the image format.
Then hit “Proceed to descriptions.”
Here, add your product title.
We’ll name it “Printful t-shirt.”
You can also edit the product description in this field.
As you can see, we already have the basic product info provided, but be sure to customize
it when you add new products.
This will improve your sales and SEO results.
If you want to learn more about what search engine optimization is and how to grow organic
traffic to your store, check out our video on that, link in the description below.
For this example, I’ll leave the description as it is.
Lastly, check the product visibility box here and choose one of the product categories you
want to use for your product here.
Once that’s done, proceed to pricing.
Here you can decide on your profit and retail price.
You can see Printful’s fulfillment price here and then set up your profit here.
Once you set the profit, the retail price will adjust automatically.
To find out more about product pricing, check out our four-step video lesson on dealing
with print-on-demand product pricing, there's a link in the description below.
Then hit “Submit to store” and wait a few seconds for the product to load.
Now if you go back to your BigCartel dashboard and click on Products, you’ll see the product
you just created.
Finally, don’t forget to set up your billing information with Printful in order for your
purchases to go through.
To make it easier for you we have a video on how to set up your billing, you'll find
the link below!
SETTING UP SHIPPING
In order to set up your own shipping rates, you need to take in mind the shipping rates
Printful charges you and the rates you’ll charge your customer.
Note that Printful only offers flat shipping rates for Big Cartel - head to our Shipping
page to find out more about them.
In this table you’ll find the shipping costs for each product, based on location.
To set up shipping on Big Cartel, go to your Big Cartel dashboard, click on Products and
choose the product you just created.
Now scroll down to the Shipping tab, choose the country you want to ship to and enter
the shipping price for your product.
Feel free to add more options for each location you want to ship to.
When you’re done, click “Save.”
All of your shipping rates are up to you and your preferences - just consider Printful
shipping prices and how it affects your profit.
Another way to deal with shipping is that instead of charging your customers extra,
you can offer shipping for free instead.
Customers are 4 to 5 times more likely to buy something if you offer them free shipping.
Include shipping rates in the base price of your product, so you don't have to pay for
shipping out of pocket.
If you have any issues setting up shipping on Big Cartel, be sure to get in touch with
their customer support.
And that’s it!
Make sure to go through our Big Cartel FAQ for more info.
You’ll find all links in the description below.
Connect Big Cartel with Printful and create your business today!