Printful
Print-on-demand fulfillment company (merged with Printify in 2024) that produces shirts, hoodies and prints per order and dropships them with no inventory; sellers pay a per-unit base cost against their own retail price.
- Best for
- Testing merch designs with zero inventory or upfront cost.
- Skip if
- You sell volume — bulk printing beats POD margins. You need the highest possible merch margins (avoid POD), want screen-printed bulk inventory for touring, require exact consistency across every item or do not already have an online store and audience.
- First move
- Connect one design to your store today. Order samples of two or three products before listing them. Check garment fit, print placement, color accuracy and packaging, then connect Printful to the artist’s existing store and set prices that account for shipping, taxes and platform fees.
- Watch out
- Run the math before listing: price at roughly 2.5x base cost or margins vanish, and build buffer into Q4 delivery promises.
- Reach
- Industry-wide
- When
- Worth it once you have releases out.
- Based in
- Latvia