Let’s look at connecting your BigCommerce store to Printful.
Before connecting the two platforms, you’ll need to create accounts on both.
So, if you're not yet a Printful customer, go to our website and create your free account!
There’s a link to it in the description below.
In order to register in BigCommerce you can start with the free 15 day trial or choose
one of their payment plans.
There are four plans available for BigCommerce, in different price ranges.
All of these plans are compatible with Printful, but the major differences are the available
marketing tools and features that come with the pricier plans.
We will leave a link to these plans in the descriptions below, so check out which one
works best for you.
Once you have created your account, go to your Printful dashboard and click “Stores”
up here.
Select “Choose platform” and click on the “Connect” button under “BigCommerce”.
Press the red “Connect to BigCommerce” button here and you’ll be redirected to
the BigCommerce app page.
Click “Get this app”.
Log in to your Bigcommerce store here or make a new one here if you didn’t manage to do
it before.
I’ll click “Log in” because I have an account already.
Click “Install” and “Confirm”.
It may ask you to log in to your Printful account.
Click “Sign in” and “Connect store”.
It will load for a little while... and congratulations, you have connected Printful with BigCommerce.
As you can see here BigCommerce automatically adds sample products to your store in order
for you to get a better sense of how your store will look.
You can edit or delete these products at any time.
Let’s add a product to the newly created store.
You can do that using our product push generator.
So hit “Add product” here and you’ll see a selection of our products listed here.
We’ll add a shirt for this example, so choose “Men’s shirts”, “All shirts” and
the model you want.
Here you can check what variants, colors and sizes are fulfilled in our US or EU locations.
We don’t fulfill all of our products in both locations, but they can be shipped worldwide
either way.
So if your main market is Europe you can apply this filter to see which variants are fulfilled
in our EU location or both the US and Europe.
This time we’ll leave the USA option here.
Now customize your shirt however you like, add text, clipart, upload a design file you
made yourself, or use a sample file already made by our in-house designers.
This time I’ll use a sample file.
And I’ll adjust it here.
Once that’s done, select all the colors and sizes you want to offer the t-shirt in.
And now hit “proceed to mockups”; Here choose the mockup style you want to use.
I’ll select “wrinkled,” because I just like that one.
And select the mockup format, the biggest difference between JPG and PNG files is that
PNG will be a little bigger and might cause your page to load a bit slower, but they have
a transparent background, JPG doesn’t.
I’ll pick PNG this time.
And press “Proceed to description”.
In this step you can change the product title, for this example we’ll name it “Printful
T-Shirt”.
And edit the product description.
As you can see we already have the basic product info provided here.
But you can definitely personalize the description for your products.
Also in this window you can add or remove the size guide to your product description.
For this example, we’ll leave it as is.
Next up, proceed to pricing.
Here you can edit the retail price by setting your profit.
For example, we see Printful’s fulfillment price for this t-shirt in this column and
let’s say we want our profit to be bit more for each shirt, so we set it here and the
retail price is automatically adjusted.
Here you can choose if you want your product to be visible in your store immediately or
if you want to save it as a draft.
In this tab select product category you want to place your product in, we’ll select “Shop
All” for now, but you can adjust it at any time by going to your products page.
I’ll show you how later in this video.
And when that’s done hit “submit to store”; Wait for it to load and here it is, the T-shirt
you just created!
To edit the shirt in BigCommerce click on the “products” tab in the left menu bar
and select the newly made shirt.
Here we can make adjustments to it, for example, change the price or create a new category
in your store and at it to your product.
Be sure to check if product type is set to “Physical product” here, otherwise Printful
won’t be able to fulfill it.
Since there are no live rates, you'll have to set up fixed shipping rates.
First, you'll want to head over to our shipping page to see how much shipping costs for each
of our products.
Go to Printful.com and click the “Shipping” tab up here.
On this page you’ll find all product shipping rates.
For example, here we can see that to ship single shirt to a destination in the USA costs
$5.00.
There are two ways you can set up shipping rates for your BigCommerce products.
You can either enable the “Free shipping” option here and include the shipping fee ($5)
in the product price, or you can enter the shipping rate for a single item here.
To find out how much it costs to deliver your product to your customer, check Printful’s
shipping page.
When you are finished editing your product click “save” and “continue” here.
And that’s it, the t-shirt we just created is now available for purchase.
Don’t forget to set up your billing information on Printful in order for you purchases to
go trough.
To make it easier for you we have made “Setting up billing” video and make sure to go through
our BigCommerce FAQ for more info.
All the links are in the description below!
As you just saw, it’s super easy to connect Bigcommerce with Printful and create your
business!
So get started today!
Hey, it’s Wes from Printful!
Hope you found that video very helpful.
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