Hi, it’s Caroline from Printful.
In this video, I’ll show you how to connect your Printful account to Square,
add products, and set up shipping.
Connecting to Square.
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! The link is in the description below.
Once that’s done, let’s head over to Square. You have the option to create a free account
and start selling online with Square’s Free plan. Once the sales start rolling in,
you’ll only be charged 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction.
Square also offers three paid plans you can upgrade to any time
once you start scaling up your business.
These plans offer a variety of premium tools and resources
that allow publishing to a custom domain, remove Square branding and ads,
ask for customer reviews, and post them on the storefront, and so on.
You'll need to create a Square account in the US, Canada, UK, Japan, or Australia
to be able to create a Square Online store.
Currently, this integration is only available in these regions.
Let’s begin by clicking on “Start for free” under the Free plan.
On the next screen, fill in all the necessary details and press “Continue”.
Next, type your store’s name here, and select your estimated annual revenue from the dropdown menu.
You can skip entering the Employer Identification number for now.
Press “Continue” to move on to the next screen, and select a category for your business type.
If your store specializes in selling on-demand custom apparel,
choose “Clothing and Accessories” and press “Continue”.
Here, enter your business address and press “Continue”.
You’ll need to specify the type of items you’re planning to sell.
Here, select “Physical Items” and press “Continue”.
On this page, make sure that “Ship items to buyer” is selected
to specify how your customers will receive your products, and press “Continue”.
Here, you are given the option to select the type of your online store.
It can be a single shopping page, a shoppable Instagram page,
or a combination of a full websiteand an online store.
For this example, let’s select “Full Website + online store” and press “Continue”.
Wait for the page to load, and just like that you’ve created your Square account in just a few easy steps!
Now let’s head over to Printful.
Login to your account, and from the “Printful Dashboard”
go to “Stores” and select “Choose platform”,
find Square, and click “Connect”.
Now click the “Connect to Square” button.
A new window will open—click “Allow” and confirm the connection on the next page.
Once that's done, let's head over to the “Square Dashboard” click “Online” located here.
Then select “Settings” and click on "Square Sync".
In this window under "Sync Settings" let's switch off "Mark newly imported items as “Unavailable” online".
This will make all the products that you create on Printful appear in your online store automatically.
Now that your accounts are connected, let's add some products!
Adding products.
Click Add product”—this will open up a new window,
where you can create your unique products and add them to your store.
I’ll add a men’s shirt for this video.
To do that, click on Men’s clothing, T-shirts, and the model you like the best.
Select the color and size of the T-shirt that you want to offer on your online store.
Next, click on the “Design” tab and customize your shirt however you want—add text, clipart,
a design you made yourself, or use a photo from the vast library of Getty Images.
For this example, I’ll use one of our “Quick Designs”.
If you plan to make any adjustments to the design layers,
pay attention to the print quality information located on the left side of the screen.
Let’s move to the next stage by clicking on “Proceed to mockups”.
Here, you can choose from a large variety of mockup styles for your product.
And at the bottom, you can choose the mockup format as well—JPG or PNG.
The biggest difference between JPG and PNG files is that PNG will use up more space
and might cause your page to load a bit slower, but it also has a transparent background,
while JPG doesn’t. I’ll leave my mockup format set to JPG and press “Proceed to details”.
On this page, you can edit the product title and description.
As you can see, we already have default product information in the description below.
You can personalize the description of your products to better match your brand.
For this example, I’ll leave it as is and click on “Proceed to pricing”.
Here you can decide on your profit and retail price.
You can see Printful’s fulfillment price for the shirt in this column and the suggested retail price next to it.
In the last column, I can adjust my profit amount.
I’ll select “Change to” from the dropdown menu
and when I set the profit amount, my retail price adjusts automatically.
Remember, when you make a sale, Square charges you 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction,
so set your product price accordingly.
Click “Submit to store” when you’re ready to upload your product to your Square store—and you're all set!
Setting up shipping.
You’ll need to manually configure the shipping settings on your Square store.
On your “Square Dashboard” click “Online” located here.
Then select “Settings” and click on “Shipping”.
Here, you can add regions and set a specific way you want to charge shipping.
For more information on setting up shipping on Square, head over to their Shipping FAQ page.
You can find Printful’s rates by going to our Shipping page
that contains shipping costs for each product category.
Lastly, make sure your billing information on Printful is all set.
We have a video to guide you through the process.
Watch it to learn how payment processing works with Printful.
I’ll leave a link to it in the description below.
Don’t forget to go through our Square FAQ and subscribe to our Youtube channel for more useful content.