Let’s look at connecting your Wix online store to Printful.
Hey, it’s Maris from Printful!
In this video, you’ll learn how to: create your Wix account, connect it to Printful,
add products and set up shipping.
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!
1. Creating your Wix account.
To get started with Wix, choose one of their Business & eCommerce plans.
Only these Premium Plans support receiving payments,
which you'll need for your store to function.
Choose a plan that works best for you.
Now let’s create a Wix account.
You’ll be asked a few simple questions
that will help you create a website that matches your needs.
Since you're creating an online store
you’ll need to select “an online store” from the dropdown menu.
This will add the Wix Stores app automatically to your website,
which you need to accept payments and sell your products.
Now you have two options for creating your online store.
With Wix Artificial Design Intelligence, or Wix ADI,
you can get a custom website made just for you—design and even content ready to go.
Or, select the Wix Editor and choose a designer-made template to create your own professional online store.
I went with the first option since it only takes a few clicks to set up.
Take your time and customize your store in any way you want.
2. Connecting your store.
Next, let’s connect our newly created store with Printful.
Login to your Printful account, go to Stores and select Choose platform,
find Wix, and click Connect.
Now click the Connect to Wix button.
You'll be redirected to your Wix account
where you'll need to log in with your account information and click Allow.
That's it!
Your accounts are connected, now let's add some products.
3. Adding products.
Go to your Printful Dashboard, select Stores and choose your Wix site.
Next, click on Add product—this will open up our product push generator,
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.
You can see there are two techniques to choose from—Printing (DTG) and Embroidery.
Each has their requirements and design guidelines,
if you’re new to Printful make sure to check out the links in the description under this video
to help you better understand them.
I’ll stay with the printing technique.
Let's click on the Design tab,
here you can create your designs by combining texts and clipart elements.
You can upload your artwork by clicking Upload file.
For this video, I'll use the Printful Peacock sample file.
Now you can resize and reposition your print file.
Follow the print quality information over here for best results.
Once that’s done, click on the Product tab and select all the colors and sizes you want to offer.
When you’re finished click on Proceed to mockups.
Here you can choose what type of mockups you want to show on your store as product photos,
and also choose the image format.
Choose your favorites and click on Proceed to descriptions.
On this page, you can edit the product title and description.
We already have default product information in the description below.
We recommend you customize it to match your brand.
For this example, I’ll leave it as is.
Next, 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.
When I change the retail price, my profit adjusts automatically.
Lastly, make sure that the product visibility box is checked here,
and add this product to any of your store's collections.
Then click on Submit to store.
This will upload your product to your Wix store—and you're all set!
Don’t forget to set up your billing information with Printful for your purchases to go through.
To make it easier for you, we made a video about setting up billing.
You'll find a link to it below!
Depending on where your customer lives,
Printful may charge tax on your orders,
such as Sales Tax in the US, or VAT in the EU.
You may also be liable to collect tax from your customers.
You can manage your tax setting by choosing Store Tax from the Wix Settings menu.
We recommend you consult a tax specialist on your specific situation.
If you have any other location that you need to set up
or you have other questions about Wix tax settings, check out articles in their knowledge base.
4. Setting up shipping.
When setting up shipping, remember that the Printful and Wix integration only supports flat rates.
You’ll find all the information about Printful's flat shipping rates by visiting our Shipping page,
I`ll leave a link to it in the description below.
To match Wix's shipping rates with Printful's,
you'll have to use Wix's Rate by Weight shipping settings.
First, let's add weights to our products— from your Wix site dashboard, select Store Products.
Click on an existing product and scroll down until you reach the Inventory & Shipping section.
We recommend adding the same weight for products in the same category.
Here, I'll add 1 lb for my t-shirt.
The weights you add won't show up on your store
and won't impact the shipping cost on Printful's side—
they'll only be used to calculate and display the shipping cost for orders at checkout.
Once that’s done click Save and return to the Main Menu by clicking here.
Next, click Settings and choose Store Shipping.
Here you can add and customize the regions you ship to.
You can either add new regions by clicking on New Region, located here
or edit the existing regional settings by clicking Edit next to the green toggle.
Let’s click on Edit under our domestic shipping settings.
A new window will open up, where you can add more destinations
and change the shipping calculation for the chosen region.
The calculation settings that you choose will apply only to the specific region you're editing.
If you have multiple regions, each has to be configured separately.
If you want to have a specific shipping setting for a country or a group of them,
add them in a separate region.
Printful and Wix integration supports flat rates only
and we recommend using the Rate by Weight shipping calculation
because you can assign an arbitrary weight for your products
that have similar shipping costs to our shipping rates.
Scroll down to the Shipping Calculation block
and from the drop-down menu select the Rate by Weight option.
The Rate by Weight shipping calculation will charge the weight of the entire order.
Enter a Delivery Option Name and add information for the Weight Range and Rate.
I'll put down “Standard Shipping” and set the weight to the one I added for my t-shirt, 1 lb.
In the Rate tab, add the shipping cost for a t-shirt.
You can find it on our Shipping page.
Once that­`s done, click Save and update the shipping settings
for other shipping destinations in the Regions tab.
All of your shipping rates are up to you and your preferences.
Just consider Printful's shipping prices and how it affects your profit.
You can also include shipping costs in your product base price and offer free shipping.
That may help you to set up shipping easier and makes an excellent selling point.
If you have any issues setting up shipping on WIX,
check out their knowledge base for more information.
And that’s it!
Make sure to go through our Wix FAQ for more info.
You’ll find all the links in the description below.