Hello, It’s Michael from Printful.
In this video, we’ll go through connecting your Printful account to TikTok Shop.
I’ll show you how to register and set up your TikTok Shop account, connect your Printful
account, create products templates, and add them to your store.
Before we start, let’s quickly go over what is TikTok Shop and why it’s a good choice
to create your online business.
TikTok Shop is an ecommerce solution for TikTok that allows brands to sell products and get
paid directly through TikTok.
TikTok has been the fastest-growing social media platform in the last decade.
With over a billion monthly users and the growing trend of social commerce, it was only
a matter of time before TikTok tested its strength in the market of social commerce.
With the Printful and TikTok Shop integration, you can create products within your Printful
dashboard and push them to your store, automatically syncing them.
The shipping status will automatically sync to your store, which updates your customers
with tracking information when your Printful orders are shipped.
Before we begin with the steps to connect to TikTok Shop, keep in mind that this integration
is available in select regions.
To check if it's available in your region, you can check the TikTok Shop Seller Central
homepage and our FAQ page.
I’ll leave the links in the description of this video where you can find the most
up-to-date information.
Now, let’s talk about how to set up your accounts.
Before connecting TikTok to Printful, you’ll need to create accounts on both.
So if you’re not a Printful user yet, go to our website and create your free account.
Go to the Printful page, click Sign up, and fill in your info.
Once you’ve signed up, you’ll be able to see your Printful Dashboard.
Here, you can easily follow all the onboarding steps you’ll need to finish to start selling
with Printful—confirm your email, create your first product, connect your store, add
products to your store, set up billing, and order samples.
Now that you have your Printful account, you can create a TikTok Shop Seller Central account.
Note, that a TikTok account and a TikTok Shop account are 2 different types of accounts,
and you will have to sign up for a TikTok shop account if you haven’t.
If you already have a TikTok Shop account that is fully verified you can skip to the
next chapter, step 2.
If you want to set up a TikTok shop, on the TikTok Shop seller central page, you will
see 2 sign-up options.
You can either sign up with your existing TikTok account here or sign up using a phone
number or email address in the option below.
During the signup process, you will be required to verify your phone and email address, so
be sure to keep both close and ready to receive the codes that expire in 60 seconds.
After you sign up and log into the TikTok Shop seller Center, you’ll need to complete
two tasks, provide legal documents and add a bank account.
It can take 1 to 2 days to hear back about your application results.
Once your identity gets verified, you’ll be able to continue setting up your TikTok®
Shop.
Before connecting your Printful account and adding products, you need to set up your warehouse.
This let’s TikTok Shop know where you are shipping products from.
In your TikTok® Shop dashboard, go to My Account, select Seller profile, then Warehouse/Pickup
address, and add a pickup and return address.
We suggest using Printful’s facility address, choose the one based on the location you are
selling in.
I’ll add a link to the address in the description so you can copy and paste it.
Now that your Printful account is connected to your TikTok Shop, you can create shipping
templates on TikTok Shop.
You’ll have to create and fill out a shipping template in your TikTok® Shop account using
Printful’s shipping rates.
Note, that you won’t be able to add products without a shipping template, so we’ll go
through the steps for that first.
Due to the limits of TikTok Shops shipping settings, you won’t be able to set up ad=ditional
item shipping costs.
This means, If your customer orders 2 shirts, on TikTok they will be charged the flat rate
twice, so you will earn more profit on additional items sold through shipping.
To set up the shipping template, go to your TikTok® Shop dashboard, select My Account,
select Shipping, then Shipping templates, and click Add a new shipping template.
You will assign an arbitrary weight for each type of product that you sell on TikTok Shop
and set the shipping template weight ranges with the flat rate for each product category.
We’ll create 3 weight ranges, one for each type of product.
Remember to check out the shipping page for rates depending on the region you are selling
in.
I’ll leave a link in the description so you can check them out.
In this example, I’ll use rates for the US region.
You can add a new weight range with the +New Rule button here.
Add a range for each type of product.
We’ll set the flat rate for T-shirts at $3.99 with a weight range of 0 to 0.100 kg.
Now we’ll set the flat rate for 11oz mugs at $3.99 with a weight range of 0.100 - 0.200
kg.
Lastly, we’ll set the flat rate for hoodies to $7.99 with a weight range of .200 - .300
kg.
You will need to enter the weights based on the shipping template ranges you created.
We’ll go through those steps after we create and add the first product.
Now that you have your shipping templates created, you will use that information to
adjust your product weight settings once you create and add them to your store.
We’ll go through those steps on
Once you create your weight-based shipping templates, unselect both of the shipping options
provided by the platform, Express shipping, and Standard shipping, and select the Shipped
from seller option instead.
Up next, you will authorize the Printful app.
To connect Printful to your TikTok Shop, head over to Stores in your Printful dashboard.
On this page scroll down, then select Choose platform, and choose Connect under TikTok.
On the Connect page, select Authorize.
On this page, select your region and specific country.
Login with your account.
Complete the security authentication and click confirm.
Lastly, read the TikTok Shop open platform authorization agreement, check the box, and
then click authorize.
Congrats, your store is now connected.
Now, we’ll go through the steps for creating products in Printful and adding them to your
TikTok Shop.
In your Printful dashboard menu click Stores, then Add products.
In this window, you’ll select a product you want to add to your store with your design.
For this example, I want to add a hat that says hello friend with a smiley face.
Select your product.
Here, you can choose size or color options of applicable.
I want to sell this hat in green.
You can choose multiple colors if you’d like.
Then click on the design options below to start preparing your design on the product.
I’ll click on Add text, then type the text I want.cxc
I’ll do the smiley face on a seperate line, so Ill head back by clicking See all design
layers.
You can rotate, scale, and place the text layer accordingly.
You can change other elements like color, font, arc and outline with these tools above.
I’ll change the color to white thread.
Once you’re done preparing the design for your product, click Proceed to mockups.
On this page, you’ll select the mockup style that you want to display on your store.
I’ll select the one with just the hat.
To select the main mockup image, click on the mockup, and a star will highlight in the
top left corner.
You can select between JPG with a white background or PNG where the background is transparent.
I’ll choose JPG for this example.
After you select your mockup, you can move on to the next page.
Here, you can title your products and edit the description.
Products will have automatic descriptions set,ccc but you can always spice it up to
make it align with your brand.
Once you complete the information, on the next page you can set your prices.
You have the option to adjust the profit margin you wish to make or the total retail value
you want to charge on your store.
I’ll adjust based on profit.
I want to make $10 for each hat I sell.
Select Set revenue, change the percentage to currency, and adjust the number to the
amount you wish to make per sale.
You’ll notice the retail price updates.
After setting up the price of your product, select Submit to store.
And that’s it!
Congratulations on adding your first product to your TikTok shop.
Now you can edit the product in TikTok to have the proper weight for shipping.
You can add arbitrary weights for your products so the shipping template gets assigned at
checkout for your customer.
To do this, in the TikTok Shop menu, go to Products, and click manage products.
Click on the product you want to set a weight to so that the right shipping cost will be
added when it's ordered.
Scroll down to Shipping and Warranty, under Product Weight, set to kg, and set the weight
to the highest number from the weight range.
For T-shirts that will be .1 kg, for mugs, .2 kg, and for hoodies .3 kg, since that's
how we set it up on the shipping template stage.
Then under the Delivery options, select custom and check the Shipped from seller option.
You will have to set this up for each product to make sure that the right shipping flat
rate is charged when your customers place their orders.
The last thing to do is to ensure 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 Pritnful.
I’ll leave a link in the description below.
Don’t forget to go through our TikTok Shop FAQ and subscribe to our Youtube channel for
more useful content.
And that’s it!
I hope you found this video helpful!
If you have any questions, please ask us in the comments section.
I’ll be happy to help answer them.
Thank you for watching and see you next time!