Are you thinking of using print on demand for your online shop?
Because if you are you're probably considering between printful or Gooten.
So in this video, I'm going to show you some of the pros
and cons of both specifically when it comes to pricing Integrations and product quality.
Hi, my name is Mei. And I help makers artists
and designers make a living selling their handmade products online.
So as you know, I use Shopify
for all of my shops and with my husband's new personalized Art Shop that we started in 2019.
We use both printful and guten
each for different reasons principal
and Gooten are both free to set up
and they don't have a monthly fee or minimum orders that you have to worry about.
That's the beauty of print on demand. Here's where the integration
So for either of them does It's Magic.
So you put your products onto your Shopify or Etsy site.
And when your customer buys the product it is automatically sent to your principal
or guten account where it's then fulfilled and sent directly to your customer.
And so you don't have to do anything with actually making
and shipping the order printful integrates with a ton of platforms.
It's easy to connect your Etsy
or Shopify store and they've got great instructions for how to do that.
Now. What can you get with? Printful this can be a little bit confusing
because not all products are available in all different countries.
You can get everything from clothing to phone cases hats mugs
stickers to household items like towels blankets throws
and wall art,
which is what we sell fulfillment to delivery which means Printing
and making the product and then shipping it
so that it arrives in the hands of the customers will take an average of seven to
fourteen days depending on where they're sending it.
So that's how long the customer has to wait from when they Place their order with you?
Of course that time is a lot longer if you're shipping internationally one downside with
principal is their product line has quite boring like a lot of their t-shirts
for example are only available in basic colors like black
and white maybe gray my experience with them is that they're affordable.
They're relatively fast and the integration with our Shopify platform was seamless the quality
and variety.
However aren't always what I need.
And though in some ways I think it just depends on your business
and what you need as to how suitable printful is
and their product range is to you now when it comes to customer service,
so they do generally get a big thumbs up and the good reviews are glowing.
So the good things about printful easy integration with lots of platforms.
Lots of fulfillment and distribution warehouses.
They're extremely easy to use and they also have a tiered monthly discount.
System based on your previous months of sales.
They also have a fast turnaround
times and the not so good things about printful the frames that we use
for our wall art from them can look cheaply made.
The starting prices can seem high in comparison to guten
some items are not shipped to all countries,
and they don't have as many product options compared to other pod companies.
Now, let's talk about Gooten and Gooten doesn't offer anywhere near as many Integrations.
As printful although Shopify and Etsy are both available and the important ones in my opinion.
The big appeal for us with Gooten is their product catalog is much larger.
You also have more options
and variance for each product like more sizing options and more color options.
If you're looking for a unique product to sell then guten.
It's a great place to start they even have really unusual items like dog beds baby items ties.
They have a whole range of towels journals and ornaments.
Found the quality of goods products to actually be superior to principles.
We don't get the sense that their product is cheaply made
when we have the product in our hands and can feel it in person.
But we do have or we had issues with the goodin user interface,
especially when we first started which is meant that in the past.
We made some really silly mistakes like one example of this is that the
cancel order button is too easy to accidentally click on
and once you click on it,
there's Not even a confirmation asking if you really want to cancel that customers order.
It just cancels it so you can imagine what happened with that order.
So we've gone through a little bit of a learning curve with guten
and now we are much more careful
because we know how their interface works
when it comes to shipping guten tends to be a little bit faster except sometimes in the US
and Gooten does not have any bulk pricing options.
So what you see is what you get
so the good things about good Great product range with lots of options great quality.
The base prices are competitive great.
They also have a great out of stock functionality,
especially on Shopify and they're relatively easy to use
but not so good things the interface and integration is not the most seamless.
There's no bulk discounts like with printful production times can be slower
and their postage costs are a killer.
So let's break down the pricing differences.
Tween printful and Gooten.
So if we do a direct comparison between say a poster print
like what my husband sells in his shop we can see how much difference
quotient shipping prices make to our overall costs
because it is a lot.
So let's say for example, someone orders an 8 by 10 framed poster print with print fold.
The base price is $18.50 for one of these the shipping is $9.99 and for each additional item,
it's $4. This means if a customer buys one eight by ten frame print it will cost us 28
dollars and 49 cents.
Now we're ignoring bulk discounts here and we're just using the base prices by the way.
So if we had two of those printed it would therefore cost fifty dollars
and ninety nine cents now with guten the base price is similar at $19.90.
But by the time you add the postage we're looking at forty eight dollars
and 89 cents for one item
and Eighty-two dollars and 79 cents
for to as you can see the postage with guten makes the Costco up a lot
and this is obviously a big downside.
However consider that whenever we get complaints about our frames,
it's almost always a principal product.
So we do tend to sell a lot more with printful
because the costs are lower and we pass those savings on to our customers,
but the quality with Gooten is much better.
So for our customers that are willing to pay a little bit more they get an overall.
All better quality product from guten.
So we've integrated both with our Shopify store
and this works great for us as it gives our customers the choice.
I wouldn't say that one is particularly better than the other
as they both have pros and cons that can wage other out
and our business seems to work while having both options available.
Now if you were just starting out you might not want to juggle two pod platforms.
And so hopefully this video will help you understand the differences between these two
and help you make a decision for yourself.