what's up guys so normally when i'm
doing these videos man i'm super excited
to share stuff with you but
unfortunately today is not one of those
video topics that i don't think is gonna
bring a smile to many people's faces
because today we're gonna talk about
printful
the production partner that many of us
use whether it's for selling on etsy
it could be shopify i know a lot of us
sell on amazon seller central using
printful because there aren't that many
alternatives if you want to sell through
seller central and have the fully
automated integrations
but unfortunately printful is raising
their prices tomorrow on march 8th 2022
for a lot of different products on their
catalog and they are changing some of
their shipping prices so my goal in this
video is to get all of you guys up to
date on what to expect tomorrow when the
pricing changes go live and then i also
want to kind of talk you through some of
your options as far as what you can do
to
you know have some alternatives in place
whether it's an alternative production
partner or you know and that can be for
specific products right you can do it on
a product to product basis and we'll
even talk about like if you're selling
on amazon you know you're not
necessarily stuck with printful but if
you want to kind of circumvent printful
uh there's going to be a little bit of a
manual process but i can kind of walk
you through that at a high level so
that's the plan for today let's get
started
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printful's published a page dedicated to
the march 8th changes i will put a link
to it in the description and you know
what i'll put at the top of the
description for you guys in case you
want to check it out for yourself um
let's just read through it really
quickly so we're all on the same page
about what to expect so
printful prices are changing on march
8th we're updating prices for select
products product variants and shipping
rates what's happening over the past few
months our suppliers carriers and
utility providers have increased their
prices leading to a significant spike in
our operational costs while reviewing
our prices we also noticed some
inconsistencies between product variants
this has urged us to revisit product and
shipping prices on march 8th we're
increasing prices for
select products and variants fulfilled
in u.s europe canada and australia size
2xl and up surcharges for products
fulfilled in the us embroidery markup
for apparel products fulfilled in
australia
some of our shipping rates to the u.s
europe and worldwide and flat rate
shipping rates for jackets and duffel
bags note that the uk shipping region
will be separate from europe and the uk
shipping rates will stay the same as
before to review the so to review the
review of our prices also revealed some
product variants in the us and europe
were
where we can decrease the prices okay
why the change is necessary the main
reason for changing the prices is the
rising operational expenses and supplier
prices which for some blank products
have increased by more than seven
dollars it's quite a bit
we have to evaluate our costs and
reflect these changes in our pricing
while reviewing our expenses we also
noticed some errors in the pricing of
our product variants where we are
charging different prices for some
variants of the same products with this
change we're fixing the mistakes and
we're improving our pricing systems to
avoid such inconsistencies in the future
shipping carriers are also raising their
rates by five to eight percent due to
increased demand and limited resources
this has urged us to revisit product and
shipping prices
so they give you some industry change
resources as well if you want to look
more into it but we'll skip over that
now what you guys are really here for
okay i should have probably led with
this uh the first product that popped up
into my mind that i thought would be the
most significant change
should the price go up was printful's
most affordable t-shirt okay the gildan
64 000 probably if i had to guess the
most popular t-shirt that they sell
um if i'm if i'm wrong it's probably the
bell canvas 3001. um by the way bella
canvas 3001
also increasing in price i believe it
used to be 12.95 it looks like it went
up in price
by
50
60 cents it looks like from 1295 to
1355. but
the gildan 64 000 it wasn't that long
ago that it was 7.95 per shirt as a base
cost and what's cool about printful is
like they don't nickel and dime you by
price changes based on like every size
swap and every color swap like if you
compare to printify now just to be clear
when i did my video on printfulverse
printify we did notice that the cheapest
t-shirts available on printify
generally speaking still were cheaper
than the gildan 64000 through printful
um but like you know with printify it's
the prices fluctuated quite a bit
because literally the the size plus
color combination
would generate a different price so you
could switch the color and then all of a
sudden the price goes up or down and you
can switch the size price go up or down
with printful looks like the
color doesn't make a difference and the
size only changes on 2xl and 3xl which
is consistent with how it was prior to
march march 8th so that's not a change
but
we are seeing a significant price
increase and while one dollar you know
this is the kind of thing that can fool
people pretty easily like oh it just
went up one dollar ryan who cares yeah
but do 8.95 divided by
9.95
and look at it on a percentage basis
okay this is quite a significant jump of
10
guys
uh that's yeah that one dollar when you
say one dollar it's like oh who cares
when you say 10 it's like uh yeah that's
10 you know of your profit margin most
likely so
this is something that we needed to be
aware of i was really hoping i wouldn't
find the gildan 64 000 down here but
there it is
quite a few different products are
listed um there's even some pagination
so
you're gonna you're gonna have to kind
of just scroll through on your own
there's 13 pages of products okay so you
know we were all hoping that it was just
restricted to this first page and you
know we got some hats we got some shirts
some sweatshirts uh yeah and then we
have 12 other pages of products as well
now
here is where um i think i'm actually
going to flip back over to my slides and
i will talk you through some strategy as
alternatives
now the first thing i wanted to share
with you guys was strategy
what do you need to do when these
changes take place now the first thing
you can do
is edit your prices
to account for the change in base cost
and this varies from platform to
platform okay so if you're doing it on
like etsy
fortunately for the etsy sellers like
they make it pretty darn easy to change
prices to
any number of listings if you're doing
it to amazon seller central
uh i mean honestly it all depends on
your comfort doing like a flat file
upload but that's basically how you're
gonna edit a bunch of listings all at
once altogether and kind of the process
for doing it to 40 listings is the same
as 400 is the same as 100 000 okay and
yes people have 100 000 listings myself
included so
flat file a little bit different but
either way it can be done okay so you
can bulk edit your prices or you can do
nothing
if you do nothing you may also just want
to be aware if you've never done this
before but when a product originates
from
any print on demand production partner
so printful
printify whoever else
the platform it originates from is the
platform that assuming there's an
integration with the marketplace you're
selling on so it could be the etsy
integration let's use that as an example
they are the ones that will
automatically fulfill the order
so if you're integrating printful to
etsy and you say man printful's prices
on the t-shirts now are too high
what you can do is on a per-order basis
like i would only do it for when orders
come through
you can when you get an email from
printful saying hey we just saw that
this order came through etsy we're going
to start fulfilling it you can click the
link in that email tell it to cancel and
you can manually recreate the order
in
another pl another production partner
which i have some alternatives for you
but i did just want to make sure you
guys were aware that you can do that but
just remember
if you push the products through
printful they're going to automatically
start like they're going to detect the
order they're going to start fulfillment
you do get a little bit of a gap in time
where you can cancel it but if you're
not quick you know like i sit at my
computer all day i see my emails pretty
much immediately when they come through
like i i have no problem canceling but
if you're not you know fast it's gonna
start fulfillment and then you're kind
of screwed because you can't really
cancel after that
so i wanted to just make a couple
suggestions of production partners that
should be on your radar if you guys
subscribe to my channel which you know
thank you for subscribing help me get to
100k appreciate you uh you've probably
heard me talk about them in the past but
i just wanted to kind of put a couple
out there and i will include links to
them in the description to make your
life easy
if you want a wide variety of products
in one place because printful has like i
think 300 or 400 different products so
you know if you're looking for like a
one-stop shop to be an alternative
printify should be on your radar and
that would probably be my number one
suggestion although to get the best
pricing out of printify you have to
charge or you have to pay 30 a month now
it's not required to pay 30 a month but
if you're going to be using printf i
like generally speaking it's it's worth
your money and you can actually do the
math breakdown of like how many orders
you need to be making per month for it
to be worth
and it depends on product type as well
so i mean it's kind of a complex
equation it's not like a simple one that
i could just share with you it's going
to depend on each person that's watching
this like what you're selling but
printify should be on your radar guten
as a number two so if you want like a
backup to your backup
guten has an absolutely massive catalog
they operate similar to prinify where
they kind of are aggregating multiple
production partners and what they can
fulfill uh so those two should be on
your
your radar as um production partners
with a wide variety like very likely can
can replace an order from printful if
the pricing just isn't working for you
or the shipping prices just isn't
working for you
uh as far as pricing goes if you're just
looking for a nice cheaper alternative
to printful
and again guys like the reason i didn't
harp too much on the printful price
changes is because it's going to kind of
vary so you're going to want to check
the link out yourself and go find your
best sellers and see if see if they're
even listed hopefully they're not that
would mean that the price stays the same
i don't think any of the price changes
were where price is going down i just
laughed because i'm like yeah that would
be kind of cool if it was but i only saw
them going up so i would anticipate
everything to kind of go up uh if you're
looking for great prices
as in alternatives to having printful
fulfill for you
printfy needs to be on your radar of
these three behind me it's probably the
most expensive um on average to use
printf i guess maybe if you're on print
if i premium that might not be true you
have to kind of figure it out on your
own because again everything varies so
widely like like the size the color et
cetera um and i'm thinking of t-shirts
when i say that because i think most of
us are selling t-shirts but printify
print taylor although print taylor comes
from china so just remember that you
have to just build that buffer in you
know into your handling time but they
are very competitive as far as their
pricing goes and then print best also is
like really uh print best i mean not as
well known probably as the previous two
or maybe i'm wrong you know maybe
they're you know either way print best
should be on your radar because they had
some really great pricing uh on shirts
that like like a wide variety of type of
type of shirts and like sizing plus
color combinations so i really think if
you haven't like check out print best
there's nothing by the way all of them
are free to use but printf is the one
that has the optional
premium for 30 a month so i wanted to
put those on your radar guys but okay
last thing to wrap up with um amazon
seller central and i kind of touched on
this earlier but
since not a lot of production partners
integrate like all of these for instance
these three behind me have etsy
integrations well they do not have none
of them have an amazon integration as of
recording this and when i say amazon i
mean seller central
so if you're looking for alternatives to
fulfill your amazon seller central
orders that originated from printful
just remember you number one you need to
cancel the order in printful before they
start fulfillment number two you have to
manually recreate it in
the other production partners which is a
manual process which is slow and you
know lame and boring but it is what it
is you could probably maybe come up with
something through like orderdesk or
zapier but i haven't looked into any of
that number three don't forget you're
going to need to mark the orders as
shipped part of the benefit of using the
integration with printful
is that they will automatically upload
the tracking and let the customer and
amazon know that it's shipped out on
time if you if you kill the the
integrated order you're gonna have to do
it yourself so do not forget that thanks
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