Printful profit $ 83,628.80 profit Printify profit $ 125, 443.20 profit really profit 👆 different $41,814.40 more amazing All country product sell.. use printify better ..? Right
I've had a great experience with the quality from Swiftpod and Monster Digital! You obviously can get your own samples and compare for yourself but Awkward Styles has amazing quality on Printify as well.
Happy to take a look at your shop to see how you can take it to the next level! Here is the link to purchase it if you are interested! linktr.ee/Cassiy_johnson
Good comparison I chose printful over the savings due to the fact I will have a good amount of business around the globe and printify shipping to other countries seems to average $10 where printful is still 3-5 in most countries due to having regional facilities
That makes sense! I chose not to do any international shipping due to not wanting to have to worry about VAT fees and checking trademarks in all of those countries!
@@CassiyJohnson Do you only sell domestically, or do you sell internationally but make sure to only sell to customers where there are regional facilities that deliver their order
Love your videos! I made my own version of the last trail before the veil and sold one! The biggest breakthrough for me was after watching your video about optimizing listings for sales. Once I really looked a myt listings and some popular Etsy stores, I realized I had a lot of work to do to entice people to buy. Some investment in a few nice mockups and really nice branding with Canva, and I'm now making consistent sales and am just trying to keep growing. Keep it coming!
Wow that is so amazing Hayley! Way to just take action and implement the changes you needed to make. If you just keep learning and growing then you are going to be so successful at this!! So glad I could be even a tiny part of your journey. Definitely keep me updated on your progress!
Hi Cassie, I wanted to ask if you could do a shop review for my Etsy store because I make sales with like family and friends but I am not getting much traffic regularly .I am having trouble with how to making a profit using printify because I pay the monthly fee but the shipping fee is the same amount as the orders im getting so it seems like im jus paying for the orders I get .How do I make a profit from that or adjust my pricing to get more sales ?
Holy cow, 40k difference! Well, thank you for this info. I'm starting my Etsy shop to sell art prints of my original work. Going to check out what printful has to offer in this area now.
Thank you for the info! In Printify it says my address will appear on invoices. Does that mean customers will see my address on their receipts/invoice? Or is that just Printify's invoices to me as the business? Just trying to verify if customers will or will not see my address.
Hi there, great video ! If most of my customers are living in Europe (and I am as well) should I avoid Printify since it would mean shipping from the US to Europe with a higher shipping cost than printful european factories, and increased delays, or would it still be more advantageaous than Printful ? thanks !
I have a question, maybe your followers can weigh in also. So my question is if I go the dropship route, does that mean I can't sell anything I buy for inventory and package and ship myself like say 70% of my online store is dropshipped with printify and 30% I want to buy inventory from a whole sales just so I can make abit more profit for advertising etc etc..love to hear from anyone that's has some knowledge..thanks in advance folks!
Hello so sorry it should have said where the links used to be that I am no longer offering any 1:1 consolations! I am working on creating my course and hopefully releasing it by the end of the month instead! Best of luck in the meantime and I hope you love my free videos
Just discovered your channel. Fantastic video! Clear, concise, full of relevant information, real-world examples, and best of all, your experience! No substitute for that!
I'm just starting out with 0 customers. Which country would be best for Etsy, to stay selling in (printify shipping is so expensive for international ships, for all the printing companies.) I'm located in the UK. I don't want to charge people so much for shipping just because they're not in the country it's manufactured in :(
Hi! I'm new to figuring all this print on demand stuff out! I love your videos , so very helpful! I was researching and looking around and noticed alot people selling on etsy had anywhere from 50% to 70% off their products for sales . My question is how can they do that with print on demand and still make a profit? Some were so low that it didn't even cover the cost of the shirt?! Thank you so much for your videos!
My question to you is that the Printful options are mostly USA based - do you think this would affect sales as I live in UK? Would I be better to go Printify? Thanks Cassiy
Hello, as I'm preparing to launch my Etsy shop, I have a question. Do I need to pay Printify or Printful any fees for delivering an order once it has been placed? Can you please clarify this for me?
Yes you do, you are the one that pays for the items and the shipping from Printify or Printful. You are the middle man, so someone orders on Etsy, you then order the item and pay for it yourself on Printify, and then the next day or week depending on how long your shop has been open, you get the money from Etsy minus Etsy fees. So the first 90 days, you are fronting the cost for one week before you get the money back from Etsy. After 90 days you can change this so you get paid the next day but either way you are the middle man for payments. Hope that helps it make sense! I like to use credit cards for that reason, and to get rewards points for every purchase. It has paid for a lot of my vacations over the last few years! And don't worry, no one gets 100k in sales in their first few weeks. You slowly build your business and slowly get sales, so you shouldn't ever have to front tons of sales before your shops starts making you money.
hey cassiy, thank you for the video. when you calculated the costs from printify, you seem to have based it on the cost without the graphic printed on. my final products from printify cost a little bit more than the ones i am currently trying to create on printful. did i miss something?
I created a tee and a hoodie and purchased samples. My invoice shows that I was charged the price shown under the particular print provider for the relevant colors/sizes. Did you check to see if the color or size had a different price? The prices can be different per size and per color depending on the print provider. Some have the same price for S - XL, and different prices for the larger sizes. Some have different prices even within the S - XL range.
Wow, so helpful! Thank you! I have a question that is a little unrelated to this video but you touched on it in another video. You encouraged running daily sales so that it shows up as a certain amount of hours left on the sale to the customer. I have noticed a boost in sales after doing this, so thank you! My question is, is there a way on Etsy to set the sales ahead of time so that I don't have to go in each day and do it? A way to schedule them perhaps? Some days it's almost 10 am and I'm like "oh no, I haven't set the sale yet!" Any info would be helpful, thanks!
Yes on the sales page, they ask what dates you want to run the sale for, so just make one for each time frame separate. You can save multiples at a time!
Wow! I found your channel on RU-vid while looking for the best POD between Printify and Printful for shirts and you have answered all the first questions I had about the two of them. Thank you so much for the video. You have a new subscriber to your channel 😊. I will come back for more 😁
Hi, I working on building my website now, I can see printify got better prices, but I got some problems with them that maybe you can help me with. Like the mock-ups issue, printify don’t have the option to make png mockups, it’s just give me the white background, and it’s doesn’t fit’s my website, other problem it’s that printify don’t have many good accessories like printful, what you think about it?
Yup. This is one of two things that stops me from going with Printify. I also read that their shipping times are slower than Printful. Those two things can get you lots of bad reviews quickly.
hi Cassiy, great information. I would be great if you did a video comparing the two for Europe, and also the UK. I know Printful has two fullfilment centres here in europe, and the prices, yes, are a bit steep, but shipping is quite cheap, and quick. Printify has a very limited amount of products, and with so many countries, many of the printers are several countries away. It makes no sense to import from the USA, as the shipping time, shipping price, and 20% taxes make it impossible to make a profit. keep up the great work. love the channel.
Sorry I don't have any experience selling outside of the US but I have heard people who do prefer Printful for the faster and cheaper international shipping. I choose to only sell in the US, and that is always an option no matter where you live. This way you only have to check for trademarks/copyrights in one place, don't have to worry about VAT fees or countries that require you take returns etc. And Etsy's largest shopping demographic is in the US. Best of luck either way!
I am so confused as to how people are ok with the prices. For a tiny can cooler with the name of my podcast on it they want me to charge $11.67 for it for me to get 40% of the profit. On top of that, I have to charge the $5.37 shipping cost. That's $17.04 for a cheap can cover! That is outrageously priced. I wouldn't pay over $6.00 for it myself. I am stunned at how much they expect people to pay for their cheap products. I was about to open my own shop, but I can't justify people paying that much for something so small and flimsy. many of the water bottles are also in the $30. I go to other creates and many do not charge that much for those same products. What is their secret?
Thanks for your content. Do you manage your etsy store on your own? I wanted to have an employee do simple things for my Etsy store. But you can't create employees with different roles for the Etsy store. As soon as you add another person to the account, they have full access to all account data and could hijack the account. This situation limits me to scale my store immensely. And does Printify have an inventory synchronization with Etsy. My POD provider does not have this. Often a shirt in a certain color was not available because there was no synchronization. Greetings :)
Good info, I really like ur videos they r so informative. Do you know the location of either of the print companies that you mentioned question I’m wondering if they are American companies?
Great video and informative, but not informing your audience about other costs to consider, such as federal taxes/state taxes (12%, etc.), does mislead them. Although Etsy does help with the state tax side of things small businesses often fail to calculate the federal taxes into their profit margins. 12% of that $24.99 is another $3 deducted from your profit which in turn puts your profit per shirt at $6.60 and total yearly profit closer to $86k. Keep in mind that this $6.60 is before any discounts run, assuming you don't go lower than $24.99. If you price lower, your profit per shirt will be even less, putting you at the crossroads to decide if it's even worth $2-$3 a sell. Like I said, I enjoy the videos but lets be completely transparent when making them.
Amazing, it is on, my way to deciding on both of them, I still have a lot to learn like shipping method and billing, any of your advise will be much appreciated. KIM
I noticed Monster doesn’t carry x small shirts which could be limiting your pod tshirt market ; I would think a lot of pre teen and teenage girls would wear the x small. How do you deal with that? Could you add printiful just for your x small orders?
Thanks for going over this. I've been debating making the switch for a while. If I don't continuously run sales I'm not competitive with others doing POD with printify. I make consistent sales but your margin difference is very encouraging for more sales. I also needed to Express an order this past Christmas. Printful didn't offer that service but Printify did so I used them. It was my first printify order. The customer was really pleased with it and got it on time. I think I'm going to gradually move over my products.
Hello. Let me ask a question since you actively use them. Maybe I missed it in the video but if doing tshirts and say printify original cost of the shirt is 10.00+4.00 shipping totalling 14.00. Are you paying the 14.00 upfront before the order ships or is that deducted from what you sold the shirt for? I ask because a friend of mine said you had to have money in your account to cover the cost of the shirt and shipping before the order is processed
Great job with the video ! I just watched you interview. Nice ! Can you make a video how do you market these nice shirts.? I am already subscribed to your Chanel
Thanks for subscribing Edith! I don’t do really any advertising most of the time, I just rely on the free organic traffic that Etsy brings to their website. So just sell shirts that people are already searching for!
Hey Cassiy ! Thanks again for more info. I was wondering how much different the prices were. I left another comment but i don't know if it went through. Had some internet issues with the storms here last few days. Wanted to tell you i made 6 sales already :) and got my first 5 star review. Its all thanks to you really! You gave me the idea to even do this. Also wanted to tell you that when i used your link for prinify , the first month they gave me a $29 dollar credit the first month if you sign up for the premium. So it makes the first month free and on top of that with the stuff i ordered for myself and the 6 sales i have more than made the premium worth it. So thanks for that link too. Cant wait to set up my call with you just trying to make a little more listings and get my questions all ready for it too!
@@CassiyJohnson I love how responsive you are and helpful. Can you remind me if there is a video how to set up The Etsy shop? Maybe I can just search in RU-vid under your name! ?
@@lenocka1100 I have one on setting up your banner, about me, logo etc, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8W6o4RUO9YI.html But not one setting up the complete shop!
No they will just have the brand of the t-shirt in the shirt. On Printful you can pay extra to put your brand name for the tag but I wouldn't say that this would be worth it at all.
Hello I asked a commenter this question but I also wanted to ask you the host the same question. Hello. Let me ask a question since you actively use them. Maybe I missed it in the video but if doing tshirts and say printify original cost of the shirt is 10.00+4.00 shipping totalling 14.00. Are you paying the 14.00 upfront before the order ships or is that deducted from what you sold the shirt for? I ask because a friend of mine said you had to have money in your account to cover the cost of the shirt and shipping before the order is processed. Is that true or is the cost deducted from the cost of the overall sale. I think you answered it but I wanted to make sure I understood correctly
Im confused about your platinum discount, isn’t it for 10 k per month? You made 13 k in one year, so you’ll get bronze? I don’t want to be an ass, just curious
I dont get it I sold a tshirt using monster then it said 16 total cost on printify it sold for 24 and now it says retail price 46 total cost 32 i lost money and it says production cost 27 dollars.can you make a video to understand the pricing or dose price change? and thanks for your videos I've learned a lot
How is international shipping? I heard prntful has warehouses in multiple countries and will use the closest to the customers location reducing shipping cost while printify only ships out of what companies warehouse you use making shipping out of states super expensive have you run into any problems with this? Are international sales not as common? Would love to hear your thoughts on the matter
Hi Cassiy, I've been running a shirt store for about two years and it did well and paid the bills. However, since 2022 my sales have really suffered and I can't seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. Do you offer shop reviews for a fee? I'd be willing to pay for your expert advice. Thanks!
@@CassiyJohnson Thanks so much! I saw your original interview with the Life Hacker couple. It's inspiring to see your career soar, and now you have a youtube channel! So awesome! I was wondering with my current experience whether I should purchase the skype session or the store review video?
I am not seeing the prices you are seeing in my cost comparison of Printful vs Printify in June 2023. Printify is coming out more expensive on lots of products especially when you take shipping into account. I think its time for you to revisit the pricing of both services.
Cassiy, you gave me a video course on how to create an etsy store and my computer died and had to get a new one and I can't pull it back up. I relied on that all the time! Can you help? My store is now starting to get more views! Thank you for all of your help! Kathy
I am getting ready to launch my store in September and I am super excited. I have consumed almost all of your content and now have the confidence to get started. I had a quick question. How much out of pocket money do I need to start off? Once someone orders something isn't there something I need to pay before they get their items?
Congrats on getting started! Honestly it takes so long to get it going, I'd recommend starting sooner if you can. Most people go weeks before they get their first sale so don't overthink it! And yes when someone orders the shirt from you, that order gets sent to Printify. Printify charges your credit card for the amount of the item + shipping. Then Etsy pays you the amount the customer paid - Etsy fees. In the beginning I'd recommend having a few hundred dollars ideally because Etsy puts your shop on reserves and only pays you the full amount of the sale AFTER you ship it, so there is a small lag. I also use a credit card for Printify, that way I am not paying for the shirts until after I get the money from Etsy.
You’re Rad, Cassiy. Made the switch to Printify when I started watching your channel and have found it to be way more user-friendly as an added bonus 😃
Great video! Question: How much did SEO and marketing come into play in your revenue numbers? And have you been building a "brand" vs. simply an Etsy shop that sells shirts? Either way, nothing wrong with it ... I'm just in the research phase of starting my own Etsy POD business so wondering. :) Thank you in advance!
It doesn’t matter how much you try to sugar coat the Printful wallet, you will still end up at a loss. I managed to sell 4 t-shirts on Etsy via Printful and I ended having £63.94 extracted out of my bank account 3-4 after a sale by Paypal. When doing the maths, I realised that it didn’t matter how much I charged for a t-shirt, 3-4 days after a sale the same amount of money would be extracted out of my bank account. E.g £100 t-shirt would result in £100 been taken out of my bank account by Paypal.When trying to reach out to both Printful and Paypal, neither party is taking responsibility and just sent me on a wild goose chase. What they should be doing between themselves is 1. working out a way of compensating me back my money 2. Making sure that nobody else falls victim to this, because in my opinion, money has been unfairly taken out of my bank account. I was initially excited when I first made a sale, but I wasn’t to know that it would cost me money. I was looking at this Print on Demand t-shirt business as a way of making passive income on top of my regular job. As the market is saturated with lots of designs, I wasn’t expecting to receive any significant short term profits. On the other hand, I wasn’t expected to receive any losses either and shocked to know that I have been giving my money away. This has left me demoralised, and as left me conceding that this Print on Demand t-shirt business is nothing but a waste of time.
I hear you. Would you mind then shining some light on Printful 's branding options? I am trying to decide on which print provider to go with and I'm down to 3 options which you hit in this video, so thank you! The personalization Printful offers is really pulling on my heart strings 😂 One thing I found about starting a print on demand business was the lack of personalization. Do you have any experience with Printful 's branding options? If so, would you say they're worth it? Printful is already pricey as you showed, and these branding options (aside from the 2 free ones) add to your costs. Everyone is raging about awkward styles and how now THEY are the best print provider. What are your thoughts for someone who is new to the world of print on demand, meaning I am at the mercy of you RU-vidrs so be easy on how vulnerable I am and how much I don't know 😅 Do you think it would be wise to start with Printify, become familiar with different print providers and then transition to another print provider if needed (awkward styles) because I don't have any experience with any of these print providers. Thank you for your feedback! Words aren't enough to say how much I appreciate it!
It really depends on what you are trying to build, I am trying to build a pretty passive t-shirt business that runs completely off of free organic traffic to Etsy or paid ads on Etsy to boost them. If you are wanting to build a brand, then you will likely want to center this around a certain niche or niches and then start posting on social media to gain a following, and start growing an email list. I wouldn't personally ever pay extra for branding though even if I was trying to grow a brand. It just doesn't seem worth it to me and I don't think customers really would care about this aspect in the long run. But just my opinion!
Hi Cassiy, I did this analysis too for my pricing strategy. But when I did my first sale, a production cost from Printify was added. This cost is additional to the retail cost mentioned in their listing. Why you don´t consider in this analysis? Thank you
Hello Cassiy, I'm about to start what you do. Thank you for the video. 1 - I saw some "flaws" per say on the 8 Printify shirts. Maybe they were not flaws but done on purpose by you. Pretty much all the graphics are too far down from the collar. There is no rule but is common practice to top the graphic around 2 to 3 inches from the collar, specially larger graphics that reach way down the shirt. I have many shirts of my own (different brands) and they all confirm that. I'd say a 2 inch distance is the norm for large designs. On the Printful shirt I can't see it that well but it looks like the graphic is in the correct position. Maybe the standard distance from the collar for lady's shirts are different and lower. I do not know that. I know you can play a little with that on their mockup builder but do they respect the position placement? Do they have a SET distance from the collar ignoring where you place the design? Can we specifically contact them (suppliers) and request that? 2 - Printify lets you customize differently for each shirt color, Printful doesn't (that I could find). Example: let's say you have a design that has an PNG image and you add a WORD / TEXT from the mockup on top of it. The TEXT is in BLACK color. When you choose many shirt fabric colors to sell, that word in black letters would "disappear" on top of a black fabric shirt so you can change this text to print in White letters for example on the black fabric tee only, without changing the black color text letters on the other shirts...you got the idea....contrast. For some reason, the Printful mockup is not letting me do that. Once you change the text color for one fabric color, it will change for all fabric colors at the same time. 3 - In the case of SAME color (fabric and text)...sometimes they will be okay and look nice due to the shade / hue / tone of the fabric color being different from the text color even though they were supposed to be both "black" for example. What's your experience on that, I mean, the results? Once you don't get to see the shirt after it is printed by the supplier, it's a mystery game... We can always buy samples but we cannot buy samples of everything, every design and every variant. 4 - Do the suppliers leave a phone contact or chat channel to talk about these details before hand, specially as a new store, or do we have to pray for the best? I mean, just the first contact to smooth things out as a new partnership, not that we need to contact them all the time later. If a conversation in needed with the Printify supplier, do you get in touch with them directly or with Printify only and they handle it? 5 - It just occurred to me, have you had a supplier that is suppose to print the shirt on a DTG machine do a different type of a cheaper transfer (white toner, vinyl, etc) to scam both you and the final customer and save on cost? Once you never see the shirt before they ship it to the final customer. I hope they are trustworthy. The "feel" of the print and washability, durability are different. of course. Sorry if I sound doom and gloom....I am trying to think ahead of possible problems and how to resolve them or best yet avoid them in the first place. When everything is smooth sailing it's all good. We see a stand up company shining when problems arise, how they deal with them. 6 - My initial business plan is having my own online store using Shopify as my platform. I need to learn more about Etsy and Redbubble. I know there is integration but don't know much more yet. Do you have a website also? You said you sell on Amazon, anyplace else? 7 - I'm new to your channel and just subscribed. Will watch more vids.... Thanks
For all of the shirts in the review, I put the designs as high up as they could go in the design space on Printify. I don't use Printful so I can't help with having some designs be different, I'd try to look up some videos on how to do that. You always want to print contrasting colors on shirts, never try printing black/black, it won't show up. There is not an easy way to get in contact with the suppliers, they have a streamlined process and do a great job so don't overthink the printing. You deal with Printify if there are any issues, they are your go between. No I have never had a print provider try to pull one over on me. I mostly use Monster Digital and have had a great experience. I only sell on Etsy because of the benefit of free organic traffic. The 10%-12% fees for using their site are well worth me never having to run fb ads or constantly be building a email list or social media accounts. Try not to overthink everything, you can't learn it all before you start or avoid every issue. Just take one baby step everyday towards starting your business and this will teach you more than any research you can do beforehand. Thanks for watching and best of luck!
@@CassiyJohnson Thank you for responding, Cassandra. You make some good points, I agree with you. I'm just surprised with one of your answers (question number 1) To me, all PRINTIFY graphics look a little too low on the shirts for the reasons I mentioned above and you said you always place the graphics as high as they allow on the mockup builder, which only makes it worse on the suppliers quality control, LOL... Very strange. keep an eye on this. At the end of the day, I will have to order some samples and see for myself. Anyway, great videos. God bless you.
I so appreciate your ALWAYS well-presented videos. I have a few questions about different things that I hope I can email you soon. Thanks for being such a sweet and giving soul. 💖
Your course also work for people who do woocommerce. I am about to launch my store and I was going to go with printful until I watched your video so now I am going to switch over as you said profit margins are important
Thanks for this video. It really puts things into perspective. Does Monster Digital or any other printify companies do custom branding on the packaging though?
No one from Printify offers that just yet, but they are talking about offering it soon I believe! This is not something that I personally would ever pay for though. Since I sell in a general store, my main focus is on making new designs in lots of niches to drive as much free organic traffic from Etsy search as possible!
I worked for Printful for years. Their quality is terrible. They take on too many new products before they can master the quality. And almost all of their products that require an under base (think all dark colored garments) peel apart after a dozen washes or less. Even if you follow the proper care instructions. We all knew it because sometimes we would get free clothes that were blemished. And everyone would joke about it. Their embroidery is pretty good though.
I am starting to get into making my own side hustle by doing this. How does it all work. Like what do I have to pay out of pocket and everything? Would really appreciate the feedback. Thank you
Do they not charge for shipping separately? My friend created an etsy seller account and linked it to printify. And when a customer placed an order for a t-shirt listed at 18 usd (in printify cost shown was 14) printify asked for additional 7.5 usd as shipping charges. Is that normal? He had listed free shipping on the listing.
So Printify will charge you the cost of the item plus the cost of shipping the item, so you need to add these two numbers together to get your total cost. So let's say the sweatshirt is $14 + $7.5 shipping = $21.50 total cost to you It's up to you how you want to charge your customer. You are the middle man for payments, Etsy and Printify are not connected in that way. You pay printify for the item plus shipping and then Etsy pays you the revenue for the order minus their fees. So you could sell a sweatshirt for $34.99 with "free shipping" or you could charge $29.99 + $4.99 shipping. Either way it is the same for you. You get $34.99 revenue minus the Etsy fees, then you get to keep the difference after you pay Printify. I do have a full 9 module mini course that explains everything and helps you get started if you are interested, here is a link Free Etsy Start Up Guide 🔥 www.cassiyjohnson.com/etsypodlaunchguide
