I’m currently trying to sell clothes my picked niche is JDM cars how is this for a beginner should I make Mount Fuji a bit bigger or replace it with something else
I made this in canva and used ai to make the car look like that
I go to sign in with Google, click my Gmail account, and the screen goes away as if I never clicked "Sign in."
Also a Loading screen that goes on forever.
Then when I've finally got into my account and I'm designing shirts, I can't save them because the mockups won't load.
For the past couple of months it has been a nightmare to get anything done on the platform. 50% of the time the website does work normally, but the other 50% of the time the website is unusable.
Is anyone else experiencing this or is it just a technical issue on my end?
Thanks.
I use Apple ID as my log in and lately the app has been logging me out which is so annoying and lately it’s to the point I can’t even log in sometimes now I press my Apple ID and do my Face ID and nothing …. Just stuck on the log in page
My dropshipping store did $52K last month. Here's the boring, unglamorous thing that actually moved the needle.
I was one of those people who thought dropshipping was mostly about finding the right product at the right time. Get the product, run the ads, scale, repeat. I followed the playbook everyone talks about. Watched the same YouTube videos. Read the same Reddit posts. Tested products for about eighteen months and watched most of them die quietly after the initial ad spend.
The thing nobody talks about honestly is how much advice out there is just recycled theory. I kept tweaking ad copy based on gut feeling, kept assuming my product page was fine, kept manually checking competitor stores every other day. Meanwhile fees kept adding up and the margin between what I was making and what I was spending kept getting thinner. The actual turning point started when I stopped guessing about why people weren't buying and just asked them.
How I went from 0.9% to 1.4% checkout rate without touching my ads or price
Survey responses flagged shipping timelines, not price. I made delivery timelines visible above the fold, added "arrives by" language, and moved reviews higher up the page. Ran these as A/B tests using Insighter to keep the data clean. Checkout rate went from 0.9% to 1.4%.
Around this time I also stopped buying products in bulk and started buying packaging in bulk instead. Same premium feel, way less capital tied up. If your store looks cluttered, switch your font to Futura. Close to what Louis Vuitton uses. Afacad works too if your theme doesn't support it.
How I stopped losing margin to competitors without ever racing them on price
I was checking competitor stores manually every couple of days. Eventually set up Lurk and turned on real-time alerts instead. When a competitor started slashing prices, I didn't match them. I shifted the ad angle to lean into reviews and quality instead. Didn't race them to the bottom. When margins compressed across the board I'd already moved on. Competitor tracking ended up being less about copying prices and more about spotting market saturation before your ad budget figures it out for you.
Also if you are running Google Shopping ads, one easy way to increase clicks is by offering variants and pricing one of the less desirable variants cheaper than the others. It gets you into more auctions at a lower price point and pulls people in who then end up buying the better variant anyway.
How I kept my brand in front of people at a fraction of what conversion ads cost
Most visitors don't buy the first time. Running retargeting campaigns optimized for conversions is the mistake, you already did that the first time. Switch the objective to awareness on Facebook and Google. Significantly cheaper and it does the actual job of keeping your brand familiar until someone is ready. Conversion rate went from 1.4% to around 2.2%.
Connect your store to Google Search Console too. Free, and it tells you exactly what people are searching before they land on your page, which is something no ad platform shows you clearly. And keep healthy margins so you have room to offer partial refunds when deliveries run late. A frustrated customer who gets a partial refund and an honest message often comes back. One who gets nothing just leaves a review you can't undo.
The part of the system that quietly added the most revenue while I was doing other things
Email pushed the store to $52,341 that month. Automated flows running in the background, recovering abandoned carts, bringing back past buyers, building trust with new visitors. Conversion rate went from 2.2% to 2.9% and that difference compounded every single day without me touching anything. I used Emailwish for this. The rating looks bad, don't let that stop you. There is genuinely nothing to set up, no emails to write, no flows to build, no triggers to configure. Everything is already done the moment you install it. It just runs and the revenue just comes in.
TL:DR - Don't want to do anything yourself? No worries. Just read below.
Want to spy on competitors and spot dying products quickly?Install Lurk and get real time pricing alerts.
Want the exact email flows that took me to $52K in a month :Install Emailwish, abandoned cart and email flows already built in
If you want, drop your store below.
I'll tell you what ads + email setups would work for you.
I want to print the name of a school team across the chest of a tshirt. The printed area will be about 4x12 inches- 1200x3600 300 dpi.
Can I make a 1200x3600 300dpi template and just upload it or should I make a 3600x4200 300 dpi and put the 4x12 print area on a template this size?
I want to get the best printing resolution and didn’t know if it was the number of pixels in the template mattered as long as it is always 300 dpi.
Thanks!
Does this mean MY Etsy customers are receiving somebody else’s promo cards? My product is a graphic tee shirt. I’m pissed
Edited to say:
I took some feedback and went all in with the product cards as WhatsApp messages.
Not sure if removing add to cart buttons is the way to go but it’s fun to try things.
This is my test/demo store, so ignore the actual products, I never sell any.
But spend the last 2 days using Claude code and the existing brand voice to create a more authentic design to the niche I’m going for, outside the limitations of a standard theme.
It probably breaks every convention on conversion rate but it’s zero anyway. So 🤷♂️
I’m just amazed at what’s possible now with the Claude interface and Claude code.
Thoughts?
Hi. I am newish to the POD community and have ordered some of my store products (May 5th) for an actual show on Friday (May 15th). I have gotten a couple items so far - but the rest of my stuff is with ONTRAC. Most of the stuff Printify shows that they were shipped May 8th and that they should have been delivered yesterday but when I click on the ONTRAC tracking number it says shipping soon. They were not delivered yesterday. Do I need to wait a couple more days? I feel I ordered in time for the Friday show but if I don't have anything - I may have to cancel the show. Thanks for any help/advice!
I’ve been testing a few apparel designs lately and something that surprised me is how much the final product can change even when the artwork stays exactly the same.
On screen, the mockups look nearly identical, so I assumed the end result would feel pretty consistent too. But once I started ordering samples, I noticed small differences everywhere, print texture, garment feel, color accuracy, placement, even how the design sits after a few washes.
Some prints looked really sharp at first but felt heavy on the fabric. Others blended into the shirt more naturally and somehow felt better over time even if the colors were slightly less “perfect.”
What caught me off guard most is how much those small differences affect the overall perception of the product. Customers might not know why one piece feels better than another, but they definitely notice it.
Now I’m spending way more time comparing physical samples instead of relying only on mockups and product photos.
Curious if anyone else here went through a similar phase once they started ordering more samples consistently.
I have a T-shirt POD shop on etsy, linked to printify. About 135 designs. Have had it for about 1 year.
A few weeks ago, I tried updating a few of my printify designs but when it "published" to etsy, nothing happened. No updates and no changes to my etsy-linked publication.
I think what had happened in the few weeks prior to that time is that my printify and etsy pages were delinked/decoupled from one another, even though on each of their respective websites, nothing had changed. The etsy link on the printify page was still the correct one.
This is where I messed up a bit, but people on printify have told me this is still fixable - one of the google "solutions" suggested "delinking" the etsy page from printify and then automatically "reconnecting" it and everything should work. Well, I did this, and now EVERYTHING in my store is "unpublished." If I try to "publish" it into my etsy page, it does not find / does not link to its existing twin on my etsy page; it literally creates an entirely new "post." I DON'T WANT IT TO DO THIS because (1) i'll lose my stats, (2) will have to pay esty again to repost, and (3) time-wise it will take a long time.
Printify customer service has represented to me that this is fixable (supposedly). I always get past the stupid AI bot and talk to a real person (but comments on here suggest that even this real "person" is an AI bot as well, is it?). I have a ticket number and they supposedly have "escalated" to the tech team, but NO ONE CAN GIVE ME AN ESTIMATE when my problem will be even looked at; let alone fixed.
It's been 2 weeks now; and I'm no closer to getting a resolution to this issue. Any company worth their salt would have long since fired their IT staff for such incompetence or lack of follow-through.
All my SKU numbers are the same on both ends, and everything on my printify side is exactly the same as the one listed on the etsy page (I say this because one of the suggestions online is to 'make sure' that all SKU NUMBERS and everything else on the printify side is exactly the same as the etsy side)
I realize I was stupid for following incorrect google advice, and I didn't even a term until literally 20 minutes ago - 'third party e-commerce platform API disconnects' - so it was more difficult to explain what was going on.
Is customer service for printify this horribly bad always? Are they just not knowledgeable on how to proceed? Any way to escalate further? This is just ridiculous.
this is completely unacceptable. I ordered a sample of my poster and this poster had major lines on it, I verified the image I uploaded was the correct color bit depth, resolution and dpi. I contacted customer support who issued me a refund claiming it was a printer error. I then ordered another poster and this poster has the SMAE ISSUE- vertical lines all down it. Are these guys incapable of printing an image to a poster? this is crazy. I have many people who ordered this poster too because after the refund they said it was an issue that likely wouldn't happen again so I listed them for sale and sold 6... There is only one fulfillment option for the glossy poster and I guess that's their in-house or something. I feel like I'm loosing my mind.
TL:DR; I have attached the pdf where you can see the full breakdown with real world examples, photos & copy at the bottom.
A week ago someone here asked me how to scale with Google Ads.
I responded quickly. In hindsight, it wasn’t the full answer.
I hate half-answers. So here’s the real one.
If you're selling physical products, start with Google Shopping Ads.
I also made my website name similar to our biggest competitors and put their brand name in SEO tags so it would show up even if someone searched for our competitors. On the website however, it was our own name so they can't claim copyright. The products were similar to their products but not downright copy. This kept things legal.
Why Shopping Ads?
Because Shopping Ads show your product, price, and store rating to people who are already searching with buying intent.
They don’t need education. They don’t need storytelling. They just need to see:
Shopping Ads is the cleanest and most direct way to convert traffic when intent is high.
Search ➜ see ➜ buy.
If I had started with this instead of testing 20 random creative angles early on, I would've saved a lot of money and time.
But here's what most store owners learn later:
Traffic isn’t the problem. Retention is.
Once traffic starts coming in, most people bleed money because they rely only on ads and ignore email.
That’s like pouring water into a bucket with holes.
Here’s the truth almost no beginner wants to hear:
Ads bring visitors.
Emails turn visitors into repeat revenue.
For me, email alone generated $350.8k out of $$812k in revenue.
Not by doing anything fancy.
Just by automating what already works for large brands.
Simple. Predictable. Compounding.
The strategy itself was not complicated.
The difficult part was building a complete system around it.
I used to run my stores with multiple apps.
One for flows, one for popups so I can collect their emails, one for reviews so I can show these reviews and collect those reviews, one for chat, one for wishlist and to send back in stock emails.
Then they spent weeks trying to integrate everything together so customer data synced properly, automations worked reliably, and branding stayed consistent across the entire customer journey.
Honestly, I hated doing this.
Every update broke something.
Every test took too long.
Tabs everywhere.
Different apps to write different emails.
Branding never looked consistent.
Frustration nonstop. Not to mention that 20$/month subscription added up.
That frustration is what eventually pushed me to build EmailWish. because I just wanted one tool that did all this cleanly:
No tech headaches. No “connect this to that” nonsense. Not even emails to write.
More time selling, less time fixing. Aaaaand it's free.
And surprisingly, there still isn’t a proper Shopify app that solves this entire retention system in one place.
The idea was simple:
connect your Shopify store ➜ pull products automatically ➜ generate branded email flows ➜ launch with proven copy designed to drive revenue.
Instead of starting from a blank screen every time, the app automatically builds flows using your products, branding, and retention structure.
If you’re early, all you really need is:
Google Shopping ➜ Email automation ➜ Consistent posting ➜ Good offers
Simple systems scale.
Noise wastes months.
Want the exact email flows I used to generate $350.8k from email?
Get my free Shopify Email flow guide here — copy/paste templates included
Or if you would rather skip the setup and just plug everything in? Then
Install EmailWish — Shopify App for Abandoned cart & email flows already built in
If you want, drop your store.
I’ll tell you what ads + email setups would work for you.
I placed a sample order 12 days ago so I could check the print quality before I went live with my new Etsy shop. The order has been "in production" for 9 days. I contacted Printify and they said they'd speak to the printer. They got back to me and simply apologized for the delay, offered to refund the shipping fees, and told me to just wait. Now my launch is delayed. Unacceptable!
After reading feedback from other sellers, I've decided to switch all my printing to Monster. They seem to have a good reputation, but now I have to order samples from them before I launch. Pretty frustrating.
This is just a warning to new sellers: avoid Printify Choice and do some research to manually select the best print shop for you.
Is there any way to expand the border of the print so i can put stuff on the sleeves or is that not possible? If not, do you know any websites where it is?
Disclaimer, other products on printify come from different manufacters all around the world and may be better quality than who I ordered from. My order came from a manufactor called Subliminator in China. Unfortunately, the pyjamas were a poor quality and unsellable to customers, I'm glad I got a sample first. This is an honest review for the SATIN SILK PYJAMAS who help anybody:
This is the second time I’ve had a quality issue for a client of mine. I always have big orders delivered to me so I can check quality and I am horrified. The first time was 6 months ago, $2k order. T shirts and sweatshirts. The printing was spotty, looked like they were running out of screen printing ink. I submitted a reprint request and was denied. Client wasn’t happy but continues to use me because we are friendly and I don’t build in a ton of profit as they are a newer business. This time though… I’m going to lose this client if Printify doesn’t fix it, and I’m scared I’ll lose my business. I received the $5k order on Wednesday. I did a test wash today, normal cycle, normal dry. The printing is almost completely worn off after one wash cycle. I am mortified. I’ve been waiting on the chat with Printify for a half hour and I’m like sweating and shaking. I feel like they’re going to deny the reprint or something. I have to deliver these on Monday and I would like to have a solution for the client before I do. I don’t even want to deliver these. I’m scared for my business right now.
Pretty bummed out. Apparently posters have been going out like this to my customers. Has anyone else had issues like this?
Talk about biting off the hand that feeds you! Printify is trying to put the sellers all out of business!
https://printify.com/printify_chatgpt/
Do you experiment late shipping with MWW on demand? Order has been printed on May 8th and still not shipped!! And when I call customer service they say they will investigate and respond within 48 hours. Item is for a wedding and customer needs it on May 20th... I am going nuts!
