Common Printify and Etsy Mistakes to Avoid

Mistake number one is not creating listing templates in Printify, wasting valuable time and money for print-on-demand sellers.

### Common Mistakes in Print-on-Demand Business and How to Avoid Them
* 💻 Not creating listing templates in Printify can be a **huge time-waster**. Creating templates for different products and designs can **save you significant time** when creating new listings.
* 💰 Incorrectly pricing items for multiple print areas can lead to **significant profit loss**. Some products, like T-shirts, charge extra for each additional print area, so it's crucial to **adjust pricing accordingly**.
* 🔗 Deleting a Printify listing will also delete the corresponding Etsy listing, so it's important to be **cautious when deleting items in Printify**.
* 🔄 Reusing Printify listings for different designs can lead to mistakes, especially in personalized orders. Instead of editing existing listings, it's recommended to **duplicate and create new listings for each unique design**.
* 🏷 ️ Including SKU numbers in personalized Etsy listings can cause issues. For manually personalized listings, it's best not to **upload the custom design to Printify until after the sale** to avoid assigning a specific design to the product.
* 📦 Not catching when customers order a **personalized and a non-personalized item** can lead to fulfillment issues. Printify does not automatically move personalized orders to the correct section, so it's important to **manually adjust these orders**.
* 🕒 Listing items on Etsy and only connecting them to Printify after they sell can save time initially, but may lead to **extra work later on**. It's recommended to connect listings to Printify **immediately** to avoid manual work later, especially as **order volume increases**.

these print of my mistakes will cost you tons of time, but even worse, many of them will cost you lots of money. I've had to learn a lot of these the hard way in the last four years of selling print-on-demand products with Printify and Etsy, and in that time, I've spent over $455,000 on Printify's website alone. So, let me save you time and money with this tutorial, and make sure to subscribe so you can see the other great videos that I release to teach you how to have your very own successful print-on-demand store. So, diving right into mistake number one is not making listing templates in Printify. It takes a ton of time to go through Printify's website, choose your product, choose your print provider, choose what colors you're going to offer, put your design on, set your pricing, select your shipping profile, and post it for sale. Instead, you can do this one time and save it as a template. You'll go through and choose every color that you might want to use in a listing for that product, and then you can name

It's something like Comfort color 1717 template, and anytime you go to make a new design for this product, you'll just duplicate that product, edit it to change the design, change the title, and then publish it to your store. This will save you so much time in your business. You can make as many templates like this as you want. So, say you're making Christmas listings, so you might be having different colors than you normally would, or maybe you're doing a design that has a design on the pocket and design on the back, which leads us right into mistake number two, which is the one that could be costing you thousands, is not pricing your items correctly for multiple print areas. Some items, like T-shirts, if you add a design in more than one area, it's going to cost you more for every single area that you add a print area to. So, looking at the Comfort colors 1717 shirt, you can see that with a design just on the front, the total cost is anywhere from $11.30 to $12.40, depending on the size. But if we

add a design onto the back and the front, and we click that info button again. You can now see that it costs anywhere from 1623 to 1733. So, if you didn't realize that you have to pay more for each of those print areas, you might not be pricing your items correctly on Etsy. And if you lose $4 or 5 per sale for 400 sales, that could be thousands and thousands of dollars that you could be losing in your business. Other products like mugs, where it has one big print area, you can see that it actually doesn't cost you any extra to put a design in two different spots on this product. So, just make sure that you're paying attention when you're adding designs to items. If this price changes, we can just open it by clicking this information button. Super simple to find out. Mistake number three is if you delete a Printify listing, it will delete the matching Etsy listing. So, you want to be really careful anytime you're deleting something in Printify if you're not meaning to also delete the Etsy.

listing now you can potentially reach out to Printify or Etsy to see if you can get this fixed, but I just want you to know that that's something that can happen so you can avoid it in the future. Mistake number four is reusing Printify listings for different designs. Now, this one will mostly apply to people making personalized or custom designs or say they're, you know, changing the name or the date for different products when customers custom order them. But this is a mistake that anyone could make, so make sure to pay attention. So, when you are in Printify, let's say you had a custom order for the Johnson family, and you put through that order and connected it. Well, then a few days later, you get an order for the Smith family for the same design. You might be tempted to just go edit that Printify listing instead of making a new one because it's already set up the right way, and you can just add it to that same product and connect it to that listing. However, Printify doesn't actually

grab the design from the Printify listing until they go to print it, so you really want to be careful and make sure that anytime you're adding a custom design or any kind of design to Printify, you duplicate something and then change the design instead of editing the current print of my listing that's already there, 'cause I've seen a ton of people send the wrong item to their customer with the wrong name, and then nobody's happy. And I actually have a fun Printify announcement on September 26th at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. I will actually be live in Regal Latvia at Printify headquarters for their Printify Amplified event. Last year, over 30,000 Printify members came to that event and loved it, so I hope that you will join us there as well. It is completely digital, that you can watch right from the comfort of your own home. I'll put a link down in the description to sign up and get your ticket and to get a community pass where you get extra bonuses and

exclusive content. It's normally $5, but if you use my code, which is all capitals AMP CASSIE, you can actually get that completely for free. So I hope you'll join us on September 26th at 11:00 a.m. Eastern time, or you can catch us on the replays as well if you sign up for the ticket. Those will get sent to you. Mistake number five is including SKU numbers in personalized Etsy listings. Now, there's two ways you can do personalized listings on Etsy where the customer gets to put in their custom name, address, or date, for example. The first way is doing it manually, where every time a customer orders a product, you manually go make the new design with the new name, date, or address, and then you have to upload that to Printify. The second way is using an automation tool like Hello Custom, where they actually get that design from you, they change the name, change the date, and then all you have to do is approve it, and then they take care of the rest. So those are the

two options. I do have a link to Hello Custom for a limited-time lifetime amazing deal on their software, which I will link down in the description if you are interested in automating your personalization. Then check that out. But if you're not using Hello Custom and you're doing it manually, it's really important that you know that you shouldn't upload the custom design. Let's say the example design. This is Johnson family Christmas to Printify and publish it to Etsy because it's going to receive a Q number that tells PRI that you want that customer to get the Johnson family Christmas design instead of the custom one that you haven't even made yet. So you actually are going to list that product on Etsy manually and not upload it to Printify until after it sells. I do have a full tutorial that I'll link down in the description of how to make personalized products and how to fulfill those with Printify, so check that out next if you're not familiar with how that works. But I have seen quite a few

people accidentally send people the wrong name because they put it in print. 5 first mistake. Number six is not catching when customers order a personalized and a non-personalized item from you. The reason why this can cause an issue is when you get a personalized order from a customer. It shows up in your other orders tab on Printify. When you get a non-personalized order, it shows up in your regular orders and gets sent to production automatically. Now, this is an issue that Printify has that I hope they fix at some point. But if someone orders an item with a SKU number and an item without a SKU number, Printify will not send your personalized item to the other orders section like normal. It just won't show up anywhere. So, you need to make sure that if someone does order a personalized and non-personalized item from your shop, that you are paying attention at least once a day to catch these before they go into production. So, that way you can add the personalized item manually into the order that is already there. This doesn't

happen super often, but definitely a good one to look out for. Mistake number seven might be a tiny bit controversial because I have heard people recommending that you make listings this way, but in my opinion, it's really robbing Peter to PayPal. So, mistake number seven is listing your items on Etsy and only connecting them to Printify after they sell. Now, hypothetically, this could save you time on the front end, so you're not having to upload the design to Printify and publish it and finalize a couple of details in Etsy. But if you use that listing templates hack that I showed you at the beginning of this video, then I think it really is just a few moments. Whereas the negative side of it is if you don't upload your designs to Printify and publish them to Etsy, then you might have to spend tons of time going and finding those designs and then uploading them on the product later and then having to copy and paste all the SKU numbers from Printify into Etsy to make sure that they're connected. So, the

orders will go through automatically later. Now, this isn't super time-consuming when you just have a few orders coming in every day, but as we're heading into the holiday season and you start getting 25, 50, or 100 orders every single day, this could look like you spending hours of time connecting listings instead of getting a chance to make brand new ones or focus on the customer service that you have. So, in my opinion, just connecting everything from Printify to Etsy right when you list it is absolutely the move. That way, your business can be as automated as possible.

Printify Mistakes That Could Be Costing You THOUSANDS

Cassiy Johnson

Common Mistakes in Print-on-Demand Business

Not making listing templates in Printify can waste a lot of time; instead, create templates to duplicate for new designs.

Correctly pricing items for multiple print areas is crucial, as adding designs in different locations increases costs.

These mistakes can lead to significant time and financial losses in running a print-on-demand store.

Common Mistakes When Using Printify for Etsy

Adding designs to multiple print areas can significantly increase costs, leading to potential losses if not priced correctly.

Deleting a Printify listing also removes the matching Etsy listing, so caution is needed.

Reusing Printify listings for different designs can cause issues, especially for personalized or custom orders.

Tips for Using Printify and Etsy for Custom Designs

It's important to duplicate designs in Printify instead of editing existing listings to avoid sending the wrong item to customers.

The Printify Amplified event on September 26th offers a digital experience with exclusive content and bonuses.

Personalized Etsy listings can be managed manually or through automation tools like Hello Custom for a smoother process.

Common Mistakes in Personalizing Products with Printify

Uploading a custom design to Printify before making it can lead to incorrect order fulfillment.

It's important to list personalized products on Etsy manually and wait for a sale before uploading to Printify.

Additionally, receiving both personalized and non-personalized orders from a customer can cause confusion in Printify's order management, so it's crucial to monitor orders daily to catch any discrepancies.

Mistake to Avoid When Listing Items on Etsy

Listing items on Etsy and connecting them to Printify only after they sell can be tempting, but it's not efficient.

This approach can lead to a time-consuming process of finding and uploading designs later, especially as order volume increases.

Connecting Printify to Etsy from the start is a better strategy for automating the business and saving time.