Print-on-demand, built from scratch in thirteen parts

What this series builds

Most print-on-demand tutorials stop at the store. This series keeps going. It starts with an empty Shopify account and ends with variation listings live on Amazon, eBay and Etsy, all fulfilled by Printify and all driven from one Shopify catalogue.

The recordings keep in the parts nobody enjoys: applying for a GTIN exemption so T-shirts can be listed on Amazon without barcodes, working out how a size-and-colour product has to be expressed on each marketplace, and configuring eBay business policies before the first listing will publish.

You finish with a realistic picture of the work involved. Thirteen short videos will tell you more about whether print-on-demand across three marketplaces suits you than any feature list.

• Register a Shopify store, choose a theme and configure the settings that matter.
• Create a Printify account, connect it to Shopify and design a T-shirt to sell.
• Register on Amazon and obtain a GTIN exemption for products without barcodes.
• Create variation products on Amazon, eBay and Etsy from the same Shopify catalogue.
• Use Salestio creation profiles and selling lists to publish and maintain those listings.

Why print-on-demand needs a channel manager

Print-on-demand stays simple until you sell in more than one place. The product exists in Printify, the catalogue lives in Shopify, and each marketplace wants its own listing format, attributes and variation structure. Maintaining that by hand across Amazon, eBay and Etsy is where most sellers stop expanding.

Salestio removes the duplication. Products created once in Shopify are published to each marketplace with the mapping that marketplace expects, and orders come back into Shopify where Printify picks them up for fulfilment. Parts 8, 9, 12 and 13 show it in practice.

The same applies well beyond T-shirts. Any catalogue with variations and a fulfilment partner behind it hits the same problem, and the same workflow solves it.

How to watch it

Watch in order if you are starting a business, since each part assumes the previous one. If you already have a store and want the marketplace half, start at part 6, where the first marketplace account is created.

Every part has a matching blog article covering the same content in written form, linked on each video page, so you can read the steps while you follow along on screen.