Starting an online tshirt business in 2018 is easier than before. And it’s cheaper than you think! One of the golden businesses that require very little capital and overheads, the tshirt business however, is really competitive, and to break through, you definitely need to have some awesome tshirt design ideas. In this post, I will recommend how you can start your own tshirt (and other accessories) business using Shopify and Printful.
What is Shopify?
Shopify is a complete ecommerce platform that allows you to create and customise your very own online store. It is completely cloud based and hosted, which means you won’t have to worry about webservers and software.
Shopify helps with managing inventory, products, payments and shipping. Through their various APIs and integrations, you can easily integrate various partners into the shopify environment and get your store up and running in no time.
To help you make your decision and feel your way around the platform, sign up for a 14 day free trial now.
What is Printful?
Printful is a dropshipping service provider of apparel and accessories such as pillow cases, mugs, phone case, socks and more. Since 2013, they’ve printed more than 5,000,000 shirts and are serving over 900,000 sellers worldwide.
Some of the best reasons to go into dropshipping as a side hustle are:
- You don’t hold inventory. They handle the production as and when orders come in.
- There are no monthly fees for Printful. You pay per transaction.
- They don’t require minimum purchases, so they will produce and ship even if only one order comes in.
- They offer personalization in terms of branding and packaging, ideal for you to start your very own fashion label.
In essence, all you need to do is design the products, and do the marketing. Once the order comes in, you can set it up to automate and push the order through to Printful, and they will start the order fulfillment process.
Printful Products
Here are the custom products you can design for and sell online via Printful. Most of these are complementary products that can easily be bundled into collections.
Your printful account is totally free to set up, so if you’re seriously thinking about starting up your tshirt business online, get your free account and start creating today.
Shopify + Printful
Printful with Shopify provides a seamless integration between design, storefront, sales and order fulfillment.
If you’d like to know more, do drop a line in the comments section and I’ll be more than happy to go through in further detail.
Just wondering, does Printful allow the customer to design the T-shirt himself? Instead of just sticking to those somehow limited options that we design?