Create your own ecommerce business with little to no investment
Sell products worldwide without worrying about storage or order management
Focus on growing your store while we take care of fulfillment and shipping
Introduction to dropshipping
What’s dropshipping?
Dropshipping is a business model where a third-party supplier provides, packs, and ships products to customers under your brand
Where does Printful come in?
We elevate dropshipping products with print-on-demand—you customize blank products with your designs and we ship them to your customers as orders come in
What’s Warehousing & Fulfillment?
It’s a Printful service where we can store your non-Printful products and fulfill and ship orders containing them
Dropshipping vs. managing your own inventory
Find the most suitable option for your business
Dropshipping
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Small financial investment | Fierce competition |
| No need for inventory | Less control over fulfillment |
| Easy to create new products | |
| Fast product launch | |
| More time for growing a brand |
Managing inventory yourself
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Unsaturated market | High inventory costs |
| More control over fulfillment | Risk of leftover stock |
| Requires storage space | |
| Time-consuming | |
| Nerve-wracking order management |
How dropshipping POD products works
Set up a store
Connect your store to Printful
Create and add products to your store
Leave order fulfillment to us
Grow your store
308 dropshipping products for you to sell online
Check out the trending products you can customize
Discover more dropshipping possibilities in our Product Catalog
Your dropshipping journey starts with a store
Explore our ecommerce integrations and find your future store platform
Why dropship products with Printful
Product customization
Create authentic designs and sell products all under your brand
High product quality
Win over customers with product quality your competitors can’t live up to
Strategic fulfillment network
Lower your shipping costs and invest your savings into marketing and growing your business
24/7 customer support
Don’t be shy and send us all your burning questions about Printful and our services
No unsold inventory
Pay for the orders you actually get without over-ordering product stock in bulk
Eco-friendly options
Move towards a sustainable business model by choosing products made from recycled or organic materials
Discover markets across the world—we’ll ship your products anywhere
Worldwide shipping
Reach customers around the globe
Global fulfillment network
Have your products shipped to customers fast from facilities located in key markets
Advanced warehouses
Use our Warehousing & Fulfillment services to store and fulfill your own products
Frequently asked questions
Product sales depend on your niche, profit margin, marketing strategy, and target audience. To create a bestselling product:
- Choose a product relevant to your niche and add a complementing design
Pick a price available to your potential customers - Gain traction by advertising on your audience’s favorite social platforms
If you want to dropship Printful’s print-on-demand items, then you don’t have to keep your inventory anywhere. We’ll create products and ship them on demand, i.e., your products will only be customized when someone orders them. As for the product blanks, packaging, and everything else—we’ll take care of storing it all ourselves.
If you wish to sell non-Printful items and you want to trust them to us for fulfillment and shipping, you can use our Warehousing & Fulfillment services. Ship your products to our warehouses and we’ll store your items, prepare them for fulfillment, and ship them out to your customers.
Start by defining your niche and experimenting with potential designs in our Design Maker. Then, find the most suitable ecommerce platform or marketplace for your business and set up a store. After creating your store, connect it to Printful to gain access to automatic order fulfillment, customer service, free design tools, and more. Then, add products to your store and start building a community with your target audience. Continue to market your business and watch the orders flow in.
Printful won’t charge you any registration or monthly fees, but the ecommerce platform you're using might. Depending on the platform, your average starting budget might be $50–100. As for the products, Printful only charges you once an order is made. That means you don’t need to buy any products in advance.
Your profit depends on your pricing strategy and marketing. When adding products to your store, you choose your own retail price. Once your customer makes an order in your store, we charge you for the product, fulfillment, and shipping. Your profit = your retail price – fulfillment and shipping. In order to maximize your profit, you also need to gain a customer base by running ad campaigns and building a community.
You don’t necessarily need to own a website, but you’ll need a platform to sell your products on. We have plenty of integrations that you can use for your online store. Look through them and find the best option for you in our ecommerce integrations list.
With dropshipping, you have little control over fulfillment and shipping as that’s in the hands of your dropshipping partner. However, in the case of Printful, we’re open to feedback and suggestions on how to improve our service.
Also, since it’s so easy to get started with a business model like this, there will be a lot of people trying to do the same thing you are. Don’t be discouraged though—look for an untapped business niche and make a name for yourself before anyone else.
