Below are our estimated deadlines for product categories shipping to the US. Consider selling locally fulfilled products as orders fulfilled outside the US might take longer to deliver.
Express shipping is available for manually placed orders and stores with enabled live rates.
Below are our estimated deadlines for product categories shipping to Europe. Consider selling locally fulfilled products as orders fulfilled outside the EU might take longer to deliver.
Express shipping is available for manually placed orders and stores with enabled live rates.
The shipping carriers we work with in Canada have unexpectedly limited our daily capacity we can ship domestically. We’ll fulfill what we can in Canada, but the rest will be routed to facilities in the US. That means you can expect delays and that tracking links will take longer than usual to update.
We’re planning to ramp up production in Canada as soon as the holiday season’s shipping rush is over and carriers remove limitations. Thanks for bearing with us.
Below are our estimated deadlines for product categories shipping to Australia/New Zealand. Consider selling locally fulfilled products by our partner facilities as orders fulfilled outside AU/NZ might take longer to deliver.
Express shipping is available for manually placed orders and stores with enabled live rates.
Below are our estimated deadlines for product categories shipping to Japan. Consider selling locally fulfilled products by our partner facilities as orders fulfilled outside Japan might take longer to deliver.
Express shipping is available for manually placed orders and stores with enabled live rates.
Below are our estimated deadlines for product categories shipping internationally.
Express shipping is available for manually placed orders and stores with enabled live rates.
Below are our estimated deadlines for products shipped internationally with our Warehousing & Fulfillment services.
Express shipping is available for manually placed orders and stores with enabled live rates.
We analyze our fulfillment data from previous years
Our carriers send us their order-by dates
We factor in our pre-holiday preparations, like hiring additional staff
We add our estimated fulfillment times on top of the carrier order-by dates and get our deadlines
We’ll keep you in the loop if unexpected events like snowstorms, postal service disruptions, or fulfillment delays happen and affect holiday order deliverability
We're taking on 400+ extra fulfillment and customer support employees to help you day or night
We’re actively communicating with our suppliers and stocking up on our most popular products to avoid out-of-stock situations as much as possible
We expanded our operations in Mexico, opened a new fulfillment center in Spain, partnered up with local printing facilities in Australia and Japan, and started production tests in our fulfillment center in Canada
Make your online store irresistible for holiday shoppers by following our product and marketing recommendations
No matter how big or small your question is, we'll make sure to get back to you.
Holiday order deadlines are important to share with your customers so they know the cutoff time to place their orders for the best bet to get their packages by December 25. Here’s how you can share order deadlines:
1. Take a look at the order-by dates and see which apply to the products you’re selling
2. Make a marketing plan to figure out when you need to promote buying certain products with the soonest deadlines
3. Go over our holiday order deadlines guide to get ideas for marketing
4. Post the order deadlines in your product descriptions for each respective product
We can’t promise our holiday order deadlines won’t change, especially given this is the industry’s first holiday season happening during a pandemic, but we’ll work our hardest to ensure the deadlines stay the same. To read more about how we’re preparing for this year’s holiday season, take a look at our fulfillment updates page. We may recalculate the deadlines for the following reasons:
In case we update our deadlines, you’ll see a red badge next to the dates, and we’ll also inform you via email, so make sure you’ve set your email notifications to receive those.
Our fulfillment times may increase for reasons we can’t predict. That being said, we’ll work our hardest to keep our fulfillment times consistent by taking actions to manage incoming order volume, like limiting new product push. For more info, visit our fulfillment updates page.
We’re preparing however we can, but we can’t control carrier shipping speeds. We’ll continue to follow the news and monitor the situation. We also recommend you follow carrier service alerts to see if there are any delays.
In case we change our deadlines, you’ll see a red badge next to the dates, and we’ll email you, so set your email notifications to receive those.
While it’s a great sales strategy to go for the last-minute holiday shoppers, know that holiday shopping will start earlier this year, so plan your sales campaigns earlier as well. If you want to extend your sales period, then selling products with the furthest order deadlines will get you the last-minute shopper market. Here’s how:
1. Offer and promote Express shipping after deadlines for Standard shipping have passed. Express shipping is available for stores with enabled live rates, but you can place your orders manually and access this shipping method during checkout! If you ship your products with Express shipping, consider raising the shipping costs on your storefront.
2. See which products have the furthest order-by dates and consider selling them as last-minute holiday gifts.
3. Pre-order your best-selling products in bulk and store them in Printful’s warehouses. Products fulfilled with our Warehousing & Fulfillment services have order-by dates that are closer to the holidays. That’s because we offer same-day fulfillment for orders containing products from the warehouse.
There might be cases where you have to troubleshoot delays or issues with orders. We recommend:
1. Filling out a problem report if your shipment arrived damaged or was lost in transit
2. Going over our Return Policy to learn more about returned orders
3. Reading our Printful Policies Your Store Should Copy blog to get free policy templates and talking points to use with your customers
Our order deadlines are different for each shipping region because of local carrier delivery estimates, our product availability, and stock levels at the nearest fulfillment centers.
Our order deadlines also vary based on product category fulfillment estimates. For example, it usually takes us longer to create apparel products than non-apparel ones. Our order deadlines for warehoused products are later in the month than those for printed on-demand because we don’t have to factor in fulfillment time for warehouse items—they’re already made and ready to ship.
If we receive an order that contains products that have passed their order-by dates, we’ll do our best to get in touch with you to see if you’ll want to ship those products separately. That’ll ensure the product with current deadlines has a better chance to arrive before the holidays. Know that splitting products into shipments will add up in additional costs. To estimate those costs, see How do I calculate shipping costs for orders with products that ship separately.
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