Print on Demand

Sell custom t-shirts, mugs, and wall art without holding inventory.

How it works

You design and set the prices. Printful prints, packs, and posts each order when it comes in. No stock in your spare room.

  1. Design in Printful - use their tools to create custom products
  2. Connect your account in Settings → Integrations → Print on Demand
  3. Import to Mytho - pull in products with your own name, description, and pricing
  4. Sell - POD products show in your shop like any other product
  5. Automatic fulfillment - orders are sent to Printful, they produce and ship, and tracking syncs back to Mytho

Setting up Printful

A one-time connection. Do it once and imports flow from then on.

  1. Create a free account at printful.com
  2. Design products using their product creator
  3. In Mytho, go to Settings → Integrations and turn on Enable Print on Demand
  4. Click Connect Printful and authorize access
  5. Click Import products in the Print on Demand card to pull in your designs

Pricing and margins

Every product has a base cost, which is what Printful charges you. You set the retail price, which is what the customer pays. Whatever sits between the two is yours. You can adjust pricing per variant while importing.

Variants, colours, and SKUs

Import pulls a variant for every size and colour on your Printful product, along with its SKU and base cost. Colour options come in as swatches, so your shop shows real colour circles a customer can pick from. If Printful lists a variant in more than one colour, Mytho uses the main one as the swatch. You can repaint any swatch or change a retail price in the product editor afterwards.

Where POD products ship

By default, POD products ship anywhere Printful posts, which is most of the world. If you'd rather sell to a smaller patch, go to Shipping → Print on Demand and pick a scope under Where POD products ship:

  • Everywhere Printful posts - the default, and the recommended choice
  • Only my shipping zones - the same countries as your own products
  • Selected regions - tick the regions you want to serve

The cart respects your choice on its own. Its country dropdown only lists countries the current cart can actually ship to, so a buyer never picks a destination that leads nowhere.

The same tab has a Check live rates tool that quotes Printful's real shipping for any of your imported products, to any country Printful posts to, not just your own zones. Handy for sanity-checking your prices before you commit to them.

When Printful runs out or drops a product

Print on demand holds no stock, so your POD products are always on sale. What can happen is that Printful's own supplier runs out of a blank, or retires a product altogether.

Mytho checks for both every hour. If an option becomes unavailable it greys out in your shop and can't be bought, and the rest of the product carries on selling as normal. When it comes back, it un-greys on its own.

  • Out of stock - temporary, usually resolves by itself. Nothing for you to do.
  • Discontinued - permanent. We email you and flag it in your dashboard, because it needs you to pick a replacement product in Printful and re-import, or hide the product.

If a whole product goes unavailable, its card shows as out of stock rather than looking buyable.

Mixed carts

A single order can hold POD products, regular physical products, and digital products all at once. Printful handles shipping for its own items, and your shipping zones cover the physical ones.

Because the two can serve different countries, a mixed cart is checked item by item. If something can't reach the chosen country, its line is flagged with a "No shipping to..." note and checkout stays blocked until the buyer switches country or removes the item. No half-shippable orders slip through.

Order tracking

POD orders show a Printful Fulfillment section that moves through the stages: pending, submitted, in production, shipped, then delivered. Tracking numbers sync from Printful on their own, and the customer gets a shipping notification email with the exact carrier tracking link.

Printful never emails your customers directly, so every message they get comes from you, in your branding.

Orders that ship in more than one parcel

Printful prints from whichever facility is closest to each item, so a mixed order can leave in several parcels on different days. When that happens the customer gets a part shipped email for each parcel, listing what's inside it and what's still being made, with tracking for that parcel. The order is only marked Shipped once the last one is on its way.

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