Best fulfillment service for an Australian print on demand store?

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Hello Im starting up a print on demand store on shopify. Which fufillment service would be the best to go with?

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Hi, there!

Dallas here from the Social Care Team here at Shopify. I would be more than happy to help you make a decision!

If you are looking to start a Print on Demand store (POD) there are a few different options that you could take.

The most common ones are Printify and Printful. Both of these companies are reliable and work very well with your Shopify store.

When it comes to choosing the right one there are a lot of factors that come into play so I recommend reading over this comparison sheet. Since this page was created by Printful it will be a bit more biased in their favor, however, the facts do ring true.

One of the great features about Printful, I find, is that they have the ability for warehousing. So, if you had clothing from other companies you could store it in their facilities. Then when the orders for those garments came in they would still be processed, fulfilled and shipped by Printful. This’ll eliminate all future shipping details on your end, in the future, if you were to expand to other things besides POD.

So, if I was to choose one that I personally liked, I would have to say Printful. With that being said, I do recommend you read over the comparison sheet and make the final decision yourself.

Is there a feature in particular that you are looking for?

Cheers,
Dallas

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If you are shipping worldwide it would be an easier choice. Most of them may not have servers close to you so app response will be on the slow side. However this would only be an inconvenience for you personally, not impacting your sales.

If you want to ship mostly to Australia ideally you would want to work with a local partner. More and more customers want faster and faster service every day as millenials become consumer. Look at how much money Amazon spent on increasing the speed of their shipments. Now the problem is that I could not find POD partner with a Shopify integration that claims to have facilities in Australia. That does not mean there aren’t any POD fulfiller in there, they just don’t have Shopify integration. Before investing in a Shopify app we used to use email. Whenever a customer had a sales they used to send us the details in an email and we fulfilled the order. As you might have guessed this is not the most efficient way and is error prone but it worked and customer was always right (still is).

If you prefer a fully integrated partner we ship world wide as well. It just takes longer and more expensive as we are located in US. Check out printmelon app in App Store.

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Hi Justin,

That depend if you want to choose your supplier and be dependent on this fulfiller for user experience, technology, quality, etc.. It puts you in a very unfortunate position. I suggest you look at a solution where you can decide who will be your fufillment service without loosing the control on the user experience (your core) here : https://mediaclip.myshopify.com/

Hope that help.

Andy

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Teelaunch now offers DTG Print on Demand in Australia.

https://blog.teelaunch.com/2018/11/dtg-from-down-under/

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We just launched Australia’s first wholly owned and operated print-on-demand service for Shopify store owners. Check out the app in the Shopify App Store: https://apps.shopify.com/ogo-australian-print-on-demand

All locally made on-demand, using Australian brands like AS Colour and shipped quickly with Australia Post. Your Australian customers won’t have to deal with the hassles of international postage, customs duties, foreign brands/fits, etc.

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Can 100% vouch for OGO, been using them in my store for a while now and have the best products for Australia, great service, great AS colour shirts and Great quality prints as well as doing it all automatically through your own Shopify store, no one else compares for us in Australia

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Hey,

Don’t limit yourself only to one area in the world.

https://bigoventees.com/page/fulfillment

Best prices-Best quality

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Are you shipping to New zealand as well?

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Hi,

We ship worldwide.

Regards,

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As a Fulfillment service www.cloudprinter.com if one of the best and is worldwide.

See also the mediaclip designer here:

Best

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Yep, OGO Print-on-Demand ships from Australia to New Zealand. Most orders to NZ arrive in 2-3 weeks after they are placed.

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The other alternative is Redbubble which started in Melbourne but now manufactures worldwide.

Most of their shipments for Australia and New Zealand are shipped from Australia.
See table here

Edit: Redbubble doesn’t integrate with Shopify or anything else

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Hi Zen,

Thanks for the information. I just downloaded your app.

I wanted to start my tee POD in Australia only. I have sent a query to your help team also, but sorry to say I did not get any response so far.

I have a few doubts in my mind, I would appreciate if you can clarify a few things like:

  1. Do I have to fill all the order details manually?
  2. What about the exclusive rights of my own design?
  3. What if I want to put more pics of the tees?
  4. Who is the contact person, if I need any kind of assistance?

Looking forward to an early reply.

Regards

R trendsetter

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Have you looked at the FAQ on the website?

https://help.ogo.com.au/

And the About page

https://ogo.com.au/about/

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Yes! I have gone through each and every page of the site.

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Hey R,

Thanks for touching base with us. Please note our customer service team generally does not work on the weekends; hence, we haven’t had a chance to reply to your email yet.

I’d thought I’d answer publically as your questions are quite common. Your questions have already been addressed in our Help Centre (https://help.ogo.com.au), but I’ll summarise here.

  1. Do I have to fill all the order details manually?
    Not at all. We’ve designed the OGO Shopify App to be completely automated when it comes to fulfilling your orders. Any order (where the status is marked ‘paid’) from your Shopify store that contains a product created by the OGO app will automatically be sent to our system within 15 minutes.

  2. What about the exclusive rights of my own design?
    OGO users retain ALL rights (copyright, trademarks, etc.) of their designs. We only access designs when an order is received, and we’re ready to print. No designs are on-sold, distributed or used by any other entity (including OGO).

  3. What if I want to put more pics of the tees?
    Yes, you are welcome to replace or add to the mockups created by our app with your own.

  4. Who is the contact person, if I need any kind of assistance?
    You can contact us anytime via https://help.ogo.com.au/
    https://ogo.com.au/about/
    And email us directly at [email removed]
    A 1300 customer support like will be available in the coming months.

    Please note we are open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 6 pm. Most enquiries are answered within a business day.

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You can also try this POD. They manufacture in Australia, USA & China with a massive range of products.

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We have provider un autralia. please visit: https://mediaclip.myshopify.com/ to see this in action.

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Hi. does OGO offer AOP? I have an Aussie customer who has just ordered an AOP sweatshirt. cheers