Printful intergration for multiple variants

Technical Q&A
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3rd time the charm, I have asked a few questions on here with no help at all. I hope I get help this time as this is the biggest issue I am encountering.

www.politicallyincorrectdesign.com PW: neimew

I want to be able to add products from Printful into my store, however, the products I want to add are items like Masks, Phone cases, pillows and throws. All these have variants to them (sizes or models) but in my design I have 12 different colour backgrounds.

I tried adding the products individually but it makes the store VERY cluttered. I then tried (as per the site) combining the products and making variants with the exported CSV file. It seemed to work but then I don’t know if it works on printful end.

Next, i tried it with phones but I’m limited to the 100 variants by Shopify.

How can I do it so it is like this

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Hi,

Instead of asking opinion and not getting any answer, I think you need to hire some expert to help you on this custom development that you want.

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Thank you for the reply. I would happily pay for this but no one seems to grasp what I am trying to explain. It ain’t custom in my eyes.

Let me try and simplify this down. So for example

Phone cases

Samsung have 10 models of phone to select so that is 10 variants made in printful. The design I’m using is placed onto printful as a printfile with a clear background. Now I want to also offer red, blue, black, white, yellow backgrounds as not everyone will want a clear phone case (I know I wouldn’t and al I surveyed also say the same).

To offer these other colours I have to make a separate item in printful.

these then pushed to Shopify are all individual products with 10 variants each.

I want to be able to display 10 phone models with the option to select the phone case colour and possibly the phone case design image as I have similar versions of the designs in different texts and colours.

For example

Like this shop https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/352725609366?_trkparms=ispr%3D5&hash=item522015ab96:g:VDAAAOSwxSxdMfLi&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACYPYe5NmHp%252B2JMhMi7yxGiTJkPrKr5t53CooMSQt2orsSd0ReTLyM7cxPnI6zs468EOXm4eUIQ7gdX0ZFVfYqEnSXLHad6Q%252BpgSldLRgCUOUgbf%252BSgFDykYt7F4dF1lHnJn109Ff3MHMSnct%252FcQrcwMoPEaubgPLIGExjSvuRQU3namE2baQ5ftO1wm2h%252B14Ir7YimBRSN9Wy0kyKmSsQNi1JY25AvsYtLpfQsB4kg8zR9%252FmUnH3dFG4%252F8a3Bxztky6vMLrtw7bqVD%252FvtSPh6LYm80gL8kIYJ%252Bn7d%252BJzj1Aqla74xhp%252F4tANQz3%252BJ4OaF8gMw8ehndCoh0Jbu2FjGCLxxUXglU7rIn5eEDQXcAZY0xOrEmFnpHxdsc4hOUvmAzWltU3GJpjJ8bVyFtI49aoW0rXmrDd4fyx3i%252FdksFdlzQ6yChH1E6eFBUgk7enK3ZITEdKf48E%252FJI0M1c5CJwaDAN0nzRC3Lp8sVqP090R%252FUbH%252BkP5%252BPpxiT6xP5GQaSKzfDXeHxJy45Zfc6Tq25R8SZVy7glOgksUsV2LnByg649xqfFd1cRJSH%252BHhh%252FAJbw2%252ByWmoRbHmYNWpB6H6bw8OjePimiLwEBjBFCk7prMIipas%252Fci6Y13WeFYs8mlN0x32NhIP2WIGCYEJHE52SIrDqqTntGWWVdfhZMz%252FxDGk6I8OVmwNmGKZKa4RaLaBVIMCanfF3jvJ5vYYrT3g9kucCORDjGcWezvKaeBYdDQ9AAfwgzysFYQ%252BR3hIai4PpYgY9tbSaDpeItYe%252ByBocagCVEV9ASDiIhzPMFVnd7zEX%7Campid%3APLP_CLK%7Cclp%3A2334524

or

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1025986208/swirl-print-phone-case-retro-pink-swirl?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=phone+cases&ref=sc_gallery-1-1&plkey=3bb4f0cb3db66fb545e2468d00b6fb7c2b74533f%3A1025986208&pop=1

It seems to be just because I am using a print on demand setup it seems more complicated. Shopify allow 3 variants etc but printful say no way they support this with out me syncing with them and individually matching up and making printfile on every item (when I use printful in the first place to make the designs to put onto shopify).

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Hi were you able to figure this out? I’m searching and searching for the same solution and I can’t find anything!