SitesPlaced now supports Printify — and the margin stays yours
T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and posters printed and shipped for you when they sell, billed to your own Printify account. Free plan, 0% commission.
Printify is now built into every SitesPlaced store, free. Link a product to your own Printify catalogue and paid orders are sent for printing automatically. Printify bills your account directly and you set the retail price — so unlike merch platforms that bake their cut into the product cost, the margin is genuinely yours.
TL;DR
- • Free plan. 0% SitesPlaced commission — Printify bills your own account per item.
- • Hundreds of print providers across the US, UK and EU, so you can pick on price and location.
- • Paid orders push automatically, with an auto-submit switch you control.
- • You set the retail price. Nobody builds a margin into your product cost.
- • One thing to diarise: Printify personal access tokens expire after a year.
Why this beats a merch platform that hosts your store
The usual creator-merch model is a platform that prints, ships and hosts your storefront, and takes its cut by building it into what each item costs you. It is convenient, and there are two problems with it.
First, you cannot see the number. The margin is inside the product cost, so you never know what you are paying for the convenience — which means you cannot decide whether it is worth it.
Second, you do not own the storefront. The audience you build lives on their domain, and if their terms change you start again.
Connecting your own Printify account inverts both. Printify bills you their price, you set yours, and the difference is yours. The store is yours, on your domain, with your blog and your SEO. That is a structurally better position, not a marginally cheaper one.
What the integration does
- • Link a store product to a product in your own Printify catalogue.
- • Paid orders push automatically for printing — with an auto-submit setting you control.
- • Printify prints, packs and ships to your customer directly.
- • Fulfilment status comes back onto the order so you can answer a where-is-it question.
The token expiry nobody warns you about
Printify personal access tokens expire after one year. That is a genuinely nasty failure mode: everything works perfectly for twelve months, and then orders start failing silently at exactly the point you have stopped checking.
The integration records when the token was connected so the settings card can warn you before that happens rather than after. If you are building this yourself, store the issue date and surface it — a token expiry discovered through customer complaints is an avoidable bad week.
Qikink or Printify?
Both are free on every plan, and they solve different halves of the same problem.
Printify has enormous provider choice across the US, UK and EU, which is what you want if your customers are there — you can pick a provider near them and cut both shipping cost and delivery time.
Qikink prints and ships within India, which is what you want for Indian customers. A global provider shipping a t-shirt into India is slow and costs more than the shirt.
If you sell to both, connect both. Nothing stops you, and neither costs anything.
If you do not have the website yet
Everything above assumes you already have a store to connect Printify to. If you are still taking orders in DMs, that is the part worth fixing first — the integration is the easy half.
A SitesPlaced store is free to build and publish, with 0% commission on every sale, on every plan. Every integration on this page is included — you connect your own accounts and nobody takes a cut in the middle.
Step-by-step setup: how to connect Printify to your ecommerce website.
Frequently asked questions
Does SitesPlaced take a cut of Printify sales?
No. 0% commission on every plan. Printify bills your own account per item and you set the retail price, so the margin is yours to keep and yours to change.
How is this different from a merch platform that hosts my store?
Those platforms build their cut into what each item costs you, so you cannot see what you are paying, and the storefront is theirs. Connecting your own Printify account means Printify bills you their price, you set yours, and the store is on your domain.
Do Printify tokens expire?
Yes — personal access tokens expire after one year. That is a silent failure a year later, so the connection date is recorded and the settings card warns you before orders start failing.
Printify or Qikink?
Printify for US, UK and EU customers, where its provider choice lets you print near the buyer. Qikink for Indian customers, where domestic printing is far cheaper and faster. Both are free, so connect both if you sell to both.
Sell merch without buying stock
Build the store free, connect your Printify account, and keep the whole margin. 0% commission on every sale.
