Print On Demand | The Print Bar

Our platform is 100% free. Whenever you make a sale, we deduct the cost of the garment and production from the sale price. Simple. You set your own prices on each item, and our costs don't scale, only your profit margins.

Scalable commissions means the sky's the limit! Let's say you sell a digitally-printed AS Colour Staple tee with our Print-on-demand platform. Our production costs to cover the garment and printing are discounted for POD stores, so for example, if you're selling a digitally-printed AS Colour Staple, you'll only pay $18.75, which means everything else is profit.

Gather your ideas, create some designs, and get your products in front of your immediate networks; your friends, colleagues, family and of course, your target market. Putting yourself out there is the first step, and research, refining and honest feedback are crucial elements in the growth of your online business or fundraising platform.

This can be pretty fruitful as a side-gig, but the more time and energy you put into creating unique products with strong concepts, networking, marketing and social media, the more potential you have to develop a formidable online income. We've got some Dropshipping clients making well over $3000 per month.

When and how do I get paid?

The Print Bar has an automated system for handling store commissions. It works like this:

The system will calculate commissions that you earn from every sale your store makes (you determine how much this is by setting your sale price)
Payments are held by the platform for roughly 10 days after being shipped out from us (in case there are any issues that we need to fix)
After the 10 days has elapsed then the payments will automatically clear
All payments that have cleared are paid to your PayPal account on the 1^st of every month
You'll see a tally of your sales and outstanding commission payments when you log into the dashboard of your online store

To make sure you receive your commission payments you need to set up a PayPal account and enter the details into the store by following the below steps

Click commissions
Click PayPal commision settings
Enter your PayPal address*

*you must have a PayPal address to set up a dropshipping account with us

How long does it take until my customers get their products?

Your clients will have their items in approximately 14 days + shipping from placing their order.

How do the garments get shipped out?

We ship our products out in plain, unbranded and eco-friendly packaging.

Will my customers know it's from The Print Bar?

No, because we ship our products out in plain packaging your customers won't know that it came from us.

Who handles customer service?

As the store owner and administrator for your dropshipping site, you are responsible for the customer service for your shop, however we are always here to help if you require assistance, for example assisting you with organising reprints if necessary. In these rare cases, you can reach out to us in the customer service team via the email address [email protected] and we can work with you to find the best solution for your customer.

What if I have an existing website?

Our system is a completely free hosted website platform with ecommerce. But you are welcome to keep your existing website and there are 3 ways to do this.

Embed our store into your website using an iframe (note we do not integrate with Shopify yet but we are working on this)
Use a subdomain for the shop. ie. shop.yourdomain.com.au
Or use a reverse proxy. See the post about adding a blog to your website for information on how to do a reverse proxy.

How to add a blog to your site?

If you want to add a blog (or any website) to your site and have it display under your domain name, you can by following these steps.

Click on Website Pages
Click to create new page
Click on Advanced Settings down the bottom
Click "Page Status"
Select "Embed External Website"
In External Site URL put the full URL of your external website. i.e. www.wordpress.com/herenowwherenextblog
In Your Site URL put the URL that the external website content will appear on your site. i.e. "blog" for www.herenowwherenext.com/blog
Check both Rewrite Links and Rewrite Javascript Links to ensures links in your external embedded site work within our site

It's important that you now block google from indexing and being able to search the original website. This will avoid your SEO being affected by duplicate content.

You need to ensure the original source website is set to noindex i.e. <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">. With WordPress this can be done via a plugin or by WordPress settings.

You then want to "remove" that tag from the content shown on our website. Therefore, you go back to Advanced Settings add the following rule in the next section Content Rewriting Filters:

Find: <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">
Replace: (leave blank)

Can I sell other items in my store that I've already made?

Unfortunately, we don't offer this service for the time being.

Do you offer free shipping?

We used to, but we've restructured our POD pricing recently to be lower, with shipping at a constant rate.

Can you do custom promotions for my store?

Yes we can create a 10% coupon code for you to do a promotion. Just email [email protected] and let us know your store name and what you would like the coupon code to be.

Do you do samples or prototypes?

The way to order prototypes is to place and pay for an order through your store by temporarily making your store markup $0. That way you pay for samples at cost price.

What happens when Print Bar is out of stock of an item?

We take items that are out of stock off the website. In the rare occasion an item is out of stock it is typicaly out of stock for 2 - 6 weeks, but as soon as it is availabe again, it will magically reappear on your store again.

Go to decorated products

Click on create decorated products
Choose a product to start with
Click Save and Continue.
Click Add Design and upload your artwork. (see here for artwork recommendations and tips)
Ensure your artwork is the size you want it printed at. It's best to use a ruler in real life on any garment that you have to double check the measurements ie.
- left chest pocket designs are usually best at 8.5cm wide
- standard centre chest prints are best at 25cm wide
- large designs are best at 32cm wide
Click Save and Continue.
Type in a name for your product

# there’s an option called Append Product Name which will automatically add the name of the product next to the name you gave. We would advise against this, perhaps naming your product "my design name mens tee" or “my design name unisex tee” for example.

# there’s an option to allow users to customise the design or not. We recommend selecting ‘do not allow users to customise the design’ for retail stores.

Add a product description talking about the design and also the material and size info of the product you chose.
Choose a category or make a new category. Some examples could be; new arrivals, winter, popular, mens, womens or anything you want. You can edit and change this later.
Click Save and Continue.
The next page lets you choose if you want to have multiple colours available for this design you’ve created. Leave it as if you want to allow all the colours available or if you want to only have 1 colour available just untick the all colours box and select the colour you want.

# Be careful that your design looks nice on all colours, i.e a white design will look good on a dark garment but might not look nice on a white t shirt.

Click Save and Continue
Next check your pricing and you’re done!

#you can edit your pricing by unticking use store markup and typing in the sale price you want (see How to set your selling price for more detailed information)

Repeat this process for each of your designs.

The key to getting a quality print is your design file. It needs to be high-res and crisp. The way to check this is to zoom in on the design on your computer monitor so the design is as big as you want it printed in real life. If it looks neat and crisp (not pixelated) then it will print well. Make sure your files are at least 300dpi, and if that doesn't make sense to you, ask a Graphic Designer to help prepare your files. If you are ever unsure if something will print well or not you can always email the design in to us to check here.

300dpi png files
a transparent background
Cropped / trimmed to the image
Make the image size the size you would like it printed in cm and use a ruler to double check this (you can always call us for advice once you've saved the product)

1. Register a custom domain name with a hosting provider

2. Point the domain to our server using the below DNS settings

Using www.herenowwherenext.com.au as an example:

Record Type	Hostname	Value
A	@	65.39.250.34
CNAME	www	store.deco-apparel.com

Make sure to add your domain twice onto your site, once with www and once without. So that both herenowwherenext.com.au and www.herenowwherenext.com.au work when they are typed into a browser. You should then set the one with www as the primary.

Once you've done this, log back into your website and;

click domain settings
Type in your domain name and click add

Now your custom domain is all set up and ready to go.

If you already have a website and just want to create a subdomain on your current website such as shop.herenowwherenext.com.au then you can follow the below steps instead.

Sub domain DNS records

When setting up a subdomain for a site, you'll need to add a single DNS record with your desired subdomain set as the hostname.

Record Type	Hostname	Value
CNAME	shop	store.deco-apparel.com

Once you have done this, then log back into your website and;

click domain settings
Type in your domain name and click add

Now your custom sub domain is all set up and ready to go.

It's important to make sure your website is SSL secure before you start selling items and there are a couple of free and easy ways to do this.

1. If you have a custom domain (as per the instructions in the previous section) follow these instructions.

go to the Domain Settings tab on the left
to the right of your domain name click SSL and you're done!

2. If you don't have a custom domain name you need to follow these instructions

go to the Domain Settings tab on the left
go to the Add custom domain name field
type in your website address into this field but with www at the front. ie www.yourwebsite.theprintbar.com
scroll up to the Existing store domains section
click Make primary
click SSL
click Save

And your site is secure and ready to launch!

The templates have all Print Bar's selling options on by default when you start your website. You may want to remove some of the options such as; allowing customers to upload their own designs, swithching off Print Bar's default design gallery, hiding pages, etc. See this video and the below instructions for turning off some of the features if you want your website to have more of a retail label focus.

To delete the default designs the Print Bar has available

Click on Store Designs, then go to the category you want to delete and click 'delete' or 'make private' if you want to keep it available for the future. Also if you want to only show decorated products and not show the designs separately you can go to the 'edit website' section and navigate to the Designs Page and turn off this page.

To turn off or hide menus

To hide menu options and pages such as 'Quick Quote, Designs, Create, Designer, etc' you navigate to the page in the 'edit website' section and then untick the 'Show in menu' button.

To switch off the custom design app

Click on Designer Settings, then navigate to 'Allow Online Designer', select 'No'.

You can set a default markup storewide by going to Price Settings, most of our stores set this at a fixed amount of $17.04 which makes the AS Colour branded t shirts sell for $40 each automatically. But you can also override this price on a per product basis. This is the final step you go through when you create a product. To change the price you untick use store markup and type in the “ex gst” price. If you want to sell for $40 you need to make sure the ex gst price is $36.36. There’s a handy calculator here to help.

To change the price of a product you need to follow these steps:

Log into your website

Click decorated products
Find the product you want to change the price of
Click manage
Click configure
Click costs

Change the retail price to what you would like to sell the items for.

Or you can change all the pricing for your store products at once (unless they have a custom price) by changing the default markup. You can do that by following these steps: