Does Wix Integrate With Dropshipping Companies Like Printful?

Wix is an ideal website builder solution for small and medium businesses, offering flexibility that allows them to grow and improve their online stores over time.

As business owners increasingly turn to Ecommerce to reach connected consumers, many Wix users wonder whether they can integrate their stores with dropshipping companies like Printful.

While it’s possible to integrate Wix with Printful, it doesn’t let you integrate directly unless you have a third party tool that’ll link them both.

If this is your situation, you’re in the right place. We’re going to show you how to connect your Wix store with your Printful account so you can grow your business online and everywhere.

Does Wix Integrate With Dropshipping Companies?

The short answer is…yes, but there’s a catch. So how can you integrate your Wix store with dropshipping companies like Printful?

There isn’t a direct integration that can connect Wix and Printful directly. However, you can use a third-party link between the two, and Wix recommends using the Ecwid app.

Ecwid is a powerful commerce platform that you can add to your Wix site and grow your online store for free. In return, you’ll get a mobile responsive store that’ll look great on any device and works perfectly with Wix.

The free store has a limit of up to 10 products, but it gives you everything you need to sell your stuff online. However, you can upgrade to a premium plan and access advanced features such as the ability to sell on Facebook, Instagram or Amazon, and abandoned cart recovery among others.

It also provides more than 50 global payment options including credit cards, direct bank payments and bitcoin, support for 50 languages, and real-time shipping integration.

Once you have your Wix website, you can add Ecwid’s Wix store module that integrates seamlessly into your site, offering a fast and customizable ecommerce solution.

While Wix offers good ecommerce functionality with flexible tax and shipping options, it doesn’t provide support for dropshipping or abandoned cart auto-recovery. However, with the Ecwid app, you can fill these gaps and integrate a dedicated ecommerce tool into your online store.

Ecwid allows you to display products and catalogues on your Wix store, plus you can integrate Printful so you can dropship and use abandoned cart savers. Its ecommerce functionality is considerably stronger than what you’d get in Wix, given that it’s a tool specifically designed for building online stores.

Now that you have your Wix site and Ecwid app, it’s time to connect to Printful and set up your dropshipping function within your store. Read on to find out how you can integrate your Wix store with Printful.

How To Integrate Printful To Wix Using Ecwid App

Before you begin the integration process between Wix and Printful using the Ecwid app, you first need to add your Ecwid store to your Wix website. You can do this in a few easy steps using the Ecwid app by adding it to your Wix site and connecting your store.

Adding Ecwid app to Wix

To do this:

· Log in to your Wix account and select the site you’d like to add a store to

· Open the Ecwid app

· Click +Add to Site and then click +Add app

· Once the Ecwid app is added, it’ll display sample products awaiting connection to your Wix store

· On the same page in Wix Editor, double-click the Double-click me button

· Click Create Account to sign up for an Ecwid store if you don’t have one yet

· Click Accept to grant the app permissions

Your store is now connected to your Wix site. Save changes and publish the website.

If you already have an existing Ecwid store, you can connect it to your Wix website and sell from there. To do this:

· Go to Wix Editor, where the Ecwid app was added and double-click the Double-click me button

· Click Connect Account in the popup

· Another popup will appear. Log in to your Ecwid account by entering your email and password. If you just signed up for Ecwid, verify your email address first using the link that was sent just after you signed up for the service.

There are other ways you can log in to your Ecwid account including:

· Control panel on desktop: open the Ecwid login page and enter your email and password, and then click Sign In.

· Control panel on mobile: you can do this in two ways: from your mobile by first downloading the Ecwid app from Google Play Store or the App Store.

· Social accounts: you can sign in using Facebook, PayPal or your Google account, and you’ll be logged in automatically if you’re also logged in to any of these accounts. This way, you don’t have to enter passwords for Ecwid.

Once you’re logged in to your Ecwid store account, click Accept to grant the app permission to access your store data and your store is now connected to your Wix website.

Save the changes and publish the website.

Changing the design of your Ecwid store on Wix

Ecwid is designed professionally based on the latest ecommerce trends in the market, with mobile responsive designs that’ll look great on any device. Once you install your Ecwid store on Wix, you can sell immediately.

However, if you want to change the design of your Ecwid store on Wix, you can do so and have them match the overall look and feel of your website.

The app has an intuitive visual editor that lets you change fonts and colors, adjust product image aspect ratios and sizes, and alter the layout of catalog and product pages.

Once you’re done making any changes to the site, you can check the results in Preview mode, and if you’re happy with what you see, publish your website to apply the changes. You can also add a product search bar and shopping cart icon to your pages.

Connecting Ecwid with Printful

Now that your Ecwid store and Wix websites are connected, you can connect Ecwid with Printful to enable the dropshipping functionality.

To do this:

· Create a Printful account. Sign up with your name and email address for free.

· Make sure you’re using a paid Ecwid plan: Business, Venture, or Unlimited

· Go to Ecwid app store

· Find and install the Printful app. Then Printful will now embed a page into your Ecwid store control panel

· Sign in to the Printful app and your products will be imported from your store, and you can sync the existing products for Printful to track them and fulfill new orders for you. If there are products you don’t want Printful to fulfill for you, just mark them as ‘ignored’

Now that you’ve connected Printful to your Wix store using the Ecwid app, you can start your printing business by adding products from Printful’s catalog.

Here’s how to do it:

· Pick a product category and a product, for example you can pick Women’s Clothing/blouse/short sleeve chiffon

· Configure the design of the product by selecting sizes and colors

· Upload the artwork and resize the image, and then position it where you want it on the product

· Select the main mockup image

· Edit the description of the item by creating a product title and short blurb about it

· Select a markup price. Printful will auto-configure pricing and calculate the profits you can expect

· Submit the product to your store and list it as a regular store catalog product in your storefront

Related Questions

Why can’t I see my Ecwid products on Printful?

If you have an Ecwid account with existing products, it can be connected to Printful, but your products will only show in Printful if they have product variants.

Business and higher tier plans can access the Product Variations feature, so if you’re not able to access it, upgrade to a higher plan. If you’re on the Venture plan, you need to define color or size in product options.

All other products created with the product push generator in Printful automatically have variants.

How are orders synced between Ecwid and Printful?

If you placed orders with Printful products, they should have Paid payment or Awaiting Processing fulfilment statuses to sync with Printful. If you didn’t connect your PayPal or credit card with your Printful account, and the wallet is empty, orders will end up as Failed instead of going to fulfilment.

You can manually confirm the order in the Failed status.

Orders are synced every 15 minutes, but for them to come through to Printful, it could take up to an hour.

Can I sell products in a different currency?

Printful detects your store’s currency automatically, and converts the matching retail price. You can always adjust the conversion rate by going to your Ecwid Control Panel settings>General>Regional settings.

For products leaving the U.S., Printful is legally required to list the pricing on each package, so the packing slip shows the pricing in USD. Printful will convert your currency to USD using the current exchange rate. However, for orders sent within the U.S., pricing isn’t show on the packing slip.

What Print On Demand Companies Does Wix Integrate With?

Wix integrates with some top print on demand companies. From the Wix app market, there are six print on demand apps. This includes Printful, Printify, Gelato, Shirtee, Wix, and MyTshirt.

All of these print on demand apps are free to install. You have to have your Wix website setup and also create an account on the print on demand platform before you can link them both.

What Dropshipping Companies Does Wix Integrate With?

You can find all Wix’s dropshipping integrations from the Wix app market. There are 11 apps in total. This includes Modalyst, Spocket, 365Dropship, Syncee, Syncee for suppliers, Importify, Doba, DropCommerce, Dsers, CJDropshipping, and Shirtsy Dropship.

Most of these apps are free to install and use but the major ones are not. You’ll have to pay monthly subscriptions. It’s also noteworthy that most of the dropshipping platforms that Wix integrates with also work for print on demand business. Printify and Printful are good examples.

Is Wix Dropshipping Free?

Wix is a website builder that you can use to build any website and not a dropshipping platform. This means that you can build a dropshipping website with Wix but the platform itself remains just a website builder like WordPress.

To dropship with Wix, you must connect with a supported dropshipping platform. As a result, the charge for dropshipping with Wix depends on the platform you’re using. As already stated, some of the dropshipping apps are free to install while others require subscriptions.

For example, you can install Modalyst, Syncee, Doba, and DropCommerce for free, amongst others. However, you must pay a monthly subscription for dropshipping services like Sprocket, 365Dropship, and Importify.

Does Wix take a percentage of sales?

Wix will charge you for sales if you make use of Wix Payments to receive payment from customers.

As a native payment system, Wix Payments is the simplest way to get paid on your dropshipping or print on demand store.

What you’re charged for isn’t a percentage of sales but simply the transaction processing fee. The exact fee depends on your region:

• EU Countries: 1.9% of the transaction amount + 0.30 EUR
• Switzerland: 2.3% of the transaction amount + 0.30 CHF
• United Kingdom: 2.1% of the transaction amount + 0.20 GBP
• USA: 2.9% of the transaction amount + 0.30 USD
• Canada: 2.9% of the transaction amount + 0.30 CAD

You’re still free to use any third-party payment provider for your dropshipping store. Third-party payment options also have associated transaction fees.

What Is The Difference Between Dropshipping And Print On Demand?

Dropshipping is a business model where a merchant buys items from a third-party supplier who then sends them directly to customers.

For example, you have an online store and a consumer visits it and buys listed products. You will then send the order to your dropshipping provider who subsequently purchases the product on behalf of your customer. The dropshipper then packages and dispatches the product to the end-customer.

Print on Demand (POD) is a process where your designs are printed on products only as orders come in and in the quantities requested. Like dropshipping, you are provided with flexibility regarding products that will be supplied to your customers.

In essence, the only difference between print on demand and dropshipping is the printing (or product customization) process.

Wrap-Up

We hope you now know how to integrate Wix with Printful using the steps we’ve described in detail in this guide.

The Ecwid app offers a professionally designed ecommerce store, which together with Printful service helps you sell custom print products with little effort.