WordPress Plugins to Make Your PrintCommerce Business Processes Easy
Are you a print service provider? Are you looking for one business solution which can handle everything? Should that include the product personalization? Should it integrate with web-to-print and e-commerce solution?
Then PrintCommerce is the one-stop business solution for all your needs as a print service provider.
PrintCommerce allows you to enable your printers so as to help you set up an online store allowing the user to design and preview your personalized products and any other merchandise online. The store owner gets ready-to-print files and the other order details to process and ship it to the respective customer. Examples include t-shirt, mugs, clocks, clothes, shoes and others.
The store owner can offer creative ideas for your personalization or even pre-designed products additionally to make the experience more appealing. Hence, it is a very easy solution for those who want an online business of “personalization and printing”.
About Product customization tool – The Product customization tool consists of:
- Storefront – this is the e-commerce storefront which helps the growth of the business through scalability and flexibility. The features of the storefront are – multi-store setup, an SEO friendly storefront, and a fast and responsive website.
- Easy quick editor – this is a mobile-friendly quick editor available for easy personalization.
- Design studio – a user-friendly and easily accessible design studio to make designing a fun activity to users. Whether the user wants to design from scratch or use predefined designs, design studio supports all.
- Store Admin – The main features include – helps to configure and manage the appearance of the website, design templates can be imported or built, and on-the-go print and ship facility.
- The Web to Print Admin – this admin and e-commerce admin are integrated and allows a single sign-in helping the store manager in managing the various important activities related to printing.
WordPress amalgamation
Businesses have been trying to run trade in the virtual globe using an application based software. WordPress has made this possible. WordPress has changed the perspective of businesses and taken them to new heights since it was developed. However, it is not possible to run WordPress without a developer. Hence, the services of WordPress developer have been taken into account for a healthy running off WordPress and for earning a little extra.
WordPress Plugins to Enhance Print Commerce Business
WordPress offers a number of plugins to enhance the PrintCommerce business. Let’s take a look at some of the WordPress plugins which help to enhance the PrintCommerce business:
1. WooCommerce
Before you plan to customize any product, it would be wise to build up your cart where you have the final list of products you are going to purchase. This plugin helps to set up your cart in flash of a time. It is available for free download. It has over 1000+ installations. This plugin is known for its flexibility, strength, an intuitive dashboard, it is customizable, compatibility with WordPress themes up to 4.7.3, PayPal gateway, Mijireh checkout and secure payments, social sharing and others.
2. The Web to Print Online Designer
It is a perfect example of print commerce business which allows you to design customer perfect product online. The plugin has received over 300+ active installations. It is compatible up to 4.7.3.
The plugin features include – ease of use, it is compatible with WooCommerce plugin, add text and curve the added text as the customer wants it, add-modify-delete art, upload images, allows free hand drawing, allows you to add QR code, layers customization, comes with a powerful help tool, preview option with zoom functionality, wide range of fonts available, mobile friendly, high response of 100% and many others.
3. The Web to Print Shop: uDraw
This is a powerful tool. It is a combination of the web to print technology and graphic designer. The plugins have 200+ active installations. It is compatible up to 4.7.3. The designer is accompanied with online designer tools. The users can hence create templates and customize products later. WooCommerce is strongly integrated with this plugin hence allowing you to sell prints or promotional items.
The main features include – you can upload pdf files by creating your own template and edit it on uDraw, SVG image file to editable image conversion, upload facebook images, you can filters for images and masks, layered pdf file after order, and integration with another web to print solutions.
4. The Web To PrintQ – Product Designer
If you want awesome personalized products, then Web To PrintQ is the extension you need for your WooCommerce plugin. This plugin extension has received 70+ active installs.
It’s features includes – 3D preview, product editor which is based on HTML5, drag and drop to create templates easily, ready-to-print production files, online editor which is mobile friendly, helpdesk and full support, integration with Instagram, facebook and splash, add and curve text, google fonts, and color picker which is easy to use.
5. WooCommerce DYMO Print
This plugin is used to print shipping addresses instantly on the DYMO label writer in your WooCommerce shop. It is compatible up to 4.6.4. It has 1000+ active installations. This plugin is a free version. A premium version WooCommerce DYMO Print Pro is available for € 25,00 and offers more support and options. It has English and Dutch localization.
6. WooCommerce PDF & Print
This plugin adds PDF, Doc and Print buttons to your WooCommerce Product Page thus allowing the user to save the file in.PDF and.Docx or.Doc format and also print them. It has 2000+ active installations. It is compatible up to 4.4.8.
The main features are – product details are saved as a pdf file or word document, all types of product attributes are included like simple, taxonomy and variable, it provides flexible options for saving your appearances and localize buttons and strings, Russian language documents have an extension to export to pdf file, prints template settings, and product details.
7. WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates
This is a premium WordPress plugin which comes at the cost of $42. It helps you to integrate your amazon affiliate links of products with your WooCommerce store. For instance, if you want to suggest about the latest fashion trends to your followers, with WooCommerce you can import more than 50 products at once. The information is downloaded first and then the image which makes it faster. It also supports product variations, so you can share anything say a bird feeder in varying colors and sizes.
The main features include – integration with WooCommerce, affiliate link allows you to import amazon products, Insane Import facility with up to 50+ products import at a time, import settings can be fine tuned, WooZone module for reporting, you can get reports by email, instant import, advanced search options for product search, price variation support, shortcodes for products, content spinner is automated, it is synched with amazon so you can get the price, description, and reviews of products instantly and others.
Since it is not a free version, it should be bought on codecanyon.net.
8. Fancy Product Designer WooCommerce Plugin
This plugin allows the customers to design the type of product they desire. This is a premium WordPress plugin available at $49.
The main features of this plugin includes – the customer can decide which product(no limit) and which part of it is to be customized, precision of product customization, any product fits in the customization list, layer system to keep track of designs applied, upload images from any device, PNG, JPG and SVG data formats are all supported, color picker tool, linking of colors is allowed, you can set up your own font library, any type of line can be created, images can be transformed as desired, images with grayscale can be applied, customization of user interface, set prices, assigning of set prices to every layer, can be used in any device and language and it available for some of the most popular platforms.
Since it is not a free version, it should be bought on codecanyon.net.
9. YITH WooCommerce Badge Management
It has received 5000+ installations and is compatible up to 4.7.3. This plugin allows you to create customized badges for your products and manages them. This plugin is known to have boosted the sales up to 55%. They actually act as highlighters, highlighting products and attracting customers to buy them.
The main features include – a panel to create badges and customize, the plugin comes with 5 image badges and YI themes graphic, and finally a menu to set the type of badge.
10. PitchPrint
This plugin provides the customer a user-friendly interface where the customer can create his/her own artworks for printing on Coffee mugs, Tshirts, and more. This plugin has 400+ installations. It is compatible up to 4.7.3. It runs on both WordPress and WooCommerce. It provides service to the customer while allowing them to create designs instantly. Hence, it allows the printing clients a DIY interface and gets what they do. It is an HTML5 based solution. It comes with pre-designed templates hence reducing the time consumed by customers to create their products. It’s a free plugin and can be integrated easily.
11. GrooveFX Product Designer
This plugin has less than 10 active installations. It is compatible up to 4.7.3. GrooveFX is a product designer which is easy to use and very reliable. It is mobile-friendly, responsive, and offers ready-to-print solutions.
The main features of this plugin are – 2200 references for your product and you can pick amongst them and sell, offers single and multi print products, text, photos, and clipart are available, works on all devices and in 8 languages, languages can be added on demand, offers a 300 DPI web-to-print system, has a quality controller with adjustment options, effective color picking, PDF, PNG and JPG files can be used and is output, curved text, number of web fonts, and a smart collage tool. The main advantages of this plugin are – easy to use, responsive, 16% average conversion rate, SaaS license – so pay is per actual sale, HTML5 and javascript are only used, and regular updates which happen automatically.
Conclusion
A PrintCommerce business has so many other options apart from what is discussed here. But these are mostly free of cost, hence reducing their costs incurred. So, it is up to the PrintCommerce business to decide as to which plugin to use based on their needs and services provided by them.
So which plugin or plugins are you planning to install for your business today?
Tomorrow I will try somebody, they seem interesting.