An interesting quirk about setting up a store onEtsy is that it’s part of the store creation process, you need to have a product first. Which is why, for those of you that haven’t already, we need to get started by actually creating an account with Printify. It’s one of my favorite print on demand apps. I usually recommend that beginners start with this app, as you can get very high quality products printed here for much lower prices than the alternative at Printful.

In my Shopify video series, I start everyone off first by creating aShopify account and then creating a Printify account. However, for starting an Etsy store, I recommend doing the opposite. And that’s because it’s part of the process of creating an Etsy account. As I said, you need to add in product listing before you can finish creating your store.

And so that is why, if you haven’t already, we’re going to set up a Printify account and then create a product in it so that we can then add that product while we are setting up our store. But of course, if you’ve already watched the ShopifyTutorial video series and you already have a Printify Account and you already have products in it, you can go ahead and skip this video.

But if you haven’t watched that video and you need to do that, I’ll have a link to Printify in the description. Please note that it is an affiliate link, which means that I may get a commission if you click on it and then purchase something. Using it is entirely optional,but it’s always appreciated so thank you.

But for now, let’s get started, and I’m going to show you just how easy it is to do this.

So let’s go ahead and create our Printify Account if we don’t have one already. So just come and 

click on the signup button.

You’ll be able to register with either your Google Account or you can enter in an email address and a password and create one that way, which is the way that I personally opted to do it. But either way, it’s absolutely fine. And of course, it goes without saying, make sure you choose a strong password to protect your account.And then you just need to come and click and prove that you’re not a robot, and then you can sign up.

Now, once it’s finished loading up and creating our account, it is going to require that we complete a little survey.This little survey doesn’t help us at all. It just simply helps Printify its own internal marketing team, gather data, so you can fill this in however you like. However, you do have to answer every single question. Here, there is no skip button. I hope that one day they do add in a skip button, but I don’t expect it anytime soon.

Now in here, you want to come and click on the Start designing button. Because we can’t connect our store to Etsy yet, we have to actually have an Etsy store first. And we don’t want to order a sample.

So on here, you just go through and you choose the products that you like.

Now, there is a particular type of t-shirt that I chose. So if you were just setting up your own store on, say, Shopify, I’d tell people that they should choose the right t-shirt brand for them.

For Etsy, I’d have a very strong recommendation to choose the Balakana 3001 t-shirt because it’s a t-shirt that’s most popular with Etsy customers, because it’s made with wrapped certification, which means that it’s made in an environmentally friendly way, while being low-cost and also being really comfortable. They’re really comfortable to wear. So this is easily the most popular t-shirt with Etsy customers.

Once you’ve chosen your product, you just come and upload the design that you created onto it. Select My devices.

Then select the image file for your design.Drag and drop it to the t-shirt design area.

And then you want to come in and you want to choose the different variations of it if the product has different variations. So for this one here, there are different variations with colors, so you can choose different types of t-shirts. I usually recommend selecting a maximum of five. If you select too many colors, customers can get easily overwhelmed. It’s been well studied with marketing psychology ,so choose your five favorite colors. And black is easily the most popular color by far. If your design can be printed onto black, please sell it in a black version. Black easily outsells any other color, and then you can just come and save it.

And also, by the way, when it comes to creating t-shirts within America, Monster Digital is easily my favorite print-on-demand provider here on Printify.

So you can pretty much ignore all of the Product Description. I would, however, recommend giving it a title just so that you can easily identify it in the future when you’re using the Printify app.

And the one thing you don’t want to ignore is the price. It’s really quick and easy to update the pricing of your t-shirts now, so I’ve got a whole video on pricing if you would like to check it out.

Now Printify is going to ask us if we want to connect this to an external store. Sadly, we can’t because we don’t yet have our Etsy account. But we will soon and we will connect it later.

So we’ve created our product so we’ll be able to use this to set up an Etsy store. When we do, we’re going to need to add in a picture of our product. So if you don’t have a picture for it, this is a good opportunity just to grab one right now. You can just save this. And when we’re setting up our dummy listing for this product, when we’re creating our Etsy store, you can then use that picture for free.

But for now, we’re going to come and click on ‘my account’. Then click ‘Dashboard’.

Click on ‘Add details’.

Now, here you need to give some information to Printify. This is not information. It’s going to be disclosed to your customers.

When you purchase a product from Printify, they’re going to invoice you for the product that you’ve purchased.So they need to have some information to create those invoices.And so that’s what you’re giving them here.This is information that you’re going to Printify so that they can create invoices for you, not for your customers.

And once we filled this out, the next thing that we need to give Printify to get started with is a form of payment.And that’s because when a customer purchases an item from us on Etsy, etsy is the one that collects the money, not Printify. So Printify has no access to that money .So they have to still pay for the item that the customer orders. So to do that, they use either PayPal balance, which you can add to your account, you can top it up with PayPal, or they use a card, a credit card or a debit card. A credit card is easily the simplest solution,and it’s also the best solution if you want to maximize the value that you’re getting. So this is how I get a huge amount of free air miles so that I can fly business class,first class, and then I can fly my family around the world in business class and first class. Massively reduced prices, because I am getting a ton of air miles. Because every time a customer purchases a product from me with a print on demand app,my credit card is charged for that sale. And then I get to earn credit card rewards on that. And so what will happen is that a customer will pay you money on Etsy. Etsy’s payment processor will be processing that money, and it will then distribute that to your bank account.

But in the meantime, what you can do is you can use your credit card to purchase the products for the customer and then Etsy will then deposit the money that the customer paid into your bank account. You can then use that money to pay off the credit card bill. And then you’ve incurred no interest because you paid off your credit card bill well before it’s due and you’ve got them to get extra bonuses. You can get cashback bonuses or you can get credit card rewards bonuses for free. So that’s why I highly recommend credit card if you can. But you can also just use a debit card if you have that. 

Or you could choose to add money to your account with PayPal. It’s up to you.Either way, you’re going to need some form of payment. Once you’ve gone ahead and you’ve added in that,it’s time to move on to the next step.