When working with Printed Simply and Customily, Customily will share your order information directly with Printed Simply via API. This means that for every order you receive of a product that has Customily, we will share with Printed Simply the order information (customer details, products in the order, etc.) with the unique print file needed to fulfill that personalization.
The whole product-to-order cycle is:
- Publish your product in Customily using a Printed Simply product as a base.
- Your customer places an order in your store.
- You'll immediately see the order information on your store's dashboard, including all the personalization information provided by Customily.
- Once the print file is ready (this usually takes around 30') Customily will send the order to Printed Simply via API, and you'll be able to see the order on your Printed Simply dashboard.
- Confirm the order on Printed Simply to start fulfillment.
- Printed Simply will start fulfillment and send updates as it goes. When the order is shipped, this update will be pushed to your Shopify order so your customer can receive their tracking information.
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Publish your product in Customily using a Printed Simply product as a base
By going to start, and choosing to Publish a New product, you can select Printed Simply as your POD and then pick a product to use. You can see more details on how to publish a product from a POD here.
Products published via Customily will be created with the following settings:
- Vendor: Products will have Printed Simply as the vendor. If you rather have your store appear as the vendor, you can change this on your product settings on Shopify.
- SKU: Products will be assigned an automatic SKU on Shopify. You can change this SKU whenever you want, as it won't affect the connection of the product with Printed Simply or order tracking.
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Location: The location of your product will be set to Customily. You can check this by going to your Shopify product and opening the product variants to see their stock information.
This setting is required for order tracking to work properly. Customily does not fulfill or hold any products in this location—your POD provider will still handle fulfillment and shipping. The Customily location exists so that we can update your orders with tracking information when Printed Simply starts shipping.
Important
Remember to add your Printed Simply API Key for orders to run smoothly to your account. You can learn how to connect your Printed Simply account to Customily here.
Seeing the order on your store
After a customer makes a purchase you'll see their order on your store's Dashboard instantly. There you will have all the customer's and product's information, including the personalization and the print file. Keep in mind print files take some time to be generated (approx 30').
Important
If you have your Shopify configured to fulfill orders automatically, your order might appear as rejected by Printed Simply at first. This is because we send orders to Printed Simply once the print file is ready, and this can take around 30 minutes, so at first Printed Simply won't find any order. But not to worry, once the print file is ready, and the order is created on Printed Simply, the fulfillment status will update automatically to accepted.
If you have your Shopify configured to fulfill orders manually, then you should wait until the print file is ready to request fulfillment, otherwise it will be rejected at first.
Seeing the order on Printed Simply
Orders are sent to Printed Simply when the print file is complete in Customily. This normally takes around 30 minutes. They are created with the same order number from Shopify, with all the customer's information, product information, and the print file necessary to fulfill the order.
Confirm the order on Printed Simply
Orders in Printed Simply will always be created as draft orders. This means you have to manually confirm each order to send it to production.
Fulfillment and tracking
Once you confirm the order, Printed Simply will start working on it. You'll see fulfillment updates on Printed Simply, as you would with any ordinary Printed Simply order.
When the order is fulfilled and shipping begins, you will see the tracking information on Printed Simply. This update will be automatically sent to your Shopify Order, together with the tracking information, so your customer can be aware that their order is being shipped and can track its progress.
Orders on Shopify will be marked as fulfilled, and the tracking number for the shipment will be added to them.