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10 Best Print On Demand Companies For Custom Products In 2021

POD is one of the easiest online businesses you can start today

Here are 10 companies you can use to get printing and start making money ASAP

You'll want to bookmark this one

First, a quick PSA.

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Let's get started 💰

💸How to make money with POD

1 -Upload your design to the POD website
2 -Customer orders
3 -Order info is sent to POD company
4 -POD company ships product on your behalf
5 -You pay the POD company wholesale cost of product
6 -You keep difference in profit

Which POD companies?👇

# 1 Printful

How it works:
> Connect store to Printful
> Create images with their mock-up generator
> Customer orders
> Customer gets product with your branding so it looks like it came from your store

What you can print:
> Clothes
> Phone cases
> Wall Art
> Tote Bags
> Decor

Benefits of Printful:

✅High quality products and packaging
✅No minimum purchase
✅Allows you to save when you buy in bulk
✅Allows you to use your own packaging

#2 CustomCat

How it works:
> Install CustomCat on your store
> Design & Upload from dashboard
> Choose product type
> CustomCat prints, packages and ships for you

What you can print:
> Clothes
> Embroidery
> Backpacks
> Hats
> Jewelry
> Water bottles

Benefits of CustomCat

✅500+ customized products
✅No minimum order
✅Prints 24/7
✅More affordable than other POD companies

# 3 Printify

How it works:
> Choose a print provider (>90 locations in 5 countries)
> Choose and customize >250 products
> Customize your design
> Shipping done for you

What you can print:
> T-shirts
> Hoodies
> Mugs
> Accessories

Why Printify is great:
✅Excellent mockup generator
✅250+ unique products in 90 countries

# 4 Redbubble

How it works:
> Create design & Upload
> Millions of Redbubble users see your product on Redbubble's site
> Redbubble handles transactions, shipping and customer service

What you can print:
> Clothes
> Wall Art
> Stickers
> Stationary
> Home accessories

Pros and Cons of Redbubble

✅USP is their incredible marketplace
✅Unique designs by lots of talented artists
✅Socially responsible production practices
✅Worldwide shipping
✅24/7 customer service done for you

❌Does not integrate with your shopping cart

# 5 Zazzle

How it works:
> Sign up for account (designer or maker)
> Designer: Upload your design and sell on their marketplace
> Maker: Manufacture your products and sell on Zazzle

What you can print:
> Fabric
> Yard signs
> Business cards
> Playing cards
> Ping pong paddles

Benefits of Zazzle:
✅Listings get more traffic due to large base of shoppers
✅Tons of free tutorials to flatten your learning curve
✅1300+ product offerings

Cons:
❌Does not integrate with your shopping cart

# 6 Threadless

How it works:
> Upload design
> Choose from 100s of products for your store
> Get paid

What you can print:
> Clothes
> Notebooks
> Shoes
> Bags
> Phone cases
> Stickers

Benefits of Threadless

✅ Higher than average quality of marketplace
✅ Fully customizable designs
✅ Ships worldwide

Cons:
❌Does not integrate with your shopping cart

# 7 Society6

How it works:
> Upload design
> Choose product
> Sell
> Society6 takes care of rest

What you can print:
> Apparel
> Gifts
> Furnishings
> Artwork

Benefits of Society6
✅ Focuses specifically on Artists

Cons:
❌Does not integrate with your shopping cart

#8 Design by Humans
How it works:
Similar to the rest but more tailored to gamers, Youtubers and musicians

What you can print:
> Apparel
> Mugs
> Buttons
> Hats
> Phone cases

Benefits of Design by Humans:

✅Great for Youtubers, Gamers and Musicians
✅Good profit margins

#9 SPOD

How it works
> Customer orders from your Shopify store
> SPOD picks , prints and ships within 2 days

What you can print
> Classic T-shirts
> Aprons
> Baseball cards
> Socks

Pros and Cons of SPOD
✅Lightening fast product fulfillment (only 48 hrs)

❌Only supports Shopify
❌Limited product range

Lulu xPress

How it works:
> Upload files
> Create book for free
> Choose digital printing options

What you can print:
> Novels
> Photo books
> Cookbooks
> Artbooks
> Calendars
> Comic books

Pros of LuluxPress

✅Specialises in printing on paper
✅> 3000 format options

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Steve