Shopify, ShipStation, Printful to connect Etsy, Amazon and Ebay - mhulse/mhulse.github.io GitHub Wiki

See also: Printful guideline cheat sheet

Accounts needed

Create accounts at:

Etsy

Create a unique name; if you plan on selling a lot of product then pick names that have keywords related to your store. Visit this page and follow the steps. In order to create new shops, you’ll want to create new user accounts; to make it easier on you, make use of an e-mail address alias (this will allow you to have one e-mail account for all your shops).

Shopify

Setup a credit card.

Visit the Shopify App Store and install the ShipStation plugin. This will connect your Shopify account to ShipStation.

ShipStation

About

First, watch this video and this video for an overview (the latter explains how to get things set up with Printful and ShipStation).

You connect your store to Shipstation, then connect Shipstation to your Printful account.

Shipstation is a platform that collects all of your orders and can keep track of when they’re shipped. They integrate with many other platforms to make online sales easier.

Printful uses ShipStation’s system to connect your selling channels like eBay, Etsy, Amazon, etc - ShipStation imports your newly requested orders from all those channels and brings them into its interface. Then Printful makes a call to ShipStation’s API and grabs all the order info so they can then see it in the Printful system.

Setup

Login to your account and connect to your desired marketplaces (e.g., Ebay, Amazon, Etsy, etc.) by clicking on the Store Setup navigation link. Follow the steps to login/connect to the chosen marketplaces.

Now, generate an API key. Take note of the key and the secret.

Printful

First, check out this page for an overview of how Printful works with Shopify and ShipStation.

This video will show you how Printful works.

Also, read about their print guidelines.

Now connect to your ShipStation account via the Stores page.

Enter the ShipStation API key and secret and connect to a …