Launching an online print shop? Congrats! Below is a simple timeline to help you understand what goes into an online store beyond print and frame fulfillment. These steps may vary for each business depending on your unique offerings, existing business stage, and available resources.
Before Partnering with a Fulfillment Partner
- Step 1: Decide to Start Your Business: Congratulations! You've decided to sell your artwork online.
- Step 2: Build Your Business Foundation: Choose a business structure, register your business if needed, and create a plan for how you'll operate.
- Step 3: Plan Your Product Line: Decide on what products you'll sell, establish your pricing, and choose print sizes and frame options.
- Step 4: Build Your Online Store: Choose an e-commerce platform, such as Shopify. This is your home base for product offerings, marketing, content, checkout experience, and business management experience. If your framing and printing partner offers a website-specific integration, such as the Simply Framed Shopify App, it’s a good idea to look into platform compatibility before choosing a site host.
Partnering with Simply Framed
- Step 5: Choose Your Fulfillment Partner (This is where Simply Framed comes in): Order product samples, review production options, and pricing to determine which partner best fits your needs.
- Step 6: Connect Your Products to Simply Framed: If you're using Shopify, our Shopify App can automate your order fulfillment. You can schedule a Shopify App onboarding call and review our setup videos to learn how to:
- Connect your products
- Upload our generated product images
- Prepare your store for production
- Test your fulfillment workflow before launch
- Step 7: Launch Your Store: Once your products are connected and tested, you're ready to launch your website and start accepting orders. If you’ve completed your setup with the Simply framed Shopify app, you’ll simply approve orders and let us handle production while you focus on growing your business.
How Simply Framed Can Help
- Product samples
- Print and framing expertise
- Shopify App integration
- Production and drop-ship fulfillment
- Shipping and logistics
- Product pricing for our catalog
We Recommend Completing the Following Before Integrating with a Fulfillment Partner
- Business registration (if applicable)
- Shopify store setup
- Website design
- Product selection
- Retail pricing strategy
- Marketing and customer acquisition
Need additional support with launching your Shopify Site? Check out Shopify Partners
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