Printful vs Printify: which one fits your Shopify store?

Printful or Printify: which fits your store?

Look at Printful for one print standard across most orders, and at Printify for the larger catalog and a say in which printer makes each product.

From Printful's and Printify's own pages, read November 9, 2026.

Printful and Printify announced a merger in November 2024, and both still run as separate brands. So read each company's own Printful vs Printify page as written by one side of that deal.

Printful: how does it print and ship your orders?

A shopper orders one hoodie and expects it by the weekend. The printer decides whether it gets there, and how much of the sale you keep.

The Printful app makes most products in seven centers of its own, in 2 to 5 business days on average, then ships shirts to the US in 3 to 6 business days, per its rate tool.

Over 97% of orders ship within 5 business days, and more than half within 3, per Printful's help center. A few products go to partner facilities in Brazil, Japan and Australia. Some take longer, such as knitwear at 9 to 16 business days in November and December.

Its shipping page lists $4.95 to send one shirt to a US address and $2.20 for each extra shirt. Hats, mugs and posters always ship in their own parcel, and an order split into several parcels costs more to ship.

You pay Printful by card or PayPal when the order lands in your Printful account. Shopify pays out your sale on its own schedule.

Printful's pricing page lists 602 products on the Free plan, which costs nothing a month. Growth, its paid plan, costs $24.99 a month, takes up to 33% off product prices and turns free once you reach $12,000 a year in sales.

Best for: a store that wants most orders printed to one standard, with branded packing.

Printify: how does it print and ship your orders?

A design sells, and you want it on 30 more products. The catalog you pick from decides whether you can.

The Printify app sends each order to a print provider in its network, one you choose or one Printify picks, and most orders ship within 2 to 7 business days.

The option that picks for you is called Printify Choice. Providers differ in location, product price, shipping rates and how their colors come out. Printify says it scores each one from 0 to 10 on defects, production speed and shipping.

While you choose, each provider shows its average production time over the last 30 days. Printify Choice averaged 1.3 days on the Bella+Canvas 3001 for US orders on the day we read it.

Express Delivery, Printify's faster option, reaches US addresses in 2 to 3 business days. For now it covers two tees with a front print, the Bella+Canvas 3001 and the Gildan 5000, and leaves out Alaska and Hawaii.

Your card or Printify balance is charged when the order goes to production, 24 hours after it arrives unless you change the setting. That day is your window to fix or cancel it. Printify can't take money from your Shopify sales, so the sale and the printing cost are two separate payments.

Printify's pricing page lists more than 2,000 products and over 70 print providers. The Free plan covers 5 stores. Premium, the paid plan, costs $39 a month or $24.99 a month billed yearly, takes up to 33% off new products and covers 10 stores.

Best for: a store that wants the larger catalog and a say in which printer makes each product.

Printful vs Printify prices: what does one tee cost you?

On the free plans the same Bella+Canvas 3001 tee started 4 cents apart, and Printify Premium takes $2.25 off it for $39 a month.

Starting prices on both sites for one Bella+Canvas 3001 tee with one print, read November 9, 2026. Larger sizes and some colors cost more. The totals are ours, before taxes and Shopify fees.

At $2.25 saved per tee, monthly Premium pays for itself at about 18 tees a month, or 12 on yearly billing. Printful's Growth plan promises up to 33% off, but its price on this tee wasn't shown to us, so ask for it before you compare. Both add 40 cents to every US order until January 17, 2027.

Set your price from the cost, not the other way round. Our markup vs margin page shows the math, and profit margin explains what you keep.

What will your shoppers pay for shipping on Shopify?

Both apps add their own shipping profiles to Shopify, and the profile, not the printer, decides what your checkout charges.

A shipping profile is the set of rates Shopify applies to a group of products. Install either app from the Shopify App Store, and each adds its flat rates as a profile by default.

Printful's help page says a shopper who buys two items from one profile pays shipping on one of them. Printful still bills you $7.15 to send two tees to the US, so the second tee's $2.20 comes out of your margin.

Live rates, worked out for each order, need Shopify's carrier-calculated shipping. Shopify's Help Center says it comes included on Advanced and Plus, and Grow can add it for a monthly fee or with annual billing.

Free shipping over a set amount needs your own Shopify profile, assigned to the products inside the app. The printer still bills you its shipping, so that cost moves into your product price. Our shipping rates guide covers profiles and free shipping minimums, and the free-shipping bar guide shows the goal in the cart.

Printful and Printify reviews: what do stores say?

On the Shopify App Store, Printful has 4.8 stars from 4,018 reviews and Printify 4.7 from 4,362, read November 9, 2026.

From each app's Shopify App Store listing, read November 9, 2026.

Shopify's summary of each app's reviews names easy setup, the mockup tools, print quality, shipping and a wide product range for both. Printify's adds the choice of print providers and running several stores from one account.

Order a sample before you list a product. Printful takes 20% off one sample order a month on Free and 25% on Growth, with up to 3 items in it. Printify's providers each tune their own color, so a sample shows one printer's work, not every printer's.

Can you use Printful and Printify in one store?

Yes, each app handles only the orders for its own products, and each keeps its own shipping profile.

A cart with items from both apps, or a Printful tee and hoodie in different profiles, is charged shipping once per profile and arrives in separate parcels. To fix a size or an address, change the order in the app before it goes to production, not in the Shopify order alone.

Starting from zero? Our print-on-demand guide covers picking products and pricing them, and how to sell clothes online covers the store around them. Selling on Etsy too? Printify and Printful both connect to Etsy, and our Etsy vs Shopify fees guide shows what each takes from a sale.