Honest comparison

Printer's Friend vs Shopify

Ecommerce storefront. Here's how we stack up.

Keep Shopify if you sell a fixed catalogue of stock designs. Add Printer's Friend if you also do custom decoration work with artwork, approvals and production stages.

Shopify sells products. It does not run a decoration shop: no screens, no pretreat, no approvals, no press schedule. Shops that try to force it end up with a stack of apps and still key orders into a spreadsheet. Printer's Friend runs the shop and gives you branded stores and campaign pages for the selling part.

On pricing

We publish our own pricing on the pricing page, in your currency. We do not quote Shopify's numbers here, because we have not verified them recently and a stale figure is worse than none .

When Shopify is the better choice

Shopify is the better fit if you are primarily a retail brand selling finished goods and decoration is only your own production.

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Already on Shopify?

Run both: keep the Shopify storefront and use Printer's Friend for custom work, or move your product catalogue in by CSV. We do it for free in your first onboarding session.

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Printer's Friend vs Shopify: questions

Can I use Printer's Friend alongside Shopify?
Yes. Many shops keep Shopify for stock designs and use Printer's Friend for custom and contract decoration work.

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