Effortlessly Transfer Designs for POD Success: A Guide from Canva to Printify to Etsy
Print-on-demand is a hot side hustle for a lot of reasons
Creating and selling custom products with no inventory or shipping hassles is easy.
Since another company handles all the details, you can focus on the creative side.
You can reach a huge market through POD platforms.
You have a low-risk entry into e-commerce which can turn into a hella profitable business.
This study shows that 96.3 million active buyers shopped on Etsy in 2021, up 17.6% YoY
But there are quite a few steps along the way, and questions may come up.
Like this one:
How do I move from Canva to my Etsy store?
I do this stuff every day, I make this shit happen. So if I explain this and you still aren’t quite there, let’s talk.
So, let’s get to it.
Here are your step-by-step instructions to transfer your designs from Canva to Printify to Etsy.
Let’s start with Canva:
You’re in Canva, looking at the cool design for a t-shirt you want to download.
Go up to the SHARE button, click it.
Click on DOWNLOAD.
Keep it as a PNG and click on TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND.
Select the page you want.
Click DONE.
Click DOWNLOAD.
Now to transfer from Canva to Printify
From their catalog, pick the t-shirt you want to attach the design to.
Click START DESIGNING.
Click MY DEVICE.
Choose the image you downloaded from Canva.
Add it to your selected t-shirt.
Click SAVE PRODUCT.
Once you have your design on your t-shirt, optimize the title and description of it. Remember, you want to have a searchable design, so optimize it for SEO.
When you’re in the description field, try to answer any questions someone might have about your product to lessen the barrier of purchase. They should be able to read your description, look at all your awesome photos and say, “I’m ready to buy!”
Pricing is a whole other ballgame, but it’s not hard. If you want more help with this, click here to watch a video on how I set my pricing on Printify.
Once you’ve completed all these steps, you can click on PUBLISH, and Printify will automatically add this shirt to your connected Etsy shop.
Now to add your Printify custom product to your Etsy shop
Remember that you always want to check and see what’s selling hot on Etsy before you work on a design. EverBee is a great way to find the best items to sell on Etsy, and it only takes seconds.
Be creative and make a mockup for your t-shirt. I like to do a combination of lifestyle images as well as flat-lays.
If you’re working with an article of clothing, it helps to add a sizing chart in case anyone has any questions.
Adjust the thumbnail of the image, so it looks awesome.
Attributions on Etsy are next. These are Etsy’s way of doubling down on your exposure, giving you more opportunities to gain sales through their search optimization.
You’ll work within categories, colors, sizes, fabric patterns, sleeve length, neckline, style, occasion, and tags. With tags, don’t use the same words you used in your description or your title; choose new ones to give you an extra opportunity to grow.
Once you’re done with ALL OF THIS, you will have a highly-optimized listing on Etsy, a platform that within 5 years, revenue has increased at an average annual rate of 107.6% based on this study from Capital One Shopping.
PHEW!!!
That is a lot of information, but if you want to make a profitable PASSIVE INCOME business using Print on demand, you have to do the hard work!
I created a video series as a step-by-step guide to Print on Demand on Etsy. I’ve linked to each video below so you can watch them at your own pace and learn even more from the successful step-by-step process I have built over the time I’ve worked in POD.
Step by Step Print on Demand on Etsy
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
