Open pirog opened 4 years ago
I've setup our t-shirt "product" on Printify: https://printify.com/ Doing fulfillment on a few orders for our Patreon sponsors now, so we'll see how it works out.
Printify has integrations with 7 different common ecommerce platforms for a store; I connected ours to a new Shopify account that we can use for an ecommerce front if we want. For $9/month we could just put buy links on the lando.dev site, their full store plans start at $29. Buy links may be enough if we are just doing t-shirts and a couple other things. I'll take a look and see what the experience looks like for both options.
The cool part about Printify is that they integrate with hundreds of printers, so you can choose between different printing vendors to find the best one for the specific product you want to sell...they have options for most product types you can think of (shirts/mugs/pillows/art/bags/etc)
Did a bit more research here on setting up a store for Lando with Shopify.
Fulfilling Sponsor Benefits w/Shopify
Unfortunately Shopify doesn't let you issue a discount code that gives free shipping and free item value, nor does it let you combine two discount codes. We can, however, give each sponsor a unique Gift Card code with $20 on it.
Fulfilling Sponsor Benefits w/Printify
Alternative would be fulfilling directly via Printify. I've done this for a couple people now; the process is very quick, but it would require use to still collect shipping info directly from sponsors.
With either approach, I think the real conversation is around whether a store will cannibalize potential sponsors. A $4/month sponsor is worth more to us than a one-time t-shirt buyer, since we make very little off of the t-shirt. However, people who buy a t-shirt and aren't sponsors would be good sponsorship campaign targets...it's possible the store is an initial step in the sponsorship funnel.
@reynoldsalec very solid. Thinking more broadly about our other Lando Alliance/Sponsor initiatives we could probably do this in two phases.
store.lando.dev
powered by shopify/printify/etc, get some tees, hoodies and mugs rolling thereThis would definitely help us fulfill the swag benefit more frequently and in less overall time
@reynoldsalec am i missing anything obvious above? interested in feedback
Currently it is difficult to stay up to date with new sponsors who have a swag benefit. We could get around this by
Benefits of this are fairly obvious: