Start your own shop at Cafepress!
You can start one for free selling your images and imagination on
anything from t-shirts and mugs to mouse mats and clocks.
What products can you sell?
You can place your own images and or text on a range of items, some of
which are illustrated in the pictures below.
For apparel products there are a range of sizes and colors you can choose from.
Start selling your products for free
Setting up a free Cafepress account is easy and free.
Once you have decided on a name for your shop, you can upload images and
choose which products you would like to sell with them.
You decide how much "markup" you would like on your products over the
"base price" and that's really all there is to it. No need to worry about checkouts
or postage, that's all handled by cafepress.
A free Cafepress shop is a great way to get started, but there are some
limitations with the free shop.
For example, if you have a number of images that you want to use, you can only
put one image on one particular product at a time. You can't say, have a range of
different images all on "mugs", because once one image is on a mug, then that's
it for that particular product line.
You can have one image and place it on all the different products available, but
if you want to include other images as well, your only choice is to de-select a
product with your original image to include your new image.
Overall though, the Cafepress free shop is a good way to "get your feet wet"
and learn the way Cafepress operates, and since it's FREE you have nothing to lose!
CafePress Premium Account
If you want more options for your shop, then the premium account is the best way to go.
Even the Cafepress premium account is affordable.
You have a range of payment options to suit you.
- $6.95 per month
- $18.45 for 3 months
- $34.95 for 6 months
- $59.95 for 1 year (only $5 per month!)
Be aware however that if you "upgrade" to a premium account, you can't go back
to the free one, so it pays to plan ahead, make sure you have planned what you
want to sell and how.
The Cafepress premium account is loaded features which help you manage your products, site look and product promotion.
The premium account offers are range of custom templates, so you can choose
your shop look and style easily.
The Cafepress premium account gives you a
completely customized shop with
more product choices, exclusive products and more marketing options.
Insert CafePress in your website
You can have your free or premium shop at cafe press, but wouldn't it be nice if you could host your shop on your own website?
Well, you can!
If you are using a CMS (Content Management Systems such as Druple, Joomla,
Dragonfly etc) some of these have additional Cafepress modules which once
installed host your shop in your site.
If you have a what I would call a "regular" html website, there are a couple of
scripts available fairly cheaply which will also "port" your cafepress store into
your website.
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cpshop
cpshop is an easy-to-install perl program that allows you to fully integrate
Cafepress store pages into your site.
cpshop is priced at $19.77 BUT you also have the option of having it installed
for you ($32.77) or even installed and customized with template creation ($67.77)
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CafeScripts 3
Another option is CafeScripts 3 which is priced at $25.00.
Why send visitors to CafePress to shop your inventory of items when you can
keep them on your own site? With CafeScripts you can integrate your items
right into your own web site. Customize your CafePress store to match your web
site's layout. No longer are you locked into passing potential customers over to CafePress web site just so they can browse your items. Use CafeScripts'
web-based administration to edit your custom store layout however you wish.
They also have an installation service available.
You can see a demo of CafeScripts 3 in action here
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PrestoGifto (products other than your own)
PrestoGifto lets you add products you like from the Cafepress site
to your website with a simple copy and past code.
You can have products from Cafepress on your website in minutes
just by signing up and following the simple 3 steps which are choosing
your products, choosing your format you want to use, and grabbing the
code and pasting it in a page where you want it to go.
There is also an option to add your Cafepress Commission Junction affiliate
code during signup, so you can earn commissions on the products you sell.
See an example of PrestoGifto in action below
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Cafepress Page Generator
Cafepress Page Generator is another way to incorporate Cafepress
products into your site. (products other than your own however)
Again, it's all just a matter of copy and paste.
This generator is a great way to add Cafepress products that suit your site
content and again, can earn you commissions on the products you sell.
You HAVE to imput your Cafepress PID (affiliate number) for this to work,
but if you're not a Cafepress affiliate it's easy enough to join here.
