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title: 'How to Start Print on Demand with Zero Money'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hjkOP30s_E'
video_id: '-hjkOP30s_E'
date: 2026-07-12
duration_sec: 652
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# How to Start Print on Demand with Zero Money

> Source: [How to Start Print on Demand with Zero Money](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hjkOP30s_E)

## Summary

This video provides a beginner-friendly guide to starting a print-on-demand (POD) business with no upfront capital. The host demonstrates how to create simple product designs using patterns from Creative Fabrica and sync them with Printify for production and fulfillment.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Print on Demand** [00:00] — Print on demand is a business model where you partner with a print provider to sell white-label products with your designs. Orders are printed and shipped directly to customers, requiring no inventory or trips to the post office.
- **Choosing a Print Provider: Printify** [01:38] — Printify is a free platform to source products and print providers. It offers categories like mugs, home decor, and travel accessories. The host recommends choosing a print provider with a rating of at least 8.8.
- **Designing with Canva and Creative Fabrica** [03:42] — Use Canva to create designs. Source patterns from Creative Fabrica, ensuring they have a POD license for commercial use. The host demonstrates dragging a pattern into Printify's design tool and using the 'create pattern' feature.
- **Previewing and Adding Text** [07:03] — Preview the product mockup to see how the design looks. Add custom text or additional designs on top of the pattern using Printify's custom text tool.
- **Selling on Etsy or Other Platforms** [08:43] — Sync your Printify store with e-commerce platforms like Etsy, Shopify, or WooCommerce. Etsy is recommended for beginners due to built-in traffic. Orders are automatically sent to Printify for fulfillment.

### Conclusion

Print on demand is an accessible way to start an online business with minimal risk. By using free tools like Printify and Creative Fabrica, anyone can create and sell custom products without handling inventory or shipping.

## Transcript

hey guys welcome back to my channel I'm MAC if you're new here and today I'm going to share with you one of the easiest ways to get started with print on demand I'm going to share with you the full process what print on demand is
how you can go ahead and create products if you are completely new if you're intimidated by designing this is for you because I'm going to show you a very simple way to create designs for these print-on-demand products you can start
this with literally no Capital it does not require you to buy tons of inventory this does not require you to have to go to the Post Office literally at all if you're new to my channel I'm mag I post videos talking about eCommerce passive
income lots of different ways to make money online I have been an Etsy seller for almost four years now and I'm sharing all of my skill and knowledge with you here on this channel and on my other social platforms so if that
offer you can follow me and subscribe to the channel here on YouTube so if you're new to print on demand a little background is this is a process in which
you are partnering with a print shop or a print provider and you are going to be selling their white label products with your created designs on them so you will create designs place them on these white label products and sell and Market them
on your own online store and anytime that you get an order this order is it and ship it directly to your customer so this business model requires no
where we are going to Source our product and print provider that's going to be print packing and shipping for us and this is how we're going to choose the products that we want to sell so I'm on printfy's website right now as you can
see here it's super easy to create account and it's free so it will be something so you this doesn't cost you anything to create this account and you
all the categories for the products that they have so literally everything mugs glassware home decor bathroom car accessories travel accessories is a huge
one if you're completely lost and you don't know what kind of product you want to sell just go ahead and start pick something try it out and then later on you can go back and make changes to it but the overall idea of like starting is
the scariest so that's what you need to get past so I'm under the travel accessories option here so I'm going to click on this pouch and then once I'm here I'm going to analyze this product for a minute so I'm gonna see what it
has available so it has multiple sizes um and then it's assembled in the US and providers that are able to print it printify has tons of different print providers located all over the world so depending on your low location you can
find a print provider that's closest to you or closest to the market that you to a different country you can do that and this is the rating for The Print
provider so I never go below 8.8 that is my number for anytime I'm looking at 652 and the shipping is around four dollars so that means that the products
cost is around 11 production time is separate then shipping time so keep that in mind three is good because shipping is usually four to five so they should have their product within a week-ish depending on the day that they order so
information about the product that this is good to know so that when you create your listing on your eCommerce store you'll have a bunch of information about the product so I'm going to select start designing and here's going to be a
layout of where we need to create designs for the this product so I'm in canva this would be the exact dimensions of my artboard now we're
eliminate the step of a design platform so like again super going to be using patterns now when you pick products like this accessory pouch
it's super easy to just use and fill the space with a pattern and then we can get creative in adding text over that pattern if we want to or we can even offer custom listings with that pattern so it's a very simple way to create a
base design that we can later build off of and go on off of so we're going to be using a website called creative Fabrica creative Fabrica is an online Market that you can purchase font designs Graphics Interiors literally anything
you can think of and you can download it so any kind of digital product that you want to use sell create with we're going to be using that to Source our pattern so up the search bar here I'm going to type in Citrus patterns and then this is
going to bring up a bunch of different patterns that are already created for me now the main major and important thing to remember here is that we're going to be using this for print on demand so I'm going to go over and select this special
license for print on demand that way I know that the graphic I'm downloading can be legally used to sell on a print-on-demand product so I'm just going to scroll through here and find one that I like and then once I see one
I'm going to go ahead and click that again it's going to say that this has commercial and full print-on-demand usage rights aloud to download on Creative Fabrica you will need an account I do have a link for you below
where you can get your first 10 downloads for free they have so many different other features as well but I use this literally every day check it out you can download them and use them to get started so again if you use
your gold and you haven't spent any money yet so I'm gonna hit download and as you can see it goes right down here to my screen so now I'm just going to drag and drop these patterns directly in into the artboard here on printify for
that product that I was designing so you might be wondering okay but if I do the going to make this super easy so I'm going to bring this down to the size that I want it and then I'm gonna head over here and select the create pattern
button boom look at that I just it's so exciting I'm like such a nerd about this as you can see it just created a pattern for us and there's other options too so like the spacing if we wanted to you know change it up a little bit if you
want to change the grid pattern depending on what kind of pattern you have this one is a white background it's not transparent so it's kind of more pattern with one word or you know one design that you create so now I'm gonna
go up here and I'm gonna hit the preview button this is a mock-up for what the product is going to look like when printify prints it for us so this is what we're going to be showing owing our customer to say hey this is the product
like look at this beautiful and I've ordered and sold accessory pouches from printify I really like these I've done them with a personalized store I do have a video that completely goes over how to start your own custom stores if you want
wanted to buy this with their name on it so if you want to see how to do that definitely check out that video we could just sell this as is and Market it as a European summer travel cosmetic bag or if you want to get crafty we can head
back over and add another design on top of it so whether you have you know a because you can't really see it but you get the point of what I'm saying here
you can add in another design on top of the pattern or you can even add in some text because printify offers custom text so I'm going to click the custom text button oh necessities and then I'm just gonna play
really good about showing you when things are centered if they you know look good the quality all of that um you can even put Emojis and then what I'm going to do here to get a background on this is I'm going to hit copy and
then the one that's in the front I'm gonna make a different color so that these colors aren't really working with me very well but I'm just trying to show
you the overall idea of what you can do so an important step in all of this is where exactly you're going to sell your product now that we've created a product on printify we can sync this directly with our e-commerce store and they have
multiple different platforms that you can do this with under the store tab here you can see all of the different sales channels and e-commerce platforms that you can link with your printify store the easiest in my opinion is
starting out with Etsy Etsy is an e-commerce Marketplace which means they're already active buyers going to this marketplace with the intent to purchase something now you can absolutely create your own website using
Shopify or using Squarespace or woocommerce Bigcommerce but just know that there will be marketing involved to get people and traffic to your online store I I have a lot of other videos going in depth on how to actually set up
your store so I will leave those linked for you so that you can check those out to do the next step for this process once your store is synced with printify this makes the uploading process 10 times easier once you hit publish that's
going to go directly to your Etsy shop or whatever store you choose to connect and then anytime you receive an order on that shop it's going to be sent boom to printify they're going to get it and start creating your order so this is
create that product you just make the product online in a mock-up to then promote it and get sales and then printify is going to take care of the
rest you can then start uploading multiple products on your store and then looking into your SEO and pricing strategy so getting started and creating these designs in my opinion is the more difficult part because you're going to
sell to and all of that so like I said I will have those other videos available for you in the description to help you get started and of course both creative
Fabrica and printify will be linked in the description below as well I really below and I will see you in the next video