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Product Customizer Apps for UK Print-on-Demand Sellers

For UK print-on-demand sellers on Shopify, Teeinblue and Customily name the most POD providers, including Printify, and Teeinblue also Prodigi, which prints in the UK. Zakeke adds 3D, Zepto is the cheapest entry plan, and Printcart gives print-ready files without a POD connection. All bill in US dollars. Checked 2026-10-26.

Huy Nguyen (David), CEOBy Founder & CEOPublished Updated Checked on
Cover: product customizer apps for UK print-on-demand sellers, Teeinblue, Customily, Zakeke, Zepto and Printcart

Key takeaways

  • Teeinblue names Prodigi and Printify among its integrations; both say they print in the UK. Customily names Printify, Zepto names Gelato and Printful.
  • Every app here bills in US dollars, so the pound cost of a plan moves with the exchange rate.
  • Teeinblue and Customily charge $49 a month plus a fee per item that falls as sales grow; Zakeke takes a percentage per sale.
  • Showing prices with VAT included is a store setting in Shopify and WooCommerce, not a customizer feature.
  • Printcart, our product, gives print-ready files but names no POD provider integration on its app pages.
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Printcart wrote this comparison and is one of the products compared. Every statement about another company was checked on that company's own pages or its marketplace listings; anything we could not check there is left out.

How do they compare side by side?

Each statement about another product links to the public page it comes from (numbers refer to the sources list).

Comparison by criterion
CriterionTeeinblueCustomilyPrintcartZakekeZepto Product Personalizer
Print-on-demand providers namedMerchize, CustomCat, merchOne, ShineOn, Dreamship, Printful, Printify, Gelato, Printway, Printbelle and Prodigi.[4]Merchize, Posterflow, JetPrint, merchOne, teelaunch, Gooten, Printify, Printful, Gelato, ShineOn, CustomCat and Printbelle, among other integrations.[6]No print-on-demand provider named on the app pages; orders and files go to the Printcart Dashboard, and the Printcart Cloud Print API can pass orders to automated fulfillment.[2]CustomCat and Printful, among the apps its listing works with.[8]Gelato, Printful and ShineOn, among the apps its listing works with.[9]
Entry plan, fees and limitsBlue at $49/month plus $0.10 to $0.40 per order item: no fee on the first 100 orders a month, $0.40 per item for 101-1,000 orders, $0.20 for 1,001-10,000 and $0.10 above; unlimited stores, options and products, as of 26 October 2026.[5]Customily Plan at $49/month plus a fee per item sold: $1 for items 1-100, $0.50 for 101-1,000, $0.25 for 1,001-10,000 and $0.10 above; unlimited stores, options and products, as of 26 October 2026.[7]Premium at $49/month billed monthly or $299/year billed yearly, with up to 100 products with the public designer and 500 order-upload file downloads per month, as of 26 October 2026.[3]Starter at $69.90/month or $712.98/year, plus a 1.9% transaction fee on products sold via Zakeke (minimum 2 cents), with up to 10 published products and a "Powered by Zakeke" label, as of 26 October 2026.[8]Starter at $9.99/month with 100 custom orders a month and uploads of up to 10 files of 10 MB each; no per-sale fee printed on the card, as of 26 October 2026.[9]
Free plan or trialFree for Shopify development stores only; a 14-day trial on other Shopify plans.[4]Free for development stores only; a 9-day free trial for other stores.[6]Free plan with an online designer on the storefront, limited products and storage and CMYK print-ready export.[3]Free for development stores only; a 14-day free trial on Starter.[8]15-day free trial on each listed plan.[9]
Print files and customer uploadAuto-generates a print-ready file for each order.[4]Unlimited ready-to-print file exports, with automatic file generation in several formats.[6]Print-ready SVG, PDF, PNG and JPG files for every personalized order; customers can upload images.[1]Each order is converted into a production-ready file for print, engraving or laser cutting.[8]Multi-file upload, up to 10 files of 10 MB each on Starter.[9]
Billing currencyAll charges are billed in USD, every 30 days.[4]All charges are billed in USD, every 30 days.[6]Prices listed in US dollars; a Shopify store subscribes through Shopify.[3]All charges are billed in USD, every 30 days.[8]All charges are billed in USD, every 30 days.[9]

What are the best product customizer apps for UK print-on-demand sellers?

For a UK print-on-demand seller on Shopify, the best customizer app is one that passes orders to a provider printing in the UK and prints the customer's design without rework. Teeinblue names Prodigi and Printify, both of which say they print in the UK, and Customily names Printify. Zakeke adds 3D, Zepto Product Personalizer has the lowest entry price, and Printcart, our product, gives print-ready files but names no POD provider integration.

We compared Teeinblue, Customily, Zakeke, Zepto Product Personalizer and Printcart on five criteria that decide what a UK seller pays and where the order is printed: the print-on-demand providers each app names, the entry plan with its fees and limits, the free plan or trial, print files and customer upload, and the currency of the bill. Every competitor statement links to the vendor's own pricing page or Shopify App Store listing, checked on 26 October 2026.

Printcart is our product: this site, solution.printcart.com, is run by Netbase JSC, the company behind Printcart, and the Printcart apps live on www.printcart.com. Printcart is held to the same criteria and its limits are listed, including the one that matters most here: its app pages name no ready connection to a print-on-demand provider.

Which UK print-on-demand providers do the apps connect to?

Teeinblue's Shopify listing names Prodigi and Printify among its print-on-demand integrations, alongside Printful, Gelato and others, and Customily's listing names Printify, Printful and Gelato among its own. Zepto Product Personalizer's listing names Gelato, Printful and ShineOn, and Zakeke's listing names CustomCat and Printful among the apps it works with, as of 26 October 2026.

A named integration does not say where the order is printed. For UK production, check the provider's own pages. Three of them state it today:

Which UK print-on-demand providers do the apps connect to?
ProviderProduction in the UK, on its own siteStore platforms it namesCustomizer apps here that name it
Prodigi"Our in-house manufacturing facilities are located in the UK, the US and mainland Europe" (about)Etsy, Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace, Wix, BigCommerce (home page)Teeinblue
PrintifyA network of UK-based print-on-demand fulfilment centres (UK page)Shopify, Etsy, Wix "or other major platforms"Teeinblue, Customily
Inkthreadable"All products are printed and packed in the UK. Never rerouted." (home page)Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, TikTok Shop, Order Desk, Big Cartel, Wix, SquarespaceNone of the five

Gelato and Printful are named by several apps, but we could not read a current statement of UK production on their own sites on 26 October 2026, so they are left out of this table. Ask any provider which of its products are printed in the UK: a provider with a UK site may still print some products elsewhere.

What do the apps cost a UK seller?

Every app here bills in US dollars: the Shopify App Store listings of Teeinblue, Customily, Zakeke and Zepto each say "All charges are billed in USD", and Printcart's store-plans page lists its prices in dollars. The pound cost of each plan therefore moves with the exchange rate, and fees per item or per sale come on top.

What do the apps cost a UK seller?
App and entry planPriceFee per item or saleLimits on the planSource
Teeinblue Blue$49/monthNone on the first 100 orders a month; $0.40 per item for 101-1,000 orders, $0.20 for 1,001-10,000, $0.10 aboveUnlimited stores, options and productsTeeinblue pricing, listing
Customily Plan$49/month$1 per item for items 1-100, $0.50 for 101-1,000, $0.25 for 1,001-10,000, $0.10 aboveUnlimited stores, options and productsCustomily pricing, listing
Zakeke Starter$69.90/month or $712.98/year1.9% on products sold via Zakeke (minimum 2 cents)Up to 10 published products; "Powered by Zakeke" labelZakeke listing
Zepto Starter$9.99/monthNone printed on the plan card100 custom orders a month; 10 files of 10 MB per uploadZepto listing
Printcart Premium$49/month or $299/yearNone printed on the plan cardUp to 100 products with the public designer; 500 order-upload file downloads a monthPrintcart store plans

Prices as of 26 October 2026. The Shopify listings bill recurring and usage-based charges every 30 days. Teeinblue counts its tiers in orders and Customily in items sold, and Customily says its fee applies per unique personalized item sold, so the two fee ladders are not directly comparable at the same volume.

Bar chart: 12 months of each entry plan before fees, lowest for Zepto, highest for Zakeke
Data: each app's Shopify App Store listing or pricing page, monthly price × 12, checked 2026-10-26.
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Twelve months of each entry plan, billed monthly and before fees, run from $119.88 for Zepto Starter to $838.80 for Zakeke Starter; Teeinblue, Customily and Printcart Premium each come to $588. Billed yearly, Zakeke Starter is $712.98 and Printcart Premium $299.

How do you show VAT-inclusive prices in pounds?

Showing prices with VAT included, in pounds, is a setting of your store platform, not of the customizer app. Shopify's tax-inclusive pricing lets you include or exclude taxes in product prices for each market, and says customers in the United Kingdom expect prices inclusive of their local VAT. Check the price the customizer adds for an option shows the same way.

In WooCommerce, the prices entered with tax setting decides whether you type prices with or without tax. WooCommerce's own example is a UK store with a 20% rate: to sell a product at £9.99 including tax, choose to enter prices inclusive of tax and enter £9.99. Its documentation warns that mixing the three tax display settings can cause unexpected rounding.

For payouts, Shopify's supported payout currencies list GBP as the default for stores in the United Kingdom. Shopify's UK tax page adds that a UK business selling to EU countries needs to register with their tax authorities for a VAT number. Ask an accountant how VAT applies to your products; the app fees in dollars are a separate cost.

How to use Printcart with Shopify (video from the Printcart YouTube channel)This Printcart tutorial walks through adding Printcart to a Shopify store: installing the Printcart Shopify app, connecting the store to the Printcart Dashboard, importing products and enabling customization, setting up design zones and side templates, and turning on live previews and file uploads for customers. It ends with the order workflow and the premium features, such as templates, mockups and the Printcart API.

Which app fits which UK print-on-demand seller?

The right app depends on where your orders are printed. A seller who wants Prodigi or Printify to print in the UK can start with Teeinblue, whose listing names both; a seller already on Printify, Printful or Gelato can add Customily; Zakeke fits products that need 3D or virtual try-on; and Zepto fits a small catalogue on a tight budget.

Printcart fits a different UK seller: a print shop or brand that prints its own orders, or works with its own print partner, and wants a product designer that sends print-ready files with every order. Printcart's apps cover Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix, and the Printcart Cloud Print API can pass orders to automated fulfillment. Our guide to an online product designer with print-ready PDF output shows that set-up step by step.

For a broader view of Shopify apps, see the Shopify product customizer comparison, and for the provider side, Printful, Printify, Gelato or your own web-to-print store. A UK seller that wants the whole store built can start from the Shopify T-shirt store; the full-store packages start at USD 799 a year.

What should you check before you choose?

Install the app on a development store or trial first, connect the provider you plan to use, and place a test order with a design to see where it is printed and what file arrives. Then check the plan's caps and fees against your monthly orders, and set your store to show prices with VAT included before you launch.

Confirm current prices, fees and provider lists on each vendor's own page before you commit; they change, and this article was checked on 26 October 2026. If you move from one customizer to another later, Printcart's migration service covers stores leaving Customily, Zakeke, Teeinblue, Kickflip or a custom build.

Which one fits which business?

  • Teeinblue

    Teeinblue fits UK sellers who want to send orders to Prodigi or Printify from Shopify and who start under 100 orders a month, when no transaction fee applies.[4][5]

  • Customily

    Customily fits sellers who already use Printify, Printful or Gelato and want unlimited print-file exports, accepting a fee from $1 per item at low volume.[6][7]

  • Printcart

    Printcart fits UK print shops that print their own orders or have their own print partner and want print-ready files on Shopify, WooCommerce or Wix.[1][2]

  • Zakeke

    Zakeke fits sellers who need 3D, AR or virtual try-on and send orders to CustomCat or Printful.[8]

  • Zepto Product Personalizer

    Zepto Product Personalizer fits small Shopify stores that sell through Gelato, Printful or ShineOn and want the lowest monthly price.[9]

Frequently asked questions

Which customizer apps connect to UK print-on-demand providers?

Teeinblue's Shopify listing names Prodigi and Printify among its integrations, and Customily's names Printify. Prodigi says its in-house manufacturing is in the UK, the US and mainland Europe, and Printify says it has a network of UK-based print-on-demand fulfilment centres, as of 26 October 2026.[4][6][11][12]

Do Shopify customizer apps charge in pounds?

No. The Shopify App Store listings of Teeinblue, Customily, Zakeke and Zepto Product Personalizer each say all charges are billed in USD, and Printcart's store-plans page lists its prices in US dollars, so the cost in pounds changes with the exchange rate.[4][6][8][9][3]

How do I show prices with VAT included to UK customers?

Use your store's tax settings. Shopify's tax-inclusive pricing lets you include tax in product prices per market and names the United Kingdom as a region whose customers expect VAT-inclusive prices; in WooCommerce, the prices entered with tax setting lets you enter a price such as £9.99 including 20% VAT.[14][17]

Which app has the lowest fees for a small UK print-on-demand shop?

On the plan cards, Zepto Product Personalizer Starter is $9.99 a month with 100 custom orders a month and no per-sale fee printed. Teeinblue charges no transaction fee on the first 100 orders a month on its $49 plan, while Customily charges $1 per item for the first 100 items sold, as of 26 October 2026.[9][4][5][7]

Can I use Printcart for print-on-demand in the UK?

Printcart's Shopify, WooCommerce and Wix apps give customers a product designer and give you print-ready SVG, PDF, PNG and JPG files with each order. Its app pages name no ready connection to a print-on-demand provider, so orders go to your own production or through the Printcart Cloud Print API.[1][2]

Sources

  1. Printcart Product Personalizer for Shopify, checked
  2. Printcart Store – Web to Print Product Designer for WooCommerce, checked
  3. Printcart Store Plans: App Plans Per Store, checked
  4. Teeinblue Product Personalizer (Shopify App Store), checked
  5. Teeinblue pricing for Shopify sellers, checked
  6. Customily Product Personalizer (Shopify App Store), checked
  7. Customily pricing, checked
  8. Zakeke – Customizer 2D & 3D (Shopify App Store), checked
  9. Zepto Product Personalizer (Shopify App Store), checked
  10. Prodigi: global print on demand, checked
  11. About Prodigi, checked
  12. Printify: print on demand in the UK, checked
  13. Inkthreadable: print on demand made in the UK, checked
  14. Tax-inclusive pricing (Shopify Help Center), checked
  15. Supported payout currencies (Shopify Help Center), checked
  16. UK taxes (Shopify Help Center), checked
  17. Setting up taxes in WooCommerce, checked

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