Add Canvas Print Extras: Retouching

Part 5 of 8 in the WordPress Canvas Print series

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Key takeaways

✓Automate the handoff from order intake to artwork, approval, production status, and fulfillment tracking.

✓Define clear exception paths for missing artwork, manual approval, reorders, rush jobs, and repeat corporate buyers.

✓Treat photo workflows as high-volume operations: naming, grouping, privacy, review, and delivery rules matter as much as the AI step.

✓Run a small controlled batch first, then scale once matching, cropping, and QR fulfillment are predictable.

✓Treat this as an ongoing operating workflow, not a one-time setup task.

What do you need before you start?

Printcart Canvas installed and connected (see Install Printcart Canvas and connect your store).
A canvas product whose Printcart printing option includes the extras. The UK Standard Canvas template (version 2) includes them.

The screenshots come from a demonstration WooCommerce store running Printcart Canvas with the UK Standard Canvas template (designer screens updated for Printcart Canvas 4.7.0). Store credentials and internal identifiers are masked. Want to see it first? Open the live demo store and press Design your canvas.

How do you offer and fulfil canvas extras?

Step 1Price the extras

Set the price of each extra in the product's pricing template, for example a charge for the Dust Cover and nothing for the Classic Back. Prices are shown with two decimals, so an extra such as £7.99 is never rounded. In Product Setup > Link to Printcart, map the hanging, back finish and add-on families and press Save Mapping.

Expected result: The extras appear in the designer for that product.

Product Setup price section with the canvas pricing template that holds the price of each extra

Step 2Buyers pick their extras

In the designer, Options > 4. Hardware & Finish lists the hanging hardware (Sawtooth Hanger or Adhesive Hanging System) and the back finish (Classic Back or Dust Cover). The buyer picks one of each, and any price you set is added to the canvas price. An add-on such as Photo Retouching with no charge is listed under Included with your canvas; when it carries a charge it appears as a tick box.

Expected result: The live price includes the extras.

Canvas designer Hardware and Finish step with Adhesive Hanging System and Dust Cover selected, on a 20 by 16 inch canvas with 1.5 inch depth, Blur Wrap and a black and white photo

Step 3Extras follow the canvas to the cart

The cart line lists the edge style, image colour, hanging hardware and back finish, and the line total includes them. Checkout, the order confirmation and the order e-mails repeat the same rows.

Expected result: The buyer can check every choice before paying.

Cart line listing the edge style, image colour, hanging hardware and back finish

Order confirmation repeating every option the buyer chose

Step 4Production sees every extra

On the PC Canvas order detail, Selected canvas options lists everything the buyer chose. The same rows appear on the WooCommerce order.

Expected result: Edge style, image colour and extras are visible at a glance for production.

PC Canvas order detail: Selected canvas options with size, edge style, frame depth and extras

WooCommerce order canvas line with every option and the Download PDF button

Can an extra be free?

Yes. An add-on with no charge is listed to the buyer as "Included with your canvas" instead of a tick box.

Do extras change the print file?

Hanging hardware and back finish are production instructions recorded on the order. The image colour is the one choice baked into the print file.

Try Printcart Canvas

Printcart Canvas is free on WordPress.org, from Printcart, the web-to-print platform used by 2000+ stores. Download Printcart Canvas from WordPress.org, or try the live demo as a buyer.

What should you do next?

Stuck on a step? Email support@printcart.com with a screenshot of the screen you are on, or a support bundle from PC Canvas > Diagnostics; it contains no credentials.

Your launch checklist

What should you check before you launch Add Canvas Print Extras: Retouching, Hanging Hardware and Back Finish?

This guide covers order operations, approval routing, and fulfillment handoff in Printcart. Before you offer it to your own buyers, place one test order yourself with a real product, a real design file and a real checkout, then answer the questions below.

Can a customer complete the flow without staff intervention?

Does the production team receive the exact artwork, option, and approval data they need?

Is there a clear fallback when artwork, pricing, approval, or fulfillment data is missing?

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