Get Started with Printcart Store for WordPress: Your First Customizable Product

Quick answer

To get started with Printcart Store in WordPress, install the plugin from Plugins > Add Plugin, activate it, import a starter product in the setup wizard, and check that Enable Design is ticked on the product. Shoppers can then open the online designer from the product page and add their finished artwork to the cart. Connecting a Printcart account is...

Key takeaways

✓Use Get Started with Printcart Store for WordPress: Your First Customizable Product as an operating workflow, not a one-time setup task.

✓Document the approval owner, fallback process, and production handoff before customers start ordering.

✓Review the workflow after the first real orders and tighten the steps that cause rework.

What do you need before you start?

A WordPress site (version 5.0 or newer) running PHP 7.4 or newer, and administrator access.
WooCommerce installed and active. The plugin card lists it as a required plugin.
An HTTPS site for live stores. Printcart cloud features need HTTPS.

The screenshots come from a fresh test store (WordPress and WooCommerce with a default theme) using Printcart Store 2.11.0 from the WordPress.org plugin directory. Your theme will look different, but the Printcart screens are the same.

How do you install Printcart Store and publish your first customizable product?

Step 1Find Printcart Store in the plugin directory

In your WordPress admin, open Plugins > Add Plugin and search for Printcart. Find Printcart Store – Web to Print Product Designer for WooCommerce and click Install Now.

Expected result: The button shows the installing state for a few seconds.

WordPress Add Plugins screen showing the Printcart Store plugin card with the Install Now button highlighted

Step 2Activate the plugin

When the button changes, click Activate.

Expected result: WordPress opens the PCDesigner Set Up wizard, and a new Printcart Store menu appears in the left sidebar.

The Printcart Store plugin card after installation with the Activate button highlighted

Step 3Choose whether to connect a Printcart account now

The wizard starts on Connect Printcart. The screen says connecting is optional. Connect now creates a free Printcart account and store from your WordPress email, site title and URL, and emails you a link to set your Printcart Dashboard password. It unlocks cloud designs, fonts, PDF and CMYK output, the AI print tools and order sync. Skip for now keeps everything local, and you can connect later from Printcart Store > Connect. This guide uses Skip for now.

Expected result: After you click Skip for now, the wizard moves to the Import Products step.

PCDesigner Set Up wizard, Connect Printcart step, with the Connect now button and the Skip for now link highlighted

Step 4Import a starter product

The Import Products step lists sample products that are already set up with printing options and templates. Untick Select all, tick Business Card and Mug, then click Install sample products at the bottom of the list.

Expected result: A confirmation reads Sample products installed — 2 added, with a View products in WooCommerce button.

Import Products step of the setup wizard with Business Card and Mug ticked and the Install sample products button highlighted

Setup wizard showing the message Sample products installed, 2 added

Step 5Check that the product is published in WooCommerce

Open Products > All Products. The imported products are normal WooCommerce products. If one of your own products shows as a draft, open it and click Publish so shoppers can see it.

Expected result: Business Card and Mug are listed as published products, and the Design column shows a tick for each product that has the designer switched on.

WooCommerce Products list showing the imported Business Card product as published

Step 6Confirm the designer is turned on for the product

Open Business Card and scroll to the Setting PCDesigner box. Enable Design is what lets shoppers customize this product online. The sample product also has two sides (Front and Back), the Modern (recommended) editor layout and templates switched on. Click Update if you change anything.

Expected result: Enable Design is ticked and the product keeps its Front and Back sides.

Business Card product edit screen with the Setting PCDesigner box and the Enable Design checkbox highlighted

Step 7Open the product as a shopper

Click View product or open the product in your shop. Because both design and upload are enabled on this product, the button reads Start and upload design. Click it and choose Design online to build the artwork in the browser, or Upload print-ready artwork to send a finished file.

Expected result: A chooser asks how you would like to design the product.

Business Card product page in the shop with the Start and upload design button highlighted

Chooser asking how to design the Business Card, with the Design online option under the cursor

Step 8Customize the design

The designer opens with ready-made templates for the product. Close the first-time tour, pick a template, double-click the text you want to change and type your own, then click Process.

Expected result: The designer saves your changes and returns to the product page.

Product designer with a business card template selected, the name edited to ANNA LUMEN and the Process button highlighted

Step 9Review the artwork and add it to the cart

Back on the product page, Your artwork shows a preview of every side. Check it, then click Add to cart.

Expected result: The customized Business Card is added to the cart, and your first customizable product is live in your store.

Product page showing the Your artwork preview of the front and back and the Add to cart button highlighted

Product page after the customized Business Card was added to the cart

Do you need a Printcart account to use the plugin?

No. The setup wizard says connecting Printcart is optional, and everything in this guide works without it. Connecting adds cloud designs and fonts, print-ready PDF and CMYK output, the AI print tools and order sync to the Printcart Dashboard. The free plan allows up to 5 designable products.

Can shoppers upload their own artwork instead of using the designer?

Yes. Turn on Enable Upload Design in the same Setting PCDesigner box. On the sample Business Card the upload option accepts jpg, pdf, psd and indd files and asks for two files (front and back), with a 10 MB limit per file. You can change these rules per product.

What should you do next?

Stuck on a step? Message the Printcart team on WhatsApp and include a screenshot of the screen you are on.

Printcart field note

What to verify before you roll out Get Started with Printcart Store for WordPress: Your First Customizable Product

This tutorial is written from Printcart implementation patterns across web-to-print launch planning, buyer experience, and repeatable production. Before treating it as complete, test the workflow with one real product, one real design file, and one real order path.

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?