Merch Junkie

WooCommerce website design with its own print-on-demand plugin

Name: Forty Miles West
Address: Grain and Graft, Brook Mill, Parker Street, Macclesfield, SK11 7BQ, GB
Telephone: 07476 485436

Merch Junkie sells art prints, framed or unframed, made to order by a print-on-demand partner. We built the WooCommerce store and POD Bridge, a custom plugin that sets up each product and sends every order to be printed.

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Grain and Graft, Macclesfield · 07476 485436

Merch Junkie · Macclesfield · Retail and ecommerce

What we built it with

01WordPressthe platform the whole shop runs on
02WooCommerceproducts, variants, cart and checkout
03Custom PluginsPOD Bridge sets up products and sends orders to the print partner; a second plugin handles security
04Alpine.jskeeps navigation and cart interactive without extra weight
05Tailwind CSSthe styling system behind the build

Print on demand without the copy and paste

A print-on-demand shop lives on the link between the store and the printer. Every print comes in several sizes and frames, and each one is a variation with its own printer code, cost and price. Set up by hand, that is dozens of fields per product, and one wrong code means the wrong item arrives at a customer's door. The brief was WooCommerce website design that took that handwork away.

Merch Junkie wanted its own WooCommerce website design rather than a marketplace storefront, and a clear view of the margin on every size before anything went on sale.

A custom store, and POD Bridge, the plugin that runs it

We designed and built a custom WooCommerce theme: an editorial, mobile-first shop with its own product, cart and checkout templates and no page builder.

Then we wrote POD Bridge. The owner uploads a piece of artwork and the plugin checks it is sharp enough to print, creates the WooCommerce product with every size and frame option, matches each option to the printer's catalogue through its API, and shows the print cost beside the selling price.

When an order comes in, POD Bridge sends it to the printer with the right file and options, and the order screen shows what it will cost to make. In live test orders, every one reached the printer at exactly the cost the plugin had estimated.

A second plugin looks after security and store housekeeping, so that protection stays in place whatever happens to the theme.

steps to add a new print to the store

custom plugins written for the store

100%

of test orders matched the estimated print cost

Figures from Merch Junkie, Macclesfield

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