Printify

Printify is a print-on-demand platform for creating and fulfilling custom-branded products through connected e-commerce stores. Its REST API exposes shops, product blueprints, print providers, products, and orders, allowing you to sync catalog data and automate product and order operations. Nexla connects to the Printify API to ingest this data into Nexsets and to push product and order updates back to Printify.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Printify API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Printify connector is purpose-built for Printify, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Printify or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Printify workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a Printify credential, you need a personal access token for your Printify account. Printify authenticates API requests with a bearer token that is sent in the Authorization header as Bearer <token>.

To obtain a personal access token, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Printify account at printify.com, or create one if you do not already have an account.

2. Open your account settings and navigate to My Profile > Connections, or go directly to the API tokens page at https://printify.com/app/account/api.

3. Generate a new personal access token and select the access scopes required for your use case (for example, read and write access to shops, products, and orders).

4. Copy the token immediately. Printify displays the token value only once, at the time it is generated, so store it in a secure location. Personal access tokens expire one year after they are created.

5. Keep the token confidential. It grants access to your Printify account data according to the scopes you selected. If a token is compromised, revoke it from the same Connections page and generate a new one.

For detailed information about authentication, available endpoints, and API request formats, see the Printify API Documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

An authentication method that requires sending a unique secret token with each API request

Field	Required	Secret	Description
API Key Value	Yes	Yes	An encoded string value used as a secret token to authenticate API requests

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your Printify personal access token in the API Key Value field. This is the token you generated in Prerequisites. Nexla sends this value in the Authorization header as Bearer <token> for all API requests to Printify, and it must be kept confidential.

   The API Key Value is sensitive information. If your personal access token is compromised, revoke it from your Printify account Connections page and generate a new one. Printify personal access tokens also expire one year after they are created, so you will need to generate a new token and update this credential before it expires.

   For detailed information about Printify authentication, available endpoints, and API request formats, see the Printify API Documentation.

4. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Printify connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to Printify, and click Next; or, create a new Printify credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Printify endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Retrieve list of shops in a Printify account

This endpoint template retrieves the list of shops connected to your Printify account. Use it to discover the shops available to your token and to obtain the shop identifiers required by other Printify endpoints.

For detailed information about shops and the available response fields, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieves list of blueprints in the catalog

This endpoint template retrieves the list of blueprints available in the Printify catalog. Blueprints describe the base products (such as t-shirts or mugs) that can be customized and fulfilled through Printify.

For detailed information about blueprints and the catalog structure, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve a specific blueprint

This endpoint template retrieves the details of a single blueprint from the Printify catalog. Use it when you need the full specification for a specific base product identified by its blueprint ID.

For detailed information about blueprint details and available fields, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve a list of available print providers

This endpoint template retrieves the list of print providers available on Printify. Print providers are the fulfillment partners that produce and ship the customized products.

For detailed information about print providers, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve a specific print provider

This endpoint template retrieves the details of a single print provider identified by its ID, including the information needed to work with that provider's catalog and fulfillment options.

For detailed information about print provider details, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve a list of all print providers that fulfill orders for a specific blueprint

This endpoint template retrieves all print providers that can fulfill orders for a specific blueprint. Use it to determine which fulfillment partners support a given base product.

For detailed information about blueprint print providers, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve a list of variants of a blueprint from a specific print provider

This endpoint template retrieves the variants of a blueprint that are offered by a specific print provider, such as the available sizes and colors for that base product and provider combination.

For detailed information about blueprint variants, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve shipping information

This endpoint template retrieves shipping information for a blueprint and print provider, including the shipping options and rates used to fulfill orders.

For detailed information about shipping information, see the Printify API Documentation.

Retrieve a product

This endpoint template retrieves the details of a single product from a shop, including its variants, images, and publishing status, identified by the shop ID and product ID.

For detailed information about product details and available fields, see the Printify API Documentation.

Update a product

This endpoint template updates an existing product in a shop with new field values and returns the updated product record. Use it when you need to modify product attributes and capture the resulting product state.

For detailed information about updating products and the accepted request fields, see the Printify API Documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Manual configuration

Printify data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Printify API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Printify data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.

Use as a destination

Click the + icon on the Nexset that will be sent to the Printify destination, and select the Send to Destination option from the menu. Select the Printify connector from the list of available destination connectors, then select the credential that will be used to connect to Printify, and click Next; or, create a new Printify credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure destinations to send data to common Printify endpoints. Select the endpoint to which data will be sent from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Then, click on the template in the list below to expand it, and follow the instructions to configure additional endpoint settings.

Publish a product

This endpoint template publishes a product to its connected sales channel using records from a Nexset. Use it to trigger publishing for products in a shop as part of your Nexla flows.

For detailed information about publishing products, see the Printify API Documentation.

Set product publish status to succeeded

This endpoint template marks a product's publishing status as succeeded, confirming to Printify that the product was published successfully on the external sales channel.

For detailed information about publishing status callbacks, see the Printify API Documentation.

Set product publish status to failed

This endpoint template marks a product's publishing status as failed, notifying Printify that the product could not be published on the external sales channel.

For detailed information about publishing status callbacks, see the Printify API Documentation.

Notify that a product has been unpublished

This endpoint template notifies Printify that a product has been unpublished from the external sales channel, keeping the product's status in sync with your store.

For detailed information about unpublish notifications, see the Printify API Documentation.

Delete a product

This endpoint template deletes a product from a shop using records from a Nexset. Use it to remove products from Printify as part of your automated data flows.

Deleting a product is a permanent operation. Ensure the product identifiers in your Nexset are correct before activating this destination. For detailed information about deleting products, see the Printify API Documentation.

Disconnect a shop

This endpoint template disconnects a shop from your Printify account using records from a Nexset. Use it to programmatically remove a shop connection.

For detailed information about disconnecting shops, see the Printify API Documentation.

Submit an order

This endpoint template submits a new order to a shop using records from a Nexset. Each record is sent as an order containing the line items, address, and shipping details required by Printify.

The order structure must match the Printify API's expected format. For detailed information about submitting orders, see the Printify API Documentation.

Send an existing order to production

This endpoint template sends an existing order to production, moving a previously created order into fulfillment with the print provider.

For detailed information about sending orders to production, see the Printify API Documentation.

Calculate the shipping cost of an order

This endpoint template calculates the shipping cost of an order using the line items and address in each Nexset record, returning the estimated shipping charges before the order is placed.

For detailed information about shipping cost calculation, see the Printify API Documentation.

Upload an image

This endpoint template uploads an image to your Printify account's media library using records from a Nexset. Uploaded images can then be used as artwork when creating or updating products.

For detailed information about uploading images and the accepted request format, see the Printify API Documentation.

Manual configuration

Printify destinations can also be manually configured to send data to any valid Printify API endpoint. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, data format, endpoint URL, request headers, attribute exclusions, record batching, and response webhooks.

Printify APIs typically expect JSON format for most operations. For update or delete operations, include the ID of the object to be modified in the request URL.

Save & activate

Once all endpoint settings have been configured, click the Done button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the destination. To send the data to the configured Printify endpoint, open the destination resource menu, and select Activate.

The Nexset data will not be sent to the Printify endpoint until the destination is activated. Destinations can be activated immediately or at a later time, providing full control over data movement.