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How Hurtle Gear manages their business and keeps the motor running

This is the first post of our new monthly blog series which highlights awesome companies that use Printout Designer. And we start off with Hurtle Gear, an inspiring story how two motorcycle fanatics ditched the their desk jobs and set out to build an online store to start their business…

Posted on May 12, 2016May 16, 2016 by Marju Tubli by Marju Tubli

What is mass customization and how to take advantage of it

The migration from analogue to digital has thrown up many opportunities, one interesting concept is that software has been able to “mass produce” customization. The conditions for it are just right as the technology, especially 3D printers, are becoming increasingly affordable and online shopping is stealing customers from brick and…

Posted on May 3, 2016May 3, 2016 by Tanel Tähepõld by Tanel Tähepõld

You are what you sell

Getting started in ecommerce presents entrepreneurs with many types of challenges. Starting with which products to sell, how to price them and how to handle inventories to whether to offer your customers different product customization options. This time around we have once again roamed the world wide web to pick…

Posted on April 20, 2016April 30, 2018 by Sven Lillepalu by Sven Lillepalu

Augmented reality hits ecommerce

[caption id="attachment_377" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Virtual reality. New technologies and on line shopping.[/caption] Virtual and augmented reality have become somewhat of buzzwords in the digital realm over the past months. Outside ecommerce, we have seen massive acquisitions of virtual reality startups, perhaps Facebook buying Oculus Rift in 2014 being the trendsetter.…

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Sven Lillepalu by Sven Lillepalu

Getting started with affiliate and referral marketing

They say that there are no shortcuts to success. We agree… but just partly. We have once again roamed the web over this past month to pick out some apps and helpful services that could make your lives as ecommerce entrepreneurs just a little bit easier… so you don’t have…

Posted on March 17, 2016March 17, 2016 by Sven Lillepalu by Sven Lillepalu

On the psychology of “free shipping” offers

“Free shipping for orders over XX$” “Order before XX.XX and get free shipping!” “Free delivery to anywhere in the world!” We have all stumbled on statements like that while shopping online. But what is the optimum value offer that would make your potential customers choose you from among thousands?…

Posted on March 10, 2016April 30, 2018 by Sven Lillepalu by Sven Lillepalu

Tip of the day: The Footer component

Use Footer component to keep the shipping label, “Thank you” note or contact details fixed under each page. Sometimes, if you have many line items in the order they start pushing all the other components below and messing up the document. The solution is to include a Footer component at…

Posted on February 29, 2016March 31, 2016 by Tanel Tähepõld by Tanel Tähepõld

Tip of the day: Adding a summary row to table

Quick overview how to show the total quantity of items ordered on the invoice. 1. Add a Text component Insert a Text component from the menu and drag it where you wish the sum to show 2. Formatting To the Raw value box of the Formatting options copy paste this…

Posted on February 29, 2016March 31, 2016 by Tanel Tähepõld by Tanel Tähepõld

Tip of the day: Format all the text boxes at the same time

You are able to change the formatting of your text and components all at once instead of clicking through each of them separately. Open the template in editor, and select all the components you want to have the same attributes by clicking and holding Ctrl key at the same time.…