Amazon print on demand: which service should you connect in 2026?

Printful connects straight to Seller Central. You connect your Amazon Professional seller account in the Printful dashboard, pick a selling region, and Printful syncs your listings; each Amazon order then goes to Printful for production and shipping. Printful supports Amazon's unified account regions, North America (US, Canada, Mexico) and Europe (multiple EU marketplaces).

Using Printful is free. You pay the product base price and shipping on each order, and Amazon's own fees on top. If your volume grows, the Growth plan costs $24.99 a month, gives up to 33% off product pricing, and becomes free once you reach $12,000 a year in sales, about $1,000 a month. Before your first listing you need a GTIN exemption, a free step done in Seller Central that usually takes a few business days.

The limit we noted: when Amazon changes its listing attributes, Printful listings can fail until the integration catches up. A UK seller reported in 2024 that every hat pushed from Printful was rejected after Amazon renamed the category, and the workaround meant creating the product on Amazon first, then relinking each variant by hand. Read our guide to switching from Printful if you already hit that wall, or our print on demand ranking for every channel.

Printify is a marketplace of print providers: you pick a product and the provider that prints it, which is how it keeps base costs low. Its Amazon integration is direct. You connect your Amazon US store in Printify, confirm you have requested a GTIN exemption, then publish products and manage all orders from Printify.

Two rules decide whether it fits. The integration sells through Amazon US only, although it supports international shipping. And only products from US-based print providers can be published to Amazon US: a product copied from a store set to ship from Europe stays in your list but won't publish. Set the "Ship from" region to the US when you create products for Amazon.

The Free plan costs $0 and covers 5 stores. Premium costs $39 a month, or $24.99 a month billed yearly, and gives up to 20% off all products (up to 33% on new products) and 10 stores. Read our Printify review for the full picture, Printify pricing for the plans, or Printify alternatives if you sell outside the US.

Merch on Demand is Amazon's own print on demand program. You upload your artwork, choose a product type and color, and write a description; Amazon creates the product page, and when a customer buys, Amazon handles production, shipping and customer service, with no upfront costs. All products are eligible for Prime shipping. You sign up with an Amazon account and wait for a decision on your request.

You don't set your margin, you earn a royalty: the offer price, less tax and Amazon's costs, with a multiplier based on your royalty group. In the US store, a standard t-shirt at $19.99 earns $2.44 in the Creator group. The Plus group, for creators who drive at least 15% of their unit sales with outside traffic, earns twice that, and Premium, from 35%, earns 2.16 times. Both need at least 10 units a month in the US store, and these multipliers don't apply outside the US.

The limit we noted is the price floor of a royalty model: at $15.99 the same shirt pays $0.96. The program is non-exclusive, so you can sell the same design through a seller account too. See our Amazon seller tools ranking for research tools that help you pick designs.

Gelato routes each order to a production partner close to the customer, across 32 countries, with no minimum order. Its Amazon integration launched for merchants selling on the Amazon US marketplace: you connect your Amazon selling account to Gelato, and designs and orders pass between the two automatically. Gelato points sellers to the Professional plan, the one marketplace integrations connect to.

Its strength on Amazon is the catalog: wall art, drinkware, stationery and bags from the same artwork, where Merch on Demand stays mostly on apparel. Using the standard Gelato platform is free. Gelato+ costs $29.99 a month, or $19.99 a month billed yearly ($239.88 a year, paid at the start).

The limit we noted: the Amazon connection was announced for the US marketplace, so a seller targeting Amazon UK or Germany should check the region list in the connection flow before building a catalog, or look at Gelato alternatives. Read our Gelato review, Gelato pricing, or Printify vs Gelato for the two side by side.

Spreadconnect is a print on demand service with more than 250 products and production and shipping in under 48 hours for 95% of orders. It is free of charge: no costs or fees for setting up and running your shop. It reaches Amazon and eBay through Order Desk, an order management tool that imports your Amazon orders and sends them to the printer.

That relay is the cost to count. Order Desk Starter costs $20 a month plus 25 cents per order, capped at three integrations; Pro costs $60 a month plus 10 cents per order. At 300 orders a month, Starter costs $95 and Pro $90. In return, Order Desk imports Amazon, Amazon Handmade and Amazon Custom orders from Amazon North America, Europe, Australia and Japan, and sends tracking back to Amazon.

The limit we noted: two tools to set up and maintain instead of one. It makes sense if you already run Order Desk for other suppliers, or if fast production matters more than a one-click setup. For the wider seller stack, see our Amazon FBA tools ranking.