Sell Your 3D Designs as Products, Without Printing Them
Your design, your shop, your name on the box. What your follower receives — printed, checked, fitted and assembled if you ask — and who does each part.
You can sell your designs as finished products without owning a printer or packing a box. Upload the file, turn it into a product, and list it on your own shop. When someone buys, we print it, fit any magnets or inserts, assemble it, check it, and ship it under your name. You set the price and keep the difference. Here is what one of your followers actually receives, and who does each part.
What your follower receives
- 01 ·
StudioListing photos, before one exists
Six renders of your file in the exact filament and colour, free. A five-shot photo pack for marketplaces is optional.
free$1.50 photo pack
- 02 ·
UsPrinted — 71.9 g, 94 min on the machine
On our production profile, in any colour on the rack.
$6.16
- 03 ·
UsHardware fitted
1 × MagSafe magnet ring array, 54 mm OD. Part price only, no labour.
$3.49
- 04 ·
UsAssembled
The magnet ring pressed into its pocket. Assembly is part of the price.
included
- 05 ·
UsChecked by a person
A part that fails the check is printed again on our time and filament, not yours.
included
- 06 ·
UsPacked under your name
Your business name and logo on the slip. Nothing of ours inside the box.
included
- 07 ·
UsShipped, tracking back to your store
Your customer pays postage at your checkout; the label comes off your own shipping account.
postage
You pay us, per sale
$9.65
Charged only when an order comes in. No monthly fee, no stock.
If you list it at $34.00
$24.35
Left before your platform’s fee. You never touched a printer.
The short version
Your design, your shop, your name on the box. Our floor.
What you keep doingDesigning, pricing, and talking to your audience. The only new job is writing the listing.
A product is more than a print of your file
Anyone with a printer can print an STL. What your audience wants is the finished thing, and a finished thing usually has more in it than plastic. That is the gap between selling files and selling products, and it is most of what we do.
- Hardware, fitted
- Magnets, heat-set inserts, MagSafe rings, screws, bearings and more, from a catalogue of about a thousand parts. You add them to the product once, and they are in every unit. You pay the part’s price, and $1 a part if you want them fitted.
- Assembled
- Choose assembly and multi-part designs arrive put together, for a flat $1 a part: a lid, a hinge and a base is $3 more per unit than shipping the pieces loose.
- Personalised
- Start from a Studio template and your customers can type a name or pick an option at checkout. The variant is built, sliced and printed with no step from you. A file download cannot do that.
- Checked, and remade if it fails
- A person inspects every part before it ships. A print that fails is made again on our time and filament. Your follower gets one complete parcel, not an apology.
- Under your name
- Your business name and logo on the packing slip, nothing of ours inside, and tracking back to your store.
Listing photos before the first one exists
The usual reason designers put off selling prints is the photos: print one, find a clean table, wait for good light. Studio renders your file in the exact filament and colour you will sell it in, from six angles, for free. Those renders are listing-ready on a white background. If you want lifestyle shots, a five-shot photo pack built around the real render costs $1.50. You can have a listing up before a single unit has been printed, because nothing is printed until someone buys.
Etsy counts it as your product
Etsy lets 3D-printed items be made by a production partner as long as the design is your own. Its Creativity Standards list it under “designed by a seller”: “Original designs created by a seller and produced with the assistance of a production partner.” You disclose us as the partner on the listing and say where it ships from. For an original designer that is the whole requirement. The rule shuts out resellers of other people’s models, not you. The full walkthrough is in Etsy production partners for 3D prints.
Etsy is one of eleven storefronts we take orders from, alongside Shopify, TikTok Shop, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Magento and BigCommerce. They all come in through one Shippo connection, so a shop on two of them is no more work than a shop on one.
What it costs, and when
Nothing to join, and nothing monthly. When an order comes in, your card is charged the make cost: material, machine time and any hardware, with assembly, the check and packing already in it. Your customer pays you, on your shop, at your price, and we never hold that money. Most everyday products cost under $10 to make. Our Make-Cost Index prices thirty-six of them live, and your own file gets its exact number the moment it is uploaded.
If you only do one thing today
Pick the design people ask about most, and list that one.
One product is enough to learn what your audience will pay. Our guide to saying yes when followers ask to buy walks through the afternoon it takes, and files vs prints does the arithmetic on whether a printed sale beats a download for your prices.
FAQ
Upload the design to a print-on-demand production partner, turn it into a product with a SKU, and list it on your own shop with that SKU. When an order comes in, the partner prints, finishes and ships it to your customer. With us that includes fitting hardware, assembly, a person’s inspection, a remake if a print fails, and your name on the packing slip.
No. You need a design file (STL or 3MF, or one made in Studio), a shop on a platform we support, and a card for the make cost of each order.
Yes, if it is your own original design. Etsy classes it as “designed by a seller” and requires you to disclose the production partner and where it ships from. Licensed or downloaded models from other designers do not qualify.
Yes, and it is your choice. Choose assembly on the product and every unit is put together and its hardware fitted for $1 a part; choose ship it loose and the pieces go in the box as printed. Hardware such as magnets and inserts adds its own price either way.
Yes, for designs built from a Studio template: you choose which fields customers can set, such as a name, and each order’s variant is generated, sliced and printed automatically.
Keep designing. We will make the things.
Upload a design, render its listing photos, add the hardware, and put the SKU on your shop. Every order after that is printed, checked, fitted and assembled if you ask, and shipped under your name.
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