Skip to content
PrintPort3DDocs
DocsStart here

Quickstart

Go from a new account to your first live product in about 15 minutes.

5 min read

This guide takes a new account to a real, sellable product in about fifteen minutes. It covers eight steps, each linking to its full guide. Complete them in order, from top to bottom.

Before you start

Have the following ready before you begin:

  • A store you already sell on, using one of the 11 supported platforms
  • A free Shippo account (you can create or sign in to one during setup)
  • A 3D file in STL, OBJ, 3MF, or STEP format, or a design generated in Studio
  • A payment card, which is the card charged to make each order
  • About 15 minutes

Every storefront connects to PrintPort3D through Shippo. There are no direct marketplace integrations. The 11 supported platforms are Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, TikTok Shop, eBay, Walmart, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace, Magento 2, and BigCommerce. See Supported platforms for the full list.

Email verification is required first

If you sign up with email and password, you must click the verification link we email you before the rest of your workspace opens. This gate blocks setup until it is complete. Signing up with Google verifies you automatically and skips this step. Every other step below can be finished whenever you like from Settings, but orders will not flow until Shippo is connected with your store linked inside it, and no order can be made until a card is on file.

Setup steps

After you sign up, Overview shows Get started — the setup steps, with the next one opened up (see Get started: the setup steps). This quickstart walks the whole path from account to first order, in the order below.

  1. 1

    Create your account and verify your email

    Sign up with email and password, or with Google. Email and password users receive a verification email; click the link and the page advances automatically once it detects the click. Google users are verified instantly. The rest of setup stays locked until your email is verified. See Create your account.
  2. 2

    Connect Shippo

    From Get started or Settings → Connections, click Connect Shippo, sign in to or create your free Shippo account, and authorize PrintPort3D. Shippo is the channel that carries your orders in — there are no direct marketplace integrations. See Connect Shippo.
  3. 3

    Link your store inside Shippo

    Open your Shippo dashboard and attach your storefront there. This is the step that routes your orders through to PrintPort3D. PrintPort3D reads your connected stores live from Shippo, so there is no separate store-connection step on our side. See Link your store in Shippo.
  4. 4

    Add your payment card

    In Settings → Billing, save the card that PrintPort3D charges to make each order. We charge you the make cost and never charge your customer. There is no payout, wallet, or escrow. Your customer pays you through your own store. See Add your payment card.
  5. 5

    Upload or generate a design

    Your Catalog is open as soon as your email is verified. Upload a 3D file in STL, OBJ, 3MF, or STEP format, up to 500 MB, and we analyze it for weight, print time, and size. STL and 3MF are the most reliable formats. Alternatively, describe what you want in Studio and it generates the design for you. See Upload a design.
  6. 6

    Build a product with a SKU

    In the Catalog, select New product. Choose your design and the number of copies, select a material and color for each, add hardware if needed, then name the product and assign a SKU (we uppercase it for you). PrintPort3D prices every choice live and shows your make cost and break-even. There is no retail-price field here; you set your price on your store. Save and publish. See Create a product and The SKU link.
  7. 7

    Add the SKU to your store listing

    PrintPort3D does not create or push a listing for you. Create the listing yourself on your store and add the PrintPort3D SKU to it. Matching ignores letter case and any leading or trailing spaces, so you do not need to reproduce the uppercase form exactly. Every other character must match, however, so use the same hyphens and characters we used and avoid typos. The SKU is the only link between your store order and your product. See Publish to your store.
  8. 8

    Receive and fulfill orders

    When a customer buys, the order flows from your store to Shippo to PrintPort3D and appears on your Orders page, which updates live. By default, you approve each order before it is made: select Approve, and we print, pack, and ship it from our warehouse in Orange, CA. To run hands-off, enable automatic fulfillment in Settings, and orders flow through untouched.

The checklist never blocks your workspace

Your workspace is fully open from the moment your email is verified — the checklist just sits on your dashboard until its steps are done, and the feature each unfinished step powers stays off until you complete it from Settings.

How you're charged

There is no payout and no escrow. PrintPort3D charges your saved card the make cost of each order: material at real inventory price per gram, multiplied by the sliced weight, plus labor at $3 per print-hour. Hardware adds its part price with no labor, and assembly, if you choose it, adds $1.00 per part. Every order is billed at least $2.00 to make. Shipping labels are billed separately; marketplace-order labels bill to your own connected Shippo account.

Your customer pays you through your own store. Your net profit is therefore an estimate of what your customer paid, minus the make cost, minus the shipping label.

Example: a two-hour print

Suppose one unit takes about two hours to print. Labor is $3 for each hour, for a total of $6, plus the material it uses. That total is the make cost we charge your card. Your customer paid your store's price; subtract the make cost and the shipping label, and the remainder is your profit.

When your card is charged

The charge occurs at label purchase, not when the order is placed. We authorize a hold, buy the Shippo label, then capture the amount. In the default approve-each mode, nothing is charged until you select Approve. See Costs & pricing and How you get paid for the full breakdown.

Next steps

Setup is complete. Explore any part of the workflow in more detail below, or monitor your /orders page for your first sale.

printport3d.com
The Overview: the facts line, four figures — Gross sales, Net, Orders, and In production — each with a trend line, and the Needs your attention list.
Once your first product is live, Overview becomes your daily starting point: the brief, your revenue and net-profit KPIs, and the orders that still need you.
Get started: the setup stepsThe five setup steps in detail, and what each one enables.Create a productFiles, copies, materials, hardware, and the live make-cost receipt.Publish to your storeCreate the listing yourself and add the matching SKU to it.The Orders pageYour exception-first order book: what needs you, and what flows through automatically.