Personalization

A personalized product exposes a few of a design’s parameters to your customer: a name to emboss, a number, a short label, or a style choice. When an order arrives, PrintPort3D reads the customer’s input from the listing’s option text, renders and slices that variant, and sends it to print. The customer’s listing input becomes a real, one-off STL with no manual step on your end.

Personalization is available only on adjustable designs: the templates and human-edited designs that carry parameter sliders in the Workbench. This is a deliberate constraint.

The Personalization panel lives in the Workbench rail and becomes available once each of the following is in place:

• The design is a template or a design you edited by hand, so it has parameters to expose.
• The design is saved to your library.
• You built a product from it that prints exactly this design, and only this design (one print file).
• That product has a real, priced material set on it.

If any requirement is missing, the panel identifies which one. A product with more than one print file, or one that prints a different design, is refused (“Personalization requires a product with exactly one print file” and “This product does not print this design”). A product with no priced material is refused as well (“The product needs a real priced material before publishing a template”).

Open the saved design in the Workbench and find the Personalization panel in the right rail. Each adjustable parameter shows a checkbox. Enable the ones you want customers to control: at most five, and at least one.

1. 1

   Select a field

   Check a parameter to expose it. Text, number, yes/no, and choice fields can all be exposed.
2. 2

   Map it to a listing option

   Enter the listing option label, the exact name of the option on your store, such as “Name” or “Initial”. PrintPort3D uses this label to find the customer’s input in the order, so it must match what your listing sends. Case does not matter.
3. 3

   Set a character set and length (text fields)

   For a text field, choose which characters are allowed and a maximum length. Input that falls outside those rules is rejected at order time rather than printed.

Listing option labelrequired

The option name on your store this field maps to. Match it exactly to what your listing sends.

Character settext fields

Which characters a customer may use. Default is “Name / short text”.

Max lengthtext fields

The longest input allowed, 1–60 characters. Default 24.

Below the fields is a sample-order test box. Paste a line of option text exactly as your store would send it — for example Color: Blue, Name: Emma — and PrintPort3D runs the same reader and validator that real orders use. A green result shows the values it extracted; a red result identifies what it could not read or which rule failed.

Choose how personalized orders flow from the mode dropdown next to the Publish button.

Review each orderrecommended · default

Every personalized order waits for your approval before anything is charged or made. You see the customer’s input and the model first.

Fully automatic

A clean, in-bounds order flows straight to production with no stop.

Content review uses a small, high-precision word list. It flags an order for your review; it never silently rejects one. You see the reason and decide. How held orders wait, and when your card is charged, follow the same rules as the rest of the platform. See Automatic vs manual and How billing works.

A personalized product does not have one fixed make cost, because a longer name uses more filament than a short one. When you publish, PrintPort3D prices the worst case: it builds the most expensive combinations of your exposed fields with a real render and a real Bambu slice, and lets the template go live only once every combination has priced.

The worst case is built as follows:

• Text fields become the widest glyph repeated to their full max length.
• Number fields become their maximum.
• Choice and yes/no fields are tried in every combination.

Only choice and yes/no fields multiply into separate builds, and each product is capped at six combinations. Exceeding the cap stops publishing with a clear message (“N option combinations exceed the 6-combo pricing limit — lock some options or reduce choices”). To return under the cap, remove some choices or lock a field to a single value.

While the builds run, the panel shows Pricing worst-case builds…. When they finish it changes to Live · max make-cost $X · vN. That dollar figure is the highest make cost any personalized order of this product can reach, so you can set your listing price safely above it. If a build cannot start, the panel shows an error rather than hanging.

Publishing personalization does not spend a Studio credit; the worst-case builds run like any other render. Editing your fields and selecting Republish creates a new version and re-prices the worst case from scratch.

Once a template is live, an order moves from checkout to production as follows.

1. 1

   The customer customizes at checkout

   On your store listing, the customer fills in the options you exposed and pays you through your own store, as always.
2. 2

   The order matches your product

   The order flows in through Shippo and matches your product by its SKU, the single join between your listing and PrintPort3D. The match ignores case and leading or trailing spaces — PrintPort3D shows your SKU in uppercase, but your listing need not copy that case — as long as the characters themselves are the same. See Publish to your store.
3. 3

   The input is read and checked

   PrintPort3D extracts the customer’s values from the order’s option text, matched to the labels you set, then validates them against your character sets and length caps. Input it cannot read confidently, or that fails a rule, or that trips content review, parks for you. It never guesses.
4. 4

   The exact variant is built

   A clean order renders and slices into that one customized STL. If another customer already ordered the same text, that build is reused.
5. 5

   It is made per your mode

   In Review mode the order waits for your approval before your card is charged the make cost. In Fully automatic mode a clean, in-bounds order flows straight through. Either way the charge is your make cost — material plus labor — bounded by the envelope you published.