PrintShrimp and posters
How poster fulfilment works, what Elistit sends to PrintShrimp and what it deliberately does not, and the setup step that decides whether an order ships at all.
PrintShrimp and posters
Poster is the one physical product Elistit makes. Every other type is a file the buyer downloads. A poster buyer receives a printed poster in the post, which means somebody has to print and ship it, and that somebody is PrintShrimp.
The division of labour
This is the part worth understanding properly, because getting it wrong is how a poster sells and nothing arrives.
Elistit registers the product. After your Etsy listing goes live, we push the print-ready artwork, the sizes and the SKU into your PrintShrimp account.
PrintShrimp fulfils the orders. When a buyer purchases, PrintShrimp’s own Etsy integration matches the order to that SKU, prints it, and ships it.
We never place the order ourselves. That means PrintShrimp needs to be connected to your Etsy shop on their side as well. Connecting PrintShrimp to Elistit alone gets the artwork in; it does not get anything shipped.
If you take one thing from this page: two connections, not one.
Connecting
Integrations, then the PrintShrimp tab. You need an API key from your PrintShrimp account, which starts with psk_. The connection is per shop, so if you run more than one, connect each.
What we send
The print-ready file at 300 DPI, the sizes you chose for that poster, and the SKU that ties it to your Etsy listing. The SKU is how PrintShrimp knows which artwork an order refers to, so it has to exist and it has to match.
The buyer never receives a file. The 300 DPI master goes to your Drive for your own records, and the listing is a physical product with a shipping profile rather than a digital download.
When it does not go through
Registration can be skipped or fail, and the project page now tells you which, with the reason. Common ones:
- PrintShrimp not connected for that shop.
- No SKU on the pipeline, so there is nothing for an order to match against.
- No sizes selected, so there is no product to make.
The important thing to understand: your Etsy listing is unaffected and stays live. So the shop looks fine, and the gap only shows up when someone buys. If you see that banner, fix the cause and republish before the listing gets traffic.
Pricing
Poster pricing is not the same shape as the digital products. You are paying for a physical item to be produced and shipped, so the print cost and postage sit underneath your Etsy price rather than inside your Elistit credits.
Elistit charges you credits for producing the artwork and the listing, the same as any other product. PrintShrimp charges you for the print and the postage when an order is fulfilled. See Pricing your products for what the Elistit side costs.
FAQ
I connected PrintShrimp but my poster order was not fulfilled. Check that PrintShrimp is connected to your Etsy shop in PrintShrimp’s own settings. Elistit puts the product there; their Etsy integration is what watches for orders.
Can I use a different print provider? Not through this integration today. You can still sell posters and handle fulfilment yourself, in which case treat the 300 DPI master in your Drive as the file to send to whoever prints for you.
Does the buyer ever get the digital file? No, and that is deliberate. A poster is sold as a printed object. If you want to sell the file, make it as wall art instead.
Where do I see whether it worked? The project page. A poster that registered cleanly says it was sent to PrintShrimp. One that did not says so, with the reason.
Do I need PrintShrimp to make posters at all? To sell them as physical prints on Etsy, yes, unless you are fulfilling them yourself. The artwork and the listing are produced either way.
Related
- Pricing your productsWhat the benchmarks are based on, which Etsy fees the calculators model and which they cannot, and how to price a product the page does not cover.
- Your settingsWhat each settings tab controls, and where the two things that used to live here moved to.
- Editing a listingWhat the listing editor changes on Etsy, what the score measures, why it asks for shorter titles than most advice, and what happens to the AI disclosure paragraph.