Print on Demand for Shopify Stores in Saudi Arabia

Search the Shopify App Store for print on demand and you'll find plenty of options, and most of the big ones print outside the Kingdom. That's great for a brand selling to the world. But if your customers are in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, what shapes their experience isn't how many products are in the catalogue. It's where the piece ships from.

This page is for a Shopify store owner with customers in Saudi Arabia who wants to know what changes when the factory is here.

Where it's printed decides how long it takes

An order printed abroad crosses a border before it arrives, and that can stretch to weeks with shipping and customs. In the meantime your customer asks you where their order is.

When the piece is printed inside Saudi Arabia, the sum changes: we start as soon as the order reaches us, and it usually arrives within two days in every city in the Kingdom. In rare cases it can take up to 14 days. Two days changes what customers say about you, and how many "where's my order" messages you get.

Customs and charges at the door

A parcel from abroad can pass through customs and import VAT, and depending on how it was shipped, your customer may be asked to pay at delivery. Someone who paid for a piece and is then asked for more money on the doorstep doesn't come back.

A piece made and shipped inside Saudi Arabia skips all of that. The whole trip stays inside the Kingdom.

Faults and returns when the factory is close

A printed piece is made for one customer, so there are no size exchanges. But when there's a fault, being close matters: we reprint and reship at our cost, as long as you tell us within 7 days of delivery, with a photo of the fault. A parcel that couldn't be delivered comes back to our warehouse.

What stays as it is on Shopify

• Your theme, apps and payment methods. Connecting touches neither your theme nor your payment methods. Saudi merchants on Shopify take payment through a third-party gateway, and all of that stays as you set it up. We cover it in Shopify vs Salla.
• Your money. Your customer pays in your store, and your money reaches you from your platform. Tamm never holds your sales.
• Your products. They stay as they are, with printed pieces beside them. If a customer orders both, we ship our piece and you ship yours.

Who this suits, and who it doesn't

Better to say it now than have you find out later:

• It suits you if most of your customers are in Saudi Arabia, you want pieces in your own design with no stock, and delivery time matters to your customers.
• It doesn't suit you if you sell to customers outside the Kingdom, because we ship inside Saudi Arabia only. Nor if you want embroidery, all-over printing or a cut of your own: everything we don't do, with the reason, is on the limits page.

How connecting with Shopify goes

You ask for the connection and we set it up with you step by step. Then:

1. You pick a piece from the catalogue and put your design on it. The product goes live in your store with its photos and sizes, at the price you set.
2. Your customer orders and pays in your store. Like any order.
3. The order reaches us on its own. The cost of the piece and the shipping comes off your Tamm wallet.
4. We print, check, pack and ship in your store's name. The tracking number goes back to your store.

There's no subscription from us on top of Shopify's, and no commission on your price. Each month you get a tax invoice for everything you paid us.

Where Tamm fits

Tamm is a factory and warehouse inside Saudi Arabia that works behind your Shopify store: we print, pack and ship every order to your customer in Saudi Arabia in your store's name. How connecting with Shopify works