Print on Demand for Zid Stores: What to Prepare First
Adding pieces in your own design to your Zid store, with no stock? What to pick, how to price, which files to prepare, and how connecting with us works.
Tamm Team4 min read
If your store is on Zid, the hard part is behind you: you have a store, customers and a dashboard you know. What you're considering now is a new line: pieces with your brand or your idea on them, without buying a batch, storing it and betting on it.
Print on demand gives you that line with no capital tied up in stock. A piece isn't made until a customer orders and pays. But the gap between a line that works and one that's forgotten comes from a little work up front. This page is about that work: five things to prepare, and how connecting with us goes after that.
1. Decide who the piece is for before what goes on it
The easy mistake is starting from the design. Start from your current customer instead: what do they buy from you today? What line does your audience keep repeating?
- A perfume or coffee store: a mug or tee in the store's identity sits well beside what people already buy from you.
- A clothing store: a printed piece lets you test an idea before you pay for a full run.
- A page with an audience: a line your followers know, printed on something they'll wear.
If you haven't settled it yet, read how to choose a niche. Everything we print is in the catalogue: tees, hoodies, mugs, posters, metal posters, stickers, mouse pads and desk pads.
2. Get the design file right once
The file decides what the piece looks like, not your screen. Before you start, have:
- An image with enough resolution for the size you want to print, and a transparent background if the design isn't a rectangle.
- Colours you accept will shift a little between screen and fabric.
- The rights to everything in the design: the logo, the image and the font.
See how to design a t-shirt for the steps. No design yet? The editor has text, shapes and image upload, and you see it on the piece before you publish.
3. Work out your price on paper
No fixed fee is waiting for you here: no subscription and no commission on your price. Your cost is the piece and the shipping for each order, and you see it before you publish. So the sum is:
Your profit = your price, minus the piece and shipping, minus your platform and payment gateway fees, minus VAT if you're registered.
If you want to offer free shipping, build it into the price before you announce it. The full calculation is in print on demand profit margins.
4. Check your Zid plan
A printed piece sells like any other product in your store, so the payment methods you've enabled decide how your customer pays. When we read Zid's pages in September 2026, the free plan was limited to bank transfer and cash on delivery, with cards starting on the next plan up. Check your current plan, and see what separates the plans if you're thinking of upgrading.
5. Order a sample before you advertise
Don't advertise a piece you haven't touched. A sample reaches you exactly as it reaches your customer: same packaging, time and quality, and our team doesn't know it's a sample. You check the fabric, the size and the print, and you can photograph it for your store and your accounts. It costs the same as the piece.
How connecting with Zid goes
You don't connect Zid alone: you ask for it, and we set it up with you step by step. Then:
- You pick a piece and design it. The product goes live in your Zid store with its photos and sizes, at the price you set.
- Your customer orders and pays in your store. Your money reaches you from your platform as usual.
- The order reaches us on its own. Nothing to copy, nothing to send.
- We print, check and ship in your store's name. From inside Saudi Arabia, in plain packaging with nothing of ours on it.
Delivery usually takes two days to every city in the Kingdom, and in rare cases up to 14 days. If there's a fault in the print or the piece, we reprint and reship at our cost, as long as you tell us within 7 days of delivery, with a photo of the fault.
Where Tamm fits
Tamm is a factory and warehouse inside Saudi Arabia that works behind your Zid store: you design and sell, and we print, pack and ship in your store's name. No subscription and no minimum. How connecting with Zid works
Frequently asked questions
- How does connecting with Zid work?
- You ask for the connection and we set it up with you step by step. After that, every order on your Zid store reaches us on its own and ships in your store's name.
- Do I need to change my Zid theme or payment methods?
- No. Connecting touches neither your theme nor your payment methods. Tamm's products sit in your store like the rest of yours.
- My store sells ready-made products. Can I add printed pieces beside them?
- Yes. Your products stay as they are and printed pieces sit beside them. If a customer orders both, we ship our piece and you ship yours.
- Is there a minimum order?
- No. We print even a single piece, and one piece costs the same per unit as a hundred.
- Who answers my customer if they ask about an order?
- You do, from your store as usual. The tracking number goes back to your store, and you see each order's status in your dashboard.
- Do I need a commercial registration?
- Not to start. A freelance document is enough, and a commercial registration is needed once your business grows.
