creativehub: Sell Art Prints
Dropship art prints with Shopify & creativehub
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March 19, 2024
Awful app with next to no customer support. Sneaky cost increases, and ZERO shipping cost integration within the webstore are reasons alone not to use it. But coupled with an inability to accurately conduct an order search (I can't find several active orders because the site only shows the history for 2022 and earlier), and I've hit the absolute wall. I've LOST money thanks to their lack of transparency - I've cancelled all orders, and will be issuing chargebacks as it's just not even close to an acceptable level of service.
Aug. 7, 2023
Very good customer support, also on weekends; very good printing quality - love the app and the dropshipping service!
Aug. 7, 2023
The app worked really well for us - we had a couple of issues processing our first orders but the technical support was really helpful and we able to resolve things relatively quickly.
Aug. 6, 2023
I have found the quality of the prints to be first rate. Never any complaints about this from customers. The process is usually very smooth and hassle free and smoothly integrates with my Shopify account. There were Brexit issues when it came to shipping to Europe, and massive problems to the USA which they suspended as it was such a mess. However the staff responded quickly and were desperate to try and solve the problems. No chatbot nonsense, actually emails to real people and real solutions in a timely manner. I recommend them.
Aug. 6, 2023
I can't fault these guys. Hi quality product delivered quickly and efficiently. They're not cheap but I don't want cheap, nor do my customers.
Aug. 6, 2023
I've been using these guys from their early days and their print quality has always been top notch. They are are also quick to resolve any problems. Once I got my head around the app integration it's reasonably straight forward, my only hiccup was integrating all the different shipping profiles to the different products. The Creative Hub were very quick to assist when I emailed though. Some people have criticised the shipping prices, which I understand. Its £65+ plus to send a A4 print to Australia. But I also understand that they need to use a reputable and reliable company to ensure quick and safe delivery. My customer's order reached Australia impressively quick. Personally, I'm happy to absorb some of the shipping costs in return for a fast, professional service with peace of mind for me, but that does mean a much smaller profit when selling to North America and beyond. I haven't worked out a way to resolve this as yet. So I'm giving a 4 star review. Excellent all round but the shipping prices do make selling low priced prints beyond Europe unworkable.
Aug. 6, 2023
I can only tell very positive things about this app. Everything works perfectly as it should. The service and the entire community behind this app is world class. I can recommend this and the entire company 100%. Keep up the good work...
Aug. 3, 2023
This would be a dream solution had it not been for the company's extortionate shipping fees outside of the UK. To send a print abroad costs as much as the actual print (around £25-£30). They strive to be carbon neutral by using companies like DHL GoGreen and Green Courier, which is very commendable, but they will lose a lot of customers who simply will not or cannot pay this much to ship a piece of printed artwork. When their competitors do this for a fraction of the cost there's no contest. On top of that, they charge 20% extra for their dropshipping service. We would have to charge between £85-£100 per poster in order to make any profit. With prices like that we could simply not compete with our competitors. I really hope this company will reconsider their shopping fees and let their CUSTOMERS choose which shipping option they prefer to use.
Hi DIRT & GLORY, Our print prices are lower than competitors who make Fine Art products. The thing is that we are not a poster printer, we make fine art prints. There is a huge difference in quality between posters and fine art prints. I understand if you sell posters that fine art printing would seem expensive to you, but it makes no sense to compare our prices to the prices of a completely different product. Also your quote of our delivery costs is not accurate, and not extortionate. We use express couriers only to countries where delivery would otherwise be slow and would impact the brand of the artists who we fulfil for. Those artists do charge the right prices for the original creative and distinctive art that they create, and their margins are excellent, and they get lots of repeat business because the delivery is reliable and fast. It just depends what area of the market you exist in. All areas of the market are valid but it is a bit naive to expect every company to cater for your area of the market and to criticise them inaccurately when they don't. We are predominately a social commerce agency catering for rising star and established artists on Instagram and other social media and we make products that fit their end of the market. Stuart Waplington CEO & Founder p.s. We are 100% carbon neutral, since 2019. Again, the brands of our artists matters. Their work should not have a negative impact on the planet. This does not affect our prices, we pay for this out of our margin
July 13, 2023
I installed the app, but had issues with creating and deleting projects and products. I tried both Firefox and Chrome and ran into the same issue. I would not recommend the app at this time.
June 23, 2023
New shipping prices are ludicrous! Makes it unviable to use Creativehub drop shipping services. I previously used them a few years ago and was really happy with their products and services and was all set to return after reinstating my Shopify store. Severely disappointed that these prices now put them out of reach.
June 8, 2023
Installed the app to my shopify store, created an account, tried uploading files on multiple occasions and it didn't work. Not sure what I did wrong, but I uninstalled because couldn't even get past the setup point.
Hi Megan, I have checked your account - the issue is that your files are corrupted thus we cannot process them. Please contact customer support on [email protected] and we can help guide you.
Nov. 29, 2022
I am very frustrated with Creativehub. The new shipping prices are exorbitant. I find it an impertinence to charge almost 30.00 € for a delivery of less than 500gr within Europe and then tip you to offer free delivery in your store. How can you make money with it, especially if you are not yet so well known and can not charge high prices for your art? I have never experienced such high shipping costs for anything I've ordered within Europe. In addition, certificates for limited editions come without authentication holograms although this is described on the certificates. After contacting customer service, they said that there are none available at the moment. I would expect at least to be informed about that or that the text on the certificates will be corrected, so that customers do not complain when getting their artworks.
Hi Matthias, I am sorry to hear you are disappointed. Please allow me to clarify some incorrect remarks: Our dropshipping shipping costs to Europe are between €6.95 - €15.00 for print only orders - this is a flat rate regardless of how many prints are in the order. For framed items, shipping costs to Europe starts at €14.13 going up to €91. Please keep in mind this accounts for delicate wood frames with glass sized at 841x1189mm. These need to be very well packaged as they are fragile oversized items. All frame deliveries are also shipped via DHL express courier arriving in 1-3 days. If you need help pricing your artwork to help account for shipping costs check out our help centre article here: https://www.theprintspace.co.uk/help/knowledge-base/how-to-price-your-online-art-prints/ My best Zach
Sept. 2, 2022
Die App zeigt meine Produkte nicht an!!! Ich habe ein neues Produkt erstellt kann es aber in der App nicht hochladen, weil ABSOLUT NICHTS angezeigt wird, außer den zwei Worten 'PRODUCT LIST'. Meine anderen Produkte sind in meinem Shop aber wie gesagt, die Liste ist leer!
Hi Claudia. I am sorry that you were experiencing this issue. You will see it is now resolved. We made some improvements to our import process in creativehub which allows you more control over variant, product and batch importing. These updates needed to be reflected on the Shopify app side which is complete.
Jan. 11, 2022
I have set up my print sales site using this app and I am really pleased with it. The printing quality and fulfilment is top notch. The system is very hands-off once it is up and running. The customer places an order and it goes straight to Printspace who generally turn it around and get it shipped within a few days and sometimes within 24 hours. I have to then notify the customer that it is on it’s way but I don’t think that they could do this as they are dealing directly with me and not my customer. It is quick and easy to do this via Shopify admin anyway. The packaging is very good quality which greatly boosts confidence that your customer will get their order safely, without needing to deal with damage in transit. The printing costs and flat fee shipping costs are very reasonable. The back end is well thought through, offering the option of selling different editions as variants (Shopify speak) and you can even specify when uploading if prints have already sold within an edition which is useful as the edition will then pick up from that number going forwards. IMO the app and the print fulfilment definitely deserves 5 stars. However just for the record a couple of things: Sometimes a product gets imported into your store via the CreativeHub app but the preview pics don’t load for one or more variants. I have found that this is cured by simply re-importing those particular variants again. Is this a bug? Be careful when adding a border that you don’t jump up a print cost tariff level for the sake of a small white border as this is calculated on paper size not image size. I think the ‘room set’ photo is ok and helps with illustrating scale but it would be nice to have a bit more variety. Maybe it would be possible to add a few more options sometime? Lastly be aware that if you sell variants you have to upload the largest image size, which may require interpolation, and the smaller prints will be printed from the same file. Ideally I would prefer to scale the image sizes accordingly but in practice this has not proved a noticeable issue so far and smaller prints have looked fine.
Jan. 10, 2022
I use this app to fulfill all my print orders on my website. Creative Hub have always produced great results in very fast print and dispatch timescales, both in the UK and Globally. My customers often remark on the high quality of the prints received. I'm delighted with the service I get from Creative Hub
Jan. 6, 2022
I use this app for some of my deliveries and it is fantastic ... 100% reliable and extremely quick. The whole process is efficient and intuitive. Basically, I never have to worry and it saves a whole heap of time. If I've ever had a query, it's dealt with super fast. Love these guys!
Jan. 6, 2022
Fantastic! All works perfectly and the prints are amazing! Gives me all the freedom and security I need to create more.
Jan. 5, 2022
I have been using the creativehub app in combination with my art store on Shopify for several months now, and it has been a very elegant way to ensure my art prints are manufactured to the highest quality standards - I had personally ordered prints at ThePrintSpace in Düsseldorf before, so I was already a fan of their paper choices and brilliant prints. Plus, the packaging and shipping leaves a highly professional impression with my customers, especially when adding a certificate of authenticity - which comes with a hologram and all. Dropshipping my art prints via creativehub allows me to fully focus on painting and exhibiting my work, and I can be sure that I'll be able to handle whatever amount of orders come my way :D I used to run a different shop where I printed and shipped my art myself, but this is a massive improvement for me and makes it much easier to explore larger sizes for my work. It is an incredibly satisfying feeling to wake up to a chain of E-Mails telling me that 1) an order has been placed in my shop, 2) the order has been printed, 3) the order has been shipped, without me even realising it - and needing to do nothing about it! So, the orders from Shopify are pulled by creativehub at midnight each day and then printed & fulfilled within 24 hours on a business day, often quicker, so if a customer orders at say 10pm and I sleep really long the next day, this does indeed happen - and is welcome to happen more often in the future :D As a special benefit, I would like to mention the flat shipping fee - wherever my customers order from, creativehub charges me a flat shipping fee (I think it is 8 pounds or something of that magnitude), which I can easily absorb for my customers and just offer them free shipping altogether. Going forward, there is one wish I would like to express though, and that is a quicker and maybe more in-depth response from the creativehub helpdesk. I encountered a rather painful glitch once where an important order placed by a customer of mine on Shopify got "stuck", i.e. it could not be seen and processed by the creativehub backend and I did not know what to do - in the end, the Helpdesk and I managed to pin down the root cause of the problem, there was a perfectly reasonable explanation, the problem is now solved and I learned how to prevent this type of situation (it was about selling prints as edition and how to correctly import the edition as a "variant" to Shopify, which is required for the order to be processed correctly). However, the exchange with the helpdesk dragged on for more than a week (!) and I felt that the data I provided for troubleshooting was not properly or accurately ingested, so it took unnecessarily long to solve the problem or even to offer a pragmatic workaround for this very instance. And all the while I had a customer waiting, which made it all quite stressful for me and I must admit that I felt left hanging in this situation. So going forward, I would hope for helpdesk communication with creativehub to be consistently quicker and more responsive when there is an acute problem on hand, so an issue like this could probably be worked out in maybe 2-3 business days if everyone is cooperating and there is a good back and forth of data. Alternatively, one could just quickly offer some sort of goodwill process to fix the immediate situation and figure out the root cause later simply to prevent extra waiting times for end customers. Creativehub states on their page that they try to answer queries within a couple of hours and this would indeed be a very good response time to ensure. So this is one improvement I would like to see, on top of an already very powerful and ambitious technical solution to help me as an artist focus on doing art.
Jan. 5, 2022
I've been using it since I opened my shop and never been disappointed. Flawless and easy-to-use app, works like magic with a superb print service at Printspace.
Jan. 5, 2022
I use this app for most of my printing requirements and would highly recommend it. The service is excellent and I am very pleased with the quality of my prints. It also enables me to hold a large stock of designs/sizes by using their drop shipping service.