CustomCat: Print on Demand
by Bespoke Technologies · launched
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This exactly what I was looking for. Printful and Printify make it difficult to actually to earn a profit from POD sales. CustomCat has quality products like Bella+Canvas and fair prices. The integration with Shopify was easy. The only thing that wasn't intuitive for me was the split shipping and how that works, but CustomCat's support team was quick to help out. I'm currently on the Pro trial but it looks like a perfect fit for us.
CustomCat has the best staff, especially JT. He made the process so painless for me. He even volunteered to assist me in areas that I didn't realize I needed assistance in. I feel so much more confident about this new journey, due to this interaction.
We've used several other print on demand services. The quality of the products from CustomCat is superior to the others that we tried. Their customer service is also fantastic. Definitely recommend them!
I feel nothing short of BLESSED to be working with Custom Cat as my print on demand provider. I am currently on my 3rd year working with them and EVERYTHING about them is outstanding! I especially love their new DigiSoft Ink, which is much nicer than DTG or DTF! The ink actually stays on my customers' shirts through many washes and withstands the test of time. The customer service is also AMAZING. These people are super kind and have consistently taken care of me and my orders as if I was family. Turn around times are EXCELLENT, and if you ever need support, you can reach out to them on their Facebook Page or by email, and you will ALWAYS receive a prompt reply : ) I love everything about Custom Cat!
how do i find custom cat fulfilment section so they ship from uk. im in uk and want quick delivery? love it so far
I've been using Custom Cat for 2 years and have had really great experience with very few issues. In the rare occasion where I've had a missing order, they were quick to help find a resolution. Appreciate the great customer service.
Developer reply ·
Thank you for the feedback and for being a long-time CustomCat partner. We’re glad to hear your experience has been consistently positive and that our team was able to help resolve the rare issues that came up. We appreciate your continued trust and support.
We work with custom cat for our business. They provide quality items at great prices. We also really love our rep. He is attentive, quick to respond and address any concerns, always on top of our account and always available to us. We highly recommend Custom Cat for merchants.
Developer reply ·
Thank you for the kind review. We appreciate the trust you’ve placed in CustomCat. We’re glad to hear the product quality, pricing, and account support have been a strong fit for your business. We’ll be sure to share the feedback with your rep, and we appreciate the recommendation.
I've used customcat over all the other POD apps because of the timeframe to produce, ship and quality.
Developer reply ·
Thank you for the feedback. We appreciate you choosing CustomCat. We’re glad to hear our production speed, shipping timelines, and print quality have met your expectations. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.
These guys are chef's kiss (muah!) awesome! Print quality aside ( but print quality is exceptional as well, I don't exactly know what "digisoft" even really means, but I DO know that I like it) this is like an old school business from the mid 90's (in the good sense), if you have a question or problem and need to call them.... you can actually get a HUMAN BEING on the phone!! (imagine THAT!) they are super helpful and patient (if you are as dumb as I am) and will help you reach the finish line. Specifically, I have mostly spoken with 2 reps in particular. Much props and praise to both JT and Mike. They are doing the lord's work out here. I briefly tested the waters with the bigger players ( printify, printful, etc) and I landed on planet CustomCat. Highly recommend. ALSO a tad cheaper pricing and equal if not faster delivery time. USE THIS PRINTER!!!
Developer reply ·
Thank you for the kind words. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. We’re glad to hear the print quality, turnaround times, and hands-on support have made a difference for your business. I’ll be sure to pass along the feedback to JT and Mike. They’ll appreciate it. Thanks again for choosing CustomCat.
crazy expensive and dont offer wholesale/bulk prices
Developer reply ·
I just wanted to clarify that we do offer wholesale pricing through two plan options. With our free CustomCat Lite plan, you get access to our full product catalog at our standard wholesale rates, which are some of the most competitive in the print-on-demand space. If you're looking for even deeper discounts, we also offer CustomCat PRO, which gives you 20–40% off those prices for just $30/month — and we include a 60-day free trial so you can test it out risk-free. There's even a discounted annual option for $300/year (just $25/month). For sellers with high order volume, we also offer tiered pricing to make things even more cost-effective. I’ll follow up with you directly via email as well to help guide you through the options that might best fit your business needs. We really appreciate your feedback and would love the chance to support your success. – JT @ CustomCat
Custom Cat is amazing! Everything from the quality of the product to the ease of use and most importantly their next-level customer support. In grateful to have them as a partner as I build my POD business!
Custom Cat was a great way to introduce my products. I look forward to more product choices.
Needed some high quality hoodies for a trade show and they delivered big time. Signed some big accounts because of it...and it was a tight timeframe.
I have used CustomCat for the past several years as the primary vendor for our website, www.ROMEOCLUB.com. Very happy with their service - you can call or email and get a reasonably prompt response. Other than a couple of product issues these past few years, 90% of the issues were "user errors". The most recent "user error" last week, they went above and beyond to quickly resolve (same day) my mistake. Wonderful, friendly and efficient service.
I've been using Custom Cat as our POD provider for about 2 years now and I am very happy with the product quality and services. When there's an issue with an order, their support team fix it immediately. I love that I can stand behind the products that I offer on my online store. Highly recommend.
I have been through the ringer when it comes to POD companies and I can say for sure custom cat is BY FAR the best of the best in quality of prints, size options, prices, customer service and shipping time; most of my products have even arrived early. I've only had one bad print and it was replaced without any resistance from the company. Every customer has been more than satisfied with the product saying "it looks just like the picture and one customer has claimed they've washed their shirt over 10 times and it looks brand new still truly incredible. I adore this company and if I could give more than five stars I would. GREAT COMPANY, GREAT PRODUCTS, GREAT PEOPLE. I even received compliments from the customer service on my art work. Thank you for being you custom cat and never change!
CustomCat is the ultimate Shopify app for custom printing. It excels in print quality, offers lightning-fast turnaround times, and maintains excellent communication through emails and a thriving Facebook seller community group. This user-friendly app provides a diverse range of customizable products, making it a must-have for e-commerce entrepreneurs. Highly recommended!
Tried to like this POD but their print quality consistently failed to measure up. Customers constantly sending photos of print washing off on first wash. Customer service is prompt to reply but who cares about that when i don't have repeat customers due to poor quality. I had to go find a better POD.
Developer reply ·
We're very disappointed to hear you weren't happy with the quality of the apparel you received from us while you were using our service. We agree that DTG was not consistently high enough quality to meet our standards, which is why we discontinued it in 2022. If you'd like to read about the updates we made to our apparel decoration process since you stopped using CustomCat, you can find more info here (https://digisoft.customcat.com/). We would love to send you a sample if you'd be interested! Please reach out to us at contact@customcat.com or give us a call at 844-874-8623 (M-F, 8am-6pm EST) if there's anything we can do for you now or in the future.
I have been absolutely floored with Custom Cat's customer service and quality! I recently made a mistake with a large order - completely my fault - but contacted Custom Cat to see if there was any way they could help. The customer service rep Mike B empathized with me and went above and beyond to help alleviate the sting of my mistake, offering so much more help than I expected. You can trust you're in good hands with Custom Cat! Quality Control is also top notch...he shared that they had to remake several shirts in our order to meet quality standards before they were shipped and all that we received looked wonderful. Shipping was very fast too. I can't recommend them enough and look forward to using them more in the future!
We have been using the CustomCat App. successfully for years and the products and customer service has been outstanding. Even during the crazy Pandemic, when they re-opened everything was processed and shipped on time. The Team at CC is always available to help. Great service, excellent quality & prompt shipping to clients. Highly recommended. David G / ILuvTequila
I've been with Custom Cat since 2018 and absolutely love them. Over the years, I've seen the quality of their prints go up exponentially. The new Digisoft decoration method is out of this world and and absolute game changer. I can't recommend them enough. And sure, they've made a few mistakes over the years, but they've been super quick to resolve them and their customer service team has been so attentive to us. If you're looking for a POD that has exceptional quality AND a wide assortment of activewear, then Custom Cat is it.
I got 2 orders but only ended up for me refunding them because custom cat did not receive the orders on their end. Also, when I tried placing a manual order from my portal, their payment processor would not accept my payment whether I use Paypal or a credit card.
Huge range of products, good prices, and easy to use back end. Solid app for anyone looking to add some print on demand products and not worry about up front inventory or fulfillment.
The application is very convenient to use and very useful for sellers like me. It's very good. Everyone should know about it
We choose them because of their range of athletic product styles, colors, and sizes. Quality and production time have been good. Easy to use, but with enough flexibility for our needs.
I've used better systems which is the only reason for the 4 star, BUT, their printing and product quality are the best I have seen. Not many print on demand companies do the larger sizing which is a huge reason why I use them. The Tees I have on my store go up to 6XL! Great customer service too :)
pretty easy to set up. I really like Custom Cat's variety and choices for apparel. The app integrated pretty easy.
Great app that works just as described. Easy to use and simple to add new products to my shop, and very fast shipping. The quality of the printing on the mugs is excellent. It would be nice if CustomCat would send an email to a seller, with shipping and tracking information, when an order is shipped.
The CustomCat team is fantastic! They're extremely helpful and knowledgeable. And I love that they have folks that answer the phone. At a time when so many companies don't even offer any phone support, CustomCat maintains that personal connection. I highly recommend CustomCat.
I really wanted to like this app. I found it after a search for t-shirt drop-shippers with Shopify integration. I designed 4 shirts with identical layouts and the process is not at all intuitive. You can't just duplicate a design on another style of shirt. After several days of trial and error, I finally got the products exported and I ordered a sample. It arrived within a reasonable time and was OK-ish. The sizing seems very odd (short torso and short arms but wide chest) and the shirt was super stiff when I first pulled it out of the packaging. After washing, it was fine. The print quality is OK but not great. My main issue is that the products once exported into Shopify no longer live on their website and if you want to make changes to your current products, you need to start from scratch and re-export. If you want to see your current costs for a product you have to search through a spreadsheet to find it. I contacted customer support several times and did get timely responses but overall, the experience leaves me wanting. I am definitely searching for an alternative.
Developer reply ·
Thank you for your feedback. We are currently developing a feature in your CC dashboard that will display & allow edits to each variant you exported to your store. You may want to consider utilizing our exports templates which makes it easy use the same design on multiple garments on future exports. Or, you can select the products first, then upload the artwork on step 2 for a design to be automatically added to all the products you selected. We even have a bulk-editor that allows you to adjust the design positioning preset to multiple items at once. We provide a few different options for viewing the pricing of our catalog items (a spreadsheet being one) but you can also view the prices for our items in the catalog within the app and on our website. I’m sorry to hear the ¾ sleeve Next Level tri-blend baseball raglan didn’t fit you as expected. The shirt dimensions should match the size chart that exported to your product page. The stiffness you felt before washing is the pretreatment applied to the shirt to bond the ink to the fabric. This is somewhat unique to this style of shirt because of the combination of polyester, ringspun cotton & rayon can sometimes make the material a little stiff but the first wash takes care of that. Consider the T200 ¾ sleeve raglan which is 100% cotton or the 4420 Colorblock ¾ sleeve Raglan as alternatives. We appreciate the compliment about our support team. If you ever need any help, we can also be reached at 844 874 8623.
Customcat has helped me take my small home business to the next level. Q4 2021 was my best yet because of quick turnaround and customer satisfaction. I can't wait to scale it even bigger this year. Alex is the man and I couldn't have had the success I am having now without his help!
Great app! So useful, big help to our business and very easy to make new custom products, put them up for sale, and get them shipped. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!
Very fast fulfilment time, active Facebook community where issues are attended to in time. Great reviews from my customers
I don't write reviews too often, but a few words on Custom Cat... In the beginning we were highly skeptical about POD as a whole. Custom Cat made it extremely easy to understand and begin doing business, as we use it for our store on Shopify. In particular, Mike B. was instrumental in taking care us via customer service. The company is located in my hometown, so I was actually able to walk in and tour the facility...it's HUGE, and state of the art. They are really getting products out and ready for delivery in the fastest times that we've dealt with, by far. Anyway, highly recommended to the person that is on the fence or coming from another POD company for whatever reason. Hope this helped with your decision.
We had many customers complaining about the ink being stuck together and the ink peeling off the shirts in the first wash and the overall print quality being very poor. We deleted the app.
First off, I'm very biased. And here’s why, and after you read this review, and you try them you will be too. This company continually, amazes me and blows my mind. I've never worked with a Print on demand (POD) company that is so involved in their seller’s success. Perfect example is my last job, I had so many last-minute issues with the order due to my client, it was crazy. To say I was panicked, is an understatement. In the design and t-shirt business, time is gold that can melt away like ice on a hot day, if not handled quickly. But to them, no stress, calm business as usual and they got the job completed and out the door super-fast. I’m so grateful, even more so my client was so impressed with the quality and print. We will get more orders from them because they are singing our praises. THE BEST ADVERTISEMENT IS A HAPPY CLIENT. They made me a priority and they jumped through hoops to help me, and they always have. I felt like I was the only seller but that’s how everyone with CustomCat feels. If I could change anything, it would be more clothing style options for women. But it’s my understanding that is coming soon. Like seriously they are that Great! They take suggestions seriously. Its not like the other POD I’ve worked with where its them and then you. They are Truly in every sense of the word on the Same Team as you. They ALWAYS, answer my questions and address my concerns. Even if the question is DUH question, they are Never condescending or blow me off. They educate me and share knowledge that would take me years to gain. They build up, help, and educate All sellers they aren’t bias, and the Facebook group is in itself an asset. We love CustomCat (CC) so much we are dropping ever POD on or site that sells T-shirts. Why? Because we can’t rely on them, slow shipping, lack of communication the list goes on. However, CustomCat, they are the BOMB. CustomCat has hands down the best product, Bella canvas, Next level, Super soft Gildan and more, CustomCat has the Best Customer service. OH! And I almost forgot to mention they don’t care how big the order is they are on it. You can try the others but save yourself the headache and go with CustomCat. They set the standard by example. CustomCat, not only makes you believe the impossible is possible, by making it happen. They show you how to be successful. They are an asset you can Not afford to not have. See told you I was bias, add the CustomCat ap and I promise you, you’ll be bias too! See you in the Facebook Sellers group!
Really enjoying my experience with CustomCat so far. They're one of the only POD companies I've found that does EOD — embroidery on demand. They have a large catalog of products, and great customer service too! I talked to Mike B. today for almost an hour about all sorts of things including a cool feature I didn't know about their app which will save me time loading collections of products to my site. I love the more personal experience they offer (you can actually call them) and will definitely be sending more of my business to them in the future. Recommend you give them a try too!
Custom Cat is by far the best fulfillment company I work with. They're better than Printify, Printful and all others. I'm working diligently on moving all things over. Great to work with, and easy to deal with. Turnaround is great, and they stand by what they do.
I have not started selling but CustomCat has already earned all my sympathy. Great products, great mockups and the best support team I have seen for a long long time. I just miss the possibility of keeping products ready to upload or edit, and an easier shipping setup. Still, I have checked many POD apps and this is the best by far for me. Just go for it.
CustomCat is a great print-on-demand company. CustomCat continues to launch new products my customers love. 5 Stars
Can't say enough about Custom Cat. Been using custom cat for about 5 years now, and they've always delivered great quality products, not to mention the size of their collection is one of the biggest in the POD space. Alex Phillips has been a superstar in regards to keeping me updated with Custom Cat's products (so I can launch products as fast as possible), any account / customer issues that have arisen, and much more. Thus far I've spent well over $400,000 across multiple businesses using Custom Cat.
I love CustomCat! The support is amazing. I couldn't get the personalization aspect to play nice with my new Shopify theme (Debut) so I reached out to CustomCat for help. Just got this email from Alex: "I just fixed it. Interestingly, your theme's product template did not contain 'jquery' which is pretty standard for all themes I have worked with. Once I added the line of code to your product template it fixed the issue. Test it out and make sure it works for you!" YAY, it now works!!!
I have been an active user of Customcat for a couple of years. I am very impressed with the support, ongoing improvements, shipping times, addition of new products and community. Best POD out there. Updating this review 2 years later they are everything said above and more! They have worked really hard listening to seller and improving shipping, app and products. Communication is the key and they have it!
FF was overall a great experience for shipping a first-time. The sales staff are helpful and responsive, and the order management software is clean and easy to use.
The quality of the product in addition to the extremely kind and helpful support team at CustomCat has made this experience seamless and enjoyable. My partner and I launched a business with CustomCat in a matter of weeks and are now fully automated. It has been the easiest experience I've had with fulfillment and I highly recommend CustomCat!
Best app in the world! Mr. Mike B is an amazing professional. Thank you sir, for walking me through the process and explaining how Custom Cat can help my martial arts school have more of an impact within the communities that we serve. Truly a God send for my school.
I've been using CustomCat for 3 weeks now after a recommendation from a colleague. My main POD provider was struggling getting orders out timely for the holidays. CC really came through for me. Very consistent with processing orders and so far great reviews from customers. I will continue to use them beyond the holiday. And the thing I loved the best is they have been excellent with communication which many POD providers lack.
Quality control and support doenst exist at all. They are repeatedly shipping misprinted/wrong orders and even after 10 days i havent recevied any response from them. It would be better if they just SHUT DOWN!
CustomCat quality has been terrible in the last few months. We have numerous complaints from our customer regarding the quality of our products. In addition, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get through to anyone on the phone. I have called numerous times as well as sent emails asking for someone to call me to resolve this and have gotten ZERO reply. We are at the point if we don't get someone to contact us soon we are going to move our business to another vendor. I would NOT recommend this company at all.
Hard to navigate and figure out how to use. No help forum or anyone to talk to live for help. hARD TO UNDERSTAND
Developer reply ·
Thanks for the feedback. We have incorporated many new features into the interface since your last order. I agree, the changes can be unsettling at first but the new UX has so many powerful tools that make your job much easier. It's different but all the new features we added have been very well received by our community. We are happy to help get you acclimated. For starters, please check out these tutorials found in our blog : https://customcat.com/knowledge/using-customcat/tutorials/ and be sure to join our private sellers group on FB : https://www.facebook.com/groups/CustomCatShopifyApp . I'm Mike B and I'm happy to help you personally. My office line is 844 874 8623 and my email is mikeb@customcat.com. The holidays are coming so we want to do anything we can to help you add products to your store!
I have been a believer of CC from day 1. I am able to offer my customers a variety of quality products making their shopping experience that much better. They make sure no matter what issues happen my shop and customers are taken care of. Once you understand the overall process of things it is easy and makes running my POD business that much simpler. Here is to many more years with CC!
They have many great quality items to choose from, the production time is extremely fast, the customer service is quick to respond and extremely helpful I would highly recommend them you won't regret it.
We have been super pleased with the quality of the merch as well as the great customer support! We had so many questions when we started with a new merch site and JT has been incredibly patient and helpful in helping us quickly learn how...
CustomCat has always delivered my product to my customers in a timely manner. The product quality is very good. Very helpful when i have issues. Not sure if i have his name right but Mike was extremely easy to deal with and handled my issue promptly.Thank you
Great customer support and a clean integration with Shopify. The products they provide are top notch and I've been very pleased in all my transactions with them.
Great company! Awesome turnaround time and when you call, the customer service is patient and very helpful.
Excellent customer service and great price on products.Favorites are the mugs, which are one of the most competitively priced items on the market. Thank you!
5 of 7 orders were wrong. received totally wrong products. my logo was done in completely wrong color. customers received products for a company that wasn't even mine.
Developer reply ·
Hey Scott, Thank you for your review! We're very sorry to hear you're having a negative experience with our services at this time! I was hoping to hear back from you regarding the email I sent to you on the 4th of August. The reason why the hat printed Orange versus Red is because of the RGB values in the design file. If the RGB values are crossed between two of our color thread values, our machines can get tricked into mapping the wrong color thread. I sent you the RGB values to correct the issues on future orders! So, please check your email, I sent it from jt@customcat.com. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me directly at jt@customcat.com anytime!
I finally decided to make a 1 star review to CustomCat. Every type of issue takes away 1 star and there are many issues at the moment so they should have received zero stars if it would be possible. #1 Quality control issues - I sold thousands of face masks and it's unbelievable how much work I had with customer support. About 5% off all masks had quality issues, either the customer received the wrong product or the print was bad. Not just a bit off, it was noticably terrible. #2 Shipping issues - CustomCat is offering an economy shipping option. The next decent shipping option is incredibly expensive compared to other POD services but is still basically standart shipping. About 5% of all orders were incredibly late and about 1% of all orders got lost with economy shipping. This isn't shipping, this is garbage. #3 Production delays - According to CustomCat some orders had to be reprinted multiple times what lead to orders being in print for 2-3 weeks what is just insane. I highly doubt that's really the case but either way, if your orders need to be reprinted 6 times you are clearly doing something wrong as a company. Also, good luck explaining it to the customers why their order wasn't shipped for weeks. #4 Issues with the apps order recognition - About 0.002% of all orders didn't get synched to CustomCat. That's not a high number but if you're making many sales, you can't check orders all the time if they are getting synched. It shouldn't happen in the first place but when contacting the support about this issue I was simply told to replace a manual order. Thanks a lot. #5 Feedback ignorance - Regarding all these issues and reporting multiple times on customer complaints, product and quality issues nothing has changed at all. I had so many complaints about the product with detailed explanations but customcat didn't change anything at all about it. These are the reasons why I believe they deserve a 1 star review because as someone who is selling a lot the company clearly limits someone in expanding and growing the business because you need hours every day to fix the issue they have caused. I understand that there are many issues these days but they just tried to cash grab as much as possible instead of limiting some of their services to keep the quality steady. That's bad business practice and hurt my brand a lot. I believe I'll take my christmas business somewhere else because it will simply not be an option, they will not be able to handle it at all.
it wont allow me to set up an account, the website needs to be optimized seriously & no directions to make contact
Developer reply ·
Hello - I wanted to call you but you have not activated your account yet to include store name, payment info and seller contact. I see the install but you need to activate your account by completing your settings. Try switching your browser or device if you have not already. We can be reached at support@customcat.com or by phone at 844 874 8623. Day to to day order support is ran through a ticketing system in your dashboard or by emailing orders@customcat.com. We get between 50-100 activations daily so it does work and we'll do our best to help. First step is access the app ( not website ) through your installed apps in shopify admin. We always do our best to help!
I've used Custom Cat for about 3 years and they have a large range of products and are a great POD supplier.
I've been with them for almost 4 years now - my customers love the quality, the shipping times are lightning fast, and the support has been really really good. I especially like how responsive they are in their Facebook group for issues that are not order-related.
It's the best POD fulfilment company in the United States. Working with CustomCat for over 3 Years. Highly recommended to every seller! Pros: - Highly competitive base cost + shipping fee - Fast production time: normally ~1-3 business days, in peak season ~2-5 - Large product catalogue: tees, mugs, accessories, ornament, bags and 50+ types - Responsible policy: free replacement/refund for lost/defect/wrong packages - Excellent support: via email, FB group and even FB messaging to staff/managers - Powerful system: can upload 250 designs images, and generate over 1,000 products at once Special thanks to Michael, Alex, Joshua and Brett for the great help in these years!
CustomCat is a fantastic POD partner! They generally ship faster than anyone else I've tried, and their quality is great. On those rare occasions when there is an issue with a product, they take care of it quickly.
if i could give them -5 stars I would. Unless you want to have to replace every item for crap print quality or terrible embroidery, hard pass on this one. theres pleny other POD companies that do quality work and actually QC thier products before shipping. This company has cost me thousands of dollars in replacements because of incorrect colors and just flat out embarssing work. in response to the comment below. the wrong embroidery color was only the final straw in literally every project being an embarassing mess. I am not new to the embroidery or POD worlds. the work you do is absolutely substandard.
Developer reply ·
Hey this is Geena, we have been speaking for the last couple of weeks through support tickets. We understand your concern regarding the thread colors in the recent embroidery order. We do our best to make the design guidelines/embroidery rules readily available and have a standing offer for sellers to email any specific art files to our support team (contact@customcat.com) to confirm that they are conducive to our embroidery standards. I also see that Brett has reached out to you. Hopefully we can come to some sort of resolution.
The customer service behind CustomCat is amazing. If you have any questions or difficulties they will help you and do so quickly and professionally. I'm amazed at the care that they extend to their customers. Thank you to the entire CustomCat team.
I signed up with Custom Cat because of the reviews. Now I am beginning to regret it. 1st I ordered shirts for myself just to check out quality. I received 3 shirts, 1 of which should have NEVER passed quality control. The printing was TERRIBLE and looked like the printer was running out of ink. I sent multiple emails, newer received a reply, replacement or refund. I just ordered 2 more shirts which according to the app my store cost should have been $16 each, but I was charged a total of $42. Even with the additional shipping cost, my cost should not have been over $38. Prior to this, I have had orders rejected because the item was no longer in stock, but I was never notified and had to issue refunds. On another order for embroidery, I had to refund a cap, because my artwork could not be used for the logo, although I have used the same artwork for local embroidery. Not sure why there is a 4.5-star rating if Custom Cat is doing business like this. If you are using them for your store, you better double-check what you are being charged on your orders and definitely need to place a couple quality control orders to inspect what you are selling. Battleship Beanery
Developer reply ·
When designing shirts with a front & back print, there is a $5 added cost for the second location print. We found no record of any inquiry from the May order you referenced for the shirt you felt was not up to quality. We stand behind our service 100% and have an amazing track record for replacing any irregularity. Can you please email me direct at mikeb@customcat.com so we can address the shirt you are referencing? I'm sorry but there is just no way we could embroider the logo as submitted in the order we had to refund. When we chat, I'll be happy to explain why and walk you through our POD embroidery guidelines. We can also be reached by phone at 844 874 8623. Thanks!
Quick, easy, and fast service. All workers really make sure that the problems solved. Especially Brett.
CustomCat is one the best print on demand company out there. I have being using them fulfil my faith based apparel products for years. I love their customer service especially Mr. mike who goes extra mile to help you out. Their app is user friendly. They have variety of product to pick from compare to other print on demand company. Their printing quality is great, and no complain from my customers.
Nice app, great service and if I need to choose it. I will do it again again and again. Thanks for reading my review
CustomCat has a Customer Service superstar by the name of Jahaira. They were extremely helpful with a variant issue we were dealing with. They worked the with us for about 2 weeks, troubleshooting different things until we finally were able to track down the issue. I've never experienced such phenomenal support. I mean, THEY literally went over and above to solve our issue. We were damn near ready to hire them to our staff if we could. It really made us feel like our partnership was super valuable.
We have used this app since the start of our company in 2018 and they have been amazing. The customer service is what sets them apart from other companies because they are so willing to help. Thanks again guys!
This app is amazing. Customer Service is great... I always get all my questions answered on time. A+++++
Good quality products, fast shipping. I really like the customcat working interface: flexible, smart, convenient.
Good quality products, fast shipping. I really like the customcat working interface: flexible, smart, convenient.
I used this app to build my store and sell on Amazon, eBay. I really like the quality of product, customer service, quick response (almost under 24h). 5 star for everything.
customcat app is an easy app to use. Their customer service is great. i have being using customcat to fulfill me product for years. Mr. mike is very helpful and very patient to answer my questions. i personally recommend customcat 100%
Update: Company stating it was our design rather than their quality standards. These same designs have been printed by several other print partners with no lack of quality. Customcat misprinted each item and the embroidery was pathetic. The replacement order had new issues that the first did not. Double printing our logo in one location is not an issue with our design as they say. We followed the exact positioning guidelines & yet this issue still occurred. If they had any quality control process in place these inconsistencies would have been caught prior to shipping. If opaque areas of our design were an issue, AGAIN quality control could have flagged this prior to printing. This could've been as simple as contacting the customer to give them an opportunity to modify their design. If we could add pictures we would. Placing the blame on the customer is ridiculous. Own your faults so you can fix/prevent this going forward. Buy a new embroidery machine, the one you have results in blocky childlike handwriting. Unbelievable that you can stand behind what you produce. __________Original Review Below__________ Placed a sample order before launching products on my store. The order took nearly a month to arrive! The print quality is awful. They must not check their products before shipping them to customers. The embroidery on the hat looked like a child's handwriting. The DTG shirts both came out botched. One had a misprinted line outside of the design area & the other duplicated the logo. You would think maybe this is a onetime flaw? No, they sent a reorder and it was just as bad, worse even. Both shirts had printing flaws in the same location as the first order and additional locations. The hat came out just as hideous as the first one. Absolutely terrible. So glad we didn't trust this company with our customer orders. We've had the same designs embroidered, printed & fulfilled by Printful & Printaura. The work by Printful & Printaura is flawless everytime. I cannot believe the lack of quality that Customcat produces. Why Shopify endorses them is beyond me. I would not use this company again if I was paid to. I don't recommend using this company to dropship your designs. If your customers receive the quality we did you will lose that customer guaranteed.
Developer reply ·
Hi. I am sorry you did not enjoy your experience with us. Just as we discussed on the phone before you left this review, this was not an issue with CustomCat, but rather your design that you submitted to us. We explained to you not to use opacity in designs you are offering on the performance / 100% polyester. We also discussed your decision to use custom placement and positioning the art as opposed to leaving the positioning is standard default or choosing left chest default. If you are in the 2% of CC users who deviate from the standard location by telling the system to print in the “ custom position”, then you run the risk of it being different than the 20,000+ other shirts that ship on a daily bases who use the default, or standard print location ( not custom positioning).
We started using this app for their wide selection, but after literally every single order having issues (I never knew how many new issues could be present with each order), we have pulled all but a small handful of their items from our store. The items we have left do not seem to have as many issues as others. Overall, you're wasting time, stress, and money over an inferior product. Just use Printful, they have not messed up a single order. EDIT BASED OFF OF RESPONSE: It was not fair of me to say that every order was wrong. I will note though, not every order with an issue was reported. However, what we quickly learned about CustomCat, was when a customer ordered an item from this vendor, we were crossing our fingers that their order would not have issues. On the flip side, Printful has a 100% success rate. We have not returned 1 Printful item. Additionally, several of the "replaced" items had NEW issues. So some orders were replaced twice. Why on earth would we trust this vendor at that point? We want our customers to know that they will receive a quality product from a quality brand... and we were not that brand with CustomCat as a vendor. I'm not leaving this review to be a jerk, just want a better product. I'll also say we have since removed every single CustomCat item from our online store in the past month or 2.
Developer reply ·
Hi! I am sorry you had a poor experience using our app...After lookin at your account, I can see there were a few orders with issues, not all of your orders. The ones that did have issues were replaced on our behalf. We are great, but not perfect. We operate at 1% replacement rate this 1% contains any possible screw up. Also, over 95% of our orders leave our facility in 2-3 business days. Only in unique circumstances would something take longer than that.
Thanks JT for helping me setup my account. I'm excited to start using CustomCat as my print on demand partner.
This app is super helpful and beneficial to my store. Mike is a great rep to have and is always a solution seeker!
First off Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the awesome people working at CustomCat. I especially want to thank Mike for taking my call and fully educating me on the processes of print on demand. Mike listened very carefully to my questions and provided the answers in a very clear way. I am a graphic artist and new to the Print on Demand scene. I used to print via silk screen and used the post office as my shipping center. Fast forward to 2018 and thanks to CC, I can sit back and focus on designing artwork. With CC's affordable product prices and affordable shipping costs, I can now get rid of my warehouse and printing supplies. As a graphic artist this is the ultimate experience; all I have to do is draw, upload and let my marketing skills and CC do the rest. The value of my time being free to draw verses shopping for supplies and setting up the screens is definitely worth the monthly premium. Thanks again CC for doing the hard work and offering very low prices for the service.
I love their products and they really work on behalf of their customers. I do think their design lab is not as easy to use as others but their product line is amazing!!
CustomCat is the quintessential print on demand app for your drop shipping business! Their customer service is the best and rarely will you find customer service representatives that you'd remember by name just from how awesome they are at their job. If you ever have any problems with your orders, just shoot them an email and it will be quickly solved. Even in tough situations, they will be by your side. Their products are excellent. The most beautiful products are their dye sublimation items such as Mugs. DTG printing is above average but that's because DTG printing is still a progressing technology. Don't get me wrong though, the printing they provide is sometimes too good to be true when you consider that it is DTG. Once again, if there are ever any problems in your print order, CC will quickly rectify it and send your customer a free replacement. All you have to do is be like CC, provide excellent customer service and all will be well. CC is also always evolving, always expanding their catalogue of products and always improving the app and quality of items. Try them out if you're already using other print on demand apps. I'm sure they will be better than all your other apps. Heck you can just use them along with your other apps. All in all, you'll be making a great decision for your business when partnering with Customcat.
Great App. The interface is easy to use. Customer service is fantastic. Keep doing a great job CustomCat.
I would like to extend my appreciation in writing for the awesome customer service I received from Mike. I received an item, that was very much the wrong size, and without taking a moment after my explaining the situation, reordered me a replacement! THANKS MIKE! Earl Christian III - UWS Time Collection Store
There are a lot of resourceful Shopify video tutorials when first getting started. Also, CustomCat has so many products available to market my brand effectively. CustomCat was an easy decision to make.
CustomCat is a great POD fulfillment partner. My orders get shipped within 2 days and the quality of the prints are phenomenal. Anyone seller looking for a great POD company, definitely check out CustomCat.
good product selection but I wasted lots of hours attempting to resize the logo for the embroidered products and watching their tutorials but to no avail! Also, the logo is not simulated as embroidery and looks crappy on on the website.