{"id":16759,"date":"2017-12-05T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/?p=16759"},"modified":"2024-09-25T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:23:05","slug":"tiny-bee-cards-printful","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/en-au\/stories\/tiny-bee-cards-printful\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Designer Couple Found Fulfillment with Printful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tiny Bee Cards likes making happy, silly cards and gifts for people that are sure to bring a smile. Each card is handmade by Alexis Rawlins and Brandon Sachs, a husband & wife team in sunny Los Angeles.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Dreams Present Even Bigger Inventory Challenges<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alexis Rawlins illustrated a silly card for her husband, Brandon. He loved it so much that he suggested opening a greeting card shop. \u201cWe love being able to create art that we hope will make people smile,\u201d says Alexis. That\u2019s why she had a passion to bring her art to other products like stickers, pins, shirts, mugs. The problem was, they didn\u2019t have the equipment or space to start creating a wide inventory of products.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time she was still working a day job while building a business. Unfortunately, there was much time in the day. All cards were handmade, and they had to handwrite their shipping labels for their orders. Copy and pasting addresses from their online channels to carrier websites ate up a bunch of time. The process took forever for even a small batch of orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their dream to expand their product line seemed impossible with their current setup. Alexis was spending more time worrying about shipping than designing new concepts. When they found the perfect solution, it immediately opened up new creative opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding Fulfillment with Printful and ShipStation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Tiny Bee Cards team needed a system that could grow with them but decrease in-house inventory. They found Printful, an on-demand, online printing solution that took the task of creating new products out of their small studio. \u201cI was spending too much time on fulfillment and not enough time creating new designs. Printful really helped me do that by taking on our fulfillment needs for those items. Printful also opened up a whole new product line for me\u2014now I can offer mugs, t-shirts, leggings, tote bags, and more\u2014without the need for equipment or supplies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/span>With ShipStation, creating shipping labels by hand became a thing of the past. It became the hub for all their online and wholesale orders.  \u201cShipStation was a game changer \u2014 now all of our orders come in from Etsy, WooCommerce, and Amazon and most of our shipping labels are assigned automatically. It\u2019s just a push of a button now!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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