Printful + Delay made easy.
MESA is the easiest way to create Printful and Delay integrations so you can automate any work - no code required.
MESA empowers you to build any solution. Scale faster and more efficiently than ever before. When you're able to build your ideas, you're free to explore unique ways to expand your role and business. What will you make today?
How does Delay work with Printful?
With Printful and Delay by MESA integrations, you can get more done in days, not months. Automate the work that solves your everyday problems and the challenges currently holding back your progress.
Enhanced Timing Control
By integrating Delay with your Shopify store, you can precisely time various automated processes such as order confirmations, follow-up emails, or inventory updates. This allows for more thoughtful engagement with customers and avoids overwhelming them with immediate, back-to-back notifications.
Staggered Task Distribution
By implementing delays between automated tasks, you can distribute workloads more evenly over time. This prevents system overloads and ensures that tasks are processed smoothly. This means less manual monitoring and intervention, enabling them to focus on more strategic initiatives.
Resource Optimization
With the ability to define delays in automation, you can better align your workflows with business hours or peak activity times. For example, delaying certain non-essential updates or processes during peak sales hours can ensure that resources are focused on priority tasks, enhancing overall efficiency.
Strategic Marketing Automation
Delay enables you to set specific time intervals between marketing communications. This could include scheduling a series of welcome emails, promotional messages, or abandoned cart reminders, fostering a more personalized and effective marketing strategy.
Improved Customer Experience
By creating deliberate pauses between different steps of an interaction, you present information to customers in a more digestible manner. For example, providing a delay between an order confirmation and a request for feedback ensures that customers have time to assess their interaction, leading to more accurate and positive reviews.
Solve more business-critical tasks
MESA helps you simplify your operations into efficient workflows that run immediately when the work happens. More ideas are now possible and more challeneges can be solved through the power of no-code automation solutions.
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How to connect Printful to Delay
Connecting Printful to Delay has never been easier. With MESA, making complex integrations between Printful and Delay by MESA only takes a few minutes — no code required. Automate basic data entry or connect the systems that run your business. Solve more business-critical problems with MESA and accomplish more with less resources.
- First, create a new workflow in MESA.
Workflows are simply the steps of an automation that runs automatically.
- Next, pick one of the apps as a trigger step - this will start your workflow.
This is what kicks off your automation to run automatically.
- Then, choose an action step from another app for unique customization.
This is where the magic happens. 🪄
- Lastly, personalize the data being sent from one app to another.
Use the various fields within each stel to personalize your workflow. Test your automation to ensure everything is running properly.
- Finished!
Just turn on this Printful to Delay workflow and MESA will start doing this work for you. Look at you embracing the automation lifestyle!
Build your own Printful Delay by MESA workflows using these steps
Quickly make any workflow between two or more apps.
These are triggers. They're what start your workflow to run automatically. Use any of these trigger steps to start your workflow when…
- Package Shipped
- Starts when a package is shipped.
- Package Returned
- Starts when a package is returned.
- Order Created
- Starts when an order is created.
- Order Updated
- Starts when an order is updated.
- Order Failed
- Starts when an order has failed.
- Order Canceled
- Starts when an order is canceled.
These are actions. Workflows can multiple actions to make personalized integrations. Use any of these action steps to make your workflow do…
- Delay
- Delay or pause any workflow before moving on to the next step.
- Get List of Products
- Obtain a list of products available in Printful.
- Retrieve Variant
- Grabs all details about a specific variant and its product.
- Retrieve Product
- Grab all details about a specific product and a list of variants for the product.
- Retrieve Product Size Guide
- Grab all details about the size guide for a specific product.
- Get List of Categories
- Obtain a list of catalog categories available in Printful.
- Retrieve Category
- Grab all details about the category.
- Get List of Sync Products
- Obtain a list of sync product objects from your custom Printful store.
- Create New Sync Product
- Create a new sync product together with its sync variants.
- Retrieve Sync Product
- Grab all details about a single sync product and its sync variants.
- Delete Sync Product
- Remove a sync product with all of its sync variants.
- Update Sync Product
- Modifies an existing sync product with its sync variants.
- Retrieve Sync Variant
- Grab all details about a single sync variant.
- Delete Sync Variant
- Remove a single sync variant.
- Update Sync Variant
- Modifies an existing sync variant.
- Create Sync Variant
- Create a new sync variant for an existing sync product.
- Get List of Templates
- Obtain a list of templates.
- Retrieve Product Template
- Grab all details about a product template.
- Delete Product Template
- Remove a product template.
- Get List of Orders
- Obtain a list of orders from your store.
- Create Order
- Create a new order and optionally submits it for fulfillment.
- Retrieve Order
- Grab all details about an order.
- Cancel Order
- Cancel a pending order or draft. Charged amount is returned to the store owner's credit card.
- Update Order
- Modify an unsubmitted order and optionally submits it for the fulfillment.
- Confirm Draft for Fulfillment
- Approve a draft order for fulfillment. Store owner's credit card is charged when the order is submitted for fulfillment.
- Estimate Order Costs
- Calculates the estimated order costs including item costs, print costs, shipping, and taxes.
- Add File
- Upload a new file to the library by providing URL of the file.
- Retrieve File
- Grab all details about a file.
- Get List of Avaliable Thread Colors from Provided Image URL
- Obtain a list of colors in hexadecimal format.
- Get List of Sync Products
- Obtain a list of sync product objects from your store.
- Retrieve Sync Product
- Grab all details about a single sync product and its sync variants.
- Delete Sync Product
- Remove a sync product with all of its sync variants.
- Retrieve Sync Variant
- Grab all details about a single sync variant.
- Update Sync Variant
- Modifies an existing sync variant.
- Delete Sync Variant
- Remove configuraton information and disables automatic order importing for a sync variant.
- Calculate Shipping Rates
- Obtain a list of available shipping options and rates for a given list of products.
- Get List of Countries
- Obtain a list of countries and states that are accepted by Printful.
- Get List of Countries for Tax Calculation
- Obtain a list of countries that requires sales tax calculation.
- Calculate Tax Rate
- Calculate sales tax rate for a given address if required.
- Change Packing Slip
- Modifies packing slip information of the currently authorized Printful store.
- Retrieve Basic Information About Multiple Stores
- Grab all details about multiple store's basic information.
- Retrieve Basic Information About a Store
- Grab all details about a store's basic information.
- Create Mockup Generation Task
- Create an asynchronous mockup generation task.
- Get List of Product Variant Printfiles
- Obtain a list of printfiles available for products variants.
- Retrieve Mockup Generation Task Result
- Grab all details about an asynchronous mockup generation task result.
- Get List of Layout Templates
- Obtain a list of templates that can be used for client-side positioning.
- Get List of Warehouse Products
- Obtain a list of warehouse products from your store.
- Retrieve Warehouse Product Data
- Grab all details about a warehouse product data.
- Get List of Approval Sheets
- Obtain a list of approval sheets confirming suggested changes to files of on hold orders.
- Approve Design
- Uses the confirm hash of an approval sheet to approve a design and remove the hold on an order.
One-day Workflow Wizards
Not interested in learning another app? Oooh, we get it. Alternatively, turn to a fast, efficient team who is all about getting your perfect workflow up and running in a flash. That's us by the way. In case that wasn't clear.
- Tell us about your workflow. Reach out and explain all the nuances to the challenges you're currently facing. Whether it's repetative tasks, keeping business systems in sync or creating new shopping experiences for your customers, our experts will listen
- We'll make it in 1 business day. Our experts will hand-craft the workflows to meet your exact needs. They'll setup each the automation on your store with each step configured to match your requirements so all you have to do is turn it on.
- Boom! Problem solved. Sit back and relax knowing you have MESA reliably handling this work automatically. Start exploring more ways to strealine your efforts and enjoy the automation lifestyle! 🚀
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