Do I need technical skills to build my site?

No. A store can be launched in approximately 30 seconds. There is no coding required and no need to assemble a complex app stack like on other platforms.

What if I don't have my own designs yet?

The platform includes Dream AI and access to MyDesigns Agents that help you research external data sources to find products with real, current demand before you even start designing.

Do I have to ship products to customers myself?

No. MyDesigns uses automated fulfillment. When a sale is made, we route it to a print partner who prints, packs, and ships the item directly to your customer. You never have to handle inventory.

Can I keep my Etsy shop?

Yes. A MyDesigns Store runs alongside your connected marketplaces. You can keep selling on Etsy for its organic reach while using your own store to build a direct customer list and run independent marketing.

Who owns the customer data?

You do. Unlike marketplaces that hide customer emails, your storefront allows you to own your list and export it for long-term remarketing.

How do I handle custom or personalized orders?

Our system automatically reads personalization requests from marketplaces and allows you to adjust print files before approving them for fulfillment.

How much does hosting and maintenance cost?

There are zero hosting fees and no costs for SSL certificates or server maintenance. This is all included as part of your MyDesigns infrastructure.

What are the actual fees?

You only pay a sales fee based on your current plan: Starter 6%, Pro 4.5%, and Pro Plus 3%. There is also a standard payment processing fee of 3% + $0.25 per transaction. Aside from these, there are no hidden monthly costs for SEO tools, review plugins, or mockup generators.

Do I really need a custom domain?

While we provide a free subdomain, custom domain support is highly recommended because SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) perform best with a custom domain. Search engines and AI assistants prioritize dedicated domains, which significantly increases your brand's authority and search visibility. A custom domain is also required for Meta Ads, because Meta only trusts a domain you can prove you own.

How long until my products show up in Meta?

Meta reads your feed on its own schedule, usually about once an hour. A change you make in MyDesigns is in the file within a few minutes, so allow up to about an hour for Meta to notice it.

Do I need Meta to approve anything before I can advertise?

No. Everything uses your own Meta account and a public feed address, so there is no app review and no waiting.

Meta rejected some of my products. Why?

Meta checks every item against its commerce policies, and designs that look like they use someone else's brand are the usual cause. You can see the reason for each item in Commerce Manager.

Is my Meta access token safe?

It is stored on our servers and only used to send your own store's events to your own pixel. It is never sent to a browser and never shown again after you save it.

Can I stop advertising on Meta without deleting anything?

Yes. Turn off the store default in the Meta Ads tab, or turn individual products off. They leave your catalog on Meta's next read and come back whenever you turn them on again.

Stores - Documentation

Stores overview

A store is a sales channel connected to MyDesigns. Once linked, you publish products to it, pull in its orders, and keep listings in sync — all from one place.

Stores are how MyDesigns connects to the places you actually sell. Each connected store lets you publish products outward and bring orders back in, so your catalogue and fulfillment stay centralized no matter how many channels you run.

You can connect as many stores as your plan allows and switch between them across the app. Products, orders, and syncing are always scoped to the store they belong to, keeping each channel cleanly separated.

Supported stores

MyDesigns supports several store types, from established marketplaces to your own hosted storefront. Each connects in its own way, but once linked they all behave consistently inside MyDesigns.

MyDesigns Store (recommended)

Spin up a hosted storefront directly inside MyDesigns without any external platform. A MyDesigns Store gives you a ready-made place to sell — including digital downloads and POD products — with checkout, buyer orders, and fulfillment handled natively by MyDesigns.

This is the store type we recommend starting with. There is nothing to authorize, no hosting or plugins to maintain, no marketplace fees, and you own the customer relationship — so you keep more of every sale and can build a direct audience.

Etsy

Connect your Etsy shop to publish listings directly to the Etsy marketplace and pull buyer orders back into MyDesigns. Listings are tied to their Etsy listing ID, so edits to titles, tags, pricing, and variants can be synced to the live listing without recreating it.

Shopify

Connect your Shopify store to publish products to your own Shopify storefront and sync incoming orders. Because Shopify is your own hosted store, you keep full control of branding and checkout while MyDesigns manages products and fulfillment behind the scenes.

WooCommerce

Connect your self-hosted WooCommerce store (WordPress) to publish products and import orders. Ideal if you already run your storefront on WordPress and want MyDesigns to handle product creation, syncing, and fulfillment.

A MyDesigns Store is hosted entirely by us, while Etsy, Shopify, and WooCommerce connect your existing external channels. You can mix and match — run your MyDesigns Store alongside your marketplace and self-hosted channels at the same time.

The MyDesigns Store

A MyDesigns Store is your own storefront, hosted and maintained natively by MyDesigns. You sell directly to your customers without connecting to an external marketplace.

Unlike Etsy, Shopify, and WooCommerce, a MyDesigns Store isn't a channel you connect to — it's a storefront we run for you. You publish products to it the same way you publish to any connected channel, and buyers browse, purchase, and check out directly on the store.

Orders placed on your store flow straight into the MyDesigns order dashboard, and fulfillment is handled natively — so selling on your own store keeps everything in one place.

MyDesigns Stores are available on every paid plan, and your plan sets how many you can run at once.

Plan	Free	Starter	Pro	Pro Plus
MyDesigns Stores	—	1	2	3
Store publishes / day	—	120	400	10,000
Transaction fee per sale	—	6%	4.5%	3%
Payment processing per transaction	—	3% + $0.25	3% + $0.25	3% + $0.25

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Supported product types

A MyDesigns Store supports both physical print-on-demand (POD) products and digital products, and a single order can contain a mix of the two.

Print-on-demand products: Physical items produced through our print partners or a connected catalog such as Printify. When an order comes in, it's routed automatically to the print partner for production and shipping.
Digital products: Downloadable files that are delivered to the customer automatically once payment is confirmed — no manual action required.

Because POD products can be sourced from our print partners or from catalog integrations like Printify, everything in your catalog is available to sell on your store.

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Publishing and bulk tools

You publish to a MyDesigns Store using the same tools you already use across MyDesigns, including bulk workflows for larger catalogs.

Bulk publishing: Publish many products at once and use a shared template to apply consistent settings across a batch instead of editing each listing individually.
Mockup generation: Generate product mockups from the built-in mockup engine or your own PSD templates before publishing.
AI listing content: Generate titles, tags, and descriptions for your listings automatically, so products are ready to publish faster.

Managing your MyDesigns Store

The store is designed to stay manageable as your catalog grows, with merchandising and financial options built in.

Inventory management: Filter products by store status on the products page to keep large catalogs organized.
Merchandising: Group products into Store Collections and surface Recommended Products to guide buyers through your catalog.
Financials: Payments run through Stripe Express. You can share a single connected account across multiple stores or set up a separate account per store.
Flexible setup: A store can stay active even before a payment method is configured, so you can build it out gradually.

Hosting and infrastructure

Because we host the store for you, the underlying infrastructure is handled on our side.

Custom domains: Every store gets a free subdomain, and you can connect your own custom domain when you're ready.
Free SSL: Each storefront includes an SSL certificate at no extra cost.
Responsive by default: Stores are optimized for desktop and mobile automatically.
Tax handling: Taxes are handled through Stripe Express and Stripe Tax, so tax collection is managed as part of checkout.

Because the store runs on our own infrastructure, there's no external platform to authorize or maintain — hosting, SSL, and performance are all managed by MyDesigns.

Built-in marketing tools

Your store includes marketing and conversion features natively, so you don't need to add separate apps for them.

Analytics: Built-in traffic and conversion tracking for your store — from page views to what your customers are browsing — with no third-party analytics tool required.
Product reviews: An integrated review system for both your store and individual products.
CRM integration: Coming soon — connect your store to a CRM to sync customers and run email and SMS marketing automation.
Meta Ads and Google Shopping: Coming soon — sync your products to a Meta catalog to advertise them on Facebook and Instagram, and to Google Shopping to advertise across that channel.

Advertising on Meta

Meta Ads works with the MyDesigns Store only. Products you publish to Etsy, Shopify or WooCommerce are advertised through those platforms instead. Setup takes about ten minutes and happens mostly inside your own Meta account — you never give MyDesigns your Facebook password.

Your products go into a Meta catalog, and what buyers do on your store is reported back to Meta. Meta then decides which product to show to which person. Three pieces make that work.

Product feed: A file your store publishes with every product you enabled for Meta. You give Meta the address once, and Meta re-reads it on its own schedule.
Meta Pixel: A small piece of code on your storefront that tells Meta what a visitor looked at, added to cart, or bought.
Conversions API: The same information, sent from our servers instead of the browser. Ad blockers and privacy settings hide many browser events, so this recovers the sales that would otherwise go unreported.

Before you start

You need a Meta Business account at business.facebook.com. It is free, and everything below happens inside it.

Meta requires you to prove you own the domain your products link to, and you can only do that for a domain you control. Connect your own custom domain to your store before you begin.

Step 1 — Verify your domain

In Business Manager, open Business settings, then Brand safety, then Domains. Add your store domain and follow the verification method Meta offers — adding a DNS TXT record at your domain registrar is the usual one. Meta only trusts product links and events coming from a verified domain, and skipping this makes ads under-deliver later in ways that are hard to diagnose.

Step 2 — Create a catalog and add your feed

Open Commerce Manager and create a catalog of type E-commerce. Inside it, go to Data sources, choose Add items, then Scheduled feed. Meta asks for a URL. Copy it from Stores, Customize Store, Meta Ads tab — the Product feed box has a copy button.

https://your-store-domain/meta-feed.csv

Leave the username and password fields blank — the feed needs no login.
Set the schedule to hourly.
Meta reads the file straight away and shows any problems it found.
This is the only address you ever paste. From here on Meta re-reads it by itself, so new products appear and removed ones disappear without you doing anything.

Step 3 — Copy your Pixel ID and access token

Open Events Manager and select your pixel, or create one if you have none.

The Pixel ID is the long number shown at the top of the page.
For the token, open Settings, find the Conversions API section, and choose Generate access token.

Meta shows the access token once. Copy it immediately — if you lose it you have to generate a new one.

Step 4 — Paste them into MyDesigns

Back in MyDesigns, go to Stores, open Customize Store, and select the Meta Ads tab. Paste both values under Connection and save. The banner at the top of the tab changes to Connected. Your access token is stored for our servers to use and is never shown again, not even to you.

Step 5 — Send a test event

In Events Manager, open your pixel and select the Test events tab. Meta shows a short code that looks like TEST12345. Paste that code into the Test box in the Meta Ads tab and choose Send test event. It should appear in Meta's window within a few seconds, which confirms your token works.

Step 6 — Connect your pixel to your catalog

In Commerce Manager, open your catalog, go to Settings, and connect your pixel to it.

This step is easy to miss and fails quietly. Without it Meta cannot match a sale to the product that caused it, so your ads never learn what sells.

Step 7 — Launch a campaign

In Ads Manager, create a campaign with the Sales objective and choose Advantage+ catalog ads. Select the catalog you created, set your budget, and publish.

Choosing which products to advertise

You decide per product whether it goes into your Meta catalog. Products you never touch follow your store default, which you set in the Meta Ads tab under New products.

To change several at once, select them on the Products page and use Bulk actions.
Turning a product off removes it from the feed, and Meta drops it from your catalog the next time it reads the file.
There is nothing to undo — turning it back on puts it back.

Connecting a store

External stores connect through a secure authorization flow. For Etsy and Shopify you authorize MyDesigns against your account, while WooCommerce links through your site's API credentials. MyDesigns custom stores require no external connection — you create them instantly from within the app.

Once a store is connected it appears across the app as a selectable channel, letting you scope products and orders to it. Detailed, platform-specific setup steps live in the Integrations section.

Etsy setup: Authorize your Etsy shop and start publishing listings.
Shopify setup: Connect your Shopify storefront to publish and sync products.
WooCommerce setup: Link your self-hosted WooCommerce store via its API.

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