2.5 Connect Distributor Catalogs and Add Custom Products

Connect to AlphaBroder, S&S Activewear, and SanMar's catalogs

Why: All users can accurately and consistently markup products based on where you're ordering your blanks.

Where: My Account > Product Catalogs

Printavo pulls products and base pricing from the above catalogs on a daily basis. Don't see a catalog you use? You can upload custom products individually or in bulk under My Account > Custom Products. 

Global catalogs can be selected and made active for all shops to enter their credentials, allowing you to access account-specific pricing from SanMar, Alphabroder, and S&S.

NOTE: Currently, S&S Activewear is the only Global Catalog that allows for custom pricing in Printavo. We will be releasing this updated feature for Custom Pricing for AlphaBroder and Sanmar sometime in April/May of 2025 and alert shops once this is live.

To enable your custom pricing for a Global Catalog, simply navigate to My Account > Product Catalogs. There, you will see the option to either select Global Pricing or Custom Pricing.

If you select Custom Pricing, you'll see 2 boxes in order to enter your Username and Password for the account credentials you have for any of the 3 catalogs. These will be the credentials you created for those specific catalogs.

The above image shows the difference between successfully connecting your account and if the credentials entered are incorrect.

After successfully connecting to a catalog, the username remains visible so shops can tell what account is connected to each catalog. A status of “Connected” is displayed, along with a “Disconnect” button that allows you to sign out of the catalog account you previously connected. When disconnecting from an account, the catalog will connect to the Global account by default. Shops can stop pulling pricing from a catalog by unchecking the catalog’s checkbox.

When you're connected to a global catalog using your custom credentials, switching to a global catalog for that supplier will provide a confirmation box to appear alerting you that switching to the global catalog will disconnect your customer credentials. To proceed, you will need to confirm by clicking “Switch to global” in the prompt, and saving the page.

*Note: Disconnecting an account and switching to the global catalog both require the user to click the “Save” button to complete the action.

How to add your Custom Products into Printavo:

1. Export the list of your current products as a CSV or XLS format.
2. Download this template file and fill it out with your products in Spreadsheet.
3. Make sure NOT to touch the first row.
4. Convert the file into a UTF 8 and save it to your computer.
5. Upload the completed CSV file.

Note: T-shirt sizes need to be in the format of "S", "M", "L", etc.

To add/delete single products from your custom product list:

1. Head to My Account > Custom Products
2. From here, you can add/edit/delete single products

Updating product pricing:

When uploading an updated product spreadsheet such as price updates to garments, as long as all the other info is the same and only the price is different, the products won't be duplicated and only their prices will be updated.

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