Thanks for the response but a little late.
After a few sleepless nights and insane focus, I figured out that;
1. We have to both mess with the listing in Printful AND on the Weebly side, making sure not to be over the tiny number of 25 products. ( NOT advertised in your sales materials which kinda pisses me off. Feels like I signed up for something and then find out I got sold short. The fact that variants count as individual products adds insult to injury. )
Weebly and Printful are a nice little ecosystem but SOMEBODY ( that somebody ain't me ) makes a huge profit margin on the shirts ( I'm guessing that weebly gets kickbacks from printful on this but only the top leaders would know ) and then weebly also charges subscriptions.
2. Printful has something called "printful wallet" where you have to put money in before making any sales ( also NOT advertised when I invested a bunch of time and energy on their platform and I only figured it out after I was well vested in it. I'm not a dummy or noob on the interwebs so it's clear to me that is a little hidden trick they put in there too )
I couldn't find much info and NO LIVE SUPPORT from weebly or printful so I had to spend hours and hours of my time to make what I already paid for actually work but in a way that is much less efficient / profitable than how both Weebly and Printful sell themselves as being. If you're so big that you can't provide live support to every customer, then you're big enough that you can pay some nerds to build an amazing A.I. that acts as live support and helps people get through this. I'm no dummy but it was a B and half for me to get the printful / weebly integration working right and finally be able to start selling products.
The next chapter in this journey now is to verify if you guys can deliver good quality goods in a timely fashion.
I hope this thread helps others to be able to debug their "product not available" thing faster than I was able to. A short video explainer made by Printful / Weebly showing all the key checks or even an interactive tutorial overlay on the website backends for first time store creators would be great.
Your interfaces ( both printful and weebly ) are not very intuitive ( This is coming from a guy who learned ADOBE stuff off the cuff, so when I say that, it means something. ) so I pity the folks that are less adept and who just spent a bunch of money to build an online store but then get stuck on this crap.
I was a hair away from just going fully over to merch.amazon.com and / or etsy.
Your subscription model isn't fun so please make your user experience 1000x easier. You can't have a **bleep**ty subscription model ( Not-so-honest marketing ) + clunky interface + slow customer service. You can pick only one area to suck in. You're not allowed to suck in all 3.
If you do continue this way then people will leave in droves to Amazon, Etsy and your other, hungrier / smarter competitors.
24 hour AI-powered customer service bots. You need 'em. You want 'em. Tell your supervisor to tell his / her / their supervisor to tell the big boss. Get 'er done!
Wish you the best!
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