Evaluating and comparing web-to-print editors to find the right solution for your needs? This checklist has you covered.
If your goal is to boost site engagement, keep customers coming back, and increase revenue through custom, print-on-demand editing, Design Huddle is the only web-to-print editor you need.
Our platform checks all the boxes when it comes to providing:
✅ A seamless editing experience built on modern infrastructure, replacing outdated editors that are too complicated for everyday users.
✅ Flexible integrations with your preferred ecommerce and print fulfillment platforms—enabling you to create a best-of-breed solution.
✅ An embeddable, white-label Editor with powerful APIs and a JavaScript SDK—giving you complete branding control and the ability to tailor the user editing experience.
✅ Automatically generated personalized designs with user-uploaded assets, making it easy for your customers to select and customize their favorites.
Feature by feature, explore how Design Huddle stacks up for web-to-print businesses!
Building your business on a secure, reliable, and highly customizable platform lays the foundation for everything you offer your customers. Design Huddle delivers.
✅ Powerful SaaS - Rely on secure, cloud-hosted software with scalable resources, global CDN support, and automatic updates.
✅ Robust API - Build custom integrations, automate workflows, and craft tailored user experiences with our API and flexible JavaScript SDK.
✅ Cross-Browser Compatible - Access the app from any browser and automatically save projects, regardless of the browser used.
✅ Single Sign-On (SSO) - Leverage OAuth2-based access tokens when embedding the editor to enable admins and users to log in through your existing identity provider.
✅ End-User Project Saving - Store personalized designs in the cloud for future access on any device.
✅ Roles and Permissions - Manage user access to media libraries and templates.
✅ Integrated Media Creation Platform - Create and edit digital, print, and video templates with robust feature sets—available on every plan.
Our embeddable web-to-print Editor is fully customizable to match your site’s aesthetic and deliver a seamless single-tab user editing experience. From custom interfaces to editor controls, tailor the solution to your requirements.
✅ Customizable Editor - Use our API library and JavaScript SDK to build custom UI experiences and integrations on top of our out-of-the-box, embeddable Editor.
✅ Default Design Control Overrides - Leverage our SDK to customize the appearance, names, and colors of controls within the Editor, and manage which controls are available with Template Locking. You can also create custom controls outside the Editor that interact with the design in real-time.
✅ WYSIWYG and Form-Based Editing - Embed the WYSIWYG Editor into your storefront, or use our SDK to offer a unique, form-based editing experience.
✅ Mobile-Friendly - Provide customers with an intuitive editing experience for customizing design templates on mobile devices. Users can update text and add background and framed images.
Setting up design templates shouldn’t be time-consuming. Our web-to-print software seamlessly fits into your existing design workflows, enabling you to create sleek, easy-to-edit templates of all shapes and sizes.
✅ Templates for Every Product - Manage print design templates for any type, including standard and large-format, products, stickers, and multi-page documents.
✅ PDF Imports - Import designs from Adobe Illustrator, Figma, and other tools into our platform to convert them into editable print design templates.
✅ Custom Print Canvas - Design in any custom shape supplied as an SVG or transparent PNG, including support for die lines and overprint, suitable for both apparel and stickers.
✅ Template Locking - Define the design elements and properties that can be modified on templates, add boundaries, and utilize placeholders to guide the placement of logos and text.
✅ Paging - Create multi-page design projects for double-sided print designs, booklets, newsletters, and more.
✅ Design Resizing - Clone any print design project into a different size, making it easy to reuse across various products.
How user-friendly do you want your print personalization experience to be? If you need a solution for users of all skill levels, choose a web-to-print editor that keeps things simple and efficient.
✅ Flexible Design Options - Create customizable print designs for your customers through easy-to-edit templates with locking and placeholder features, as well as auto-fit text boxes. Alternatively, allow them to upload their own designs.
✅ Product Image Background - Display personalized designs overlaid on any product while editing, and utilize the JavaScript SDK to change backgrounds and preview different product colors.
✅ Smart Templates - Tag individual template design elements for programmatic population to fast-track media creation and enhance user workflows through creative automation.
✅ Instant Product Mockups - Review and select pre-personalized templates for customization with real-time thumbnails of design mockups across various templates.
✅ Variable Data Printing - Automate individual design elements, such as recipient-specific data, addresses, colors, and images from your data source, across an entire print run.
✅ Advanced Editing - Access powerful editing tools like Layers, Gradients, Curved Text, Image Masking, Cropping, and Photo Filters.
"Our customers love the experience. They can see a real-time proof of their design, make changes, and approve it online, all before checkout. That transparency and control have been huge for customer satisfaction." - Bill D. VP of Ecommerce
Your customers expect high-quality, beautifully printed designs every time. We deliver on that expectation with production-ready guidelines that ensure quality and accuracy.
✅ Print-Ready Files - Guarantee superior prints by generating print-ready, vector-based PDFs programmatically with our Export API, which features custom bleed sizes, crop marks, overprint, CMYK, spot colors, and support for custom ICC profiles. Embed partial fonts or optionally convert text to outlines to prevent font-related issues.
✅ No Print Segmentation - Designate which canvas elements should be excluded from the print-ready PDF export, supporting features such as including custom instructional text and safe zones in the Editor.
✅ Print Fulfillment - Send print files directly to your preferred print partner via API or leverage our XpressDocs integration.
✅ Image Resolution Upscaling - Receive automatic alerts for low image resolution and enhance any image using generative AI, right within the Editor.
✅ Background Removal - Eliminate backgrounds from imported images instantly.
Looking to build a best-of-breed ecosystem? No problem. With our API and SDK, it’s easy to create the perfect setup tailored to the requirements of you and your customers.
✅ Shopping Cart Integrations - Integrate our web-to-print Editor with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, or any other ecommerce platform via SDK for a seamless, single-tab experience.
✅ Connect Any Data Source - Utilize our API to import media from CRMs, DAMs, third-party media libraries, ecommerce and marketing platforms, or external sources. You can also populate templates with form field data, stored media assets in Design Huddle, or insert media from the user with our SDK.
✅ Print Integration - Leverage our built-in integration with XpressDocs to send personalized print design files directly to print, or use our API to integrate with your preferred print partner.
✅ Custom Media Integrations - Plug in your API or custom-built iframe to create integrations that pull in photos and vector graphics from anywhere.
✅ Custom Validation - Apply personalized validation processes to guarantee user inputs match specific criteria and standards.
✅ Custom Review and Approval Processes - Create and manage custom review and approval queues externally through our API.
Quick and easy access to media assets enhances your users' editing experience. Our web-to-print software offers unmatched flexibility in supporting, hosting, and integrating multiple file types.
✅ Media Files - Support for file types including images (.jpg, .png, .heic, .gif, .tiff, .webp), fonts (.ttf, .otf, .woff), and vectors (.svg, .pdf).
✅ Hosted Libraries - Create unlimited asset libraries to host, manage, and share assets, curated for users, groups, or a particular template.
✅ Stock Libraries - Pull media directly into the Editor from stock libraries, including Pexels, Pixabay, Iconfinder, and Unsplash+.
Superior customer support is the foundation of a best-in-class experience. We connect you with real people who understand your business and are passionate about driving your success. Plus, our on-demand support content provides instant access to answers at your convenience.
✅ Dedicated Onboarding Specialist and Account Manager - Maintain continuity through onboarding and ongoing day-to-day operations with a dedicated representative.
✅ Solutions Architect - Receive detailed integration documentation and support tailored to your technical requirements.
✅ Professional Services - Engage our team for paid support with custom tool development, white-labeled training materials, and tailored reports and analytics.
✅ Real-Time Ticketing Support - Get the answers you need, right when you need them, through our ticketing system.
✅ Dedicated Slack Channel - Connect with our support team in your own Slack Channel for real-time assistance with feature questions, custom setups, and troubleshooting—exclusively for enterprise clients.
✅ Knowledge Base - Access comprehensive support articles that cover use cases, feature setups, and answers to commonly asked questions.
"[Design Huddle] has been, by far, the best partner we've worked with. The platform is reliable, the team is responsive, and they’re constantly improving. It’s rare to find a partner that delivers on both product and support at this level."
- Bill D. VP of Ecommerce