A pre-designed product is one you decorate yourself in the dashboard, so customers buy it exactly as shown — they never open the Design Studio. It's perfect for a signature line of finished goods: a shop logo tee, a seasonal graphic, or any design you want to sell ready-made.
How it differs from a customizable product
| Customizable | Pre-Designed | |
|---|---|---|
| Who designs it | The customer, at purchase time | You, in the dashboard |
| Storefront button | "Customize This Product" shown | Add to Cart only — no designer link |
| Artwork | Captured per order | Baked in ahead of time |
| Images | Product photos | Mockups with the artwork composited on |
Because a pre-designed product isn't customizable by the shopper, the storefront simply shows it with a standard Add to Cart — customers pick a color and size and buy.
Create a pre-designed product
You can start two ways:
- From an existing product — pick a base product, choose a color, and open the backend designer to lay out the artwork.
- From scratch — build the product in the wizard (choosing the Pre-Designed type), then design it.
Then, in the designer:
- Place your artwork, text, and graphics on each color and view you want to sell.
- Save the design. Drip Merch stores the design and generates mockup images (artwork overlaid on the product photo) for the storefront.
Pre-designed products need at least one color, since your design is rendered onto each color's product photo.
On orders
When a pre-designed product is ordered, it carries a Pre-Decorated badge and includes the mockup and print-ready files, so your production team has everything to reproduce it — no back-and-forth with the customer.
Tips
- Use crisp, high-resolution artwork; watch DPI warnings while designing, just like in the customer studio.
- Design every color and view you plan to list so each storefront mockup looks finished.
- Reserve pre-designed for your own ready-made line; use customizable when shoppers should add their own art.