October means a lot of praying, being grateful for my blessings ,meeting family and friends plus trying new things. That’s why I decided to take a good look at getting my art on products.But before I get into the details I want to share a little backstory of the why behind my print-on-demand adventures.

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Check out my first book in Print ,the Krishna Mishra Mystery series books 1-4 .

As an artist I dream of selling my art prints .But as a very practical person I know that will probably happen only if its in my destiny .Yes I am practical with a very large dollop of hope in me .Now print-on-demand makes art work shareable, wearable, licensible and sellable to the masses without breaking the bank.But setting it up without a system is cause for severe boredom .I often try different store options to see what kind of back end work I have to do, to get things moving .I prefer options which don’t have an upfront cost ,but work on commission basis fora particular volume of sales. Once the stores are making a significant profit, upgrade options, are definitely on the table. If not print-on-demand at Draft2Digital I wouldn’t have my books in print so easily .

When I started blogging I knew only about affiliate income and sponsored posts as sources of supporting blog .That was 2014 and now eleven years later Healthwealthbridge has a whole umbrella of platforms .But passive income needs a lot of active work upfront. Mompreneurship has always been a thing .

I was getting tired of trying out different print on demand plaftorms and after jumping through the hoops realizing it doen’t work out for me .I was searching for the best print-on-demand Store option in India.

I tried Texindiamart .It doesn’t have a store option.

Fizdi is something I am still working out.Its my art shop website which allows custom prints in India.Amazon shop will have a GST thing which would require more hoop jumping

Then I found Qikink and it integrates with Shopify, woo commerce and Amazon. All options I cant afford right now.

Shopify is a store option I  loved .I trued out the free trial, but its just too expensive for me to try now.For a basic plan with a store I will need a minimum of 1499 per month billed annually. That’s 17988 per year I will spend regardless of what I sell. So that option went right out of the window.

Gelato is another international platform with a steep subscription fee.

Amazon Store has a subscription fee after a few months of free ,it requires GST number plus it has no P-O-D option

I also tried Etsy and in India its a scam of zero support and strange charges.

So I was back to square one, when I found blinkstore.ai .

It looks simple to set up ,but adding products is a whole different thing .Luckily I was able to get one design accepted

Best part –

Once the design gets uploaded on one product , blinkit puts it in a range of products from which you can choose which one you want on the store.That way its a collection, without being tedious.Painting is fun .Getting your head around how ai works and why it doesn’t work can be excruciating .

By the way the chatbot on the blinkit site didn’t seem to work.

But saying all that I am still glad I got the store up and running .Now to find out whether it works or not .

Here’s a raw version of my blinkstore .

What I am trying now is-uploading my designs,getting the products ready according to things I would buy or gift myself .

What I would love:

A print on Demand  site which help you also sell on Amazon effortlessly.No upfront cost ,like a Draft2Digital of Print on Demand. I hope the Universe is listening. Right now Blinkstore is the best Print on Demand Store option in India