Print areas

Pro feature

Print areas and on-photo personalisation are part of AddOnBoss Pro.

Print areas let a customer choose where their logo or text goes, on your own product photo. Each spot has its own price. A left chest logo can cost less than a full back print.

How print areas work

A print area is a named spot on a photo, such as Left chest, Centre back or Sign face. It’s stored as a share of the picture, so it lands in the right place on any product.

A set of print areas carries its own design photos. A garment that prints front and back has two. Each print area says which photo it’s drawn on.

The customer chooses where the design goes. Each print area is marked on a real photo and priced its own way.

Build a set of print areas

Print areas live in their own library, like option sets. Build a set once and attach it to every product it fits.

1. In the WordPress menu, go to BossMage, then Print areas.
2. Press Add a set.
3. In What is this set called?, type a name, such as Garment print areas. Only you see it.
4. Under Design photos, pick a product in Add a product’s photo…, or press Upload a photo. Label each photo, such as Front and Back.
5. Press + Add print area.
6. In What do customers call this print area?, type its name, such as Left chest.
7. Under Where it goes, choose the photo in Drawn on. Drag the box where it prints, then drag its corner to resize.
8. Type What it costs and choose how it’s Charged.
9. Under What can go here?, tick An image or logo they upload, Words they type, or both.
10. Press Save set.

Each print area is drawn on a real photo, so what you mark is where the design prints.

Prefer a close-up of the spot instead, such as a logo on a left chest? Press Use a close-up picture instead. It works on any product.

How a print area is priced

Under Charged, choose one:

• Once for the order. A set-up charge, however many the customer buys.
• Per item. Added to every piece on the line.

What customers can add

A print area can take an uploaded image or logo, typed words, or both. For words, set:

• Longest wording, in characters.
• What to call the box they type in, such as Player name.
• How typed words are lettered: the typefaces and colours they can pick from.

Open Advanced: artwork quality and print methods to offer print methods, such as screen print or embroidery. There you can also check a file’s quality against the Actual printed width of this area.

See it before they buy

Words a customer types are drawn onto your product photo as they type. They see the finished look before it goes in the cart. What they saw is kept with the order, so whoever prints the job works from the same picture.

Attach it to a product

1. Edit the product and open Product options.
2. In the Print areas row, offer your set.
3. In What the section is called on your product page, type a heading. Left empty, it reads Personalise it.
4. Under How it appears, choose one, such as A card on the page (recommended). A bar or a button keeps the page shorter.
5. Press Update.

On a phone, a slim Add to cart follows the customer down a long block.

Change one product without touching the set

Most products use the set as it is. Where one product needs a different price, or a print area moved, change it on that product only.

The product’s panel marks each print area From set or Changed for this product. The ↻ button beside a changed price puts back the set’s price.

A print area that can’t print on this product can say Not printed on this product. It’s then not offered there.

Where the choice goes

The chosen print area, the wording and any uploaded artwork go on the cart line, the order and the pick list. Whoever prints the job knows exactly where the design goes.