Author
Design a template in the builder: text, images and shapes, which of them a customer may change, and how. Publish it when it is ready.
Pixonaut
Build product templates that your customers personalise right on your site. Your shop owns the commerce; Pixonaut owns the design and the print files.
Pixonaut is web-to-print (W2P) software: it turns an artwork you author into a product your customers can make their own. You build a template in the studio and publish it. Your customers fill it in inside a designer embedded on your storefront. Each finished design is approved by your shop, rendered into a print-ready print file, and sent to your printshop as an order.
Pixonaut holds no catalogue and takes no payments. Which products you sell, at which sizes and in which colours, stays in your shop. Pixonaut answers whether a design can be printed, and produces the files that print it.
How it fits together
Section titled “How it fits together”Personalise
Embed the designer on your storefront. Customers see a live preview and approve a proof of exactly what will be printed.
Approve and print
Your server approves each design once it is paid for, and Pixonaut renders the print file and a job ticket for it.
Order
The print goes to your printshop, and you follow the order until it ships.
Learn the concepts
Section titled “Learn the concepts”TemplatesThe artwork you author and publish.
BlanksThe physical items a print goes on, and where.
DesignsWhat a customer made from a template.
Print filesThe production files rendered from an approved design.
OrdersA print sent to a printshop, and where it has got to.
PrintshopsWhoever makes the thing.
Build an integration
Section titled “Build an integration”Embed the designerMount the designer widget on your storefront.
Set up a printshopConnect a partner, or create a custom connection to your own shop.
Design to orderThe whole path, request by request.
WebhooksBe told when designs, prints and orders change.
Connecting a storeGive a store its keys and webhook endpoint without copying a secret.
A connected store, from connect to deliveryEvery call a store makes with its integration and publishable keys.
Sending the customer back to the storeThe hosted designer, correction and proof pages, and their return to the store.
Placing an order safelyRetry any write without making a second design, print or order.
Get in touch
Section titled “Get in touch”Questions about Pixonaut, your account or your data? Write to [email protected].
Questions? Write to [email protected].