Some of the most difficult tasks for small to mid level artists are designing merch, maintaining inventory, and fulfilling orders. Amplifier is a fulfillment and on-demand printing platform.

Do you already have a manufacturer lined up to create your physical products? Great - just send Amplifier boxes of merchandise and they will prepare and ship out orders as they come in.

Amplifier also provides tools for you to experiment with different product designs. And through print-on-demand, these designs can be published as products to your store without physically creating anything. The age old question “how many of each size t-shirt should I order” has finally been solved. If you aren’t sure, the answer is zero - until a fan purchases one.

Integration Nation

Each of these services are powerful by themselves - but real innovation for artists comes from linking them together.

Shopify and Amplifier work together seamlessly. An artist can design print-on-demand merch in Amplifier and automatically add it to their Shopify store. Shopify orders are delivered in real time to Amplifier and inventory is synced automatically between the two. Once the order has been shipped, Amplifier sends tracking information to Shopify, which is sent automatically to customers.

Using Single, the products you’ve designed in Amplifier can be bundled with digital downloads. Selling directly from your site allows you to see where your top fans are located and which products or albums they purchase. Export this information to MailChimp and create customizable campaigns.

Once you add the MailChimp App to your Shopify admin, you can create customized messages for various marketing activities. This includes an abandoned cart email, product retargeting, order notifications and a pop-up form.

We could spend all day exploring how these artist services interact with each other. But as an artist paving your own path to success - it is up to you to find services and integrations that work best for your music and career.

Throughout the next few weeks we’ll dive deeper into each of these artist-services. Our conversation will include exactly what these companies and others are offering and how they can benefit your career.

We hope that by the end of this series you’ll have a solid understanding of some new tools to automate your store, so you can focus on what really matters: making music.

- Joe