Intro

Product Personalization Tool for Shopify Stores

Smart Customizer - a convenient and easy-to-use application to allow your customers to customize and order your products. Set up design templates and graphic assets for your customers to have a hassle-free customization experience. Collect your custom orders in one convenient place.

Guides:

A quick guide on how to set up customizable products

Setting up customizable products on your Shopify store:

There are two ways to add customization to products on your store:

Install customizable products from presets
Add customization to products that already exist in your store

Installing a customizable product from presets:

Go to Products and click Add New Product
Select to Install your new customizable product from presets and click Start
Choose the product preset that you would like to add to your Shopify store
Edit basic product information and set status to Active
Press Save

Now your product is live on your Shopify store. You can choose to view it online, update basic product details through Shopify admin or edit more customization options.

Adding customization to a product that exists on your store:

Go to Products and click Add New Product
Select to Add customization to your Shopify product and click Start
Select the Shopify product you want to assign customization to and click Add customization
Name your customization using the Title* field (only for internal use)
Upload Model Image which will be used as a base for product’s customization (if needed)
Press Save

Once you have your Model Image uploaded, specify your product’s scale by:

Opening Print Area Editor
Placing the ruler on a specific part of your Model Image
Entering the length of the ruler using real product measurements
Switch to Print area settings and add Print area dimensions (width, height)
Scroll above to see the print area on Model Image. Drag print area square to the proper position on an image where the print should be placed.
Click on Close icon
Once done, scroll down to the page bottom and press Save
Click View to preview your product online. Click Edit in Shopify to update product details.

Important: products saved with Visible checkmark enabled will add the Customize Product button to your Shopify product instantly.

Setting up your design templates

Go to My Design Templates and click Add New
Enter your Template Name
Add template dimensions
Save Design Template to resize templates design area according to your measurements.
Open Design Editor
Create your design
Once done, click Update Thumbnail, then press Update & Save and you will return to the template setup window
Assign your template to specific products using the Assigned Products field
Press Save to complete

Advanced settings:

You can assign design Tags that will allow your customers to filter designs by tag. Create tags under the Template Tags section.
You can specify the Toolset that will be used to create this template (for example Pantone color book). Add and setup Toolset first under the Preference section. Note: After selecting another Toolset save the template and only then open Design Editor to take effect.

Important: templates saved with Visible checkmark enabled will appear for your customers instantly.

Importing graphics assets

Build your graphics library both you and your customers can use to create designs.

Go to Graphics Assets and click Add New
Enter your Asset’s Name
Upload your graphics (supported formats: SVG, PDF, PNG, JPG)
Thumbnail will be generated automatically
Enable Public checkbox if you want an uploaded graphic asset to be visible and available to use for all your customers
Press Save to complete