Overview

Show the customer's own text and images on the product photo, live, as they type — the app's most persuasive feature.

The Product Personalizer displays what customers enter directly on the product image in real time. They type a name and see how it looks engraved. They upload a photo and see it placed in the frame. They choose a color and see the product change instantly.

It turns personalization from something customers have to imagine into something they can see before they buy.

The customer's own words, on the product, before they buy.

Watch it done — 3:48. Building a live preview from scratch, so customers see their own text on the product image as they type.

What it can draw

Layer	From	Controls you get
Text	Text, Textarea, Number	Color, size, style, font, five effects, curve, auto-fit
Images	File upload and eight selection types	Shape masking, fit mode, size

Both kinds share position, opacity, rotation, a crop area, and the choice of what the customer may adjust themselves.

The twelve supported option types

Text layers	Image layers
Text	File upload
Textarea	Dropdown
Number	Color dropdown
	Image dropdown
	Radio button
	Checkbox
	Button
	Color swatch
	Image swatch

Other option types — such as dates, phone numbers, switches, and sliders — do not have a Personalizer tab because there is no visual content for the Personalizer to display.

How to read this section

The order below is the order you would actually build in.

Set up the Personalizer

The background, the layers, and the order to build them in. Start here.

Layer settings

Eight pages covering every setting on a layer: styling, fonts, effects, placement, curve and auto-fit, crop area, image fitting, and customer controls.

Designs in cart and orders

What you and the customer see afterwards.

Walkthrough: custom printed mug

Follow one real product from empty builder to finished preview.

Troubleshooting

Find your problem by what you are seeing on the page.

Before you start

• The Personalizer is available on certain plans. If the Personalizer tab is unavailable, see Compare plans.

• Use a good product photograph. The preview is only as convincing as the image it is applied to — see Choosing the background.

• Allow time for positioning. Precisely positioning a layer where the engraving or customization actually appears can take a few minutes per product. Getting this right makes the difference between a convincing preview and an amateur-looking one.

The fastest way in is a personalized template. Twenty complete setups ship with the app, already positioned, and you can adapt one rather than starting from an empty canvas.