Home / How it works
Dock connects your online store directly to Solopress production, taking care of everything from product configuration and artwork through to printing and fulfilment.
Connect Dock to your store using the Shopify app, WooCommerce plugin or Dock widget for your own website. Simply enter your Dock account credentials and you're ready to get started.
Choose from a pre-built catalogue of Solopress products and add the ones you want to sell directly to your store. All the product configuration is already done for you — simply choose your products, set your margin and publish.
No building products from scratch. No complicated setup.
Your customers configure their print, see live prices, upload their artwork and pay through your usual checkout. Our built-in artwork checker reviews their files before they reach production.
Once an order is paid, it flows automatically to Solopress for printing and fulfilment, with status updates keeping you and your customers informed throughout the journey.
Uploaded artwork is checked and made print-ready before production, and every order gets a quick review before it's released. When it ships, a fulfilment with tracking is created automatically and the status lands back on the order.
The same configurator and production line, connected three ways.
For Shopify
Install from the Shopify App Store, sync products, add the configurator block — all inside the admin, no code.
See Dock for Shopify →
For WooCommerce
A WordPress plugin — configurator on your product pages, your own gateway at checkout.
See Dock for WooCommerce →
For your website
A self-contained configurator you can drop into any web page with two lines of code.
See Dock for your website →
There are no subscription fees, installation fees, usage charges or commission. Dock displays your agreed cost of goods live within the configurator. You decide the retail price your customers pay, while Solopress simply bills you for the production cost.
That depends on how your website is built. Shopify and WooCommerce integrations are plug-and-play, with most stores ready to sell in as little as 20 minutes.
For custom websites, Dock is embedded using a simple two-line code snippet. A small server-side integration is required to convert customer baskets into print orders, making it significantly simpler than a traditional API integration.
When a paid order is released to production — after its quick review. The cost of goods is quoted live in the configurator before your customer checks out, so you always know what you'll pay.
Nothing. The configurator stays invisible on your own products, and the buy-button guards leave them untouched.
Dock does, by default. Every uploaded file is checked and made print-ready before production — sized to the product's spec, RGB colours converted to CMYK — with unreadable files held rather than printed. Prefer your own prepress? We can set your account to bypass, and your process stays in control.
Book a call and we’ll show you how Dock works, answer your questions and, if you’re ready, get you set up during the call. It’s quick, easy, and we’ll guide you through the whole process.
Prefer email? Get in touch at soloflo@solopress.com