Products & Listings

Make gift sets from your designs

Turn the designs in a Design Drop into ready-to-sell gift sets. Pick sets by what's in them, choose what goes on each kind of piece once, add free matching designs if you like, then build every set as its own listing.

A gift set has more than one piece to print on, like a candle label and a mug. The Gift Set Studio in Design Drop lets you make many sets from your designs without styling every set by hand. You choose what goes on each kind of piece once, for example the mug, and that choice fills the mug in every set you picked.

Your own design goes on the piece it fits best. Every other piece stays empty until you choose something for it: your design, another design from the drop or your Design Library, or a free matching design we make in the same style and colors. We never copy your design onto every piece for you.

This guide starts after you upload your designs in Design Drop. If you haven't done that yet, see Put one design on many products with Design Drop first. Building sets here is free; you do not need Pro or the Custom Gift Set Builder.

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   Design Drop > the gift sets box, or your drop > Finish your sets

   Open the Gift Set Studio from your drop

   On the Design Drop page, after your designs upload, a box above the Create button says how many gift sets they fit, for example 'Your designs also fit 12 gift sets and 2 card packs.' Leave Also make gift sets ticked and click Create. The Gift Set Studio opens after the drop starts. Already created the drop? Open it from Your design drops and click Finish your sets on the gift sets card.

   The top of the studio says 'Your other listings are already being made. This step is optional.' Click Skip for now to go back to your drop at any time. Your piece choices are kept only until you leave; matching designs you clicked Use this on are saved.
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   Gift sets > 1 Choose sets

   Choose sets by what's in them

   Sets with the same pieces are grouped into cards, like Candle + Mug, Candle + Photo slate or Card packs. A set with three or more pieces that no other set shares is under Bundles. Each card shows set photos, how many sets it holds and your cost from the cheapest one. Click Add all to add a whole group, or click the arrow next to it to tick single sets. Use Best for your designs to see only the groups with the piece your designs fit best.

   We pick a few groups for you to start with, and the yellow note says why, for example 'Your designs fit mugs best, so we started with the sets that have one.' The bar at the bottom counts the sets, for example 7 sets × 2 designs = 13 gift sets, and how many listings the drop will have out of 100. Click Next: style the pieces.

   

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   Gift sets > 2 Style each piece

   Style each piece once

   Each row is one kind of piece in your sets (Mug, Candle label, Second mug and so on), and each column is one of your designs. What you choose in a row fills that piece in every set for that design, so you make a few choices instead of styling every set. Your design is already on the piece it fits best, marked Best fit. A piece marked Needs a design gives you one-tap choices: Make a matching design, Use your design, Use Design 2 (your other drop designs), or From my library. Optional pieces also have Leave blank.

   Click Make matching designs for every empty piece · free to fill all the empty pieces at once. The line under it says how many you can still make. Card packs are one row with a card for each position: click Fill with my designs, then matching designs to put your designs on the cards in order and fill the rest. When every piece is styled, click Next: review (it shows your number of sets, for example Next: review 13 sets).

   

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   Gift sets > 2 Style each piece > Change

   Check a matching design, then use it

   Click Change on any piece to open its picker. The Make a matching design tab makes a new design in the same style and colors as yours, shaped for that piece. It takes about a minute, and you can keep working while it is made. Check it, then click Use this. Click Try again for a different one. The picker also has My designs (this drop's designs and your Design Library) and, for optional pieces, Leave blank.

   Matching designs are free and have no words. Tick Use my words to reuse only the exact words already on your design; we never add new words. Each matching design is made once for each design and kind of piece, and then used by every set with that piece. For a few pieces, matching designs are coming soon, and the picker says so.

   

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   Gift sets > 3 Review and build

   Review your sets

   Each gift set has a card with its photo, its name and a chip for each piece showing the design it gets. With several designs, use the tabs at the top (for example Design 1 · 7) to see each design's sets. The badge on each card says Ready to build, Design finishing (a matching design is still being made or waits for Use this) or Needs a design.

   Matching designs that are ready to check also show in a yellow box at the top of this step, with Use this and Try again, so you don't have to go back.

   

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   Gift sets > 3 Review and build > Change this set only

   Change one set only

   To make one set different from the rest, click Change this set only on its card. The panel lists every piece of that set. Click Change next to a piece to pick something else for it, or Move your design here to put your design on a different piece. Changes here don't change your other sets. Click Undo on a piece, or Use the piece choices again, to go back. Click Leave this set out to skip it.

   Mugs and tumblers: a design that is not wide is printed on both sides of the mug, so it shows from either side.

   

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   Gift sets > Build gift sets

   Build the sets, then publish them

   Click Build 13 gift sets (the button shows your number). If some sets still need a design, click Build the 9 ready to build only those and finish the others later. You go back to your drop, where the sets are listed under Gift sets with their own product photos, title, description and price. They build like your other listings. When they are Ready, click Publish on your drop to publish them with everything else.

   Each gift set is its own listing and counts toward the drop's limit of 100. Prices come from the profit you picked for the drop; click Edit on a set's card to change one before you publish. Printonic prints, packs and ships every set when it sells.