StitchPress documentation
StitchPress takes decoration orders for embroidery and screen-print shops on WooCommerce. Your customer picks a placement on the garment, adds text or uploads a logo, picks thread or ink from your own color chart, and pays a price you set.
What StitchPress does
- Order capture. A designer opens from the product page. The customer chooses a decoration area (a zone you drew on a garment photo), a size, text or artwork, and colors from your palette. The add to cart is refused, with a visible reason, if anything in the design does not match your template.
- Pricing you control. Embroidery is priced by placement and size, screen printing by color count and quantity tier. One-time setup fees (digitizing, screens) are counted once per job across the whole cart.
- What the shop floor needs. Every decorated order gets a Job Jacket production sheet, an optional proof the customer approves through a signed link, and a design record stored on the order line that still prints the same way years later, even after you edit or delete the template.
- Your site, your data. Designs, artwork, proofs and orders stay in your WordPress database and uploads folder. There is no per-order fee.
What StitchPress is not
- It is not a freeform canvas designer. There is no all-over print, no image filters, no vector export and no clip-art library. If you need those, a canvas product designer such as Fancy Product Designer or Zakeke is the better fit.
- It ships no fonts and no licensed color libraries. You upload the fonts you hold licenses for, and you import your own thread or ink chart. Pantone is never bundled.
Pages
- Install: requirements, installing the zip, what activation creates, staging sites.
- Quick start: your first decorated product in about ten minutes.
- Templates, views and zones: garment views, decoration areas, sizes and assignment.
- Methods and pricing: the pricing models, setup fees and two worked examples.
- Palettes and fonts: the CSV format for thread and ink charts, and font uploads.
- Proofs: proof rounds, the customer link, the production gate.
- Job Jacket: the production sheet, printing and batch printing.
- Skins: how the designer looks, and writing your own skin.
- Emails: what StitchPress sends and when.
- Privacy: what StitchPress stores about customers and how to handle requests.
- Developers: hooks, filters, the REST namespace and logging.
- FAQ: short answers to common questions.
- Troubleshooting: symptoms, causes and fixes.
Where things are in the admin
| Screen | Where |
|---|---|
| Production queue | StitchPress > Production queue |
| Templates | StitchPress > Decoration templates |
| Palettes | StitchPress > Color palettes |
| Fonts | StitchPress > Fonts |
| Settings | StitchPress > Settings |
| Demo data | StitchPress > Demo data |
| Job Jacket and Proof approval boxes | WooCommerce > Orders, open an order |
| Template for one product | Products > edit a product > Product data > General > Decoration template |
| Template for a category | Products > Categories > add or edit a category > Decoration template |
| Settings (seven tabs: General, Storefront, Artwork, Estimates, Emails, Privacy, Advanced; JSON export and import on the Advanced tab) | StitchPress > StitchPress settings |
| Bulk assign | StitchPress > Bulk assign |
| Garment photos per colour | StitchPress > Garment photos |
| Price matrix | StitchPress > Price matrix |
| CSV export of decorated orders | StitchPress > Export CSV |
| System status | StitchPress > System status |
| Licence key | StitchPress > Licence |
| Setup wizard | Opens on first activation; rerun from StitchPress > StitchPress settings |
| A customer's saved and ordered designs | My Account > My designs (storefront) |
Every StitchPress screen requires the manage_woocommerce capability, which administrators and shop managers have.