ImprintNext and DesignMint are both built for print shops and decorators, and both put a live product designer in front of the customer. The difference is what surrounds the designer.
What each one is
ImprintNext is a web-to-print product designer with a long list of store integrations — Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Wix, Squarespace and custom stores. Around it sit a 3D configurator with AR, AI suggestions for the decoration process, marketplace and fundraiser stores, and shop-floor tools: job cards, a production calendar, purchase orders, quotes and invoices.
DesignMint is a print studio with the store and the artwork pipeline attached. Commerce is a hosted storefront and backend with decoration-aware pricing, bulk size runs and reorders from My Designs. The studio enforces each technique’s print rules as the customer designs, and Prepress cleans up the artwork — upscale, background removal, vectors, separations — by API.
Side by side
| DesignMint | ImprintNext | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Studio, hosted storefront and prepress API | Product designer that plugs into your store |
| Store | Hosted Commerce, or the studio in your own React app | Plugins for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Wix, Squarespace |
| Preview | Live 2D and 3D preview, true to size | 3D configurator and AR |
| Print rules | Print areas in millimetres, DPI checks, rules per technique | AI recommendation of the decoration process |
| Shop operations | Proof and production files on every order; Stripe, TaxJar and ShipStation through the Integration Hub | Job cards, production calendar, purchase orders, quotes, invoices |
| Selling models | Your own storefront, bulk size runs, reorders | Store plugins, multivendor and artist marketplaces, fundraiser stores |
Where DesignMint is the stronger fit
- You want one system for the store, the studio and the production files, instead of a plugin on top of a store you also have to run.
- Your uploads need fixing: the Prepress API upscales, vectorizes and separates artwork before it reaches the press.
- You need print rules — print areas in millimetres, DPI, colour limits — enforced in the editor, per technique.
- You want to see the price first: Commerce starts at $299 a month, published.
Where ImprintNext is the stronger fit
- You are staying on Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart, Wix or Squarespace and want a plugin for it.
- You want job cards, a production calendar and purchase orders in the same tool as the designer.
- You run multivendor marketplaces, artist stores or fundraiser stores.
- You want AR previews on the customer’s phone.
The short answer
If your store works and you need a designer inside it, ImprintNext covers more platforms. If you are rebuilding — or your bottleneck is artwork and production files — DesignMint replaces more of the stack.
Compiled from each product’s public site in October 2026. We left out ImprintNext’s pricing because we could not confirm it there.
