This extension is based on Google Maps and is very easy to use. All a user needs to do is to click on the map several times to select an area. The simplicity of it suits perfectly to small businesses. Many of them shy away from using unaddressed mail because of the complexity dealing with printers, direct mail distributors and list owners to put a campaign together.

Web-to-print with a map for unaddressed mail distribution

Any Magento website running our web-to-print extension can become a one stop shop for selling unaddressed mail by adding our free Distribution Map extension:

• prepare artwork
• select distribution area
• make a payment

User selected area becomes part of the order detail. Once saved it can be zoomed in or out, but cannot be changed. The area can also be downloaded as coordinates in a KML file to be used in other geo-spacial applications.

Try it yourself on this demo web-to-print product or learn more in extension help post .

Using list services

An unaddressed mail campaign can be enhanced by linking with various business and residential list providers for better profiling. This requires interfacing with their systems or databases. Unfortunately, there is no one standard interface for this and the extension will need to be tailored for your preferred list provider.

Web-to-print theme samples

These are just a few random themes used with our dynamic imaging extension. They are customized to the requirements of the storefront owner with our web-to-print added on top.

More Magento themes

Magento themes are files with PHP, HTML, CSS and other code. You may find one that fits your requirements 100% or a theme that looks close to what you need and then modify it for your storefront. Here are a few reference site to help you on your way of choosing the right theme for your store:

There are thousands more Magento themes on Google, Bing or Blekko.

Create your own Magento web-to-print theme

Developing a truly custom Magento theme requires some skills. Any skilled Magento developer can do this for you. Check our partners and premium services to get started.

Integrate web-to-print functionality

Integrating web-to-print functionality into a theme requires some minor theme modifications. You can do these modifications yourself, use our premium service or contact one of our partners.

Magento Community Edition (free) allows assigning a file uploading option to a product but limits customers to a single file upload per field. As a store owner, you may wish to let customers upload multiple files of various sizes. Adding multiple uploading controls on a product is not always practical since the number of files may vary.

Dynamic File Attachments extension complements our lineup up of Magento extensions for web-to-print and printer storefronts.

The image on the right illustrates multiple file uploading in action. Files are queued and uploaded one by one. A file can be removed from a queue or new ones added. A user can queue up the files and leave them to upload. Try it on a demo product.

Compatibility

Our Magento Dynamic File Attachements extension is fully compatible with our web-to-print and other extensions.

Hosted by us

This is the base package that gives you a fully hosted web-to-print site. Minimal effort required in setting up and you can be taking orders in minutes. More …

Find detailed instructions, guides and manuals in our Help section. You may be interested in branding, trial use and configuring a domain name for your new web-to-print portal.

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Existing site integration

This package requires integration between your existing website and our web-to-print and dynamic imaging API. An alternative is to use an open source e-commerce system with built-in web-to-print and dynamic imaging.

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Open Source

This package gives you a free open source e-commerce system with built-in personalization powered by our system. More …

Variable parts

Your web-to-print templates can have variable text and images.

To turn a text frame into a variable web-to-print text field, just rename its object in CorelDRAW Object Manager (Window / Dockers / Object Manager).

Mark the objects by renaming them and our web-to-print system will recognize them as variable image fields and let users replace data with their own.

Turn a PDF into a template

You can even convert an existing PDF file into a web-to-print template.

We created a Magento based online store for demonstration purposes and equipped it with our web-to-print and access control extensions. The products in this store are just samples and are there to let you test all extension features. Nothing actually gets shipped and no one gets charged for orders they’ve placed.

Browse through the categories:

Feel free to place orders and download files. You don’t need to use real info in the checkout form, just populate required fields with dummy values and place orders.

Access control for Web-to-Print

Magento Category Access Control extension is free and can be installed on a free Community Edition website. The added functionality precisely controls who can access what products. You can still have some products available to the public. Registered users will need to log in to see their personal categories / products.

Example

Our demo store has a number of categories available to the public. However, if you log in there as red@zetaprints.com/redpass you will also get access to a category called Red. Logging in as blue@zetaprints.com/bluepass will give you access to a category called Blue. Try it now.

Installation of Category Access Control extension

You need to have Magento Community Edition already installed. Installation of our web-to-print extension is not required for category access control. Use the links below to find out more and download the extension.

• Category access control on MagentoCommerce
• Extension help and detailed instructions
• Source code
• Bug reports, features, support

Procedure

The extension adds an extra step between the customer’s shopping cart and the checkout process. It means that customers are able to add any number of products into their shopping cart, delete and modify them at any time without any restrictions, but they can not checkout products from the cart before they are approved.

Installation

The Order approval extension is free and can be installed on through Magento Connect Manager.

• Order approval on MagentoCommerce
• Extension help and detailed instructions
• Source code
• Bug reports, features, support

Compatibility

Our Magento Order approval extension is fully compatible with our web-to-print and category access control extensions.

Banner templates

Casual and small business advertisers can find a good choice of designs in our ever growing graphic design marketplace. They only need to enter their texts or upload images. They don’t need to be designers to get a professionally professionally designed banner.

Some advertisers may want to upload their own templates and use them exclusively. The result is still the same – anyone can prepare a professionally looking banner in seconds.

Dynamic banner generation

Our dynamic imaging system can be used to create one banner manually or update an entire campaign automatically. Advertiser CMS and product databases can be connected directly to our back-end via dynamic imaging API. If the advertiser changes the daily special in the connected CMS from “10% off” to “free shipping” we can automatically update all their banners in just a few seconds saving them hours of work.

Part of your ad network

ZetaPrints is a hosted service, yet it can be easily integrated into your ad management system using our dynamic imaging API. It is up to you how our service is presented to your customers.

Pool of designs

Our marketplace is an optional feature and is only available under our own brand, where we collect the payments and set prices. You may create your own marketplace or only allow use of templates uploaded by your customers for their exclusive use.

Account management

You can choose between having a single master account for the entire ad network and take full control of all account management aspects, including registering your own customers, managing templates, setting prices and collecting payments.

Alternatively, you can be “hands-off” and let your customers deal with us directly.

Hosted by us

Our standard fully hosted package is best suited for applications where the emphasis is on simplicity and functionality.

• Most suitable for:

• Corporate portals
• Commercial printers

• Pros

• Easy to set up
• Minimal maintenance overhead
• Easy to use
• No feature or visual overload

• Cons

• Limited interface customization
• Limited e-commerce features

Hosted by you

ZetaPrints can be split in the middle with the back end image processing still hosted by us and all the front-end and e-commerce hosted by you.

• Most suitable for:

• Complex portals
• Specialized solutions
• Existing site integration
• Public websites

• Pros

• Unlimited customization
• E-commerce platform
• Integrates into your site
• Magento web-to-print

• Cons

• Requires technical expertise
• Set up and maintenance cost

Custom front-end hosting

ZetaPrints presentation layer relies on XSLT and is released as open source. You can couple unlimited interface customization with the convenience of a fully hosted solution. In this case you only host your own interface files (XSLT) using your own or our servers.

This package is somewhere in between “hosted by us” and “hosted by you”.

• Most suitable for:

• Corporate portals
• Commercial printers
• Public sites

• Pros

• Minimal maintenance overhead
• Custom interface

• Cons

• Requires technical expertise
• Limited to our standard features

How to choose

Clearly specified requirement is 50% of success. Let us ask you what you are prepared to invest and how you see your site in the end:

Get your answers ready and compare them against our package comparison table.

We are happy to help you choose. Email support@zetaprints.com with detailed information about your project and we’ll try our best to put the best package together for you.