Drop Print
Sell fine art prints from your WooCommerce shop. You hold no stock — a customer orders, and the Drop Print Global Network prints, packs and ships it.
Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Drop Print running.
Tested to 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.2 days ago
At least 15.7 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.4
Your host must be running at least this version.6.0
woocommerce
These must be installed and active first.2
Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Drop Print is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
Not enough dataListing transparency
6 / 10Ratings
No one has rated this plugin on WordPress.org yet. That is a statement about the ratings page, not about the plugin — plenty of well-kept plugins never collect them.
Drop Print turns any WooCommerce product into a fine art print listing.
You upload your artwork once, choose a paper and the sizes you want to sell, and set your prices. WooCommerce builds the size options on the product for you. When a customer buys, the order is printed and shipped by the Drop Print Global Network — you never handle the print yourself.
Drop Print is built for artists and galleries rather than mass-market merchandise, and prints archival giclée and photographic work.
How it works
- Open any product and choose Edit with Drop Print. That opens a full-screen builder.
- Add your artwork, pick a paper, choose the sizes you want to sell, and set your prices.
- Save, and publish the product as you normally would. A product becomes a live Drop Print product once it has artwork and at least one configured size — there is no separate switch to find.
- When an order comes in, pay for printing from your Orders screen, or let Auto-Production do it for you.
What is in version 2.0
- A full-screen builder. Artwork, paper, sizes and prices in one continuous flow, instead of a panel of separate steps.
- Live prices. Every price you see is worked out for that paper, that size and that destination at the moment you look at it, rather than read from a downloaded list.
- Colour guidance on your own file. Compare your actual artwork against each paper’s real colour range before you commit, instead of reading a generic description of the paper.
- A physical proof, if you want one. Order a true-size print on the paper you are considering and hold it in your hand before you list anything.
- Live shipping at checkout. A real rate worked out for each order and destination, not a flat estimate.
- Hands-off fulfilment, when you are ready for it. Auto-Production sends an order to print the moment your customer pays.
Everything the plugin does
- The builder. A full-screen editor on any product: add artwork, pick a paper, choose sizes, set prices, save.
- Honest size guidance. Every size is scored against your own file on two things: how closely it matches the shape of your artwork, and how much detail your file has to spare at that size. Sizes that match your shape almost exactly are separated from those that would need a crop, and anything your file cannot print well at is marked as such rather than quietly offered. Each size tells you why, in plain terms.
- Paper colour suitability. A soft proof and a plain-language read on how each paper handles your own artwork, with a Recommended mark when one paper clearly suits it better than the rest. Tell Drop Print whether you print photographs or reproduce artwork and the judgement changes accordingly — the same paper is not the right answer for both.
- Hard proofs. Order a real, true-size print of your artwork on a paper before you sell on it. It arrives with a QR code you scan to tell us whether you are happy with it.
- Live pricing and margins. Choose a margin — 50%, 100%, 200% or your own figure — and Drop Print prices every size you offer from the real production cost. Optionally round prices up to a whole number or to .99. Any individual price can still be overridden by hand.
- Live shipping rates. A dedicated WooCommerce shipping method that quotes each order at checkout.
- Quote & Pay. Pay for printing on an order from your Orders screen, with saved-card support.
- Auto-Production. One switch for your whole shop, off until you turn it on, that sends paid orders straight to print with no manual step.
- Order status where you already work. A Drop Print column on your normal WooCommerce Orders screen, with tracking once an order ships.
- Guided setup. A first-run wizard collects what is needed, offers to configure live shipping, and connects your account.
- Pro membership. Lower printing costs on every order, and cheaper proofs.
- Optional file encryption. Encrypt your uploaded artwork in storage against your own account’s key. Off by default — turn it on if your organisation requires it.
Support
Documentation and support: https://aldenfineprint.com/drop-print/support
Yes. The setup guide creates one for you, or connects an account you already have.
Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active.
There is nothing to switch on. Open the product’s Drop Print tab, choose Edit with Drop Print, and add your artwork and sizes — the product becomes a Drop Print product the moment it has both.
JPEG, PNG and TIFF. There is no minimum file size to upload — once you have chosen a paper, the builder tells you size by size which prints your file is detailed enough for.
Printing costs are quoted live for the paper, size and destination. You choose a margin — 50%, 100%, 200% or your own figure — and Drop Print applies it to the real cost of each size, optionally rounding the result up to a whole number or to .99. You can override the selling price on any individual size, and change any of it later in Drop Print → Settings.
Either way works. Quote & Pay lets you pay for an order from your Orders screen when you choose to. Auto-Production does it automatically the moment your customer pays. Auto-Production is one setting for your whole shop, not a choice per product, and it is off until you switch it on.
Whichever connected account has a card on file. If more than one person administers your shop, each of you has your own Drop Print connection and settings, so it is worth agreeing between you who that should be.
Your existing products keep selling. Drop Print 2.0 uses a new print catalogue, and a guided screen in your dashboard walks you through moving your existing print products onto it, showing you exactly what will change before anything is applied.
Nothing is deleted. Your uploaded artwork stays where it is, and so do your products and their size variations. Products saved before version 2.0.8 may still use the global “Print Dimensions” product attribute until you re-open and save them in the builder; that attribute also remains. If you are retiring Drop Print for good, removing those is a manual step.
Not yet, for version 2.0. Drop Print 1.x shipped Spanish and Simplified Chinese interface translations, and those strings are still bundled — but everything 2.0 added, including the print builder itself, is currently English only. Translating it is planned. The plugin does not change the language of your shop or of anything your customers see.
PHP 7.4 or newer. Your PHP upload limits (upload_max_filesize, post_max_size), memory limit and execution time need to be high enough for your artwork files, and WordPress cron must be running. The optional file encryption also needs PHP’s OpenSSL extension; everything else works without it.
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