Switch from Printlane to Cmsmart Ecommerce
Move your product designer to a WooCommerce store you own, with a sourced comparison and a clear migration path.
In short
How do you switch from Printlane to Cmsmart Product Designer?
To switch from Printlane to Cmsmart Product Designer, we rebuild your templates, product options and price rules on WooCommerce, bring past orders over as read-only history, and redirect any old URLs that change, on a staging store you test before cut-over. Designs are not portable between tools, so we agree which to recreate. Quoted after a free assessment.
| Scope | Printlane products, variants, customers, orders and URLs, moved to a WooCommerce store on Cmsmart Ecommerce. |
|---|---|
| What you keep | Catalogue and images, customer accounts and addresses, order history as read-only records, page titles and descriptions, and a 301 for every old URL. |
| Typical inputs | Admin access or the platform's own export files, your list of apps and integrations, and your list of old URLs. |
| Deliverables | A data map, a redirect CSV you approve, a staging store, a QA check, the cut-over and a 30-day watch. |
| How pricing works | Quoted per project after a free assessment. There is no price list and no obligation. |
About Printlane
What Printlane is, in its own words
Printlane is a hosted product-designer platform that embeds in a web store, with a Studio back office for templates, customer designs and print files. Its listed integrations are Magento 2, Shopify, Lightspeed, WordPress and custom (JavaScript or API). [1]
Printlane was verified live on 10 October 2026: its official site loaded and described the product.
Feature table
Printlane and Cmsmart Product Designer, feature by feature
Printlane facts come from its own pages (numbered sources below, read on 10 October 2026). Cmsmart facts are checked against the plugin, version 2.17.1 (checked 4 October 2026). "Not verified" means we could not confirm it from a public page, so we do not claim it.
| Feature | Printlane | Cmsmart Product Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Online design editor | Yes. A mobile-friendly interactive product designer embedded in the store. [2] | Yes. Browser editor with templates, text, photos, cliparts, shapes and QR codes on each side of the product. |
| Product types | Partial. Examples shown: t-shirts, phone cases, business cards, postcards, key rings, caps and canvas products. [1] | Yes. WooCommerce products with print areas per side, products built from parts (Product Builder), and 23 sample products to start from. |
| Print-ready output | Yes. Production-ready PDF with all layers and text converted to outlines. It accepts JPG, PNG, EPS, AI, PDF and SVG uploads and stores the original files. [3] | Yes. Print-ready PDF (2.16.0), plus PNG, SVG and JPG CMYK downloads with an ICC profile when ImageMagick is available. Rendered on Process and checked before it is marked ready. |
| Templates and clipart | Yes. Template management with unlimited templates, and an artwork library searchable by text or tag. [3] | Yes. Templates per product, a global template store, a public gallery, locked layers, template fields and 25,918 cliparts in 69 categories (2.14.0). |
| Variable data and bulk | Partial. A business-card example uses employee data in a fixed layout. CSV bulk import is not stated. [1] | Partial. Template fields fill a buyer's name, title and phone into a design. Bulk or CSV variable-data printing is built as custom development. |
| 3D or mockup preview | Not verified. 3D preview is not stated on the pages we read. | Partial. A 3D preview of the product can be switched on per product, on desktop. |
| Pricing and quotes | Not verified. The pricing page covers Printlane's own plans. A shopper-facing price calculator is not stated. | Yes. Price matrix, quantity breaks, area pricing, turnaround and formulas, recalculated live on the product page. |
| B2B and reorder | Not verified. B2B and reorder features are not stated on the pages we read. | Partial. Cmsmart B2B Ecommerce adds private client stores, quote requests, brand templates and reorder. See the B2B page for what the current release includes. |
| AI features | Not verified. AI features are not stated on the pages we read. | Yes. AI background remover, image upscale and print preflight run on your Cmsmart licence (from 2.12), with a token wallet and access controls (2.15). |
| Store platforms | Yes. Magento 2, Shopify, Lightspeed, WordPress and custom integrations through a JavaScript embed and a REST API. [1] | Yes. WooCommerce on WordPress. |
| Hosting model | Hosted SaaS on cloud infrastructure. [2] | Self-hosted: you own the code, the database and the customer list. Cmsmart can set up, host and maintain the store as a quoted service. |
| Pricing model | A monthly or annual subscription in tiers by included monthly print jobs, with a 30-day free trial. [4] | A plugin licence, with setup, hosting and migration quoted per project. |
Cmsmart rows: Online Designer, Pricing Options, Print-Ready Files, Templates Library, Artwork Approval. "Custom development" means it is built for you as scoped work, not shipped in the plugin.
Fair comparison
Where Printlane is strong
Migration path
What happens to your designs, templates and orders
Printlane's help center says its API can import templates, submit order information and export designs. That makes an assisted export of your templates and designs possible, but the files are tied to its own design format, so we rebuild templates in the new editor and agree which designs to keep.
| Data | What we do |
|---|---|
| Customer designs and files | Original customer upload files are stored and downloadable, and designs can be exported through the API, according to Printlane's docs. We agree with you which designs are worth recreating. [5] |
| Templates | Rebuilt in Cmsmart Online Designer from your source artwork (SVG, PDF or image files), with locked layers and template fields set up where needed. Scoped in the free assessment. |
| Products, options and prices | Print areas, option sets and price rules are rebuilt in Cmsmart Pricing Options from your product and price list, then tested against it. |
| Orders | Past orders are imported into WooCommerce as read-only history where your store platform can export them. Orders still in production are finished on the old setup before cut-over. |
| Store URLs | If the store platform or domain changes, every old product URL gets a 301 to its new address from a CSV you approve. |
Process
How the switch runs
The timeline is set in the free assessment. It depends on how many products, templates and orders you have.
- Free assessment: your platform, catalogue size, apps, integrations and goals.
- Data map and redirect map: what moves, what is rebuilt, and every old URL with its new address.
- Staging migration: your data in a private WooCommerce store you can open and test.
- QA: data counts, URLs, checkout, emails and tracking checked against your list.
- Cut-over: final data sync and DNS switch, planned for your quietest hours.
- 30-day watch: crawl errors, redirects and rankings reviewed after launch.
Free assessment
See what switching from Printlane would take
Tell us which products and templates you run. We reply with what moves, what is rebuilt and a quote, with no obligation.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Can I import my Printlane templates into Cmsmart?
Printlane's help center says its API can import templates, submit order information and export designs. That makes an assisted export of your templates and designs possible, but the files are tied to its own design format, so we rebuild templates in the new editor and agree which designs to keep.
Will my customers' saved designs move?
Saved designs are tied to the format of the tool that made them, so we agree with you which ones are worth recreating and rebuild those. Customers can start new designs from the migrated templates.
Do I have to change my store platform?
Printlane integrates with several platforms. If your store is on WordPress with WooCommerce it can stay where it is; on Shopify, Magento or Lightspeed, the switch also means moving the store to WooCommerce.
What does the switch cost?
Cmsmart does not publish a price list for services. The switch is quoted per project after a free assessment, based on your catalogue, templates and integrations, with no obligation.
Is Cmsmart a better choice than Printlane?
Not in every case. In our reading, Printlane is best for: Merchants and printers on Shopify, Magento, Lightspeed or WordPress who want a hosted designer that hands them print-ready PDFs. Cmsmart Product Designer fits stores that want to own a WooCommerce store with print-ready output, price rules and artwork approval built in. The assessment says honestly when staying put is the better choice.
How are the facts on this page sourced?
Printlane facts come from its own pages, read on 10 October 2026 and listed with links under Sources. Cmsmart facts are checked against the plugin. Anything we could not confirm is marked not verified.
Sources
Sources and revision log
All Printlane facts were read on 10 October 2026 from the pages below. Facts are re-checked every 90 days or when the product releases a major version.
- Printlane use cases, accessed 10 October 2026
- Printlane home page, accessed 10 October 2026
- Printlane features, accessed 10 October 2026
- Printlane pricing, accessed 10 October 2026
- Printlane API introduction, accessed 10 October 2026
Revision log: 10 October 2026, first version.
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