Switch from PrintXpand 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 PrintXpand to Cmsmart Product Designer?
To switch from PrintXpand 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 | PrintXpand 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 PrintXpand
What PrintXpand is, in its own words
PrintXpand is a web-to-print platform with a selection of solutions: eCommerce store, product designer, 3D configurator, B2B portal, MIS/ERP, artwork approval and estimating. It is delivered as managed cloud, enterprise cloud or self-hosted on-premise with source code. [1]
PrintXpand was verified live on 10 October 2026: its official site loaded and described the product.
Feature table
PrintXpand and Cmsmart Product Designer, feature by feature
PrintXpand 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 | PrintXpand | Cmsmart Product Designer |
|---|---|---|
| Online design editor | Yes. A browser-based, AI-powered design tool. [2] | Yes. Browser editor with templates, text, photos, cliparts, shapes and QR codes on each side of the product. |
| Product types | Yes. Apparel, promo items, signage, packaging, commercial print and large format. [2] | 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. A press-ready file on every order, with print area and bleed management. [2] | 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. 1,000+ templates and clipart assets. [2] | 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 | Yes. CSV, Excel and API data merge, per-record preview and barcode and QR generation. [3] | 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 | Yes. 3D live preview in the design tool, and a separate 3D product configurator. [2] | Partial. A 3D preview of the product can be switched on per product, on desktop. |
| Pricing and quotes | Yes. Real-time pricing in the designer, and a separate estimating and quoting module. [1] | Yes. Price matrix, quantity breaks, area pricing, turnaround and formulas, recalculated live on the product page. |
| B2B and reorder | Yes. A white-labelled B2B corporate storefront with role-based controls, budgets and approvals. [1] | 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 | Yes. AI image generation in the design tool. [2] | 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. Pre-built connectors for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce, Odoo, QuickBooks and Xero, plus a REST API with OAuth 2.0 and webhooks. [4] | Yes. WooCommerce on WordPress. |
| Hosting model | Managed cloud, enterprise cloud, or self-hosted on-premise with source code delivered. [1] | 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 custom quote by deployment model and the solutions chosen, with a free proof of concept. The site states no per-order fees. [1] | 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.
Migration path
What happens to your designs, templates and orders
PrintXpand documents a versioned REST API for products, pricing, artwork, orders, customers and vendors, with a sandbox. Data import is documented only for variable-data CSV, and nothing describes moving designs or templates between tools. An API export of products, customers and orders can feed the migration; templates are rebuilt.
| Data | What we do |
|---|---|
| Customer designs and files | The REST API covers artwork and orders, so an assisted export is possible if your plan exposes it. Designs are tied to its own format, so we agree which are worth recreating. [6] |
| 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 PrintXpand 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 PrintXpand templates into Cmsmart?
PrintXpand documents a versioned REST API for products, pricing, artwork, orders, customers and vendors, with a sandbox. Data import is documented only for variable-data CSV, and nothing describes moving designs or templates between tools. An API export of products, customers and orders can feed the migration; templates are rebuilt.
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?
PrintXpand can run its own storefront or connect to WooCommerce. If your storefront is already on WooCommerce only the designer and print workflow change; otherwise the store moves to WooCommerce as well.
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 PrintXpand?
Not in every case. In our reading, PrintXpand is best for: Print shops, promo distributors and merch brands that want an enterprise stack, optionally self-hosted. 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?
PrintXpand 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 PrintXpand 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.
- PrintXpand pricing, accessed 10 October 2026
- PrintXpand design tool, accessed 10 October 2026
- PrintXpand variable data printing, accessed 10 October 2026
- PrintXpand integrations, accessed 10 October 2026
- PrintXpand home page, accessed 10 October 2026
- PrintXpand web-to-print API, accessed 10 October 2026
Revision log: 10 October 2026, first version.
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