Vixie Photo Magnet and Keepsakes for WooCommerce

Description

Sell custom photo magnets, buttons, keychains and other keepsakes on your WooCommerce store. Shoppers design their item right on your product page, and every order lands in Vixie with a print-ready file.

Try it on our demo store: upload a photo and design an item the way your shoppers will. Learn more at vixie.app.

Vixie is a print shop app for small businesses that make personalized photo products, online and at markets and events. This plugin connects your WooCommerce store to your Vixie account.

What shoppers can do

  • Upload and crop on any device. Shoppers add photos from their phone or computer and crop them to your size. The frame shows exactly what wraps around the edge.
  • Pick a filter. Black and white, vivid and more, previewed live.
  • Add names and dates. Shoppers type straight onto the photo, then pick a font, colour, outline or shadow. It prints exactly where they put it.
  • Remove the background of a photo in one tap.
  • See their design in the cart. Each personalized cart line shows the shopper’s design.

What you get

  • Print-ready orders. Once WooCommerce confirms an order, it drops into your Vixie Print Queue with a print-ready file for every item. Pick your paper and print.
  • Sheets sized for your press. Cut lines and edge text are already in place. Pick your press, or enter your own measurements.
  • Packs, sizes and puzzle grids. Options follow the shopper’s choice of variation, and a puzzle splits one photo into a grid of pieces that all land in your Print Queue.
  • Frames you set up on a product appear in the editor.
  • Orders stay in sync. Orders cancelled or refunded in WooCommerce are updated in Vixie.

WooCommerce stays in charge

Your product pages, cart, checkout, payments and shipping are unchanged. Vixie handles the personalization and the print files. It works with classic and block themes, the Cart and Checkout blocks, and High-Performance Order Storage.

Perfect for

  • Photo magnet and button makers
  • Event and market vendors who also sell online
  • Print shops adding personalized keepsakes to their store

You need a Vixie account to use this plugin, and new accounts start with a free trial. See plans and pricing.

External services

This plugin connects your store to Vixie, a hosted service, and does nothing without it.

  • Vixie (dash.vixie.app, fonts from assets.vixie.app). The editor script loads on the product pages of products you link in Vixie, and on every store page while a cart holds a personalized item, so the cart can show the design. It sends Vixie the shopper’s design choices. When you connect, you give Vixie a read and write REST API key through WooCommerce’s own approval screen. Vixie uses it to read your products and orders, mark the products you link, and create order webhooks, which send each order’s customer name, email, phone and addresses. Vixie also checks for missed orders every few minutes. Deactivating or uninstalling sends Vixie a signed notice with your store’s address. Terms, privacy policy.
  • Cloudflare R2 (*.r2.cloudflarestorage.com). Shoppers’ photos upload straight from their browser to Vixie’s file storage. Terms, privacy policy.
  • IMG.LY (staticimgly.com). When a shopper removes a photo’s background, their browser downloads the model from IMG.LY. The photo is processed in the browser and never sent to IMG.LY. Terms, privacy policy.

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Installation

  1. Install and activate the plugin. It needs WooCommerce 8.8 or later, and your store must be served over HTTPS.
  2. Go to WooCommerce Vixie and click Connect to Vixie. Sign in to Vixie, then approve access on the WooCommerce screen that follows. You can also start from Settings Integrations in Vixie.
  3. In Vixie, link the products your shoppers can personalize. A linked product shows the editor on its product page.

FAQ

Can I try it before I install it?

Yes. Our demo store runs this plugin. Open a product, upload a photo and design an item the way your shoppers will.

Do I need a Vixie account?

Yes. The plugin connects your store to Vixie, where you set up the products shoppers can personalize and where their orders are printed.

Does it work with block themes and the Cart and Checkout blocks?

Yes. It works with classic and block themes, the shortcode and block cart and checkout, and High-Performance Order Storage.

What happens when I deactivate the plugin?

The plugin tells Vixie, which disconnects your store and removes its webhooks. Your product links come back when you reconnect.

What happens when I delete the plugin?

The plugin also deletes the REST API key it gave Vixie. If Vixie can’t be reached at that moment, or WooCommerce is turned off, the plugin keeps the key and Vixie’s webhooks, so Vixie still receives your orders. Disconnect the store in Vixie, then delete the key under WooCommerce Settings Advanced REST API. A staging copy of your site keeps them too.

I made a staging copy of my site. Will its orders reach Vixie?

No. The plugin notices when a copy of your site runs at a different address and stops it sending orders to Vixie, so test orders on a staging copy never reach your print queue. A notice in the copy’s admin explains what happened.

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Contributors & Developers

“Vixie Photo Magnet and Keepsakes for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

0.0.2

  • Deleting the plugin also deletes the REST API key it gave Vixie.

0.0.1

  • First release.