Press Release
AHMEDABAD, INDIA, July 20, 2026 — PrintXpand today expanded PrintXpand Connect, its supplier supply chain network, giving print businesses and promotional distributors single-API access to more than 500 PromoStandards-compliant suppliers.
The expansion widens PrintXpand Connect from a set of named, integration-tested partners to the full PromoStandards-compliant supplier network. As an official authorized PromoStandards partner, PrintXpand can now connect any supplier that follows the specification without custom development. Print shops, print brokers, and promotional product distributors gain unified access to product data, inventory, pricing, and ordering across hundreds of apparel, promotional, and print suppliers through one connection. That single connection replaces the per-supplier integrations that have long slowed catalog expansion across the trade. The move reframes supplier onboarding, once a project measured in weeks of development, as a routine and repeatable step.
How PrintXpand Connect Works
PrintXpand Connect works as supplier-agnostic middleware. It ingests supplier data in whatever form a supplier provides, whether a portal, an XML feed, an XLSX file, or a direct API, and normalizes every source into one consistent schema. Print businesses receive clean, uniform catalog data regardless of how each supplier shares it, and the supplier is not asked to change its process. The approach replaces manual catalog building, stock guesswork, and email-based purchase ordering with a single, maintained connection.
Those partners span American and European apparel houses, UK trade-only distributors, and wholesale printers, and each was validated against live catalog and ordering flows before release. For suppliers that follow the PromoStandards specification, onboarding takes about 24 hours and requires only the supplier’s PromoStandards endpoint URLs and credentials. No per-supplier data mapping falls to the print business.
Benefits for Distributors
For distributors, the practical gain is time and accuracy across the order lifecycle. Once a supplier is connected, PrintXpand Connect keeps stock and pricing current through scheduled inventory sync on a configurable cadence. It also generates purchase orders automatically when customer orders arrive and supports drop-ship fulfillment that removes the need to hold inventory.
The network spans apparel houses such as SanMar and S&S Activewear, European distributors including PF Concept and Falk & Ross, and wholesale printers such as 4over. It connects to Magento, Shopify, Odoo, and REST or GraphQL storefronts.
Availability
PrintXpand Connect is available now to print businesses, promotional distributors, and eCommerce brands on Magento, Shopify, Odoo, and through its REST and GraphQL API. Current customers can activate the expanded supplier network on their existing platform, with PromoStandards-compliant suppliers onboarded on request.
Print businesses can see the supplier network, catalog normalization, and automated ordering in a working environment before committing.
