> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.mockspark.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Design print-on-demand products, publish them to Etsy, and let Mockspark handle the production files

Mockspark is a design and fulfillment tool for print-on-demand sellers. You build a product, place your artwork on it, publish it to your Etsy shop, and Mockspark turns each order into a print-ready file and sends it to your print provider.

Your shop stays yours. Mockspark does not change how you sell, price, or talk to buyers on Etsy. It handles the part between "a buyer placed an order" and "the printer has the right file".

## What You Can Do

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  <Card title="Connect your Etsy shop" icon="link" href="/docs/connections/etsy/connect">
    Authorize Mockspark from Etsy, and connect more than one shop if you run several.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Publish products to Etsy" icon="upload" href="/docs/connections/etsy/publish">
    Push a designed product to Etsy as a real listing, with variants, prices, and photos.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Let buyers personalize" icon="square-dashed-mouse-pointer" href="/docs/connections/etsy/personalization">
    Give buyers a designer of their own, then produce exactly what they made.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fulfill Etsy orders" icon="package" href="/docs/connections/etsy/orders">
    Orders arrive on their own, get turned into print files, and go out to your print provider.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Before You Start

Three things need to be in place.

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  <Accordion title="An Etsy shop that can take payments" icon="store">
    Your shop has to be open and finished with Etsy's payment setup. If you are still partway through it, Etsy will not let any app create listings in your shop, including this one. You can check by opening your Shop Manager. If Etsy keeps sending you back to the payment setup screen, that step is not done yet.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A production partner in your Etsy shop" icon="factory">
    Etsy requires print-on-demand sellers to declare who physically makes their items. Publishing will fail without one, and Etsy's error message for this is famously unhelpful. Etsy's API cannot create a production partner, so you add it yourself in Shop Manager. [Publish a Product to Etsy](/docs/connections/etsy/publish) shows you where and what to write.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="A Mockspark account" icon="user">
    Sign up at [app.mockspark.com](https://app.mockspark.com) with your email address. Etsy sellers do not install anything from the Etsy marketplace, so this is a normal account signup.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## How the Pieces Fit

If you want the whole picture before you touch anything, including what Mockspark reads from your shop and why, read [How Mockspark Works with Etsy](/docs/connections/etsy/overview) first. It takes about five minutes.

If you would rather get going, start with [Connect Your Etsy Shop](/docs/connections/etsy/connect).

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