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Promotional Products

Promotional Products Design Software for Distributors

A promotional order is a logo, a deadline and a print area three centimetres wide. FastEditor automates everything between the customer's upload and the file your supplier prints — vectorisation, colour validation, 3D preview, technique-specific output — across mugs, pens, bags, drinkware and the rest of the branded merchandise catalogue.

Every promo category, one flow. Mugs, pens, tote bags, drinkware, notebooks, tech accessories and branded gifts all run through the same upload, validation and output pipeline. The product changes; the artwork process does not.

The suppliers you already buy from. Makito, Solo Midocean, PF Concept, Toppoint, XD Connects, Giving Europe, Goldstar, HIT, BIC, Clipper Interall and MAXIM Ceramics are pre-configured with print areas, technique specs and output rules per product.

3D on shapes that are not flat. Promotional products curve, taper and wrap. FastEditor renders logos on accurate 3D models — cylindrical barrels, mug wraps, bottle profiles — so the buyer approves what will actually be produced rather than a flat mockup that flatters it.

Every promotional category, pre-configured

The reason promotional orders are slow is not the printing. It is finding out that this pen takes a 38mm imprint, that this mug is full-wrap sublimation, that this notebook debosses at one colour only. Multiply that across a catalogue of half a million configurations and it becomes a full-time job producing nothing.

FastEditor's Product Hub holds the specification for every product. When your customer selects one, the correct print areas, technique constraints and output rules load automatically.

  • Mugs — full-wrap sublimation, pad print, engraving, with 3D rotation. See the mug flow.
  • Pens — sub-40mm imprints, colour limits enforced per technique. See the pen flow.
  • Tote bags — screen print, DTG and DTF, front and back in one flow. See the tote-bag flow.
  • Drinkware, bags and backpacks, stationery, stickers and labels — rolling out across 2026.

The margin on a promotional order is the artwork

On a €2.40 cotton bag or a €0.60 pen, five minutes of prepress erases the profit on the line. That is why so many distributors quietly price small orders as though they hurt, and why so much of the catalogue never gets sold personalised at all.

FastEditor removes the prepress entirely. The uploaded logo is vectorised, its transparent padding is trimmed so it is placed at its true printed size, its colour count is checked against the technique's limit, and its line thickness is validated against the engraver's or pad printer's minimum. Across 13,773 uploads we measured, 85% of customer logos were not print-ready — every one of them corrected automatically.

  • Automatic vectorisation from any upload, including phone screenshots
  • Transparent padding trimmed so artwork fills the print area at true size
  • Colour count validated per technique, with suggested reduction
  • 99.95% of generated production files go straight to production

Every decoration technique on hard goods

Promotional products are decorated with a wider range of techniques than any other category, and each wants a different file. FastEditor generates the correct production output automatically from the technique configured against each product.

  • Pad printing — colour-layer separated file per ink
  • Screen printing — separated artwork per colour channel
  • Laser engraving — clean vector output, line weight validated. See laser engraving.
  • Digital full-colour and sublimation — calibrated high-resolution output with bleed
  • Doming and debossing — layer-separated output for the applicable products

Two ways in: self-service, or sales-assisted

Promotional distributors sell both ways, and FastEditor supports both from the same specification source. The Logo Editor lets B2B buyers configure their own branded merchandise online — upload, position, approve, order. The Studio Tool lets account managers produce a proof and a production file for any product in under 30 seconds, without design software.

Uploaded logos are stored at user level — customer level in the Logo Editor, account-manager level in the Studio Tool — so a repeat order reuses artwork that has already been corrected and approved.

  • Self-service buyer route and sales-assisted route, one spec source
  • Stored logos reused across products and reorders without re-uploading
  • Proof and production file in under 30 seconds via the Studio Tool
  • Identical production output from both routes
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85%

of the logos customers upload are not print-ready as supplied — FastEditor corrects them automatically before they reach production.

Measured across 13,773 uploads, November 2025 to May 2026

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is promotional products design software?

Software your customers use to put a logo on a promotional product in your webshop, and that produces the print file at the other end. The distinction that matters is the second half — many tools show a preview, far fewer output a production-ready file to the supplier's specification.

Which promotional product suppliers are pre-configured?

Makito, Solo Midocean, PF Concept, Toppoint, XD Connects, Giving Europe, Goldstar, HIT, BIC, Clipper Interall, MAXIM Ceramics, Reflects, Woodcarve and many more, across more than half a million product configurations. New suppliers are onboarded continuously and can be requested during implementation.

Which decoration techniques are supported?

Pad printing, screen printing, laser engraving, digital full-colour, sublimation, doming and debossing on hard goods, plus DTG, DTF, heat transfer and screen printing on textiles. Embroidery visualisation and DST file generation are in testing with our first partners.

What happens when a logo has too many colours for the technique?

The colour count is validated against the limit for the selected technique. If it exceeds it, the customer is notified before ordering and, where possible, offered an automatic colour reduction. The incorrect order never gets placed — which is the point.

Can buyers see the logo on the actual product in 3D?

Yes. Products with a 3D model — mugs, pens, bottles and other cylindrical or contoured items — render the uploaded logo in place with accurate curvature, and the buyer can rotate to check every angle. The proof is assembled from the view they approved.

Does it handle bulk orders across colours and sizes?

Yes. A single logo configuration outputs production files for every variant in the order, each validated against that specific model's print area. Quantity pricing and minimum order quantities are configured per reseller.

How small an imprint area can it handle?

Yes. A single logo configuration outputs production files for every variant in the order, each validated against that specific model's print area. Quantity pricing and minimum order quantities are configured per reseller.

How long does it take to go live?

Three to four weeks for a standard integration, with no custom development. Your specific product catalogue is configured in the Product Hub during onboarding.

Related product flows

Same pipeline, different print area.