If you sell custom phone cases, laptop sleeves, or AirPods cases, you already know the fun part: the designs. The not–so-fun part is everything that happens after someone buys.
The copy-pasting. The million different tabs. The second-guessing whether your order actually got sent to the printer…
That’s the part we just made disappear. Order Desk now connects directly with Podbase, so your orders move from “sold” to “being printed and shipped” on their own, without you touching a thing.
Here’s what that actually means for you.
First, a quick intro to Podbase
Podbase print on demand company that specializes in tech accessories.
From phone cases and laptop sleeves to desk mats and wall art — all printed with your design, made to order, no inventory for you to hold.
A few things they’re known for:
- Fast turnaround. Most orders are printed and shipped within 24 hours.
- They actually print and ship for you. You don’t store anything, pack anything, or visit a post office. They handle it, worldwide.
- Early access to new phone models. When a new iPhone or Samsung drops, Podbase often has cases ready for shipping.
- Strong margins. Because they focus on tech and skip the monthly subscription fees, more of each sale stays with you.
In short: you make the design, they make the product show up at your customer’s door. That’s their whole job, and they’re good at it.
A quick intro to Order Desk
If Podbase is the company that makes and ships your products, Order Desk is the company that manages all your orders in one place.
Think of Order Desk as the control room behind your store. Every order from every place you sell — your website, your Shopify store, wherever — lands in Order Desk. From there, you can sort it, organize it, set simple rules, and send it off to be fulfilled.
It’s the hub that keeps the whole operation moving.
So what does the integration actually do?
When a customer buys one of your Podbase products, the order lands in Order Desk. Order Desk then sends it straight to Podbase to be printed and shipped automatically.
Then it closes the loop: once Podbase ships the order, the tracking details flow back into Order Desk and get passed along to your original store, so your customer gets their “it’s on the way!” update without you lifting a finger.
You can also set it up to behave exactly how you like:
- Choose which folder orders move into after they’re sent off.
- Pick a default shipping method (and match your store’s shipping names to Podbase’s so the right speed is always used).
- Set rules for what happens if something needs attention, like an order with a SKU that doesn’t match.
You set it once. It runs from there.
Why this matters for you
Most of the stress in running a store isn’t the selling. It’s the handling. The little manual steps between a customer paying and a product arriving. The steps that are easy to forget, easy to fumble, and impossible to scale when orders pick up.
This integration removes those steps.
- No more manual order entry. No copy-pasting order details from one place to another.
- Fewer mistakes. When a human isn’t retyping addresses and SKUs at midnight, fewer things go wrong.
- It grows with you. Ten orders or ten thousand, the process is the same. You’re not the bottleneck anymore.
- Your customers stay in the loop automatically. Tracking updates send themselves.
Basically, you get to spend your time on designs and growing your brand, instead of babysitting orders.
How to set it up
It’s super simple and quick!
Inside Order Desk, go to Manage Integrations, find Podbase under the Print on Demand tab, and enable it. Pop in your Podbase API key, hit Connect, and choose your settings.
The full step-by-step guide is right here: Order Desk x Podbase setup guide
Once it’s connected, your custom tech products basically sell, print, and ship themselves!
