How to Create Die-cut Stickers?

overview custom shape or die cut stickers are highly popular in the print industry, offering customers the freedom to order stickers in any desired shape, size, and finish from simple round or square labels to unique shapes like stars, hearts, or brand logos, die cut stickers add a creative and professional touch to packaging, branding, and promotions in onprintshop, you can easily configure such products by enabling custom size inputs , area based pricing , and shape customization this gives customers a fully interactive experience to create or upload artwork that matches their exact shape and size requirements purpose this guide will help you set up custom shape (die cut) stickers in your onprintshop admin panel it provides detailed instructions to configure sticker products that support custom dimensions and shapes apply area based pricing models for accurate cost calculation add material and finish options to offer variety and flexibility enable the advanced designer studio for die cut artwork customization by following this guide, you will be able to launch a versatile and customer friendly product that enhances your store’s offering and delivers professional quality, precision cut stickers step by step configuration watch the video tutorial for a quick overview of the configuration process follow the step wise guide below for the complete configuration create a new product to configure this product, navigate to the admin panel > products > print products and click on the add button in the top right corner on the add product page, begin by naming the product appropriately, such as “custom shape stickers” or “die cut stickers ” select die cut personalization as the product type as soon as you define the product type, the price method will automatically be set to "size based price (dynamic size)" define the other details and save add pricing in the price tab, set up area based pricing so the system calculates cost dynamically using the formula (width × height × rate), which ensures customers pay accurately for the total sticker area here, you can create the size range and pricing for the individual stickers for further settings and lookup, navigate to the settings > custom size tab define the area lookup from the dropdown that will ultimately help the system to calculate the product price confirm that the "allow custom width" and "allow custom height" settings are enabled you can configure the other details as per the requirement and save the changes made add product options in the options tab, you can create additional options such as material type and finishing options to offer a more creative and stylish sticker effect bind options with events navigate to the studio events tab in this section, you’ll map each attribute from the additional options to its corresponding studio event this ensures that customers can instantly see the impact of their selected attributes in the price calculator from the additional options dropdown select transparent material type, from the events drop down select material type, and then further select transparent from the event attributes dropdown repeat this process for other materials or effects you want to support you can also control what image, material type, or border strength will be displayed on the storefront when the customer visits the product details page using the default events feature configure image editing settings to provide customers with options such as applying image effects, removing backgrounds, and generating face cutouts, you must first enable the relevant settings navigate to the designer studio > studio settings and search for "die cut" image operations for die cut personalization products enable this setting to allow customers to remove the background from their uploaded image or generate a face cutout they can choose from remove background only , cutout face only , or both , based on their requirement image effects for die cut personalization products enable this option to allow customers to apply a caricature effect to their uploaded image order flow at storefront once you have configured the product in the admin panel, let's see how the product will appear on the storefront and how the customers personalize and place the custom shape product when the customer lands on the die cut sticker product, they will be requested to define the dimension of the sticker, the quantity they need, and select the product options other than the material type, and move to the personalize tab for customization in the personalize tab, the canvas will load with the default image configured in the admin panel, if any once the customers have uploaded the image, they will have the option to choose from the price calculator to personalize the die cut sticker for further processing best practices keep material names and finish options simple and descriptive to avoid customer confusion test multiple shape designs in the orders before publishing the product live