Print-on-Demand Product Research Survey

Understand your print-on-demand customers with targeted market research

Whether you're launching a new print-on-demand business, expanding your product catalog, or optimizing your existing offerings, understanding what your customers actually want is essential. This Print-on-Demand Product Research Survey template helps you gather actionable insights on design preferences, quality expectations, fulfillment priorities, and sales channel interest—all in one professional, easy-to-complete form.

Built with Paperform, this template is fully customizable to match your brand and can be shared via email, social media, embedded on your website, or sent to existing customers. With conditional logic built in, you can tailor follow-up questions based on responses, making the survey feel personalized and relevant to each participant.

Perfect for e-commerce brands, creators, and POD entrepreneurs

This survey template is ideal for:

• Print-on-demand sellers looking to validate new product categories or designs
• E-commerce brands considering adding POD to their product mix
• Marketplace sellers (Etsy, Redbubble, Amazon Merch) who want to understand buyer behavior
• Marketing teams conducting consumer research before launching campaigns
• Agencies supporting POD clients with data-driven insights

What you'll learn from this survey

This template covers all the critical areas of print-on-demand customer research:

• Product category preferences: Which POD products (apparel, home decor, accessories, stationery) resonate most
• Design upload behavior: How customers prefer to submit artwork, file formats, and mockup expectations
• Quality expectations: What "high quality" means to your audience—print durability, material feel, color accuracy
• Fulfillment speed priorities: How fast is fast enough, and what customers are willing to pay for speed
• Sales channel preferences: Whether your audience prefers buying through marketplaces like Etsy or direct from your own store

Automate your research workflow with Stepper

Once responses start rolling in, you can connect this form to Stepper to automate your research process. For example:

• Route high-interest responses to your product team via Slack or email
• Add respondents to segmented email lists in Mailchimp, Klaviyo, or HubSpot based on their product preferences
• Log insights into Google Sheets or Airtable for analysis and reporting
• Trigger follow-up surveys or incentive emails for participants who complete the survey

With Paperform's AI Insights feature, you can also generate instant summaries and trends from your survey data—no spreadsheet skills required. This means faster time to insights and better product decisions.

Trusted by e-commerce teams worldwide

Paperform is used by over 500,000 teams globally and is fully SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, so you can collect customer data with confidence. Whether you're a solo creator testing your first designs or an established brand scaling your POD line, this template gives you the research foundation to make smarter, customer-backed decisions.