Two thousand Printful orders from Bandcamp. None of them copied by hand.
BandBridge started as a favour for a friend: an underground musician who sells print-on-demand shirts and prints on Bandcamp and has them made by Printful. This is how it went.
- in daily use since
- Feb 2026
- orders sent to Printful
- 2,000+
- copied by hand
- 0
Bandcamp merch orders into Printful, by hand
Bandcamp has no Printful integration, so every order crossed the gap by hand. Each evening he opened the new Bandcamp orders, copied the buyer, the address and the size into Printful, paid for the order, waited for it to ship, then pasted the tracking number back into Bandcamp.
A few minutes per order doesn’t sound like much until a new release drops and there are forty of them. That is when the mistakes come: a shirt in the wrong size, an address Printful rejects because it says “California” instead of CA, a tracking number that never made it back to the buyer.
A small tool on the Bandcamp Merch Orders API
After a few months of watching this, I wrote him a small tool. It did five things:
- Read new merch orders from Bandcamp.
- Pick the Printful product and variant for each item.
- Fix the address so Printful accepts it.
- Create the Printful order.
- Close the loop: when the parcel ships, put the tracking number back into Bandcamp.
He connected his store in February 2026 and hasn’t copied an order since. When the tool isn’t sure which size a Bandcamp item is, it asks him once, remembers the answer and never asks again.
What it became: BandBridge
The tool grew into BandBridge. It now joins orders from the same buyer into one parcel, sends orders to Printful as drafts or confirmed, shows the exact Printful status and tracking in every row, counts sales by country and product, and sends a Telegram message when something needs a human.
His store still runs on it, every day. Products, prices and the store itself are never touched. He pays Printful directly, as before.
Why there is no name here
He would rather stay out of the spotlight, and that is fine by us. The numbers above are from his real store, counted in BandBridge’s own records.
Now it is open to 20 more stores
We are looking for 20 artists and labels who sell Printful merch on Bandcamp. Free during the test, in exchange for honest feedback.
We open BandBridge to new stores one by one and write to you when your spot is ready.
Leo Godnik, maker of BandBridge. I still answer every email myself: noyce@bandbridge.co