Because sending artwork and decoration information can require over 20 piecesof meta data, for this scenario we recommend using Order Desk’s Inventory Items feature. Essentially, this means we’ll keep the required Vantage Apparel data inside Order Desk instead of Liftoff.
1 Navigate to your account (store) in the My Liftoff admin interface.
2 In the navigation menu, click Products.
3 In the navigation menu, click Vendors.
Click4 Add Vendor.
5 Name the new vendor “Vantage Apparel”.
An address is required – this is typically set to the shipping origin address for the
vendor. However, what you provide here and in other vendor fields may depend
on your unique case.
6 click Save & Create.
7In the navigation menu, click Fulfillment Workflows.
8 click Add Workflow.
9Configure the new Fulfillment Workflow as seen below. Be sure to choose Vantage Apparel as the default workflow vendor.
10Click “Create Workflow”
11 You can now configure your product as you would any other in Liftoff. Set the
Fulfillment Workflowto the one you just configured. Make note of the SKUs
created in Liftoff as we will use them later in this process.
Enable Vantage Apparel Order Desk Integration
Before we create our Vantage Apparel products in Liftoff Commerce, it will be helpful to enable the Vantage Apparel Order Desk integration.
12 Log into your Order Desk account at app.orderdesk.me. If you do not yet have an Order Desk account, you can sign up here.
13 To connect to Vantage Apparel, click on Manage Integrations in the left sidebar. Under the Print on Demand tab, find and click to enable the Vantage Apparel integration.
14 Enter your Vantage Apparel credentials and Program ID, then click to connect. If you do not yet have credentials, contact integrations@vantageapparel.com.
15 Once connected, you will be presented with the integration’s settings. Detailed
information on these can be found here. Set them as necessary for your specific
use case.
On this page there is a link at the top to view available products from Vantage Apparel. Clicking it will display a page like the one below. The products you create in Liftoff Commerce must coincide with a Product ID and Part ID in this list.
The Product IDcan be thought of as the parent product. Each Product ID is
associated with a number of Part ID‘s. These can be thought of as the individual
SKU, specifying color and/or size.
If you’re having trouble knowing which Product ID is associated with the products you will add to your store, you may search by Product ID at the Vantage Apparel website.
Build Your Import Spreadsheet
16 Download this import template spreadsheet and open it in your preferred
spreadsheet editor.
Note: This spreadsheet contains notes in the header and sample data to help you
understand what is expected in each column. Remove the sample data (but keep the headers) before uploading to Order Desk.
17 Use this template to build out your product data for import into Order Desk. We’ve explained each column below.
• Product Name:The product name as seen in your cart.
• SKU: The SKU as it appears in YOUR shopping cart.
• Location: This is the vendor name, “Vantage Apparel” in this case.
• print_sku: The Vantage Apparel Product ID.
• part_id: The Vantage Apparel Part ID,which contains the size/color of the product variant.
The rest of the columns are related to 1 of 3 decoration locations that you can
send artwork and information for. The set of columns for each decoration location are presented with a different shade of purple and their columns are appended with the numbered location they are for.
18 For each decoration (up to 3), provide values for the following:
• print_url:The externally accessible URL to the artwork for this decoration location.
• print_location: The print location code for this decoration location (refer to the tabs in the template).
• decoration_type: The decoration type code for this decoration location (refer to the tabs in the template).
• geometry: Acceptable values: Rectangle, Circle, and Other.
• width: The Vantage Apparel Decimal value in inches, up to hundredths. For example, for one and a quarter inches provide 1.25.
• Height:: Decimal value in inches, up to hundredths. For example, for one and a quarter inches provide 1.25.
19Export your completed spreadsheet as a CSV.
Configure Inventory Items Import Template
20 Now we need to configure a data import template in Order Desk. You will only need to do this once. With your Inventory Items spreadsheet prepared – In Order Desk, click on Import Data in the left navigation.
21 Click on Add New Import Template.
22Provide this new template with a name that makes sense, e.g. Vantage Apparel
Items and the following settings:
• Import Type: Inventory Items.
• Delimiter: Comma
Choose your completed CSV as the Sample CSV File.
23Click Upload Sample File.
24 Now we need to map the columns in our CSV to the fields in Order Desk. To do this, click on the Field Setup dropdown menu for each column.
Set Product Name to Item Name.
25 Set SKU to Code/SKU
26 Set Location to Location.
28 For the remainder of the fields choose Item Metadata from the dropdown.
29 A new field will show with “metadata|” already typed for you. Simplt add the column header’s text after it so that it reads “metadata|part_id”as seen below.
Import Inventory Items
32 Click Import Data in the left navigation.
36If you click into one of the items, you’ll notice all of the data is present.
At this point, if an order is imported into Order Desk and a SKU matches one of the Inventory Items that you’ve just set up, the data required for Vantage Apparel will automatically be assigned to the item.
The item shown below is ready to be sent to Vantage Apparel.
If your program includes items from other suppliers, consider creating an additional rule that splits the order by liftoff_origin_name.
If you want to automatically send the order to Vantage Apparel, an additional rule can be configured to send the prepared order to Vantage Apparel.
Learn more about Order Desk rules here.
© 2025 Vantage Apparel