Puzzle magnets · 12 min

Set up and sell puzzle magnets.

Set it up once. Customers pick a grid, crop their photo, and pay, all on their phone. The print queue keeps the pieces together on the sheet. You don't lay anything out, and you don't fiddle with each order.

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Puzzle magnets, start to finish, in 2 minutes.

How to sell puzzle magnets in VixieCovers everything on this page, from grid prices to the pieces in the Print Queue.

1. Add the product

One product, every grid you want to sell.

Products → New → Puzzle Magnets. Pick the magnet size, switch on the grids you want, set a price for each. Teal numbers below match the badges on the screenshot.

Vixie Edit Product page for Puzzle Magnets. Magnet sizes shows 2.5" × 2.5" Square. Under Grid options, 2×3 and 3×3 each have a name and a price (CA$21 and CA$29), with a dashed 3×4 preset and a custom grid box with an Add button below.1234
Edit Product → Puzzle Magnets. Each grid you've switched on gets its own row with a name and a price. Dashed buttons are presets you can add in one click.
1

Magnet size

Set it to
Pick the square size you stock: 2"×2", 2.5"×2.5", and so on.
Worth knowing
Puzzle pieces are squares only (no rounds). Edit Measurements saves separately for each magnet size. Your puzzle uses the same one as your regular squares.
2

Grid presets

Set it to
Click a dashed preset (2×3, 3×3, or 3×4) to switch it on. Click ✕ to take a grid off.
Worth knowing
Every grid you switch on shows up as its own option at checkout. And you don't need to add the flipped version. Switch on 2×3 and the customer also gets 3×2 for landscape photos. One toggle, both shapes.
3

Per-grid price

Set it to
Set the price per grid in dollars. This is the price for the whole puzzle, not per piece.
Worth knowing
A 3×3 priced at CA$29 sells as one 9-piece order at $29. Bigger grids should price for the photo, not the count.
4

Add a custom grid

Set it to
Type any size, like 5x3, 2x4, or 3x5, in the box under the presets and click Add.
Worth knowing
You're not stuck with the three presets. Custom grids show up at checkout the same way, with their own price. The flipped version comes free too. Add 5×3 and your customer also gets 3×5.

2. Turn it on for an event

Tick the box. Change prices if you want.

When you create a new event (or open Settings on one you've already made), each product has a checkbox and a Packs row you can open to change prices for just this event.

Vixie Create event screen. Photo Magnets, Puzzle Magnets, and Round Magnets are ticked under Products, and Puzzle Magnets is open to show the 2×3 and 3×3 puzzles with editable prices.
Open Packs on Puzzle Magnets to bump or drop prices for this event without changing your saved prices.

Sell only 2×3s at a quick market, charge more for the 3×4 at a wedding fair, or leave everything as-is. Either way, your saved product doesn't change.

3. What the customer sees

Pick a grid, crop, pay.

On the customer's phone, the grid they pick decides everything else: the shape they crop to, the live preview, and the price.

Switching grids reshapes the crop

2×3, 3×2, 3×3. The crop frame snaps to each grid's shape, and the seam lines update right away.

Customer view of the puzzle edit step on a phone: a family building a sandcastle at the beach, in a tall crop frame with 2×3 grid lines, 2×3 selected under Choose puzzle grid, then the zoom slider and fit, rotate, and flip buttons.

Same buttons as a regular magnet

Rotate, flip, zoom, and filters all work the same way. Customers don't have to learn anything new.

  • The grid sets the shape. Pick 3×4 and the crop frame locks to that shape, so they can't send through a wrong-shape photo.
  • Live preview of the seams. The grid lines on their crop sit exactly where the magnets meet on your sheet.
  • Nothing new to learn. Same buttons as your other products, so you don't have to teach customers anything new at the booth.

4. Print day

Pieces stay together in the queue.

In your event's order table, a puzzle order looks like any other: queue number, status, total. Open it and you'll see every piece. In the print queue they're kept on the same sheet when there's room.

Harbourfront Summer Market event page filtered to one order: #117 for Theo Martin, Puzzle Magnets 3×3 with 9 magnets, CA$29.00 Paid, Confirmed, with a Mark Printing button. The row stacks the first three pieces with a +6 for the rest.
In the event's order list, a 9-piece puzzle reads as Puzzle Magnets · 3×3 with 9 magnets under it. The first three pieces stack up, with a +6 for the rest.
Print batch, page 1 of 2: six pieces of the 3×3 family-at-the-beach puzzle from order #117, labelled A1 to B3, with Insta @fridgelight.co edge text down the sides of every tile.Print batch, page 2 of 2: the last three pieces of the same puzzle, C1 to C3, sharing the sheet with three magnets from order #121 (a woman laughing on a rooftop, a toddler eating watermelon, and three friends on a coastal road trip).
Open a print batch from Prints and you'll see the real sheets. Every tile is labelled by row and column (A1, A2…) with the edge text already in place. A puzzle bigger than one sheet is split across multiple sheets. Sheet 2 here also shows what happens when leftover puzzle pieces share a sheet with magnets from other orders.
  • Every piece is tracked on its own. Each tile carries a row and column label, but the order, status, and pickup stay with the whole puzzle.
  • Same Edit Measurements as squares. Photo Size, Edge Width, Cut Offset all carry over. The only puzzle-specific setting is Puzzle Bleed, the extra image overlap between pieces.
  • Mixed sheets are fine. The queue mixes magnets from different orders to fill each sheet, and it keeps a single puzzle's pieces together when there's room.

First-puzzle checklist

Run a 2×3 test sheet before your first event. If your squares are already dialled in, the only setting you usually need to nudge is Puzzle Bleed. See the size measurements guide.

Frequently asked

Puzzle questions vendors actually send us.

Can I offer custom grids beyond 2×3 / 3×3 / 3×4?+
Yes. The three dashed buttons are quick presets. The box under them lets you type any size you like (5×3, 2×4, 3×5, whatever you need) and click Add, then set its own price. It shows up at checkout just like the presets. You also don't need to add a grid twice for both shapes. Vixie flips every non-square grid for you, so a 2×3 also shows the customer a 3×2 option for landscape photos.
Can pieces from different orders share a sheet?+
Yes. The print queue mixes magnets from different orders to fill each sheet, but a single puzzle's pieces stay together when there's room. You don't have to think about it.
How is pricing handled: per piece or per puzzle?+
Per puzzle. The price you set on the grid is what the customer pays for the assembled set, whether that grid has 6 pieces or 16.
Can I switch a customer to a different grid mid-order?+
No. The grid is what sets the crop shape, so it's chosen up front. They can go back, re-pick the grid, and re-crop before paying. After payment the puzzle is locked to that grid.

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