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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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 vendor app: Edit Product page for Puzzle Magnets, with magnet size dropdown, enabled 2×3 and 3×3 grid chips with prices, dashed-border 3×4 and 4×4 presets, and an Add custom grid input.1234
Edit Product → Puzzle Magnets. Filled chips are grids you've switched on (with their price). Grey chips 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 circles). 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 any greyed-out preset (2×3, 3×3, 3×4, 4×4) to switch it on. Click ✕ to take it 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 custom grid

Set it to
Type any NxM (e.g. 5x3, 2x4, 3x5) and hit Add custom.
Worth knowing
You're not stuck with the four 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 New Event screen with the Products section showing Circle Magnets, Classic Squares, and Puzzle Magnets all checked. Puzzle Magnets is expanded, showing 2×3 and 3×3 packs 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 4×4 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: 2×3 selected at the top, crop tool showing the wedding-couple photo with grid lines overlaid, rotate / flip / zoom controls, and a filter row at the bottom.

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 — 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 — 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.

Event show queue table: puzzle order #090, Puzzle 3×3 · 9 pcs at $29, status Pressing, customer Daniel Cho. The row shows three magnet thumbnails with a +6 indicator for the remaining pieces.
In the event's queue table — a 9-piece puzzle reads as Puzzle 3×3 · 9 pcs, with the piece count rolled into a +6 indicator next to the first three thumbnails.
Print Batch #57 — Sheet 1 of 2: six puzzle pieces from a 3×3 wedding-couple puzzle, each tile labelled with row/column, edge text running down the left and right of every tile.Print Batch #57 — Sheet 2 of 2: the remaining three puzzle pieces from the same 3×3 puzzle plus three magnets from other orders filling the sheet.
Open a print batch from Prints and you'll see the real sheets — every tile labelled by row and column (A1, A2…), edge text already in place, split across multiple sheets when the puzzle is bigger than one. 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 gap between the pieces once they're put together.
  • 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 / 4×4?+
Yes. The four buttons are quick presets. The Add custom box next to them lets you type any size you like (5×3, 2×4, 3×5 — whatever) and 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 — regardless of 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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