You run the business. We run the shop.

Nothing to open, nothing monthly, no listing fees. The only possible upfront costs are the $20 product upload (waived if you've ordered custom with us before), $10-$50 artwork cleanup if your file isn't print-ready, and $30 one-time digitizing on embroidery designs. All three are avoidable and all three are one-time.

Per product, we build the mockups for that specific item in every color you want to sell it in - not one color, all of them. If you've already placed a custom order with Merchys, uploads are free.

No. Plenty of shops are priced at cost and exist purely so a team, staff, or membership can order their own gear without anyone in the middle. That's fully supported - you just skip the payout setup.

For fundraising and program stores, most people land 20-40% over cost - roughly $5 to $12 on a shirt, $10 to $20 on a hoodie. For brand and retail shops, doubling the cost is a normal starting point. Shop Manager shows your margin live as you set each price.

One, on everything except patches. Products are made after they're ordered, so a customer can buy a single shirt and you never commit to a quantity. Prices per piece drop as volume goes up - the calculator above shows exactly where each tier lands.

There's no minimum. One product is a shop. That said, shops with eight to twelve products convert noticeably better than shops with one or two - there's more reason for a visitor to look around. Start with whatever you have ready and add to it whenever you want; edits after launch go live immediately.

Patches are the one thing you buy before you sell. They're produced in a run, so a patch product starts with a minimum of 100 patches at $3.50 each - $350 up front. After that we sew them on one at a time as orders come in, so your customers still buy single units and unused patches stay on the shelf for your next run.

Patches are sewn on rather than pressed, so the per-piece charge is $6.00 - $3.00 for the application and $3.00 for the sewing. That $350 is real money out before the first sale, so the calculator above shows your break-even: on a $28 shirt you're square at 23 sold and everything after that is margin. If you need more than 100 for a run, patches are bought in blocks of 100.

Yes - $99 one time. Send us your logo and tell us what you want to sell, and we do all six steps: branding, shop details, SEO, and up to four products built, priced, and mocked up in every colour you're selling. We clean up your artwork as part of it, so there's no separate art charge. You review the finished shop and approve it, then it goes live.

Past four products, additional uploads are the standard $20 each.

Standard production is about two weeks from order to doorstep on most items. Embroidery and anything needing digitizing can run longer on the first order. Rush is available - ask before you promise a date to a customer.

Yes. Upload whatever you have - a screenshot, a JPG off your website, a photo of a sign. We rebuild it as print-ready vector art for $10-$50 depending on complexity. Send proper vector - .svg, .ai, .eps, or .pdf - and there's no charge at all. No logo at all? We'll design one - tell us during setup.

Yes. A private shop stays out of the Shops directory and out of search, and only opens for people with the link or password. Companies use it for internal pricing, schools use it for issued gear and staff apparel.

We do. Orders, shipping notifications, and support all run through Merchys. If we misprint something or a garment comes through defective, we replace it at our expense. Wrong size ordered by the customer is handled case by case.

Approved corporate, school, and district accounts can order on a PO with invoicing and terms instead of a credit card. Ask us to set it up - it's separate from your shop and doesn't slow down your launch.

Frequently not. For most public schools the mark belongs to the district or the state, and a booster club or coach can't authorize it alone. We check during review and tell you exactly whose sign-off we need. It takes a few days once, then it's on file permanently.

Every account that comes to Merchys through you is tagged to you permanently, and you earn 5% of everything that account ever spends here - their custom orders, their own shop's production, their reorders. Not just their first purchase, and not just merch bought from your shop.

Anyone who buys from your shop is tagged automatically at checkout - there's nothing for them to enter and nothing for you to chase. For people who haven't bought from you, there's a referral link in your account.

For the life of the account. No cap, no expiry, no annual reset. A customer who buys one shirt and two years later becomes a corporate account is still earning you 5% on every order they place.

Shop margin and referral commission both accrue in your Merchys wallet as orders ship. The money sits there until you do something with it - nothing is sent automatically unless you switch it on.

You can withdraw to a linked bank account whenever you like, or turn on auto-pay: pick a threshold and a day, and Merchys sends the balance without you logging in. Auto-pay is off by default, and plenty of shops leave the balance sitting because they use it to cover their own restocks and staff orders at shop rate. A W-9 has to be on file before the first payout.

Any time, and it goes live immediately. Only brand-new artwork gets re-reviewed, and that's a quick artwork check, not a full re-review of the shop.