Introducing Merch5: a free store for your designs

Some of the shirts we print are not for the people who order them. A band orders tour shirts to sell after shows. A coffee shop orders logo tees for the counter. A club orders hoodies for players, parents and fans. Each of them has to guess how many to order and which sizes, pay for all of it up front, and then sell the stack.

Merch5 is how we take that part away. It is our platform for selling merch: you open a store with your designs, people buy from it, and we print each order after it is paid.

How it works

You sign in at merch5.com with your email. There is no card and no contract. Upload a logo or a folder of images, and Merch5 puts them on products and makes the product photos. You set the price of each product, and your store goes live at its own link.

When someone orders, the order comes to our shop in New York. We print or embroider it, pack it and ship it to the buyer with tracking. You never touch a box.

What you can sell

T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, embroidered caps, totes and mugs: the blanks we print on every day. Caps are embroidered, everything else is printed in full color, so the number of colors in your design does not change the price.

Where your store lives

Every store gets a link like yourname.merch5.com, and it can also run on your own domain. If you already have a website, you can show a product on any page with one snippet. One account can run several stores, for example one per brand or project.

How the money works

Opening and running a store is free. Each product's price is our cost of the blank and the printing plus the margin you set. Margins add up in your balance, and you request a payout to PayPal or your bank account whenever you want it, with no minimum.

When a regular Customnia order is better

Merch5 is for selling to other people. If you need the shirts yourself, for an event this weekend, a team roster with names and numbers, or uniforms for your staff, order from Customnia as usual: you get Same Day printing on marked styles and the volume discount at 20, 50 and 100 pieces. If you sell in person at one event, a bulk order is often the better deal too: one delivery, shirts in hand.

If the buyers are spread out, order at different times or each want their own size, a store saves you the guessing.

Try it

Look at the example stores, or open your own on merch5.com. All it takes is a logo.