They’ll take a cut of the profits, but it’s better to invest in clothing or manufacturing costs. It can also be a great way to customize your own clothing to wear yourself too.
This guide will take you through everything you need to know to start your own clothing brand or sell merchandise. By following this guide, you can create a successful business that will be enjoyed by all.
Teespring vs Redbubble vs Zazzle – Which is Better?
Teespring, Redbubble, and Zazzle are three of the most popular custom merchandise websites. They all offer easy signups and creation, but they differ in terms of prices, royalties, and merchandise creator tools. We will compare these three websites below. ..
Zazzle – Complex Designer, Low Profits
Zazzle is the perfect platform for making custom t-shirts, skateboards, and playing cards. With Zazzle, you can choose to print your design on hundreds of products.
Zazzle is a popular online t-shirt printing service. It has a complex system for designing t-shirts, similar to Canva, a free online image creation tool. However, we found the Zazzle t-shirt design feature to be less user-friendly than other features on the site. ..
One downside to the new printer is that there is less help for ensuring everything lines up and no details about what the print quality will be like, which is a feature competitors do offer. ..
Zazzle’s custom t-shirt service is not great. The base price for a basic custom t-shirt is $17.95 and you must add royalties on top of that. The recommended royalty rates are between 5% and 10%. With this, you’d make between $0.90 and $1.90 per t-shirt.
Redbubble – Simple Designer, Low Profits
Redbubble is a great place to find unique and stylish products. It’s easy to create an account and add banners and information about your store from your profile page. From there, you can upload images and they will be directly added to any products you choose. ..
There are some challenges with this design approach, because you have to create the design outside of the website and upload it directly. You can’t add multiple images at once. When you add images they’ll be shown on a preview of your custom t-shirt or product. Some may prefer this approach, but being able to add elements and adjust them on the design before finishing is a lot easier.
Redbubble is changing, but at the time of writing we found t-shirt prices start at £12.70 ($16.48). You can add your own margins on top of that – a 10% margin would make the retail price of the cheapest t-shirt option to be £13.76 ($17.86) and you’d make £1.06 ($1.38). Very similar to Zazzle’s offering.
Teespring – Simple Designer, Reasonable Profits
Zazzle has a designer that’s similar to Teepring, but more straightforward. Simply upload images and add text. As you do so, the images and text will show on the t-shirt. You can click to move, rotate, and resize all elements.
Teespring’s designer is great for quality control. If you add images that are too low quality, Teespring will tell you. You can also quickly see if images are in line with each other.
If you want to create a custom t-shirt design, Teespring will provide you with the print template so you can line everything up perfectly.
Teespring offers a different pricing model than other online retailers. Instead of adding royalties on top of a base price, you can choose the retail price of your shirt and Teespring will calculate your profits. If you priced a T-shirt at $17.95, you would make $7.38 per t-shirt – far better than Redbubble and Zazzle.
With Teespring, you could buy your own custom t-shirt designs for cheaper, or make more profit with each sale.
How To Create Your Own Custom T-Shirts On Teespring
How to set up your own Teespring store:
- Log in to Teespring and create an account.
- Choose a category and design your shirt.
- Click on the “Create a shirt” button.
- Enter your information and click on the “Create shirt” button.
- You will be taken to a page where you can enter shipping information and payment methods.
- Click on the “Create shirt” button and confirm your order by clicking on the “Confirm order” button.
- Your order will be processed and you will receive an email with the link to view your order online or in person at our store!
To get started, first visit Teespring and click Start Designing in the top left. Go through the account creation process. Next, click Create & Sell and click Continue.You’ll need to choose a store name – this will be your own custom URL for where you can list your custom products. Next, we’d suggest that you go back to the Teespring homepage. From here, click Start Designing again.
We’d like to add our design to the Unisex/Men’s T-Shirts category.
It is now time to start creating your custom t-shirt design. We would highly recommend using image editing software to create your own designs and text in a font you like. Save each image as 300 DPI PNG files with transparent backgrounds. If you can’t afford Photoshop, try a free image editing alternative.
Looking for free clipart online to use in your designs? Check out Teespring here.
It is best to create separate images for each element or logo – for example, one image for a logo and one for text. Next, click on the Teespring creator page. On the right, you’ll now see the image on your t-shirt. Click and hold to drag the image to a new location.
You can rotate, position, resize, and delete images with separate controls in each image. ..
In order to ensure that duplicate elements are the same size, and that the print quality will be good enough, Teespring provides on-screen prompts to tell you the size of an element. Additionally, if Teespring says that the image will be poor print quality, then you can recreate it with a higher resolution.
Once you’ve finished the design, choose the available colors and pricing on the left side. You cannot edit this later without contacting support so make sure you choose the colors you like. We advise not choosing t-shirt colors that are too similar to your design colors.
Next, click continue and add a description and URL for your custom t-shirt. Make sure to select the right visibility settings and choose to add it to the store you created earlier. Finally, click Publish listing and you’ll be able to find your t-shirt in your store. ..
If you’re looking to buy a design, you’ll want to skip these last few steps and go directly to the store.
