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Would you like to sell T-shirts online? Sure you would. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this.

The best news is – your idea is great! To create and sell T-shirts online, you don’t need the skills of an experienced marketer or the exceptional talent of an artist. All you need is passion, creativity, and persistence.

Now may be the right time to make your art public and sell shirts online. If willing to take your chances, you should think of the following things:

• Will you need a lot of money to start?
• Should you sell pre-made T-shirts, or make ones of your own?
• Where to sell T-shirts?
• On which platform can you sell the most T-shirts?
• What will your profit be?

Once you know all these things, you will be ready to conquer the market with some unique T-shirts.

How to sell shirts online? Well, it is actually pretty simple! Let us help:

These are the best websites to design and sell T-shirts online.

Tee Spring

The best way to sell T-shirts online is to design them on the very same platform.

Tee Springs offers an uncomplicated web designer for those looking to create original T-shirts. You can either start from scratch, or upload your prototype design and complete it with their clip art. Better yet, you get to sell Tshirts online and earn some money!

Sites like teespring ask you to organize a sales campaign, namely to point out its duration, and the price you wish to sell at. At that point, you will have a clear picture of how many T-shirts you wish to sell, and how much you’re about to earn.

As your intermediate, the platform will process pre-orders to examine the interest in your product, and then manufacture, sell, and deliver T-shirts on your behalf. The customers will only be charged when you’ve reached your goal, and you will get to keep all the profits you’ve made. It sounds amazing, doesn’t it?

The Tee Springs platform offers three options for its users:

• No-design and plain white T-shirts for $5.75
• White T-shirts with artistic imprints for $7.67
• T-shirts with original designs and similar quality for $13.75

The goal you have to reach is related to the price you’ve appointed. If you wish to sell T-shirts online for $12 with a goal set to 50 pieces, you’ll be getting $4.33 per shirt. In total, you’ll receive $229. Basically, the more you sell, the more you will be earning.

Tee Springs doesn’t impose limitations on prices, but recommends retailers to keep the range between $15 and $20 per piece.  It distributes payments exclusively via PayPal.

Zazzle

Zazzle was not created as a crowdfunding project, but rather an online marketplace. This means that you can jump on selling T-shirts online as soon as you make an account, unlike Tee Springs where you needed to advertise T-shirts until you get enough orders.

There are two types of accounts on Zazzle – designers and associates. If you’re an associate, your role is to promote products that are already there. You’d be earning 15% of each sale, plus bonuses for large volume sales.

Selling as an associate means you promote products that are already for sale on Zazzle, doing so can earn you 15% per sale and bonuses depending on volume sold.

If you love t-shirt design but hate the boring job of having to fulfill orders, complaints, returns, a website and so on then selling on Zazzle as a designer, could help. All you do is design things.

After you’ve set the margin, you should pick a royalty rate between 5% and 99%. The platform helps you earn this in several ways, including increasing the price of your product. Basically, the retail price will comprise of the base price and the royalty percentage you’ve set.

Yet, there are a number of other variables you should have in mind. For example, you can sell a simply designed T-shirt for $19.95, on the basis of which you can decide which the royalty rate will be.

With a rate of 20%, for instance, the T-shirt will cost $23.95, and your profit will be $4.55 per piece (after they’ve deducted a 24 cent transaction fee). Note that the transaction fee only applies for royalty rates higher than 20%.

Plus, T-shirts are not the only thing you can sell on Zazzle. People go there to buy pillows, office supplies, mugs, electronic accessories, and even jewelry!

Spreadshirt

Spreadshirt is an all-in-one website where you can design, promote, and sell your shirts (or accessories). Basically, it enables you to set up and run an online store, or share products on leading online marketplaces. The commissions depend entirely on you, which means that you get to keep the margin.

Besides, selling is not the only way to earn money on Spreadshirt. You can also work as a designer and customize a number of products to be sold on the platform. Once again, you get to decide how much you will be paid.

Let us explain to you how it works. You wish to sell a simple T-shirt and earn $14.20 for it, but if you do some design work ($4.50 per piece), you’ll get to sell it for $18.70. Here you’ll need to tack on the commission (according to your expectations), which should, as we recommend, be modest to keep your work competitive. The average commission would be $4.00, which will make the starting price go up to $22.70. In other words, you’ll profit of exactly $200.

Cafepress

Cafepress is another popular marketplace that offers several possibilities to earn money. To start with, you can create designs for T-shirts, posters, hoodies, mugs, and more; or set up a well-branded online store to sell a variety of products. Such a service will cost you between $5 and $10 per month, according to the package you’ve chosen.

Cafepress also has a crowdfunded platform (Tfund) where people sell custom apparel pieces. The difference is that here you won’t have any upfront costs 9 you should only design your product, define your goals, and get the campaign running.

TeePublic

TeePublic is an online marketplace for creative designs that offers the advantage of not having to deal with printing or shipping issues. It focuses on sales more than it does on design, and it, therefore, targets mainly marketers and vendors with advertising experience.

The disadvantage, however, is that you don’t get to set your own prices. The commissions there are either fixed, or dependent on the price you’ve chosen.

Each product you upload there is promoted for 72 hours, and you get a royalty between $2 and $4 for each piece sold. More precisely, the royalty depends on the type of product you’re selling.

Once these 72 hours have passed, it increases to $9 per piece.

Designers will find this platform very attractive, as they only need to upload designs as PNG files, and without a background that could cause printing complications. The design should have a minimum of 150 DPI, dimensioned at 1500 x 1996 pixels. In this aspect, TeePublic is very beginner-friendly, as it offers a detailed guide on designing and printing methods. It will also advise you on the colors you should use (their graphics are displayed in hex codes), and show diagrams on the printing of your garment.

After a while, you get the status of a Partner who can run its own store, and feature works from other participating artists. As it is in actual stores, you decide what to display and to sell.

The commission for your designs is very generous (31%), while the one for existing designs is 11%. This is why this platform benefits both designers and merchants.

To get your money, you will need a PayPal account.

Red Bubble

RedBubble is a global and very popular marketplace for creative designers. It has a very advanced design kit for preparing T-shirts, posters, device cases, vinyl stickers, and other products. In short, there is no prep work to be done, and you still get the most of your artistic skills at a price you’ve chosen.

The average commission rate is 20%, which means you’re likely to earn $3 to $10 depending on what you’re selling. With a base price of $20 and a markup of 10% of the base rate, each T-shirt will bring you $2.  This may not sound wonderful, but it makes perfect sense when you think that there are no upfront costs or monthly fees.

Payments are made via PayPal, on monthly basis.

Threadless

Your only role at Threadless will be to create art, and they will take care of everything else. With their help, you can run an actual artistic shop to send your designs worldwide, and all you’ll be paying for is the manufacturing and shipping of the product. Deduct this base price, and add the profit margin, and you’ll get a clear overview of your future profits.

If we supposed that a T-shirt on Threadless costs $15, and you’ve put a $10 markup, you’ll actually get to keep those $10 as profit. The production, shipping, and assistance will be handled entirely by Threadless, which btw doesn’t impose any sales goals you should reach.

Design by Humans

Visiting Design by Humans, customers can shop for a variety of products other than T-shirts. For instance, they can get a beautiful poster, phone case, or wall art.

What they’re known for is simplicity. You can start selling as soon as you open your account, but only as long as you accept the membership in their DBH community.

Yet, Design by Humans is among those marketplaces where you can’t set custom rates. Their commissions are fixed to $3 profit per T-shirt, but they’re dealing with all shipping issues.

They will transfer you the money once in two months, normally on the first business day.

Printful

Printful is design-exclusive, and that’s what makes it so popular. Thus, it doesn’t let you run a store, but asks you to connect a store from other marketplaces to display your T-shirts there instead.

On the plus side, it is flawlessly integrated with Shopify, Bigcommerce, WooCommerce, Tictail, Big Cartel, and many similar providers. If you don’t own an online store, however, you can make new designs and sell them across the platform.

Printful doesn’t charge for your designing work. It only charges for fulfillment, where it redacts the full price. If the shipping of a $40 product costs $20, for instance, you will earn $20. Note that the fulfillment costs also involve your own branding, packing, and delivery.

Lastly, if you get tired of designing T-shirts, you can always switch to pillows, posters, cell phone cases, leggings, or other similar products.

NeatoShop

NeatoShop is a much-respected platform of this kind, and for a good reason. They feature only top-notch designs and unique pieces, and they will require you to prove your artistic history to sign up for an artistic account.

As a result, you will only get there when they approve tour works. The other option you’ve got is to apply as an affiliate who will promote and sell.

It turns out that NeatoShop is the most difficult T-shirt selling platform to get on, but it is totally worth the efforts. The royalties are not that different than the ones on other sites ($3 per shirt as regular profit; and $2 per shirt during sale periods).

Tostadora

Tostadora specializes primarily in the European market, and you can use it to sell products in Spain, France, Italy, or the UK. Nonetheless, this doesn’t exclude the possibility to run a legitimate business in the UK.

Why Tostadora? With it, you get to build an online shop free-of-cost, and sell art on multiple different products while setting your own rates. Most merchants choose to design T-shirts, tote bags, phone cases, and hoodies. As we mentioned before, there is no commission.

The base price, however, is already decided on. Tostadora charges you the costs of fulfilling your orders. If you add a markup on the base price, you’ll see what you’ll be earning.

As an example, a simple, yet designed T-shirt costs exactly $19.99. The price you’ve set for customers is #23.99. The profit for you is $4.

The company pays quarterly. Their team assembles the commissions you’ve earned all along, and transfers them either to PayPal or to your local bank accounts. Amounts smaller than $10 will not be transferred.

The TShirt Mill

T-Shirt Mill also lets you create and run an online shop. Their stores are fully equipped with shopping carts, user-friendly design templates, traffic analytics, and impeccable integration with social media and leading marketplaces. The usual way to go on T-Shirt Mill is to sell diverse products, but the platform awards 10% discount from the wholesale rates to those selling their own works.

The prices are up to you, and income is delivered per sale/month, on PayPal accounts.

SunFrog

SunFrog reminds of TeeSpring in many ways, including the need to run a campaign before you start selling. Yet, it jumps on completing your orders as soon as you’ve made your first sale.

With SunFrog, you can earn by creating and selling your own designs, or affiliating with other designers. If you sell, you get to choose the price, but you have to do so in the range between $19 and $35 per piece.

The commission you can earn goes up to 65%, and the lowest payout possible is $50 (via wire transfers or PayPal). SunFrog lacks many of the upsides of Zazzle, TeeSprings, or Spreadshirt, as you can only design T-shirts and hoodies.

Skreened

Skreened is a free-to-join site that lets you run an online store. You decide on the commission, but with a cap of $10 per piece.

The site will also recommend you to sell at a price of $4. This is so because of their Marketplace Optimization Adjustment – if the commission is higher than $4, it will affect the amount you’re earning.

Note that you can only get paid 60 days after the purchase, and that’s why many vendors and designers skip this platform.

Print All Over Me

There are 3 membership plans to choose from: The PAOM Standard (free of charge), the PAOM Plus ($15 per month), and the PAOM Pro ($20/month with setup fees). The commission in the free plan is fixed to 20% per deal, but as you upgrade you can choose it yourself.

Society 6

Society 6 verifies its users before they start selling. There is a one-step process of confirming your identity on PayPal, and charging $1.

On S6 you can pick prices for each of your prints, but not the final products to be sold. The price for T-shirts, pillows, and travel mugs is already fixed, and depends on the product. This means that a $6 deal brings you $2.4 royalty ($4.2 for hoodies).

Print Aura

What Print Aura does is to apply your design on multiple products and sell those to clients using your brand. Their offer range is wide, and covers T-shirts, mugs, aprons, phone cases, pillows, posters, and many other products.

What Print Aura is often praised for is its integration with popular marketplaces, among which WooCommerce, Shopify, and Etsy, to name a few. You won’t have to pay a membership fee or to wait for your products to be approved – open an account, and you’re ready to go!

Instaprints

What Instaprints does is to let you monetize the pictures you’ve posted on Instagram. All you have to do is to upload your designs on your account, and link them to the platform. Next thing you know, they’re actual physical prints people are wearing on their T-Shirts!

These images could be sold for a variety of items, including T-shirts, pillows, and phone cases. The price is in your hands, as Instaprints only charges the materials it needs to actually produce these items.

Speaking of, a print that costs $25 but requires $10 to make imposes a selling price of $35. This puts your earnings somewhere between $5 and $50 per piece.

Payments are received via PayPal, and issued on the 15^th of each month for all orders handled in their period. The shipping works are covered by Instaprint.

Gear Bubble

The only thing Gear Bubble expects from designers is to sell their original work. If you want to get there, but you don’t have the necessary skills, you can consider hiring a professional to get the job done.

To let you sell, Gear Bubble will require a flat fee per product. The fee is included in the base price they’ve set for your design.

Other than that, you won’t have to pay any other fee or margin percentage. If you want to earn more, you can consider designing prints for sweatshirts, phone cases, mugs, or hoodies.

Payments are released per deal, usually in a period of 14 business days.

PrintMojo

PrintMojo doesn’t limit your creativity. Instead, it inspires you to bring in embroidered images and screen-printed designs for all sorts of products. You can order these products from them (on a wholesale price), as long as you order 25 pieces at a time.

Payments are sent monthly, including the amount you paid to order pieces for designing. Still, PrintMojo will for sure deduct a fixed fulfillment fee for each order, just to cover the expenses of packing and delivering your products.

Logo Sportswear

Logo Sportswear functions like any other T-shirt vending platform, but focuses primarily on sportswear and jerseys. Their website offers over 13,000 designs to choose from, and also gives you the option to design something of your own. Your commission rate will equal 15%.

The company assumes full responsibility of how your customers are billed, and how your products are delivered to them. Other than that, the platform is absolutely free to use.

Blue Cotton

Here’s another campaigning platform where you actually can’t run an online store. Despite of it, Blue Cotton makes itself responsible for shipping and distributing products, and does it without any additional charges.

How to use it? Design a great T-Shirt, choose a price for it, write a description, and think of how much you want to sell. Share the branded page on as many social channels as possible (social media, websites, blogs, emails, and so on), and reap your profits on your PayPal account.

CustomCat

CustomCat is a very professional marketplace, and you will see that as soon as you join them. They promote selling and on-demand products, and they assist you with creative ideas when you’re stuck.

The design of your store is none of their business – they only produce and ship what you’ve got to sale, and let you earn what you want to earn. End customers are also very satisfied, as they receive their orders in less than a week.

Thanks to their flexible API, you can choose the prices you want, and sell on many different marketplaces at once.

Together with T-shirts, you can apply your designs on jackets, bags, polo shirts, and more, which widens the audience you’re selling too.

The distinctive advantage of CustomCat is that its prices cannot be defeated. There is even a 14-days trial you can use to check the effectiveness of their work. Yet, if you want to use their app, it will cost you 30 bucks each month.

How much can you earn? Shirts on CustomCat are priced $13.99, shipping costs included. If your print item costs somewhere between $25 and $30, the profit per shirt will be incredible $11 to $16 per piece! Plus, the platform awards you a net profit of $80 after every 10^th shirt you’ve sold. Isn’t that just incredible?

SellMyTees

SellyTees is best known for understanding designers and their needs. Their ‘Design Studio’ tool is just awesome, and it can safely replace conventional graphic software at no cost.

Creating your designs on SellMyTees is free. When it comes to selling, you can either pick the starter Bronze package (free), or update to Silver ($19 per month) or Gold ($79per month), depending on the number of products you intend to sell. The profits will depend on the price of your design.

Ending thoughts on where to sell T-Shirts online

We sincerely hope that our guide on How to sell T-Shirts online helped you shape up your project. Now it is your turn to join any of these great platforms, and to start earning!

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