Custom T-Shirt Fundraisers & Team Stores

How a team store fundraiser works

Most groups have done the other kind of fundraiser, where somebody buys a case of shirts, guesses the size breakdown, and spends six weeks selling them out of a car trunk. A team store removes that. We host it, take the payments, print, and ship. You share one link.

1. Send us your logo and tell us about your group. We build a short product list that fits what your people will actually wear, instead of dropping them into a wholesale catalog.
2. We put up the store with your logo, your colors, and your group's name on it. No setup fee to launch it, and no minimum number of buyers.
3. You get one link for a newsletter, a group text, or a Facebook post. No paper order forms and no cash envelopes.
4. The store runs for a set window, usually two weeks. Long enough for everyone to see it twice, short enough that nobody puts it off.
5. We close the store, produce the entire run at once, and ship. Your group's 10% is settled after it closes.

All we need to start is a logo file and the name your group wants on the store. If the artwork is a phone photo of a banner, send it anyway and we will tell you honestly whether it holds up on fabric. Nothing prints until you approve a digital proof, and shipping is 3 to 5 business days after production, with expedited 3-day available. The full timeline is on the turnaround guide.

What your group actually keeps

Your group keeps 10% of every sale. That is 10% of what the buyer pays at checkout, not 10% of a margin figured afterward. Here is what that looks like with real prices from our catalog.

Payout details get settled when we set up your store, and we walk you through the pricing so you know what your members pay and what your group earns before it goes live.

If your group would rather take a bigger cut and carry the risk itself, the other route is to buy the run outright at bulk pricing and set your own resale price. That earns more per item, it costs you cash up front, and you keep whatever does not sell. Both models are laid out with the math in custom apparel fundraisers: two models, real profit math.

Who runs these stores

Nonprofits raising money for a program or an event. Booster clubs for football, baseball, cheer, band, and robotics. PTOs and PTAs. Church groups and youth ministries. Rec leagues and travel teams. Alumni associations. Volunteer crews who need matching shirts for one Saturday in October.

Nonprofits in particular usually come to us asking about wholesale t-shirts for a fundraising event and end up with a store instead, because the store solves the part they were actually nervous about, which is what happens to the shirts nobody buys.

• Nonprofits
• Booster clubs
• PTOs and PTAs
• Church and youth groups
• Schools
• Rec and travel teams
• Alumni associations
• Charity events

Bulk apparel for a fundraising event

Sometimes a store is the wrong tool. If you are outfitting sixty volunteers for a 5K on the 14th, you do not want an ordering window, you want a box of shirts on a date. That is a straight bulk order at the same rates. Send the size breakdown, approve the proof, and we ship the run. Plenty of groups do both in a year, bulk ordering the volunteer shirts for the event and opening a store afterward for supporters who saw them.

Minimums and setup fees, in plain numbers

Minimums depend on how the gear gets decorated, not on how big your group is. Everything below is decoration cost on top of the garment, for one print location.

• Screen printing starts at 25 pieces, with a flat $50 screen setup for the run. The print itself is $7.00 a piece from 25 to 49, $5.00 from 50 to 149, and $2.50 at 150 or more.
• Embroidery starts at 3 pieces. There is a one-time $50 digitizing charge to turn your logo into a stitch file, and we keep that file so reorders never pay it again.
• DTF printing starts at 1 piece with no setup fee at all, which is what makes a small store workable.
• Laser engraving starts at 1 piece, covering tumblers and drinkware for raffle items and donor gifts.

Most fundraiser stores land on screen print for the tees and DTF for the odd small-run piece. Full rates and a live estimator are on the pricing guide, and the decoration methods page covers which method suits which garment.

Common questions