If you’ve got an audience on YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok and you want to sell merch without touching inventory, Teespring (now called Spring) is built specifically for you. Unlike Printful or Printify, which are suppliers you bolt onto your own store, Spring is a creator-first platform with social-commerce baked in. You design, set prices, and sell directly from your social profiles, and Spring handles production, shipping, payment, and customer support.
The trade-off is a smaller product catalog and less control than a full storefront gives you. For a creator monetizing an audience, that’s usually a fine trade. For a pure POD seller chasing the widest product range, it’s a limitation. Here’s how Spring works in 2026 and who it’s right for.
Teespring Is Now Spring
First, the name. Teespring rebranded to Spring (sometimes “Spring by Amaze”). It’s the same lineage, refocused on creators and social selling. If you see both names used interchangeably, they’re the same platform. The 2026 version leans even harder into multi-channel and social-commerce features.
How Spring Works
Spring lets you create designs, publish them to a hosted storefront, and sell through your Spring page or directly from connected social profiles and link-in-bio tools. There are no upfront costs and no inventory.
The flow is simple: you set up products, pick a selling price, and market them to your audience. When someone orders, Spring manufactures on demand, ships, processes the payment, and handles customer service. You don’t touch any of the fulfillment.
The defining feature is social integration. Spring connects to platforms like YouTube, Instagram, and Linktree so your merch shows up where your audience already is. For a creator, that frictionless path from content to checkout is the whole point.
Fees and How You Get Paid
Spring is free to use, with no monthly subscription. The model is base-cost-plus-margin:
- Every product has a fixed base cost, the amount Spring charges for production (including their service).
- You set a selling price above that base cost.
- When an item sells, Spring keeps the base cost and you keep the difference as profit.
Spring takes its cut through that base cost and a commission that varies by product category and pricing. There can also be transaction and shipping fees depending on the order. So your profit per item is simply your retail price minus the base cost.
There’s a useful wrinkle for sellers with momentum: volume-based discounts. Hit certain monthly sales thresholds and your base prices drop the following month, which directly increases your margin. The more you sell, the cheaper your production gets, a real incentive to scale rather than coast.
Product Catalog
Spring’s catalog is deliberately focused, not exhaustive. It centers on the merch creators actually sell:
- Apparel: t-shirts (multiple styles), hoodies, sweatshirts, tank tops, leggings.
- Accessories: tote bags, socks, and similar.
- Home decor: posters, canvas prints, pillows.
- Small items: stickers, mugs.
In total it’s on the order of a few dozen base product types, which with color and size variants works out to roughly 150-200 SKUs. That’s plenty for a creator selling branded merch to fans, but narrow compared to a marketplace like Zazzle or a broad supplier like Printful. If your strategy depends on hundreds of distinct product types, Spring isn’t the platform for that.
Who Spring Is Best For
Spring is strongest for:
- Creators with an existing audience who want merch to flow naturally from their content.
- Social-first sellers who’d rather sell through Instagram, YouTube, and link-in-bio than run a standalone store.
- Anyone who wants zero upfront cost and zero fulfillment work and doesn’t need a huge catalog.
Spring is weaker for sellers who want maximum product variety, full storefront control, or the lowest possible base costs. If that’s you, a supplier-plus-store setup may fit better. Our Printful vs Printify vs CustomCat comparison covers that route.
Scaling Merch on Spring
Because Spring rewards volume with lower base prices, growing your catalog and sales has a compounding benefit: more sales lower your production cost, which raises your margin on every future order. That makes scaling especially worthwhile here.
But scaling means launching more designs across Spring’s products, and if you’re also selling the same designs on other platforms (which you should, since Spring is non-exclusive), the listing work multiplies fast. Manually publishing every design to every product across every channel is where creators lose hours that should go into content.
That’s the part to automate. Once your Spring store is converting, PODtomatic handles bulk design upload and listing across platforms so you can grow your merch line without turning into a full-time uploader. For a wider view of building an automated, multi-channel POD workflow, see our print on demand automation guide.
Don’t Limit Yourself to One Platform
Spring is excellent for selling to your existing audience, but the same designs can also reach buyers who’ve never heard of you. Cross-list your merch onto marketplaces like TeePublic, Redbubble, and Amazon Merch on Demand to capture search-driven demand on top of your audience-driven sales. Spring covers your fans; marketplaces cover the strangers searching for what you make.
Getting Started This Week
- Create a free Spring account, no subscription, no inventory.
- Set up 5-10 products with your designs and price each above its base cost.
- Connect your social profiles and link-in-bio so merch appears where your audience is.
- Promote to your existing audience first, that’s Spring’s biggest advantage.
- Track sales toward volume thresholds that lower your base costs next month.
Spring turns an audience into revenue with almost no overhead. The sellers who do best treat it as one channel and keep production costs dropping by driving volume.
When you’re ready to scale your merch line and cross-list across platforms without the manual grind, PODtomatic automates the upload-and-list work so growth stays fun instead of tedious. Automate and scale your POD business →
FAQ
Is Teespring the same as Spring?
Yes. Teespring rebranded to Spring (also seen as “Spring by Amaze”). It’s the same platform with the same lineage, now refocused on creators and social commerce. The names are used interchangeably.
Does Spring charge any fees?
Spring is free to use with no monthly subscription. It makes money through each product’s fixed base cost plus a commission that varies by category and pricing. You set the selling price; your profit is the retail price minus the base cost. Transaction and shipping fees may also apply per order.
How do volume discounts work on Spring?
Spring offers volume-based discounts: when you hit certain monthly sales thresholds, your base production prices drop the following month. Lower base costs mean higher margin on every future sale, which rewards sellers who scale their volume.
How big is Spring’s product catalog?
Spring’s catalog is focused on creator merch, roughly a few dozen base product types (apparel, accessories, home decor, stickers, mugs), which works out to about 150-200 SKUs with variants. It’s narrower than broad suppliers like Printful or marketplaces like Zazzle.
Who should use Spring for print on demand?
Spring is best for creators with an existing audience on YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok who want to sell merch directly through social channels with zero upfront cost or fulfillment work. Sellers who need maximum product variety or full storefront control may prefer a supplier-plus-store setup.
