Everyone has a T-shirt, so why not sell your own custom designed t-shirts!
In this short guide, we will show you how to start your very own online t-shirt business. As a bonus, you’ll also be able to sell hats, jumpers, phone cases and many more items – all with your designs! What more, is you don’t need to keep stock, the blank items, printing, packaging and posting is all handled for you!
Smart people like yourself, have noticed the rise in popularity of this product and have started thinking about beginning their own T-shirt businesses. Starting an online T-shirt & accessory business is a popular choice for both beginner and veteran online shop owners. As an ecommerce store, T-shirts are cheap to source, have universal appeal, and are relatively simple to customize.
If you’ve been thinking about starting your own online T-shirt business, it’s important that you’re aware that it’s a competitive field in ecommerce. If you want to succeed, you’ll need to make sure that your store stands out from the rest. To ensure this, it’s important that you source high-quality products, have your own T-shirt designs, and build a strong brand image.
This may sound like a daunting process, especially if it’s your first time starting an ecommerce business, but don’t worry — we’re here to help you.
Let’s get started.
Step 1: Online Store
We recommend using WooCommerce running on WordPress for your online store, this is because it integrates automatically and seamlessly with the print and fulfilment company Printful.
We recommend purchasing a low cost and memorable domain name from StredTech and then adding the “Starter” hosting – this includes 5 free email addresses and a SSL certificate to show your online store is secure!
Once you have your domain name and hosting you can install WordPress using our simple guide and straight forward control panel – this should take no more than 5-10 minutes.
Now that WordPress is installed you can add your WooCommerce site (this is the bit that will let you sell your items!)
Step 2: Sign up for Printful
Here is how Printful works
Printful is the service that we will use to custom print out products and ship them out (Sometime called Drop Shipping)
You can sign up to Printful here: Sign up / More information
Step 3: Intergrating Printful with WooCommerce
Now you have your account, its time to integrate WooCommerce with Printful – we have created a post for how to do this here
Step 4: Sell your merchandise!
Thats it! your store is now live and you can begin selling your items.
