How print on demand actually works, in plain numbers, before you sign up.
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Design t-shirts.
We list, sell & ship.
You get paid.
Submit a t-shirt design. We create the listings, print it, ship it to customers, and handle all the customer service. You earn up to 50% of the profit on every sale. It costs you nothing.
The more you design, the more you earn
One design = a coffee. Many designs = real money. Every month. While you sleep.
5 designs selling
~$135 / mo
20 designs selling
~$535 / mo
50 designs selling
~$1,335 / mo
* Tier 1 average of ~$3.34/sale (our own website $4.85 + Amazon $3.05 + Etsy $2.82 + TikTok $2.64 ÷ 4), on a Comfort Colors tee. Assumes each design averages 2 sales per channel per month, so 8 a month in total. These are illustrations, not a forecast. Plenty of designs sell less. Some sell nothing at all.
Real Example: A shirt sells for $21.99 on our own website
Our own storefront, so no marketplace takes a referral fee. The same shirt pays you $3.05 on Amazon and $2.64 on TikTok Shop.
| Customer pays (shirt + shipping at cost) | + $26.74 |
| Printing + shipping | - $15.62 |
| Card processing (3.49% + $0.49) | - $1.42 |
| Profit | $9.70 |
| Your cut (50%) | $4.85 |
Three steps. That’s it.
$0 to sign up • $0 to submit • $0 if it never sells • You only earn, never owe
We will never ask you for your credit card. Why would we? We pay you.
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What we actually do for you
You bring the creativity. We bring everything else.
Optimized Listings
We write SEO-optimized titles, tags, and descriptions using a rated and intricate keyword evaluation process. Your design gets maximum exposure across all marketplaces.
Proven Mockups
Professional mockup templates tested and proven to convert browsers into buyers. We may also refine your design (fonts, layout, colors) to maximize its sales potential.
Trademark, Copyright & Copycat Protection
Every design is screened for trademark conflicts and its title wording is searched on Etsy before it goes live. Once it is live we keep watching Etsy for listings that reuse that wording and record the dates that prove your listing came first, so we can ask Etsy to take a copy down.
Quality Gatekeeping
Not everything gets approved. We curate what goes live to maintain the quality and reputation that drives sales for everyone.
Multiple Marketplaces, One Submission
We sell on our own brand websites, Amazon, Etsy and TikTok Shop, and we are always growing. Your design can reach shoppers across multiple storefronts with a single submission.
Full Operations
Printing, shipping, customer service, returns, refunds. All handled. You never touch a box or answer a customer email.
More effort = bigger share
Pick the tier that fits you. All tiers are free to submit.
No Image Needed!
Tier 2
Just an Idea / Description
25%
of the profit per sale
How that compares to uploading alone
Most print-on-demand platforms give partners a small slice of a thin margin, and still expect you to run your own marketing, SEO, and customer service. Here is what the numbers actually look like.
| If you upload it yourself to… | Typical partner cut | Who does the work |
|---|---|---|
| Society6 | ~10% | You do |
| Amazon Merch on Demand | ~13% | You do |
| Redbubble (default markup) | ~20% | You do |
| Hand it to YourOtherJob | up to 50%of the net profit | We do |
Royalty figures based on each platform's publicly documented default payout structure. Redbubble uses a seller-set markup; 20% is the platform default. Amazon Merch varies by list price (roughly 10–13%).
Going solo on a POD site
Platforms like Redbubble and Society6 are wide open, which sounds great until you realize it means you are competing with millions of other uploads for the same eyeballs. A small royalty on a sale you never make is still zero.
You still need to create your own mockups, write your own SEO, and drive your own traffic. The low royalty is the easy part. Getting a sale in the first place is the hard part.
Partnering with YourOtherJob
We are a different model. We take your design, build the mockups, write the SEO, list it on our own brand websites and across Amazon, Etsy and TikTok Shop, and actively market it. Our own storefronts carry the biggest margin of all, because no marketplace takes a referral fee out of them, and we split that bigger profit with you.
You keep up to 50% of the net profit, and we do the business side you did not sign up to run.
The honest version
We are not trying to out-Redbubble Redbubble. Those are open uploader marketplaces. We are a done-for-you partnership for partners who want their work selling across real storefronts without running a whole business. If you enjoy managing shops, tuning ads, and chasing algorithms, go solo. If you would rather just design, that is exactly what we built this for.
Why not just do it yourself?
You can, and we encourage you to, so you can see what it really takes to sell Print On Demand (POD) products. Here is what that actually looks like.
Going Solo
What it takes to sell on your own
- Etsy shop setup + $0.20 listing fee every 4 months per listing
- Printify or Printful account setup and management
- SEO research tools ($30-$100/month)
- Professional mockup templates ($50-$200)
- Trademark search services ($50-$200 per design)
- Ad spend: Etsy Ads, Google, social media
- Hours writing optimized titles, descriptions, and tags
- Customer service, returns, reviews, and disputes
- Keeping up with algorithm changes across 3 platforms
Hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours before your first sale. Most people who try it never make one.
With YourOtherJob
What you actually need to do
- $0 cost. Zero. Ever.
- SEO, keywords, and listing optimization: handled
- Professional mockups: handled
- Trademark screening + quarterly monitoring: handled
- Printing, shipping, customer service: handled
- Multiple storefronts, always growing: handled
- Your only job: design and share
This is a partnership. We invest our time, money, and expertise. You invest your creativity. When it sells, we both win.
Your design does not just sit there
Listing a design is the start of the work, not the end of it. Every listing we publish gets watched, measured and reworked until it is positioned correctly. Here is a glimpse of what that looks like on our side.
4Just listed
7Not getting seen
1Rested
6Getting views
3Being saved
2Selling
1Scaling
Sample view. These numbers are an illustration, not live data.
We follow the numbers, not opinions
Every listing is tracked on every marketplace it reaches. A design nobody is seeing has a very different problem from one people look at and do not buy, and the two need opposite fixes.
When a listing is invisible, we rewrite it
New title, new keywords, a different lead image. It goes back out and we watch it again. A design gets several attempts before we accept the answer, because most listings that quietly fail were never really tested.
What sells earns more of our attention
Once a design starts selling it moves down the funnel and shapes what we build next, including new variations of your own work.
An example of one pass
A listing goes live and picks up 9 views in its first few weeks. → Title and keywords rewritten, new lead image. → Next few weeks: 118 views, 4 saves, and a first sale.
You do not have to do any of this
There is nothing here for you to run, read or approve. No reports to check, no settings to tune, no decisions to make. You submit a design and get paid when it sells. This is simply our half of the deal.
Test Flights: how a design gets its shot
Putting a design on a marketplace is the easy part. Getting it found is a job, and it is the job most shops never learn: they list one design, it sinks, and they cannot tell whether the artwork was wrong, the words were wrong, or nobody was ever searching for it in the first place. So we do not list a design and hope. Every design goes out on a test flight.
Every design we list goes through the same five steps, in this order.
We start with a shopper, not a slogan. Every design we make is aimed at somebody specific who has a reason to buy today.
Before anything is drawn, we check that shoppers are actually buying on that search - not just looking. Plenty of popular searches sell nothing, and that is where most new shops lose their first year.
We put one design out and wait to see how it does before making nine more like it. Getting that order wrong is the expensive mistake, and it is the one almost everybody makes.
Your design goes out alongside a group aimed at the same shopper, each on its own search term so they never compete with each other. One design on its own tells you nothing; a group tells you something.
Then we leave them alone for a few weeks - no fiddling, because changing things halfway means you learn nothing - and judge the whole group at once. If one takes off, we build on it.
Why a group and not one listing
A single listing cannot tell you much. It either sells or it does not, and neither answer says why. A group aimed at one shopper can: when nine designs go quiet and one takes off, the winner tells us who the shopper is and what they respond to.
And it keeps paying
When one of your designs finds its shopper, we build more versions around it. Other colours, other wordings, other garments. Every one of those is still your design earning your same share, and you do not submit again.
What it costs you
Nothing, and no extra work. You send the design. We do the shopper research, the search terms, the photography, the listing and everything after it. If a design does not find its shopper, that is our time spent, not yours.
Want it to sell faster? Share it.
Once your design is live, you get direct links to your product on our own website and on every marketplace it reaches. Post them on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, group chats, anywhere.
The more people see it, the more it sells. You become the marketing, and you are already connected to the people who would buy it.
You know your audience better than any algorithm.
Post your link → Friend buys → You earn
Every sale from your link earns you the same profit share. No referral codes. No extra steps. Just share the link.
One idea. An entire product line.
When your design is approved, our team may refine it to make it more sellable. That could mean adjusting fonts, tweaking colors, or improving the layout. We may also create variations: different wording, color schemes, or alternate treatments inspired by your original concept.
Every variation is tied to your original submission, and you earn the same profit share percentage on every sale of your original design and every variation created from it.
More variations means more products, more chances to sell, and more earnings for you.
How it works:
You submit your original design
We approve it and list it on all marketplaces
Our team may refine your design and create variations
You earn on every sale of every variation, same % as your original
"I built this because creative people should not have to become SEO experts, marketing specialists, or logistics managers just to earn money from their ideas. This is a partnership. We handle the business, you bring the creativity."
Elie, Founder, YourOtherJob
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How this actually works, in plain numbers.
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