Why Custom Apparel Pricing Doesn't Work Like a Bulk Quote
Flat, per-piece custom apparel pricing, no bulk quotes or minimums, and why it doesn't drop for big orders or rise for small ones.
Bottom line: every price is flat per garment — the same whether you buy one piece or a hundred, regardless of size.
Ask a screen-printing shop for a price and the first question back is usually "how many?" Order 12 and you get one rate, order 200 and you get a better one, and order 1 and the shop may not bother calling you back. That's because screen printing carries real setup cost — burning screens, mixing ink, running a press — and that cost gets divided across however many shirts come off the run. More shirts means each one absorbs less of that setup, so the quote drops as the order grows, and a small order gets stuck covering setup nearly on its own.
AI PromoDesign skips screens entirely, so that math never enters the picture. Every design prints on demand, one garment at a time, through US print-on-demand partners — nothing sits warehoused waiting for a bulk order to justify producing it. With no shared setup cost to spread across more pieces, a bigger order doesn't earn a discount, and a single piece doesn't get penalized for being small. The price on a garment is the price on that garment, whether you're buying one hoodie for yourself or forty for a graduating class. Every current price is posted plainly on /products — no quote request required.
What actually moves the price from one item to the next is the garment, not the quantity. A heavier hoodie costs more than a lighter cotton tee because of fabric weight and added construction — a pouch pocket, drawcord hood, ribbed cuffs. A polo costs more than a tee for similar reasons: a collar, buttons, a different knit. Size doesn't move the price at all — a 3XL costs the same as a small, since neither the shirt nor the print on it gets meaningfully more expensive to produce at a bigger size.
Flat, public pricing also means you can mix garments and sizes freely in one order — youth tees alongside adult hoodies, a run of smalls next to a couple of 3XLs — without recalculating a quote or hitting a minimum, because there isn't one. If you're planning a shirt sale as a fundraiser, that predictability is what makes the per-shirt profit math on /school-fundraiser-shirts easy to pin down: you know your cost per piece before you sell the first one.
Curious what your design would actually cost? Describe it in plain English or upload a logo, and you'll get a real, final price on the exact garment and size before you commit to anything.