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Sell Youtube® merch with Printful and Shopify

Create custom products for your fans and add them to the Youtube® Merch Shelf

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Design 393 products with our free Design Maker

Pin products to your videos and create an interactive shopping experience

Sell your merch with no inventory and no upfront costs

Is the YouTube® Merch Shelf for you?

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YouTube® Shopping allows you to showcase your products and official branded merchandise on YouTube if:

Why sell merchandise on YouTube®

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Add an easy revenue stream for your content

Turn your fanbase into customers. Once you design and add custom Printful products to your YouTube® videos, focus on growing your channel. As soon as a customer buys merch from your YouTube® Store, we’ll automatically fulfill and ship it.

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Connect with your fanbase

Create a stronger bond with your most loyal and engaged subscribers. Whether it’s shirts, hats, posters, or coffee mugs, merch makes your brand a part of people’s lives and lets them show off how much they love your content.

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Promote your YouTube® channel

Increase your brand awareness. Anyone wearing your YouTube® merch will become a walking billboard of your YouTube® channel.

How to sell merch on YouTube® with Shopify and Printful

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Create your Shopify store

Launch your Shopify store and connect it to Printful
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Add Printful products

Customize Printful products and add them to your Shopify store
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Get the Google channel app

Go to the Shopify app store and install the Google channel app
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Connect your YouTube® account

Connect your account under YouTube® Shopping in the Google channel app
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Set up your YouTube® Merch Shelf

Add custom Printful products to your videos on YouTube® in Monetization > Shopping
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Need some inspiration?

Take a look at what other successful YouTubers have created for their YouTube® Merch Stores

Why sell YouTube® merch with Printful?

Order automation

Each of your merch orders will be fulfilled and shipped automatically

No order minimums

Invest more time in your YouTube® content and less in worrying about your orders

High-quality products

Reliable and consistently high-quality products, printing, and embroidery

Reliable fulfillment and shipping times

Get delivery times you can count on—fulfillment usually takes 2–5 days, and we ship orders out in less than 5 days

Round-the-clock customer support

Our customer support team is here to assist you 24/7 with any questions you may have

White-label services

Sell merch with your own custom labels, custom packaging, and pack-ins

Premium quality products

As a full-time YouTube channel, selling merch is only a side business for us and not our top priority. Printful is so amazing and efficient. It allows us to still sell quality merch to our fans but doesn’t take up a ton of time. It’s been super easy to scale up our sales and still keep the focus on what’s important: video! Whenever any issue comes up, it’s handled quickly and efficiently.

As a full-time YouTube channel, selling merch is only a side business for us and not our top priority. Printful is so amazing and efficient. It allows us to still sell quality merch to our fans but doesn’t take up a ton of time. It’s been super easy to scale up our sales and still keep the focus on what’s important: video! Whenever any issue comes up, it’s handled quickly and efficiently.

Premium quality products

As a full-time YouTube channel, selling merch is only a side business for us and not our top priority. Printful is so amazing and efficient. It allows us to still sell quality merch to our fans but doesn’t take up a ton of time. It’s been super easy to scale up our sales and still keep the focus on what’s important: video! Whenever any issue comes up, it’s handled quickly and efficiently.

As a full-time YouTube channel, selling merch is only a side business for us and not our top priority. Printful is so amazing and efficient. It allows us to still sell quality merch to our fans but doesn’t take up a ton of time. It’s been super easy to scale up our sales and still keep the focus on what’s important: video! Whenever any issue comes up, it’s handled quickly and efficiently.

Find out how to get started with Printful + Shopify

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Frequently asked questions

The YouTube® Merch Shelf is a digital carousel that allows eligible creators to showcase their products and official branded merchandise on YouTube®. It displays up to 30 products to your viewers.

With Printful, you can create your own designs with our free Design Maker. Try our clipart, Quick Designs, and text fonts to create crisp print and eye-catching embroidery designs.

To learn more about how the Printful and Shopify integration works—check out our Shopify integration page.

Here’s how to sell custom Printful products on YouTube® using the Shopify integration:

1. Create your Printful account

2. Create your Shopify store and connect your Printful account to it

3. Choose a Printful product and create your YouTube® merchandise using our Design Maker

4. Add your custom merch to your Shopify store

5. Install the Google channel app on your Shopify store 

6. Connect your account under YouTube Shopping in the Google channel app

7. Set up your YouTube® Merch Shelf and add custom merch to your videos on YouTube® Monetization > Shopping

Check the YouTube® Partner Program availability. If your country or region is on the list, you can sell merchandise on YouTube®.

Among other requirements, your YouTube® channel needs to have over 1,000 subscribers to sell merch.

Yes, it is. It’s an excellent way to make more money on YouTube® and build stronger relationships with your fans.

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