Print on demand means a product is only made once someone orders it, so leaving a closing platform is about moving designs, listings and buyers rather than stock. With the old shop shutting, choose between a fulfilment service, a storefront that takes the order, or a creator toolkit, based on where your buyers already find you.
Teespring, renamed Spring, shut its stores and selling tools on 28 October 2026, so every seller there now needs a new home. The right one depends on a single question: do you need someone to print the products, someone to take the order, or both?
Amaze Commerce's own Spring page invites sellers across, but that's one option, not an obligation. The same page is plain that Spring products don't transfer automatically, so whichever route you take, you're rebuilding listings. That's annoying, but it's also a chance to pick a setup that fits how you sell now rather than how you sold when you first signed up.
What the shutdown means in practice
The dates matter. On 28 October 2026 Spring stores stopped taking traffic and new orders, and the listing tools went off with them. The Creator Dashboard was scheduled to close on 5 November 2026, a date Amaze Commerce's update page called tentative. Orders placed before 28 October are still being processed and fulfilled, and the earnings from them stay payable through Spring's payout process.
Your money first. While the dashboard stayed open it was limited to payouts: viewing balances and history, updating your payout account, giving tax information and requesting eligible payouts. Once it closes, sellers with an eligible balance use a separate website to view balances, request payouts and track their status until everything owed has been paid. If you're owed anything, make sure your payout account and tax details are complete there before you spend an evening on a new shop.
Your domain next. If you bought a custom domain through Spring, renewals ran until 28 October, and after that a self-service transfer tool in the Spring Account Center lets you move it to another registrar. Transfers can take several days, and the update page warns that leaving it until the domain is close to expiring could put the registration at risk. Once it's moved, point it at your new shop and every old link to that address works again.
Then your files and links. The advice before the shutdown was to download artwork, product images and listing details. If you did, you're rebuilding from those; if you didn't, you're working from your own originals. Every link that still points at your old shop, in bios, pinned posts, video descriptions and email footers, now leads buyers to a dead end. Fixing those is the most valuable half hour of the whole move, and a short post telling followers where the shop has gone, with one product to look at, gives them a reason to click today.
Three jobs your old shop did at once
A creator merch platform quietly bundled three jobs together, and most replacements only lead with one of them. Knowing which you're buying saves a lot of confusion.
Making and shipping the products. This is fulfilment: the product is printed after someone orders it, then packed and posted. No stock, no garage full of unsold hoodies. Within fulfilment there's a real split. Some services print in their own facilities, so one company owns quality from start to finish. Others are marketplaces that route your order to one of many independent print providers, which gives you choice on price and product range but means you're also choosing a printer each time.
Taking the order. This is the shop: the page, the basket, the checkout and the buyer emails. Fulfilment-only services don't give you one. They plug into a store you already run, Shopify being the usual example. Storefront builders do the opposite, and some offer print on demand as one thing you can sell alongside downloads or subscriptions.
Designing and growing the brand. Design tools, mockup makers and, increasingly, AI features that suggest designs or analyse your audience. Useful, but this is the job that matters least if your designs already sell.
Spring did all three. Very few replacements do, which is why many sellers end up pairing a storefront with a fulfilment service behind it.
Campaign or always-open shop?
There's one more fork that suits creators in particular. A campaign model collects pre-orders over a fixed window, up to 21 days on one service here, and only prints once it closes. If a campaign doesn't sell, you're left with no stock and no bill. That's a strong fit for a one-off drop tied to a video, a tour or an event.
An always-open shop is better for a steady trickle of sales from a following that buys whenever they see you post. Most fulfilment services work this way, printing each order as it lands.
What it costs, broadly
Good news first: almost none of these asks for money up front. Fulfilment services are mostly free to join, and you pay the base product cost plus shipping on each order. Your profit is whatever you charge above that. Optional subscriptions, typically around $25 to $40 a month, buy you discounts on product prices, and they're only worth it once your volume makes the discount bigger than the fee.
Storefront builders charge a monthly plan, starting around $20 and climbing past $100 for higher sales limits, and some add a small transaction fee of around 0.5 to 1 per cent on top. The campaign platform on this list describes itself as free to start with no monthly fees, and the pages I read didn't say what it keeps from each sale, so ask before you price a drop. A few services in this space don't publish pricing on their sites at all, so ask before you build a range around them.
Whichever group you pick, start on the free tier and get orders flowing before you pay for anything monthly. A storefront plan is worth buying once people are buying, not before.
The one-hour check that saves a bad move
Take your best-selling design and the product it sells best on, say a black t-shirt. Open the product pages or pricing calculators of two services from the same group and write down, for each, the base cost and the shipping cost to the country most of your buyers live in. Subtract both from your selling price. If you sell at $28 and one service comes to $13 plus $5 shipping, you keep $10; if the other comes to $11 plus $7, you keep the same $10, and the decision moves on to print quality and delivery time.
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Then order one item from each to your own address. It takes longer than an hour to arrive, but placing the orders doesn't. When they land, compare the print, the fit, the packaging and every email you received as a buyer. If one service is a storefront and the other does the printing, also place a test order through the full chain and check it reaches production, because that handover is where a missing setting can quietly stop orders being made.
One trap while you compare: catalogue size. Two thousand products are no use if your buyers only ever bought tees and mugs from you, so judge each service on the three or four products you sell.
Which type of service suits you
If you already run a store, a fulfilment service that plugs into it is the smallest change. If you want one company accountable for quality, choose in-house production; if you want the widest product range and to compare printers, choose a marketplace. If you sell only to your own followers and don't have a shop, a storefront builder with print on demand built in keeps the path short. For one-off drops, a campaign platform carries no risk. And if sustainability is part of your brand story, there's a service built around exactly that.
Nine places to rebuild
Amaze Commerce
The creator toolkit whose own Spring page invites departing sellers across, built around brand analysis and AI design features as well as selling.
Bonfire
Campaign-style merch: buyers pre-order during a set window and products are printed and shipped after it closes, a natural fit for one-off drops.
Gooten
A fulfilment network that routes each order through production partners across fashion, homeware, drinkware and wall art, then ships it on your behalf.
Merchize
Print on demand fulfilment with a strong lean towards custom t-shirts, plus an optional hosted storefront for sellers without a shop of their own.
Printful
Made-to-order products printed in its own production facilities, for store owners who want one company handling both the making and the shipping.
Printify
A marketplace connecting your designs to dozens of independent print providers, so you choose the printer product by product.
Sellfy
A storefront first: one shop for downloads, subscriptions, physical goods and print on demand items, for creators selling straight to their own audience.
Spreadconnect
Fulfilment that plugs into Shopify and other stores; it's where the old spod.com address now lands, so former SPOD sellers will recognise it.
Teemill
Print on demand software and products with sustainability at the centre of its pitch, aimed at growing businesses of all sizes.
If you only need a printer
Lost your printer but kept a working shop? Then the storefront and toolkit options above aren't for you, and the fulfilment comparison is the one that matters. For a wider look at fulfilment services alone, see my list of more print on demand options.
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