Quick Answer: Printify charges three fees and only three: a subscription fee (Free, Premium, or Enterprise), a per-order base product fee, and a shipping fee. That’s the entire invoice from Printify.
What Printify does not charge is the thing that confuses most new sellers. No commission. No listing fee. No transaction fee. No payment processing cut. The retail spread between your base cost and your sale price is 100% yours, before your storefront takes its share.
This guide walks each fee line by line, the February 2026 Premium price change, and the fees that look like Printify fees on your P&L but actually come from somewhere else.
The Three Printify Fees You Actually Pay
Printify’s fee structure is shorter than most pricing pages make it look.
There are three line items, and one of them is optional:
- Subscription fee — $0 (Free), $39/month or $24.99/month annual (Premium), or custom (Enterprise). Optional in the sense that Free is a real, indefinite plan.
- Per-order base product fee — the wholesale cost of the item Printify ships, charged only when a customer orders.
- Shipping fee — per-order, scales with item count and destination.
Everything else on your Printify invoice is one of those three things. There is no fourth line.
That simplicity is the actual selling point of the platform. Other costs hit your POD business hard, but they hit from your storefront, your ad accounts, or your tax filings — not from Printify.
Fee 1: The Subscription
The subscription is a flat monthly fee for access to Printify’s catalog, design tools, and store integrations. Three tiers in 2026:
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (per month) | Product discount | Stores |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | None | 5 |
| Premium | $39 | $24.99 ($299/yr) | Up to 20% (33% on select) | 10 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Negotiated, deeper | Unlimited |
Free is a real plan. No card required, no trial timer, no feature degradation that forces you to upgrade. You can run a real store on it indefinitely — Printify only charges when an order comes in.
Premium is the working seller’s plan. The fee buys a product discount that bites every base cost on every order. At any real volume, the discount pays for the subscription several times over.
Enterprise is a sales-quoted tier built around volume. You contact Printify, share your monthly order count, and they build a quote with deeper discounts and a dedicated account manager. Most sellers don’t need it until they’re consistently moving hundreds of units a month.
Compare the line items in detail in our Printify monthly cost breakdown, which itemizes what each plan changes per order.
Fee 2: The Per-Order Base Product
This is the wholesale cost of the physical item. Printify pays the print provider that fulfills your order; you pay Printify.
Base fees vary by product, provider, and plan. A few 2026 reference points across the most-ordered SKUs:
| Product | Free plan | Premium | Premium saves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bella+Canvas 3001 tee (US) | $11.68 | $9.34 | $2.34 |
| Gildan 18000 hoodie (US) | $23.95 | $19.16 | $4.79 |
| 11oz white mug | $7.95 | $6.36 | $1.59 |
| 16x20 canvas poster | $24.99 | $19.99 | $5.00 |
The variable most sellers miss: the same SKU costs different amounts across different print providers. A Bella+Canvas 3001 tee from one provider might run $9.34. The exact same garment from a different provider in the Printify catalog might run $11.20. Same Printify, same product, different supplier underneath.
That spread is real money. At 200 orders/month on one bestseller, swapping providers can shave $200–$600 off the monthly base fee without changing anything else.
Mug sellers in particular feel this — our Printify mug base cost breakdown walks through the spread on the 11oz and 15oz SKUs across Printify’s top mug providers.
Fee 3: Shipping
Shipping is the third Printify fee, charged per order based on the provider, the destination, and how many items are in the package.
2026 reference ranges:
- US first item: $3.99–$7.99 (apparel), $4.99–$8.99 (mugs and home goods).
- US additional items: $1.99–$3.99 each.
- International first item: $8–$18 depending on country and product class.
- EU local fulfillment: roughly US-to-US rates when you route to a EU provider.
- Australia local fulfillment: similar discount when an AU provider is configured.
Shipping is where international orders quietly destroy margin. A tee that lands at $14.33 on a US-to-US order can land at $23–$27 on a US-to-UK order from the same provider. Nine dollars of fee, on the same garment, because of routing.
The fix is geographic provider routing. Configure EU and AU providers for those regions and Printify automatically fulfills locally instead of shipping internationally. The setup is one-time; the savings compound over every international order after that.
Fees Printify Doesn’t Charge
The fees most new sellers worry about don’t exist on Printify.
No commission. Printify does not take a percentage of your retail price. Sell a $24.99 tee, Printify charges you $9.34 base + $4.99 shipping = $14.33. Whatever’s left after your storefront’s cut is yours.
No listing fee. Adding products to your Printify catalog costs nothing. You can list 100 designs across 12 product types and Printify doesn’t charge until an order fires.
No transaction fee. Printify doesn’t take a per-sale cut on top of the base cost. Etsy does. Shopify does. Printify doesn’t.
No payment processing fee. Your customer’s payment goes to your storefront, not to Printify. Printify charges your card on file when the order fulfills, separately. There is no Printify-side card processing fee on the customer’s checkout.
No mockup fee. Printify’s mockup generator is free on every plan, including the Free plan — covered in our free mockup generator breakdown. Designs, mockups, and product publishing carry zero per-action fee.
No store-connection fee. Connecting Printify to Etsy, Shopify, eBay, TikTok Shop, WooCommerce, Wix, Square, BigCommerce, or Amazon costs nothing. You pay your storefront’s fees, but Printify itself charges zero for the integration. See our Printify-to-Etsy setup guide and Printify-to-Amazon setup guide for the integration walkthroughs.
The February 2026 Premium Fee Change
On February 17, 2026, Printify raised the Premium monthly subscription from $29 to $39 per month. Annual billing held at $299/year, which works out to $24.99/month effective.
That’s a 34% increase on the monthly fee and zero change on the annual fee.
The practical consequences:
- Monthly Premium now needs about 17 orders/month to break even on the product discount alone, up from about 12.
- Annual Premium still breaks even around 10–11 orders/month, unchanged.
- The spread between monthly and annual jumped to $14/month. That makes annual the obvious pick for any seller doing real volume.
If you’re currently on monthly Premium and your store is consistently above 17 orders/month, the math still favors staying on Premium. Below that, drop to Free until volume picks up.
For the underlying rationale and Printify’s communication around the change, MyDesigns’s 2026 pricing change writeup covers the back-and-forth.
When Premium Pays for Itself
The fee that looks like a cost is actually the fee that buys a discount. Premium charges you to pay less per order.
The break-even math, using the Bella+Canvas 3001 tee as the reference SKU:
- Free plan base: $11.68 per tee.
- Premium plan base: $9.34 per tee.
- Premium discount: $2.34 per tee.
To cover the monthly Premium fee of $39, you need $39 ÷ $2.34 = ~17 tees ordered in a month. To cover the annual-billed Premium fee of $24.99/month, you need ~11 tees.
On higher-priced items the math gets faster. A Gildan 18000 hoodie saves $4.79 per order on Premium — you only need 9 hoodies/month to cover monthly Premium, or 6 hoodies/month to cover annual.
If your store mixes SKUs, the rule of thumb is: at 15+ orders/month across any mix of products, annual Premium pays for itself with margin to spare. Below 10 orders/month, stay on Free.
The lever that breaks this math is the 33% discount tier. On select newer products, Premium gives 33% off instead of 20%. If your bestseller happens to be on the 33% list, Premium pays back faster — sometimes at 4–5 orders/month. Check the product detail page on your Printify catalog before the math.
Printify Fees vs Printful and Gelato
The fee structure is broadly similar across the big-three POD platforms in 2026, but with meaningful differences in where the fee bites.
| Platform | Free plan | Paid tier | Product discount | Per-order commission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Printify | Yes, unlimited | $39/mo or $24.99/mo annual | Up to 20% (33% select) | None |
| Printful | Yes, unlimited | Printful Growth: $24.99/mo (free over $12k/yr) | Up to 20% via Growth | None |
| Gelato | Yes, unlimited | Gelato+ from $24/mo | Up to 30% on some products | None |
All three follow the same pattern: free tier with full base cost, paid tier with a product discount, no per-order commission on either.
The differences show up in the base product fee, not the subscription fee. Printful tends to run higher base costs but bundles in-house production and quality control. Gelato has the broadest international fulfillment network, which often beats Printify on landed cost for non-US orders. Printify generally wins on US base costs for the high-volume apparel SKUs (Bella+Canvas, Gildan, etc.).
For deeper plan-fee comparisons across the platforms with current data, the Chayaani 2026 Printify pricing and fees guide runs the numbers across SKUs.
Fees That Look Like Printify Fees But Aren’t
Most of the “Printify fees” sellers complain about online aren’t Printify fees at all. They’re storefront fees, payment processor fees, or hidden operational costs that show up on the same P&L row.
Etsy fees. Etsy charges $0.20 per listing, 6.5% transaction fee on the order total, and 3% + $0.25 payment processing. On a $24.99 tee with $4.99 shipping, Etsy collects roughly $3.10 per order. That’s an Etsy fee, not a Printify fee.
Shopify fees. Shopify Basic is $39/month plus 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction (lower with Shopify Payments). The plan fee and the per-order processor fee both show up on the same monthly P&L line as Printify charges, but neither comes from Printify.
Sales tax. Printify collects sales tax on the wholesale order it fulfills. The buyer pays this through your retail price. Tax-filing-service fees ($20–$50/month at Avalara, TaxJar, etc.) and your CPA at year-end are operational costs, not Printify fees.
Ad spend. Meta, Google, TikTok ad spend tied to driving Printify sales is the largest non-Printify cost in most POD businesses. It dwarfs every other line on this page and has nothing to do with Printify’s invoice.
Customer-driven returns. Printify reprints defective items for free. Customer returns (wrong size, didn’t like it) are on you — Printify already produced the item, so you eat the base cost plus return shipping. The return cost is a Printify cost in the sense that you can’t recover it; it’s not a Printify fee in the sense that Printify charges nothing extra to process the return.
Sample orders. Quality-checking new designs before listing them costs $9–$15 per sample plus shipping. Printify charges its normal base cost for samples (or a discounted sample rate if you use a sample coupon), but the time and money spent on samples is an operational cost, not a fee.
The point: when you reconcile a slow month and Printify looks expensive, line-item the bill before blaming Printify. Most of the time the leak is somewhere else.
FAQs
Does Printify charge a commission per sale?
No. Printify charges the base product fee plus shipping fee when an order fulfills, and that’s it. There is no per-sale commission, listing fee, or transaction percentage going to Printify.
What’s the cheapest Printify plan?
Free. No subscription fee, no credit card required, no time limit. You pay only when an order fires — the base product cost and shipping. The trade-off is paying full catalog price on every base product instead of the up-to-20% Premium discount.
Is the $39/month Premium fee worth it?
Yes if you’re consistently above 17 orders/month on monthly billing or above 11 orders/month on annual billing. Below those numbers, the product discount doesn’t save more than the subscription fee.
Why are Printify fees different on different products?
Because the per-order base product fee varies by SKU, by print provider, and by plan. The same Bella+Canvas 3001 tee from two different Printify providers can vary 10–20% in base cost, on the same plan, on the same day.
Does Printify charge for returns?
Printify reprints defective items at no fee. Customer-driven returns (wrong size, change of mind) carry no Printify return fee — but Printify already produced the order, so the original base cost plus return shipping is non-recoverable on your side.
Are there Printify fees for connecting a store?
No. Connecting Printify to Etsy, Shopify, eBay, TikTok Shop, WooCommerce, Wix, Square, BigCommerce, or Amazon costs zero. The storefront may have its own subscription or per-listing fees, but Printify doesn’t charge for the integration itself.
Does Printify charge sales tax?
Printify collects sales tax on the wholesale order in jurisdictions where it has nexus. That tax is added to your invoice and ultimately passed through to the end buyer via your retail price. It’s a pass-through, not a Printify margin fee.
What’s the difference between a Printify fee and a Printify cost?
A Printify fee is something Printify charges directly: subscription, base product, shipping. A Printify cost is anything operational that hits your margin because you use Printify but doesn’t come from a Printify invoice — samples, returns, design tools, reconciliation time. For the full cost stack, see the Printify costs and charges hub and the broader Printify topic hub.
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