finally, a print-on-demand company that isn't trying to screw us over. This is good. Many people have been asking me for this company review, and it's taken me a while, but it's finally here: the full and unfiltered review of Spreadshop. Are they worth your time? And if you use them and you're already happy, you might still want to watch this, as there are some elements of this company that might shock you. First things first, Spreadshop is different to Spreadshirt, but only slightly. Spreadshirt came first in 2002. It's a German company, and Spreadshirt has a Marketplace. So you would upload your designs to Spreadshirt, and then they would be featured on their marketplace, where they get around 1.5 million visitors every single month. And that would all be free organic traffic for people to find your products. It's not a huge amount of traffic, but it's also pretty decent. For now, we're reviewing Spreadshop. This is a platform to replace the likes of Motif and Spring, and this is where you would create your

own store. Add the products to your store and send people directly to your very own store. So you're not on a platform with tons of other competition. It's just your products, your own website. Spreadshop came about in June of 2015. So a good 13 years after Spreadshirt was made. So actually this is quite an old company. And that's a good thing because they have a ton of experience, better connections, and they hopefully know what they're doing. Spreadshop has various different types of printing methods: digital direct, Thermo sublimation, screen printing, polyester print, direct to film transfer print, embroidery, and flex and flock printing. Throughout this video, I will show you actual designs. We'll go through them quality, will put them through the wash test, and we will see if they stand up and they pass the tests. Spreadshop allows you to create a store using their specific products. Once getting a sales, Spreadshot will do all the work. They will print the item, they will package it, they will ship it out to your customer. They'll also hold all the

stock so you don't have to actually pay any money at all, and they'll ship it worldwide, so you're really covered in all areas. You could also integrate spreadshop into your own WordPress website or something like that. Now I'm not going to go over that in this video because it's a very confusing process, and quite frankly, I don't recommend it. Let's now check out their website and see how good it really is. This is their website. It's simple, it's clean, it's user-friendly, it's actually quite nice. I like this little bit here where you can see if you sold 194 t-shirts, you could earn an average. Or, Shoppers earn an average of 1166. You can see for tote bags, for mugs, for hoodies, a face masks. I think that's kind of cool. There's a lot of useful pages, so if we go into the menu, we've got how it works. This I found as probably the most useful page on this website because it breaks the entire thing down for you. Now I'm not going to

go through it in detail because that will just make this video really boring, but it's very in-depth. Now in terms of products, they've got over 200 products in their range. You've got Europe and you've got United States. Over here, t-shirts, hoodies, tanks, sportswear, kids, and babies zip-ups. And then they've got bags, drinkware, and then all of this other stuff. So they've got quite a lot of products. Now, one thing I really, really like about their website is this page where it says shop examples. And this will kind of show you, do you know Brian G Johnson? He's a YouTuber. This will show you different stores. So, for example, let's just click this one. And it'll show you what that store looks like, right? So you've got organic products, men, women, kids, babies, accessories. And these are all of their products. And this is kind of like what the store looks like. It's really, really cool. When we go and have like another one, let's have a look at Brian's, right? You've got this is cool. You can

customize stuff here, and that allows his customers to actually customize his design onto their t-shirt. That's very cool. You've got women like it's got everything right. It's got it all, and everyone has a different style of website, and I'm sure it works for them, but it's nice to see examples of different stores. Another nice element is the pricing. Now, this is free, so this just kind of shows you why it's free, how it's free, and how it actually works, which is really good. And then the last thing that I really like is the selling guide. This is kind of cool because it can actually help you with design tutorials, product activations, brand building, and there's all these little helpful guides throughout that can, you know, really help you further your business. Now, the next thing we would want to do is sign up. So how easy is that process? So if we just click sign up, we put our shop name in email, new password, confirm password. Let's see how long this will take. And here we go right create products set.

up spreadshop. Activate Spreadshop. So, begin guided tour. So, upload your first product. We'll upload this Apple logo. Obviously, don't sell the Apple logo, right? Once we've uploaded that, it says action required. Original version, optimized version. Okay, that's fine. Confirm selection. The next thing we need to do is create our first product. So, maybe we click into it. Yep, we click into it. We go and we put a sticker. Let's just do a t-shirt, right? Again, this is like literally one of the first times I'm doing this, so it's kind of nice to see how straightforward this actually is. We've got the design there. We've got the product color, the print areas. We can mess around with a whole bunch of stuff. We can click next product, or we can just click done. Then we click next, and then we add all the information, and then we click create. Done. First product is done. That was pretty straightforward. Set up your Spreadshop. Okay, so then we have to go in, and this is the actual website. So, you can see all

the different products. It's called Shimmy's test. Um, welcome to Shimmy's test. We can, we can edit all of this. For now, we're just going to click save, right? The next is activate your Spreadshop. So then we just click online. We put in all our information, and then we're done. It's activated, ready to go. That seems pretty straightforward. Now, I know this is one heck of an ugly website with the Apple logo plastered everywhere, but we can actually go in here and we can mess around with a whole bunch of stuff. We've got General, we've got page settings, appearance, price, promos. It's pretty straightforward. I actually kind of like this platform now. Like, I'm not, this isn't a sponsored video or anything. This is just what I think, you know, it seems quite straightforward from signing up to having your store. Now, the one major negative that I found is the website. So the domain name is going to be something along the lines of shimmytest.spreadshop.com when we might want our own domain name. Just maybe. We

want it to call it besttshirts.com, or whatever. Let's say we want to buy a domain on GoDaddy or on Google domains or something, and then link it to this. You can't really do that properly now. There is a way of doing it, but it's incredibly confusing, and it involves HTML and CSS and embedding it into a shop on your website like WordPress. And it's put it this way, it's confusing, and I'm not even going to bother explaining it in this video because it's a real mess. The next thing I would do, and I would always recommend everyone do this, is go and get samples, which is exactly what I did. Samples are really important because you want to make sure that the quality of the item you're planning on selling is good and the quality of the print is good. Now, a lot of people don't care about the quality, they're just happy to send anything to the customers, but I like repeat customers. I also like to give my customers a good deal. I don't want to

scam anyone, which is why I always like getting samples. I made a simple order and I got a t-shirt, I got a hoodie, and I got a sweater. I made the order on the 12th of June, and it arrived on the 30th of June, something I wasn't too happy about. I paid 8 pounds and 99 pence for shipping, and it came 19 days later. That is not good. Either way, for now, let's put that aside and have a look at the quality. So, I've got the three items here, and we're going to check out the material quality, the print quality, and I'm going to put them all in the wash, and we're going to have a look and see if that quality withstood the wash test. Now, let me just quickly say when I do wash it, I wash it a few times. I wash it inside out, I wash it normally, not inside out. I wash it on cold, and I wash it on warm, and I kind of give it all the different types of washing. And that's because a lot of

people will wash it different ways depending on their circumstances or what they know, and I want to make this as fair of a test as possible for the largest group of people. So starting with the t-shirt in terms of material quality, so I mean there's a bit, it's a loose strand there that's just okay, we're going to forget about that for the minute. Let's take off the label. The thickness is actually quite nice. I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty good. Um, I mean you'll see close-ups of all of this, but so far this is pretty good. I'm liking the thickness, I'm liking the stitching. The stitching is good. It seems to me off the bat that it's being well made, really well made actually. Looking at it again, the quality of the material looks really, really good. And this is, it just says premium men. It doesn't really say what it is. Now in terms of the design, again I'm really, really impressed. This feels and looks really cool. It doesn't

feel like it's been stuck on. It kind of feels like it's been woven on and I've said that a few times in different, in different um, in different companies, but it kind of feels like it's part of the actual t-shirt material. So when I, when I actually pull it, you can see the quality. You can see the white through it where it makes it look like it's properly been printed on well, you know, really, really well. It kind of has the vibe of a t-shirt that you'd buy in a shop like Zara or H&M, something along those lines. This hoodie, I was really impressed with, really, really thick, really soft inside, which is what you want to see in a hoodie. The stitching is all excellent. I love the big straps here for the, uh, the, the strings, um, again the design, not super happy with that, uh, it's cracking. I wouldn't say it's cracking, but I feel like the design could have been put on a little bit better. I tried to do something really colorful that way.

you know you can kind of see a good range of their color spectrum, but it's it's if I got this in the post after spending 25 or 30 pounds or dollars, I would be happy, you know, at the end of the day. It's a very good quality. So this is the one where I put in as many colors as possible. Again, the stitching is really, really good. It's really on point. It's not, it's not coming off. This is a Just Hoods, that's apparently the make, but yeah, I'm, I'm thoroughly impressed with that. I think it's very, very good. The colors are really nice. This one feels a bit more plasticky, like it's kind of been slapped on, but even still, it looks okay. I do get the vibe though that this is going to come off in the wash. I've seen this kind of print before on sweatshirts, and it's never lasted too well in the wash, but, but we're gonna find out. I'm gonna give it the benefit.

of the doubt. We're gonna go put it in the washing machine now, and then I'll come back at some point at the end of today, and once it's all washed and dried, we'll do a follow-up and see if it survived, eventually, okay. Everything has now come out the wash. It's all dry, and we're ready to see if it survived the wash test. I'll give you a little bit of a spoiler, it did really well. This is the T-shirt. I'm really, really, really impressed with this print. It's very, very good. I don't know how many washes it will survive, but one thing I will say is I get a serious High Street Zara River Island H&M vibe from this, and I still have T-shirts from those shops that I've had for the last five years, and they're absolutely fine. So, if this is like that, then that is good value for money. The next one is the hoodie. Now, the hoodie had all of these colors. It had the

had the Rubik's Cube on it. And again, I can't really fault it. You know, if I pull really, really hard, then I can kind of see that I'd be ruining the design a tiny bit. And that's just because of the way I think this design has been put on, where it probably can be scratched away or pulled apart after enough washes. So I think this is good, but it could be better. And that's the hoodie. Well, the sweater, honestly, probably did the best. The sweater is exactly as it was when it went into the wash. And I thought this would be pulled away as well because this is kind of like a similar printing method to the hoodie. So again, at the moment, this looks really good, and it survives all of those wash tests, and it survived drying and everything like that. And it did really well. I do see this lasting quite a long time. So in conclusion, Spreadshop as a print-on-demand company, should you use them? Should you continue using Spreadshirt or Motif or something like that? Well, if you are looking for a

standalone print-on-demand shop like spring something where you can house all your products in a shop format, and you're okay not having your own custom domain, or you're okay to put in a weird amount of effort to get your own custom domain, then I think spreadshop is a store you should definitely consider. It had its issues like the shipping wasn't very good, it was expensive, and it took a long time. The hoodie and the sweater, it's great quality, but I don't see it lasting, you know, a couple of years. The T-shirt was perfect, I really liked it. I'm quite impressed. The website is very user-friendly, and all in all, it seems like a pretty good platform. Let me know down below in the comments what you think of this platform, whether or not you think it's worth it, if you've had experience with it, and your overall thoughts. And if you do want to see how you can create incredible designs because now you hopefully have a platform you can start selling on, you just need to populate it with a bunch of

different t-shirts and hoodies, and mugs, and stuff. Then you've got to check this video out next, where I show you how this one design made over forty thousand dollars, and you can as well. So check that video out next.

This Print on Demand Company Destroys Everyone

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