A simple guide to help you prepare your merch project, understand the production process and communicate more clearly with designers and suppliers.
Merch projects can look simple at first, but production quickly brings in questions about blanks, fabrics, printing methods, embroidery, placements, sizing, samples, MOQs and lead times.
Merch Ready was created to help you understand the essentials, organise the right information and feel more confident before sending anything into production.
This workspace is not designed to replace a designer, merch supplier, manufacturer or production specialist.
It won’t determine the perfect blank, guarantee how a technique will behave on a specific fabric, prepare final production files for you or validate manufacturing quality.
Instead, it helps you understand the process, prepare better information and communicate more clearly with the people responsible for those decisions.
You do not need to know everything before you start.
Merch production varies depending on the product, fabric, supplier, printing or embroidery method, quantity and machinery used. Some answers will only become clear once you start speaking with suppliers.
Start with what you know. The rest can be worked through together.