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Decoration mockups for promo distributors

Say it. Nudge it.
Ship it or shop it.

Upload a client’s artwork, pick from a catalog of real promotional products, and get a realistic, share-ready mockup in seconds — then send one link where they can react, or buy.

  • Real supplier minimums, shown before anyone pays
  • US shipping, card checkout by Stripe
  • Rendered from the product's own photograph
A graphite drawstring bag on a locker-room bench, undecorated.

Blank

The same bag in the same photograph, now carrying a printed wordmark across the front panel.

Decorated

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What comes back

Mockups a client believes.

Each one starts from the supplier's own photograph of that blank, so the product in the picture is the product they will get.

A black soft-cover journal with a small light wordmark near the lower edge of the cover.
The same journal in pebble grey, with the same wordmark re-rendered in a darker ink so it stays legible.

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Journal colourway

Black Pebble grey

Two blanks, one piece of artwork. Each colourway is re-rendered on its own photograph rather than recoloured.

A natural canvas boat tote with black trim and a printed wordmark on the front panel.

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Printed on canvas. The mark sits inside the imprint area the supplier publishes for this tote, not wherever it fit.
A champagne-coloured insulated bottle with a white lid and a light wordmark wrapped around the body.

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Wrapped on a curved surface. The mark follows the bottle instead of being pasted flat across it.

How it works

Three steps, and the third one is the link.

Nothing in here is a rough. Every render starts from the supplier's photograph of the blank you chose.

Step 1: Say it

Upload the client's artwork and pick the blank you want it on. The catalog is real supplier data — the same products, keys and imprint areas your suppliers publish — so the thing you choose is a thing you can actually order.

  • PNG or JPEG artwork, stored as an immutable version you can point at later
  • Products come from named suppliers, not from a stock-photo library
  • Every blank carries the imprint areas the supplier publishes for it
The shared products catalog in MerchMaker, listing five canonical products with their supplier, supplier key and status.

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The shared catalog. Each product keeps its supplier and supplier key, so a quote can be traced back to the line it came from.

Step 2: Nudge it

Move the decoration, resize it, rotate it, or swap the blank for another colourway. Every change re-renders against that product's own photograph, so what you are adjusting is the mockup itself rather than a sketch of one.

  • Drag, resize and rotate the imprint region directly on the product
  • Each region records its geometry, physical size and whether a person approved it
  • Revisions are kept, so an approved placement survives the next change
Placement review in MerchMaker: a decoration region selected on the back of a lime t-shirt with resize handles and a rotation grip, beside a list of regions marked approved or proposed.

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Placement review. The dashed outline is the supplier's imprint area; the solid one is where this decoration goes.

Step 3: Ship it or shop it

Publish the set as one link. Send it for reactions and the page collects them; open it for ordering and the same page takes card payment, with the supplier's real minimums stated before anyone pays.

  • One URL replaces the emailed deck and the spreadsheet of sizes
  • Feedback mode shows the work with no cart attached
  • Shop mode checks out as a guest through Stripe, shipping inside the US
A published collection page showing eight decorated products with names and prices under a client's own wordmark.

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A published collection as the client opens it: every piece rendered on their brand, with prices.

Collections and team stores

One link replaces the spreadsheet.

Publish a set of approved mockups to a page of its own and send the URL. Sizes, colourways and quantities are chosen on the page instead of in a reply-all thread — and the minimums are the supplier’s real minimums, stated in the cart before anyone pays.

Creating and sharing a collection in MerchMaker: a four-step rail, a frozen offer with its product, artwork and region, and a share URL with a copy button.

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Publishing a collection: freeze what goes in it, choose whether the page collects reactions or takes orders, then copy the link.

Who it's for

Two people, one awkward moment.

Both of them are being asked what the merch will look like, and neither of them has a picture yet.

Distributors

You are quoting a client who has not seen anything yet.

Put their logo on three real products and send it back the same hour, instead of paying for a sample or describing it in an email. When they pick one, the placement you showed is the placement that goes to the decorator.

Corporate buyers

You are kitting out a team, an event or a new hire.

Approve what the merch looks like before a purchase order exists, then hand out one link and let people choose their own size. What the page shows is what the supplier can actually produce, at that supplier's minimum.

Pilot pricing

$200 per seat per month, invoiced.

Book a call and we will size the pilot with you. Seats are what you pay for — renders, collections and the products your suppliers already give you are not metered separately.

What's actually true

No logo wall.

MerchMaker is young and invitation-only, so here is what it does rather than who else uses it.

Real catalog, named suppliers

Products are ingested from supplier feeds and keep the supplier's own name and item key. Nothing on a mockup comes from a stock library, and a product whose identity is ambiguous is held back rather than merged into the wrong line.

Checkout your client already trusts

Shop links take card payment through Stripe as a guest, shipping inside the US. There is no account to create before someone can buy, and no card details ever reach us.

Artwork stays yours

A client's artwork is used to make that client's mockups. It is stored as an immutable version under your tenant, it is not used to train anything, and it is not shown to another tenant.

Questions

The six we get asked.

Including the one the old site used to answer wrongly.

Are there minimums?

Yes. Every product carries the minimum order quantity its supplier publishes, and the shop page states it before anyone pays rather than after. MerchMaker does not lower a supplier's minimum and does not hide it until checkout.

How realistic is a mockup, really?

Each render starts from the supplier's own photograph of that blank, and the decoration is placed inside the imprint area the supplier publishes for it. It is a design mockup, not a manufacturing proof: it is made to show a client what the piece will look like, and it is not a production approval.

What artwork can I upload?

PNG or JPEG, up to 8 MiB and 4096 pixels on a side. Vector artwork should be exported to a PNG with a transparent background first. Each upload is stored as an immutable version, so a mockup made months later uses the exact file you approved.

Can my client order from the link?

If you publish the collection as a shop. Card payment runs through Stripe as a guest checkout, shipping inside the United States, with no account for the buyer to create. If you publish it for feedback instead, the page shows the work and exposes no cart at all.

Do you handle production and shipping?

Orders placed through a shop link are routed to the supplier or the decorator who will produce them, and the order record keeps which one it went to. Sourcing and decorating stay with the people who already do them; MerchMaker is what happens before and around that.

How do I get access?

MerchMaker is invitation-only right now and there is no self-serve signup. Book a demo, and we will set up a tenant with your catalog and walk a real job through it with you.

See your logo on the product before your client asks.

Book a 20-minute demo and we will run one of your own jobs through it — your artwork, your supplier, your products.