Welcome to Make-Merch

Q: What is Make-Merch?

A: Make-Merch is a membership site to enable users to quickly and easily create great looking designs for Merch by Amazon.

Q: Are the designs copyright free?

A: The Make-Merch team has made efforts to ensure that we only use images without any limitations on their use. Images are either created by our team or sourced from sites where the copyright is listed as CCO without any limitations on usage. If you find an image on Make-Merch that you believe is a violation, please inform us immediately.

Q: If I create a design using Make-Merch will Amazon automatically approve it?

A: Not necessarily. If the wording used in your design or the design itself does not meet Merch by Amazon’s rules, your design will not be approved. If you need to prove to Amazon that the image itself is copyright free, please refer them to make-merch.com as the source. Please do not copy designs of other Make-Merch members.

Q: Do you offer a free trial?

A: You can actually try out almost all the features of make-merch without signing up. Go to any template page, create designs and see how easy it is to use. When you’re ready, sign up for the monthly subscription and you can download the images you create in Merch by Amazon friendly format.

Q: Can multiple users share a Make-Merch account?

A: No. Each Merch By Amazon should have its own Make-Merch account. This is important for licensing issues. If Amazon flags your account and asks for proof of subscription, you’ll need to prove that when you uploaded your images your email account had an active Make-Merch subscription.

Q: What are the minimum system requirements to use Make-Merch?

A: Depending on whether you use filters and other advanced features on make-merch, stronger processing power and memory may be required. We find that make-merch works well on Windows 10, newer Macs, some newer Chromebooks and even some Android devices.
If you’re on Windows 7 or your device has less than 8GB internal memory, some features and some downloads may not work. (Tip: try closing all other windows and browser tabs – sometimes this may help).

Q: How much does it cost to use Make-Merch?

A: There are several affordable pricing plans. These can be found here: https://make-merch.com/make-merch-subscription-options/

Q: Will you be adding more designs, products and marketplace formats?

A: Yes, we’ll regularly be adding new designs, new options, support for new products when Amazon does and we’ll also be adding support for the formats required by other marketplaces. Please contact the Make-Merch team with your ideas and requests.

Q: Can I use make-merch on a mobile phone?

A: We’re finding that the make-merch software is too heavy on resources for most mobile phones. We recommend that you sit down at a desktop or laptop for the best experience.

Q: How Can I Save and Retrieve Designs?

A: Here is how you can create designs and save them to access and edit later:
Create your design, click on “Save Design Link to Clipboard”. After a few seconds, you can now “paste” using CTRL V ( Windows ) or CMD V (Apple) into any text file, email, doc, etc.
Whenever you paste this link into a browser window, your original design will be automatically loaded and you can edit it and download the new eidted image.

Q: What are the basic Troubleshooting steps?

A: If something about make-merch.com is not working properly for you, please read this article on troubleshooting: https://make-merch.com/2017/07/05/troubleshooting/

Q: Can I use images created on Make-Merch for other POD sites?

A: Yes. Make-Merch was built primarily to support sellers on Merch by Amazon. We have studied Amazon TOS and do our best to meet their TOS and make sure that the download format is suitable for the current products on MBA (i.e. t-shirts). We are aware that many of our users now use the platform to design tees and other products to be sold on other marketplaces. This practice is approved for our subscribers. It is the subscriber’s own responsibility to check that they meet the Terms of Service (TOS) of such sites. Make-Merch doesn’t have the ability to check the TOS of each marketplace.
In future, we may offer several tiers of service with different pricing based on the use of the designs you create on Make-Merch. In each such case, we’ll do our best not to adversely affect use of Make-Merch by existing subscribers.

Over time, we may offer higher tiers with new premium features. However, in most cases, we will not reduce the functionality or the license for existing users.

Q: What is the best way to learn how to use Make-Merch?

A: Please try the tutorial: https://make-merch.com/2017/08/31/nearly-complete-tutorial/