Is Teespring Still in Business? The Spring Shutdown, Explained

If you searched "is Teespring still in business" in the last week, the short answer is no. Spring, the name Teespring has used since 2021, stopped taking orders at the end of October 2026, and its owner, Amaze, is winding the platform down in stages. This guide sets out exactly what has closed and when, how to collect what you are owed, what to do about a custom domain and a YouTube merch shelf, and the options for rebuilding a store that was earning money a fortnight ago.

The Short Answer

Teespring no longer exists as a store you can sell on. Amaze's Spring update page says new product creation was switched off first, that Spring stores and selling tools shut down on 28 October 2026, and that the Creator Dashboard is scheduled to close on 5 November 2026, after which a separate website handles payouts until eligible balances have been paid. Amaze Commerce, a hosted creator-store platform run by the same company, is offered as the successor, and nothing moves there by itself.

If you had a Spring store, three things need doing in roughly this order: make sure your payout details and tax information are correct, download every design file and product listing you still can, and decide where the store goes next. Everything below is in that order.

What Closed, and When

Spring did not close all at once. The order of events, as Amaze describes it on the page above, was this:

1. New product creation turned off. The first stage. Existing listings stayed live, but nothing new could be added.
2. Late October: stores and selling tools off. Store pages stopped receiving traffic and taking orders, and the storefront management and listing tools were disabled. Orders placed before that date are fulfilled.
3. Early November (tentative): Creator Dashboard closes. Between the two dates the dashboard stays open only for payouts and essential account actions: viewing balances and history, updating payout details, completing payout confirmation steps, providing tax information and requesting eligible payouts.
4. After the dashboard closes: creators with eligible balances use a separate website to view balances, request payouts and track them.

The company behind this is not the one that built Teespring. Amaze acquired Spring's merchandising platform back in November 2022, and the platform has been run as "Spring by Amaze" since. The years in between were not quiet: Business Insider reported in September 2023 that Spring had been hit with seven lawsuits that year, from vendors, shipping companies and a former employee, seeking over $1.5 million. Sellers who had been watching the payout threads on Reddit will not have been surprised by the closure; the timing is the only new part.

How to Get Your Remaining Payouts

This is the part to do today, because the dashboard is the only place to fix a wrong PayPal address or a missing tax form, and it is scheduled to close within days.

Spring's own payout rules still apply to the money you are owed. Spring's payouts help page says you need at least $25 in available balance to request a payout, that only fulfilled, shipped orders count towards that balance, that payouts are processed monthly, with requests made before the 21st included in that month's run, and that the methods are PayPal, which typically arrives within 24 to 48 hours, Payoneer, and bank transfer for selected users only. Refunds and chargebacks after a payout are deducted from the next one. That page was last updated in June 2026, before the shutdown was announced, so where it conflicts with the Amaze update page, the update page wins.

In practice:

• Log in now and check three things: the payout method and the email attached to it, the tax status and identification details, and the balance split between pending and available.
• Request everything that is available. Do not wait for the monthly cycle to come round; the dashboard may not be there when it does.
• Expect a tail. Orders placed in the last days before the stores closed that ship in November will sit as pending until they ship, and will become available on the separate payout site, not the dashboard. Keep the email address on the account working, because that is how Amaze says it will send instructions.
• Screenshot your balance and payout history. If anything is disputed later, you want your own record of what the dashboard showed on the day it closed.

Your Custom Domain: How to Move It

There are two situations, and they are very different.

You bought the domain somewhere else and pointed it at Spring. Nothing has happened to your domain. Your registrar still holds it and renews it. Spring's custom domain FAQ notes that for a third-party domain the DNS records are managed in that provider's dashboard, which is where you now point them at the new store. Until you do, the domain leads to a dead Spring page, so do it the same day you launch the replacement.

You bought the domain through Spring. Amaze says renewals continued until the stores closed and that a self-service transfer tool becomes available once renewals end, with instructions by email. Transfers between registrars follow rules set by ICANN, the body that oversees domain names, and they are on your side here. ICANN's Transfer Policy requires the current registrar to give you the authorisation code and remove any transfer lock within five calendar days of your request, and it bars a registrar from refusing that solely because of a payment dispute. The same policy blocks transfers in the first 60 days after a registration or a previous transfer, so a domain bought very recently may have to wait.

Two practical points. Decide where the domain is going before the tool arrives, so you can start the transfer the day you get the code. And if the domain was close to expiry, read Spring's FAQ note on the grace period: after expiry there is a 40-day window to renew, and after that the name can be bought by anyone.

Your Products, Designs and YouTube Shelf

Amaze's FAQ is blunt about this: products do not transfer, not even to Amaze Commerce, and you are asked to download artwork, product images and listing details before the selling tools shut down. If you did not, try the dashboard while it is still open; if the listing tools are gone, your original design files on your own computer are what you have. Export them at full resolution, because mockup previews pulled from the old store will print soft.

The YouTube merch shelf is the integration most Spring sellers will miss. Spring was one of the platforms YouTube let creators connect directly, and its own help page described the setup as choosing Spring under Connect store in YouTube Studio. That option now points at a closed platform, so your products will drop off the shelf when the store does. Reconnecting means a store on a platform YouTube still supports, and your channel has to meet YouTube's Shopping eligibility rules: in the YouTube Partner Program, at its subscriber threshold or an Official Artist Channel, not set as made for kids, and with no Hate Speech Community Guideline strikes.

Amaze Commerce, the Official Successor

Amaze would like you to move to Amaze Commerce, and the Spring update page makes the case: a free account, a free plan with optional paid plans, and a hosted storefront with print on demand behind it. A limited group of creators received a complimentary store migration; everyone else rebuilds by hand.

It is a reasonable option for a creator who wants the least possible change, and we will review it in detail separately. The question to ask before choosing it is the one the closure itself raises: whether you want to build again on a hosted platform owned by a company that has just closed the last one. The sellers we read on Reddit are split, and the split is mostly about how much work they can face.

Where Ex-Spring Sellers Go Next

The replacements fall into three shapes.

Another hosted creator store. Amaze Commerce, Fourthwall or Bonfire: a free shop, a curated catalog, no setup. Closest to what you had, with the same dependence on the platform.

A hosted shop from a supplier. Both of the big suppliers now offer a free storefront of their own, which is the middle path. Printful's Quick Stores is free, draws on Printful's catalog of 597 products, and pays out monthly once your balance passes $25, but it is currently only open to sellers with US tax residency selling to US addresses. Printify's Pop-Up Store is free with no subscription or listing fees, supports a custom domain, and draws on Printify's catalog of over 2,000 products from its network of print providers. Both keep the Spring shape, a hosted page and print on demand behind it, while moving you onto a supplier that also connects to Shopify, Etsy and the rest when you are ready for a store of your own.

Your own store with a supplier behind it. Shopify, Etsy or WooCommerce with Printful, Printify, Gelato or another supplier fulfilling orders. The most work, the most control, and the only version that no platform can close out from under you. It is also the route back onto the YouTube shelf for most creators, through a Shopify store connected to YouTube Shopping.

Our Teespring alternatives guide compares the suppliers against the same criteria, and the PODbase record for each platform is where to check products, print regions and shipping before you commit.

A Checklist for the Next Week

1. Today: log in, confirm payout method and tax details, request every available payout, screenshot the balance and history.
2. Today: download any artwork and listing details the dashboard still shows; otherwise gather your original design files.
3. This week: pick the new home. Hosted creator store, supplier storefront, or your own store with a supplier.
4. This week: rebuild your best sellers first, three to five products, on the blanks they sold on. Order one sample.
5. When the domain tool arrives: start the transfer the same day, or, for a third-party domain, change the DNS now.
6. Then: reconnect YouTube Shopping if your channel qualifies, update every link in your bios and descriptions, and tell your audience once, plainly, where the store is now.

The Short Version

Teespring is dead, Spring stores closed at the end of October 2026, the dashboard closes in early November, and payouts move to a separate site after that. Collect your money and your files first, move your domain when the tool arrives, and then choose between the official successor, a free supplier storefront, or a store of your own. The last one is the most work and the one you will not have to do again.