Spring by Amaze: What Amaze Commerce Is and Who Should Move There

When Spring closed its stores at the end of October 2026, the shutdown page pointed creators at one destination: Amaze Commerce. It is the official successor, it is free to start, and it is run by the company that owned Spring. It is also a different platform, with different tools, different plans and the same open question about the company behind it. This review covers what it is, who runs it, how selling and payouts work, what the plans cost, what it does and does not replace from Spring, and which ex-Spring creators should move there.

What Amaze Commerce Is

Amaze Commerce is a hosted creator store with print on demand behind it, wrapped in a set of AI tools. Amaze's own description of how it works runs in five steps: you describe a design and the platform generates the artwork, you put it on a product from a catalog of t-shirts, hoodies, hats and home goods, you sell it from a store at your-name.amazecommerce.com, Amaze produces and ships each order on demand, and your profit is paid to PayPal or Payoneer when you request it.

The AI layer is what the company leads with. Its homepage is built around "Concierge", a feature that reads your TikTok, Instagram and YouTube handles, produces a "Brand Analysis" and a colour palette, and suggests products from what it finds in your content. That is a different pitch from Spring's, which was a plain storefront with integrations. Whether the analysis is useful depends on how much you already know about your own audience; for most creators with a few years of comments to read, it is a nice-to-have rather than the reason to move.

Who Is Behind It

Amaze Commerce belongs to Amaze Holdings, a company listed on the NYSE American exchange under the ticker AMZE. Its history with Spring is short. Amaze's November 2022 press release announced the acquisition of Spring's merchandising platform, which was then run as "Spring by Amaze". The question creators asked on Reddit for the next two years, whether "creator spring" and Amaze were the same thing, now has a clear answer: Spring is retired and Amaze Commerce is the product the company is keeping.

How Selling Works: Pricing, Payouts and the Store

The selling model is close to Spring's, with one change in how prices are set.

Pricing. Amaze's pricing article says you set the profit per product rather than the price: the selling price is the production cost plus your profit, and if production costs or currency shift, the selling price moves and your profit stays fixed. Plus sizes cost more to produce, so their selling price rises automatically to keep your profit the same. The "from" price in the catalog is the production cost, not what buyers pay. On Spring you set the price and watched the margin; here you set the margin and watch the price.

Payouts. The payouts FAQ says profit from a sale starts as pending and becomes available once the order ships, and that cancelled orders drop out. You link a PayPal or Payoneer account and request a payout from the Earnings page, where any minimum is shown. The Earnings page tracks four stages: pending, available, requested and paid. There is no stated monthly cycle of the kind Spring ran, which is an improvement if it holds.

The store. Each store lives at a subdomain of amazecommerce.com, with a name and a logo, and every product gets its own page. Checkout takes major cards and Link. The help centre does not describe connecting a domain of your own, as of November 2026, which is the single biggest gap for anyone who paid for a custom domain on Spring.

Integrations. The homepage talks about connecting social handles for analysis, not about sales channels. There is no documented YouTube Shopping, TikTok Shop or Shopify connection, so the merch shelf Spring gave you is not something Amaze Commerce gives back.

What It Costs

Opening an account and a store is free, and Amaze's shutdown page says so plainly. The plans sit on top of that and are about the AI tools rather than selling. The subscription article lists Free at $0 a month with 1 GB of storage and standard usage limits, Basic at $9.99 a month with 5 GB and twice the usage limits, and Pro at $19.99 a month with 20 GB, four times the usage limits and higher image quality. All three are billed monthly, renew automatically without a reminder, and are non-refundable. Usage means AI work: generating and editing images and running the brand analyses. Storage is your saved images, and it does not reset.

For a creator who already has designs and only wants a store, the Free plan is the whole cost: production cost comes out of the selling price, as it did on Spring. The paid plans only matter if you intend to generate your designs inside the platform.

What It Replaces From Spring, and What It Does Not

Amaze's Spring update page is clear that nothing moves by itself: products, artwork and store information do not transfer, you recreate each product in a new Amaze Commerce store, and a complimentary migration was offered only to a limited group of creators who received an invitation. So the move is a rebuild, the same as it would be on any other platform.

What it replaces: a free hosted shop with print on demand behind it, a profit-above-base-cost model, PayPal and Payoneer payouts, and a company that already has your tax details and payout history. For a creator who wants the least possible change, that is most of what Spring was.

What it does not replace: the YouTube merch shelf and the other platform integrations, a custom domain, as far as the help centre documents, and any confidence that the platform will still be there in two years. The last point is not a criticism of the product. It is the plain reading of a company that has closed one creator platform and reports substantial doubt about its own future in its annual accounts.

Who Should Move There

• Creators who sold a few designs to a loyal audience and want to be back online in an afternoon. The rebuild is quick, the model is familiar, and the company already has your tax and payout details.
• Creators who want to design inside the platform. If you were paying for design tools elsewhere, the AI generation on a Basic plan may replace them.
• Creators treating it as a bridge. A free store that works this week, while you build something you own.

Who Should Look Elsewhere

• Anyone whose sales came through the YouTube shelf or TikTok. Amaze Commerce does not document those connections. The replacements that do are a creator-store platform with the YouTube integration, or a supplier behind a Shopify store.
• Anyone with a custom domain they intend to keep. Until the help centre says otherwise, assume the store is a subdomain.
• Anyone who has now been through two platform closures. A supplier behind a store you own is the version of this that cannot be closed out from under you. Printful's overview of how it works and Printify's print-on-demand page describe the same shape from the two largest suppliers: you own the storefront, they print and ship, and either can be swapped without your audience noticing. Our guide to rebuilding on Printful or Printify compares them for exactly this move, and our Teespring alternatives guide covers the wider field.

Verdict

Amaze Commerce is a real, free, working successor to Spring, with a familiar selling model and a design layer Spring never had. It is the right move for a creator who wants the least possible change and treats the store as a storefront rather than a business. It is the wrong move for a creator who depended on integrations, needs a custom domain, or has learned from the last two years that a hosted platform is only as durable as the company behind it. Read the going-concern sentence in the annual report, decide how much that matters for your volume, and if you do move, keep your design files and your customer contacts somewhere that is yours.