Spring to Printful or Printify: Which Rebuild Fits Your Store

Spring stores stopped taking orders at the end of October 2026, and most of the sellers who used them are now choosing between the same two names: Printful and Printify. Both are suppliers rather than marketplaces, both now offer a free hosted storefront that keeps the Spring shape, and both connect to Shopify, Etsy and TikTok Shop when you want a store of your own. They are not interchangeable. This comparison covers the storefront, the catalog, the integrations and the per-sale cost, and ends with which rebuild fits which seller.

One disclosure first. This site is part of the Printful family, which also includes Printify, so we review both against the same published criteria and link to catalog and help pages rather than sign-up pages. Where one is weaker, we say so.

What You Are Replacing

Spring was a hosted creator store with print on demand behind it. You uploaded a design, Spring set a base cost, you set the price, and the difference was your earnings. Spring's payouts help page still describes the model: earnings were the sale price minus the base price minus refunds, with a $25 minimum balance to request a payout, monthly processing, and payment by PayPal or Payoneer. Spring also had a direct connection to the YouTube merch shelf, which is the one feature most sellers will miss.

What it did not give you was a choice of printer, a say in the catalog, a customer list you owned, or a store that could outlive the platform. Amaze's Spring update page confirms the stores and selling tools shut down on 28 October 2026 and that products do not transfer anywhere, so whichever platform you pick, the rebuild starts from your original design files. Our guide to the shutdown covers payouts and domains; this one is about where the store goes.

The Two Rebuild Routes

Each platform offers the same two routes, and the choice between routes matters more than the choice between platforms.

Route one: the hosted storefront. A free shop the supplier hosts, products from its catalog, checkout and fulfillment handled. Closest to Spring, fastest to launch, and still a store you do not own.

Route two: your own store with the supplier behind it. Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce or TikTok Shop, with Printful or Printify printing and shipping each order. More setup, your own domain and customer list, and the only route back onto the YouTube shelf for most creators.

Most ex-Spring sellers will want route one this week and route two within a few months. Both platforms let you start on one and move to the other without re-uploading designs, which is the main reason to pick a supplier rather than another creator-store platform.

Hosted Storefront: Quick Stores vs Pop-Up Store

The hosted storefronts are the part that decides the first week, and they differ more than you would expect.

Printful's Quick Stores page says the tool is free, with no billing method or monthly fee. You can sell any of the 597 products in Printful's catalog that are available in the United States, edit the store name, logo, product names and descriptions, and profits go to your bank account each month once the payout passes $25. The catch is in the small print: for now it is only open to merchants with US tax residency, selling to shoppers with a US shipping address. A seller in the UK, Canada or Australia cannot use Quick Stores today.

Printify's Pop-Up Store page says the store is free, with no subscription or listing fees, and that you keep the difference between the base product cost and your retail price. You can use a custom domain and your own logo, colours and fonts, Printify handles customer questions, and the catalog runs to over 2,000 products. There is no stated country restriction on the seller.

On balance, Pop-Up Store is the closer match for a Spring store: open to everyone, custom domain supported, nothing to configure. Quick Stores is simpler still for a US seller who does not need a custom domain, and it draws on a catalog produced in Printful's own facilities.

Products and Print Quality

Spring's catalog was small and curated. Both replacements are bigger, in different ways.

Printful's strength is consistency. Printful says every order, on the free or paid plan, includes in-house production, a quality check and fulfillment by its own team, with a free reprint or refund if a manufacturing error occurs. The catalog is deep on apparel, embroidery and branding options, and because one company prints everything, the hoodie you sample is the hoodie your buyers get.

Printify's strength is choice. Printify's integrations page puts the catalog at over 2,000 products, and the platform is a network of print providers rather than a single printer. The same blank is often available from several providers at different base costs and in different regions, which is how Printify's prices come in lower. The trade-off is that quality and production time vary by provider, so you vet and sample each provider rather than trusting the platform as a whole.

For an ex-Spring seller the practical difference is this: on Printful you pick the product; on Printify you pick the product and the printer. If your Spring store sold three or four core items to a loyal audience, consistency is worth more than range. If it sold a long tail of designs on many products, range and price win.

Integrations: YouTube, TikTok and the Rest

Spring's direct YouTube connection is gone, and neither supplier replaces it with a one-click equivalent.

The documented route on Printful runs through Shopify. Printful's YouTube merch page walks through it: create a Shopify store, connect Printful to it, install Google's channel app from the Shopify app store, connect your YouTube account under YouTube Shopping in that app, then add products to your videos in YouTube Studio. Printify's route to the shelf is the same Shopify connection with Printify as the supplier. In both cases YouTube applies its own gate. YouTube's Shopping help page requires the channel to be in the YouTube Partner Program or be an Official Artist Channel, not to be set as made for kids, and to have no hate speech Community Guidelines strikes.

TikTok Shop is the other integration creators ask about. Both suppliers connect to it directly. Printify describes its integration as US-only for now, and TikTok's own seller requirements apply either way. Beyond that, the two lists overlap almost completely: Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, Amazon, eBay, Squarespace and Wix on either side. Nothing you sold through Spring depends on an integration only one of them has.

What Each Costs Per Sale

Neither platform charges you to list products, connect a store or run the hosted storefront. On both, the per-sale cost is the base cost of the product plus shipping, and your earnings are whatever you set above that. The differences are in the paid plans and the base costs themselves.

Printful's pricing page lists a free plan at no monthly cost and a Growth plan at $24.99 a month that becomes free once you reach $12,000 a year in sales, with up to 33% off product pricing. Printify's pricing page lists a free plan at $0 a month and a Premium plan from $39 a month, or from $24.99 a month billed yearly, with up to 20% off all products.

Base costs are where Printify usually comes in lower on a like-for-like blank, because its providers compete, while Printful's price includes its own production. The honest way to compare is to take the exact product you sold on Spring, find it on both catalogs, add the shipping each would charge to your typical buyer, and put the two figures next to the price you were charging. Our profit calculator does the arithmetic for the supplier side. At typical Spring volumes, a dollar or two of base cost matters less than you think. A reprint policy and a predictable production time matter more.

Which Rebuild Fits Your Store

• You are in the US, sold a handful of core products, and want to be live this week. Printful Quick Stores. Consistent product, nothing to configure, and the same account grows into a Shopify store later.
• You are outside the US, or you want your custom domain on the new store now. Printify Pop-Up Store. It is the only one of the two hosted stores open to you, and it supports a custom domain.
• Your audience bought on price, or across many products. Printify, on either route. Provider competition keeps base costs down and the catalog is three times the size.
• Your audience bought on brand, or you sell embroidery and premium apparel. Printful, on either route. In-house production and the branding options are what you are paying the higher base cost for.
• The YouTube shelf is the whole business. Either supplier behind a Shopify store, with Google's channel app. Pick the supplier by the points above; the YouTube route is identical.

Our Printful vs Printify comparison goes deeper on the two as suppliers, for readers who have already decided on their own store.

Moving in the Right Order

1. Collect the Spring side first. Payouts requested, design files exported at full resolution, domain transfer started once Amaze's self-service transfer tool arrives.
2. Rebuild the best sellers, not the catalog. Three to five products on the blanks they sold on, priced as before.
3. Order one sample per product type. On Printify, from the provider you will actually use.
4. Launch the hosted store and point every link at it. Bios, descriptions, panels, the old domain once it moves.
5. Reconnect YouTube when you can. A Shopify store with the supplier behind it, once your channel qualifies and the volume justifies the extra setup.
6. Tell your audience once. The old store closed, the new one is here, same designs.

The Short Version

Both suppliers can replace a Spring store, and both offer a free hosted shop to do it with. Printify's Pop-Up Store is open to sellers everywhere, supports a custom domain and draws on the bigger, cheaper catalog. Printful's Quick Stores is US-only for now and draws on a catalog Printful prints itself, with a quality check and a reprint policy behind every order. Neither connects straight to YouTube the way Spring did; both get there through Shopify. Pick by where you are, what you sold, and how much of the store you want to own.