Custom Graduation Merch: Create Your Own

Selling custom grad merch online is a great way to celebrate a graduation milestone while offering personalized keepsakes for students, families, and supporters. 

With Fourthwall’s print-on-demand catalog, you can create high-quality graduation apparel and accessories with no upfront costs or inventory management. Here are some of the best grad merch items to sell:

• Graduation Shirts & Tees: Create custom shirts with grad year, school logo, or class slogans in various shirt colors.
• Hoodies & Sweatshirts: Offer custom hoodies with digital print designs for a cozy, long-lasting keepsake.
• Tank Tops & Long-Sleeve Shirts: Great options for warm-weather celebrations and graduation parties.
• Graduation Caps & Hats: Customize hats or beanies with a school logo or "Class of [Year]" text.
• Tote Bags: Perfect for graduates to carry their books, gear, and personal items while representing their school.
• Phone Cases: Offer custom phone cases featuring school colors, mascots, or inspirational quotes.
• Mugs & Tumblers: Great gifts for proud parents, teachers, or graduates featuring personalized grad messages.
• Stickers & Posters: Sell fun and decorative items with graduation-themed designs that buyers can display.
• Notebooks & Journals: Ideal for students heading to college, featuring customized cover designs.

With Fourthwall’s easy-to-use customization tools, you can upload designs, personalize products, and sell grad merch online with fast delivery, free shipping options, and a satisfaction guarantee!

Marketing your custom graduation merch to students, parents, and alumni requires a mix of social media promotion, school partnerships, and online sales strategies. Here are some effective ways to market your graduation merch:

• Social Media & School Groups: Share your merch on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, and post in school alumni groups to reach potential buyers.
• Email & Text Campaigns: Send personalized emails or SMS updates to graduates and their families with special discounts for bulk orders.
• Limited-Time Offers & Free Shipping: Create urgency with “Graduation Special” sales, limited-edition items, and free shipping promotions.
• Fundraising for Schools & Clubs: Partner with student councils, PTAs, or alumni associations to sell merch for class reunions, senior gifts, or fundraisers.
• Custom Class Orders & Bulk Pricing: Offer discounts on bulk hoodie and t-shirt orders for entire graduating classes or alumni reunions.
• Influencer & Ambassador Promotions: Have students, parents, or faculty members wear and share your merch to increase visibility and engagement.

By leveraging social media marketing, school partnerships, and online promotions, you can sell more graduation merch and create memorable keepsakes for students, families, and alumni-all while letting Fourthwall handle printing and shipping for you!

For any product from our product catalog, quality is guaranteed. Our team  manages all customer support on your behalf for these orders.

If there is a print error or visible quality issue with the order your supporter received, we’ll replace or refund it!

Because products are made to order, however, we do not accept general or sizing-related returns.

If you need help finding an artist or designer, check out our design community.

This is a vetted network of exceptional designers that can help you make great quality designs for your audience.

There are no monthly fees, no upfront costs, and no contracts to use Fourthwall. You set your prices and choose your own margins. Here is how our pricing and splits work when you sell:

• Products from our product catalog. The cost of a product from the product catalog (which you can monitor during the design process) gets deducted from the selling price you set. There are no extra percentages/margins. You keep the entire difference.
• Products you self-source. No fees

Additionally, all US-based credit card transactions have an added 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing fee (same as Shopify). Fees vary for PayPal and other providers. Learn more.

There are no requirements to join Fourthwall! Anyone can start for free, though the experience is optimized for people who have communities.

With platforms like Fourthwall, selling merchandise online to your fanbase is as easy as:

1. Selecting the products that you want to sell online
2. Uploading your designs
3. Building your e-commerce shop
4. Start promoting and selling

No inventory is required to sell many custom products like a phone case, shirt, or hoodie. Fourthwall also includes a professional mockup generator to get pixel-perfect results for quality before you start selling.

There are many great websites for selling merchandise. We think Fourthwall is the best way to sell to your fanbase online. It's the only one that gives you:

• Amazing quality products
• Drag & drop designs
• A no-code ecommerce site builder

All-in-one, so you don't have to compromise or install multiple tools. And Fourthwall does customer support on your behalf.

If you're curious about options, popular ones include:

• Printful (usually with Shopify)
• Printify (usually with Shopify)
• Spreadshop (Spreadshirt)
• Sellfy
• Redbubble