Decoration Methods are the techniques your shop uses to apply artwork to garments. Six are built in: screen printing, DTG, DTF, embroidery, heat transfer and sublimation. Anything else you offer is added as a custom method. This page is central to how your shop works, because the methods you enable drive product pricing and how the designer behaves for customers.
Enable the methods you offer
- Go to Settings → Decoration Methods.
- Review the available methods and enable the ones your shop actually offers.
- Open a method to configure its details and pricing.
- Save your changes.
Only enable methods you can produce in-house or reliably outsource, since customers will be able to choose them at design time.
Configure pricing per method
Different decoration techniques are priced differently, and each method has its own settings to match how it's really quoted:
- Screen printing ships set to color count, crossed with order quantity.
- DTG, DTF, heat transfer and sublimation are priced by print area, crossed with order quantity.
- Embroidery is priced by stitch count, crossed with order quantity.
- Any method can instead be set to a flat price per placement plus a setup fee.
There is no names-and-numbers or cut-area pricing model. Those are not pricing dimensions in Drip Merch.
the color-count dimension does not work. The Design Studio never measures how many colors are in a design, so a color-count method matches no tier and adds nothing to the price. Price screen printing by area or as a flat fee instead.
Set up the pricing model for each method so quotes and storefront prices calculate automatically and accurately.
Why this matters
Because decoration methods feed both pricing and the designer, getting them right early prevents problems later:
- Products link to the methods they support, so the correct options appear to customers.
- The designer shows a color-reduction step for methods with the color limit switched on. Print areas come from each product's impression areas, not from the method.
- Quotes and cart totals reflect the pricing rules you set here.
Keeping methods up to date
As your capabilities change — adding a new press, dropping a service — revisit this page to enable or disable methods and adjust pricing. Because these settings ripple through products and pricing, review any affected products after making a change to confirm everything still calculates as expected.