Patrick
18 months for Merch by Amazon
I've been with Penji for 18 months now purely for Merch by Amazon t-shirt designs. It’s very easy and straightforward to queue up design ideas and the designers are great at creating design layouts, color schemes, and picking out graphics based on your specifications. It helps to give them reference material if you have a specific design layout in mind. I’m often delighted when the designer adds a cute touch to the design. As an example I had a design about waking up in Costa Rica that featured a sloth graphic. The designer chose a sleeping sloth graphic even though I didn’t specify the sloth should be sleeping. I thought that was very clever and I’m glad they added that. The need for revisions have been quite minimal and it’s often because I come up with a new idea after seeing the design for the first time. Sometimes there can be confusion with design instructions if I have a series of designs that follow the same layout, but then I add a new design to the series with a slightly changed layout. An understandable mistake, which I’ve learned to prevent by using bold/highlighted text, and repeating in the design brief very clearly: “there is a layout change on this design, please see bold text for layout change.” Overall my Merch designs have come out profitable with certain ideas rising up above others. It’s easy to duplicate designs in Penji to return to profitable design and create new variations. If you want multiple color schemes on a design you can also revisit it and request they create a version for light and dark colored shirts or you can request multiple color schemes if you’re unsure what will look best. I like using coolors to come up with a color scheme or asking the design to come up with a color scheme based on a colorful stock photo from on unsplash. Great experience that I’d recommend to other Merch by Amazon sellers. I’ve yet to try phone and popsocket designs but I’m thinking of trying those out in the future.
Response from PenjiOct 8, 2021
Patrick...wow. 18 months+ with merch and still crushing it. Happy you notice the small things. Thanks for being an awesome customer!



