Artist Shops Product Base Costs
Set Your Own Pricing or Let Us Do It For You
With Artist Shops, you can choose to set your own product prices or let us manage pricing and promotions for you—in your Artist Shop and the Threadless Marketplace. Artist Shops are 100% free. You always make money with Artist Shops and it never costs you anything out of pocket.
Sale Price – Base Cost = Your Earnings
For Artist Earnings, subtract the "Base Costs" from the purchase price and you keep the difference as Artist Earnings. Each Artist Shop product has a Base Cost, which is equal to the Product Cost plus a 5% processing fee based on your retail price for that product. The Product Cost covers the production, processing, and customer service to create and ship your Artist Shop goods.
For any item sold under base cost in during a Threadless or Artist Shop Managed Pricing promotion, there is a minimum earnings of 10% of the item’s sale price during promotional pricing events with the exclusion of skateboards.
You can find more information about Artist Shops & Threadless Marketplace Pricing Base Costs in the Policy Concerning Payment to Artist and Shop Owners section of the Threadless.com Community Guidelines and Terms of Use.