+ FUND
+ SELL
+ PRODUCE
Complete Direct-2-Fan solution
for music and merch
+ FUND
+ SELL
+ PRODUCE
Complete Direct-2-Fan solution
for music and merch
PRE-ORDER FUNDING
Instead of running a crowdfunding campaign on a third party platform, why don’t you use the same method and fund your production costs directly from pre-orders? We do not take any additional commission for the service, so your fans support your work without middle-men and get a pre-ordered item shipped to them directly from our warehouse.
You do not have to manage a manufacturing order at a plant and a crowdfunding campaign at another company at the same time. We provide both services in one place, so you save a ton of money, effort and time.
Preorder
No matter if it’s a CD, Tape or Vinyl (currently taking months to make), for many different reasons you might be in a position that won’t allow you to cover the whole manufacturing price upfront. We totally get that and this is why you can work with us on your preorder campaigns.
It couldn’t be simpler, really. After you discuss your desired album options with our sales and production team, you will get the quote and we’ll be able to set up a preorder campaign in our marketplace and get the gears in motion.
After the agreed time for hosting a preorder (for example 14 or 30 days) you will receive a statement from the store listing sold items and a summary of production costs covered. Then we will discuss next steps.
If you reach a 100% goal than there’s nothing more to it – we simply start manufacturing your release, fulfill the orders and you’ll start receiving your payout. If during this stage you decide to to increase quantities, then there’s no problem, we can still do it.
If the goal is not met by the demand, then the decision is up to you. We can either cancel the preorder and refund your customers or you can simply transfer the rest of amount needed to start the production.
All preorder campaigns can be expanded with our merch-on-demand services and you can create merch bundles of your choice.
Preorder
No matter if it’s a CD, Tape or Vinyl (currently taking months to make), for many different reasons you might be in a position that won’t allow you to cover the whole manufacturing price upfront. We totally get that and this is why you can work with us on your preorder campaigns.
It couldn’t be simpler, really. After you discuss your desired album options with our sales and production team, you will get the quote and we’ll be able to set up a preorder campaign in our marketplace and get the gears in motion.
After the agreed time for hosting a preorder (for example 14 or 30 days) you will receive a statement from the store listing sold items and a summary of production costs covered. Then we will discuss next steps.
If you reach a 100% goal than there’s nothing more to it – we simply start manufacturing your release, fulfill the orders and you’ll start receiving your payout. If during this stage you decide to to increase quantities, then there’s no problem, we can still do it.
If the goal is not met by the demand, then the decision is up to you. We can either cancel the preorder and refund your customers or you can simply transfer the rest of amount needed to start the production.
All preorder campaigns can be expanded with our merch-on-demand services and you can create merch bundles of your choice.
E-COMMERCE AND FULFILLMENT PLATFORM
We have a fully-fledged e-commerce engine in place, customized to fit the very specific needs of the music industry. Fully integrated with our fulfillment system, it allows us to run your store, so you do not have to.
The best part of the platform is that it is completely free to use for artists and labels, meaning that we do not charge a fee for the service. You pay the fulfillment fee, which is actual and real work. But that’s fair, right?
E-Commerce and Fulfillment Solutions
We all know how demanding running your own small label is. Same goes for managing a band and doing everything on a DIY basis. From promotion, booking gigs, networking, packaging, shipping orders and very often running a warehouse in your bedroom or garage.
With our e-commerce and fulfillment solutions you can transfer your everyday tasks to a team of specialists who will do all the dirty work for you while you can focus on the creative aspects of your work.
E-Commerce
In this option we can run your webstore in a complex manner – from customer service, order management, up to taking care of claims with shipping companies if the parcel gets lost. We manage the payments, invoicing and whole warehouse work while your part is limited to receiving sales statements and money transfers each month.
Our commission here is 20%. Let’s see this example: you are selling CD for 10 EUR. Your profit is 8 EUR while the rest covers whole end-to-end operation. While we know that 20% might seem high, it’s quite similar to a lot of available services that offer nothing more than a virtual place to sell your music.
20% margin covers all costs of full customer support with agent communication and system notifications, packaging and handling your orders. It also covers PayPal Gateway commission, hosting, direct customer billing and more. Seems like a bargain.
Thanks to our storefront/marketplace you don’t have to worry about anything. Just get ready to receive a monthly statement listing all sold items. Based on this we will transfer money directly to your bank account or PayPal.
There are no startup fees or any additional costs besides mentioned 20% commission and 0,01 EUR warehousing fee for unsold copies staying in our premises at end of each month.
Fulfillment
You already have your own storefront or platform used for sales? We got you covered as well. If you don’t want to migrate to our marketplace, we can set-up the fulfillment panel that works like your own private tool for shipping.
After you deliver goods to our warehouse, we will set up the platform for your use, with all available products and formats. You can manually enter orders from your shop to the forms in the panel – simply choose items, quantity, shipping destination and method and in just two clicks and one PayPal payment away, we will take care of shipping orders to your customers.
There are no setup fees or other payments for using our fulfillment panel – in each shipping fee that you need to cover by PayPal while placing the order in the panel there is a small fee for our warehouse work. What’s more, our shipping rates are competitive enough when compared to most of courier and postal services on the market. Neither you nor your customers will notice the price difference. But for sure you will see that life can be more fun!
And of course, if you decide on selling through our marketplace, you also gain access to the panel and you can still sell using different channels of your choosing. This is also a great tool for shipping promo copies or drop shipping items from our warehouse to your retailers or distributors.
E-Commerce and Fulfillment Solutions
We all know how demanding running your own small label is. Same goes for managing a band and doing everything on a DIY basis. From promotion, booking gigs, networking, packaging, shipping orders and very often running a warehouse in your bedroom or garage.
With our e-commerce and fulfillment solutions you can transfer your everyday tasks to a team of specialists who will do all the dirty work for you while you can focus on the creative aspects of your work.
E-Commerce
In this option we can run your webstore in a complex manner – from customer service, order management, up to taking care of claims with shipping companies if the parcel gets lost. We manage the payments, invoicing and whole warehouse work while your part is limited to receiving sales statements and money transfers each month.
Our commission here is 20%. Let’s see this example: you are selling CD for 10 EUR. Your profit is 8 EUR while the rest covers whole end-to-end operation. While we know that 20% might seem high, it’s quite similar to a lot of available services that offer nothing more than a virtual place to sell your music.
20% margin covers all costs of full customer support with agent communication and system notifications, packaging and handling your orders. It also covers PayPal Gateway commission, hosting, direct customer billing and more. Seems like a bargain.
Thanks to our storefront/marketplace you don’t have to worry about anything. Just get ready to receive a monthly statement listing all sold items. Based on this we will transfer money directly to your bank account or PayPal.
There are no startup fees or any additional costs besides mentioned 20% commission and 0,01 EUR warehousing fee for unsold copies staying in our premises at end of each month.
Fulfillment
You already have your own storefront or platform used for sales? We got you covered as well. If you don’t want to migrate to our marketplace, we can set-up the fulfillment panel that works like your own private tool for shipping.
After you deliver goods to our warehouse, we will set up the platform for your use, with all available products and formats. You can manually enter orders from your shop to the forms in the panel – simply choose items, quantity, shipping destination and method and in just two clicks and one PayPal payment away, we will take care of shipping orders to your customers.
There are no setup fees or other payments for using our fulfillment panel – in each shipping fee that you need to cover by PayPal while placing the order in the panel there is a small fee for our warehouse work. What’s more, our shipping rates are competitive enough when compared to most of courier and postal services on the market. Neither you nor your customers will notice the price difference. But for sure you will see that life can be more fun!
And of course, if you decide on selling through our marketplace, you also gain access to the panel and you can still sell using different channels of your choosing. This is also a great tool for shipping promo copies or drop shipping items from our warehouse to your retailers or distributors.
MERCH IN BULK & ON-DEMAND
Anything can be a merch item nowadays and we feel it. We produce and source tens of thousands of various physical items that be customized in a number of ways.
Depending on your needs, budget and possibilities, you can either place a bulk order for apparel and merch being screen printed or embroidered, or you can take advantage of our in-house apparel on-demand printing line and sell T-Shirts, hoodies, joggers and many more without any upfront investment nor stock leftover risk.
Merch-On-Demand
During the last couple of months we probably got used to the rapidly changing reality but still – this is a world where you have to maintain and grow your business by creating art. While merch items are popular amongst customers for obvious reasons, it is quite hard to predict how to ideally plan manufacturing your next batch of t-shirts. Or maybe this will be your first order and you have the same problem as every musician before you: what quantities and color options would succeed with your fans? Will you be able to take these on tour? Or would you be left with unsold stock for the next three years? Quite hard to guess, right?
With that in mind and also being focused on optimizing operations and inventory money-wise, we are introducing the on-demand merch service.
What it means for you is no upfront costs and a minimum effort (limited to choosing the merch option and uploading artwork). You’re just two clicks away from selling your new merchandise – with no inventory and no need of managing orders.
After your product goes live on the marketplace, with each sold item, our team is printing the merch, packaging and shipping to your customer. It is as simple as that. And no upfront cost means that you are not limited by the number of design options you can afford.
Our operations are based on the state-of-the-art machinery for water-based on-demand print and organic, vegan, fair trade merchandise from Stanley/Stella. There are no toxic substances involved (which for example may be the case with screenprinting) and the final product is much more comfortable to wear thanks to the print quality (especially in the case of multi-color designs that are not as thick and stiff as with the standard screenprinting).
To summarize: you are now able to launch your own merch line with no upfront costs at all, profit from each sold copy and not have to worry about anything at all. What’s more, you can test as many designs as you want with your customers before you decide which one should be printed in large amounts for your upcoming tour. All pros and no cons!
While you decide on the pricing, here are some examples of price calculation based on the 19.99 EUR retail price for a T-Shirt:
With one color simple print:
Retail price in store: 19.99
Minus VAT tax: 16.25
Minus D2F & fulfillment fee: 13.00
Tee & print cost: 3.00 + 2.00 = 5.00
Your payout: 8.00 EUR
With full color print (photo or complex artwork):
Retail price in store: 19.99
Minus VAT tax: 16.25
Minus D2F & fulfillment fee: 13.00
Tee & print cost: 3.00 + 5.00 = 8.00
Your payout: 5.00 EUR
During the last couple of months we probably got used to the rapidly changing reality but still – this is a world where you have to maintain and grow your business by creating art. While merch items are popular amongst customers for obvious reasons, it is quite hard to predict how to ideally plan manufacturing your next batch of t-shirts. Or maybe this will be your first order and you have the same problem as every musician before you: what quantities and color options would succeed with your fans? Will you be able to take these on tour? Or would you be left with unsold stock for the next three years? Quite hard to guess, right?
With that in mind and also being focused on optimizing operations and inventory money-wise, we are introducing the on-demand merch service.
What it means for you is no upfront costs and a minimum effort (limited to choosing the merch option and uploading artwork). You’re just two clicks away from selling your new merchandise – with no inventory and no need of managing orders.
After your product goes live on the marketplace, with each sold item, our team is printing the merch, packaging and shipping to your customer. It is as simple as that. And no upfront cost means that you are not limited by the number of design options you can afford.
Our operations are based on the state-of-the-art machinery for water-based on-demand print and organic, vegan, fair trade merchandise from Stanley/Stella. There are no toxic substances involved (which for example may be the case with screenprinting) and the final product is much more comfortable to wear thanks to the print quality (especially in the case of multi-color designs that are not as thick and stiff as with the standard screenprinting).
To summarize: you are now able to launch your own merch line with no upfront costs at all, profit from each sold copy and not have to worry about anything at all. What’s more, you can test as many designs as you want with your customers before you decide which one should be printed in large amounts for your upcoming tour. All pros and no cons!
While you decide on the pricing, here are some examples of price calculation based on the 19.99 EUR retail price for a T-Shirt:
With one color simple print:
Retail price in store: 19.99
Minus VAT tax: 16.25
Minus D2F & fulfillment fee: 13.00
Tee & print cost: 3.00 + 2.00 = 5.00
Your payout: 8.00 EUR
With full color print (photo or complex artwork):
Retail price in store: 19.99
Minus VAT tax: 16.25
Minus D2F & fulfillment fee: 13.00
Tee & print cost: 3.00 + 5.00 = 8.00
Your payout: 5.00 EUR
PHYSICAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
We take pride in being a supplier of all three physical formats: vinyl records, compact discs and audio cassettes. Each format is customizable not only in terms of size and color, but also the packaging itself can take any form you like. You can choose from 200+ templates we already have or create something totally custom from scratch.
We specialize even in the smallest runs and unlike other companies on the market, who are simply brokers of big plants outsourcing all the work, we run our own production site. We co-operate for the pressing itself, but printing, packaging, DTP, assembly, quality control, packing and shipping are all done ourselves. So you know you are talking to the guys who actually do it, not just act as middle-men.
No matter if you want to manufacture a product, which you will leave in our hands for further work with e-commerce and fulfilment solution or you want to receive the whole quantity at your address – we are here for you. And we are a one-stop shop for all the needs of self-releasing artists as well as the biggest label companies.
With a wide variety of products from CDs, vinyl records, tapes and full range of merchandise – from simple T-Shirts or hoodies to socks and record player slipmats, we are offering our expertise and assistance for years now. And in our cooperation you will be limited only by your needs and imagination. Special finishing? Atypical packaging idea? Special cardboard or paper? Something that noone ever heard before or something that others said cannot be done? Yep, we are the guys who can help with that. And everything starts in much smaller quantity that you might think. We are not doing CDRs or use digital print for smaller order, like many people on the market. When ordering 100 pcs of CD in packaging, you might be sure you will receive exact same good looking and proffessional product as if you would order thousands of copies with us.
No matter if you want to manufacture a product, which you will leave in our hands for further work with e-commerce and fulfilment solution or you want to receive the whole quantity at your address – we are here for you. And we are a one-stop shop for all the needs of self-releasing artists as well as the biggest label companies.
With a wide variety of products from CDs, vinyl records, tapes and full range of merchandise – from simple T-Shirts or hoodies to socks and record player slipmats, we are offering our expertise and assistance for years now. And in our cooperation you will be limited only by your needs and imagination. Special finishing? Atypical packaging idea? Special cardboard or paper? Something that noone ever heard before or something that others said cannot be done? Yep, we are the guys who can help with that. And everything starts in much smaller quantity that you might think. We are not doing CDRs or use digital print for smaller order, like many people on the market. When ordering 100 pcs of CD in packaging, you might be sure you will receive exact same good looking and proffessional product as if you would order thousands of copies with us.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Last, but definitely not least, we have our project management office. That’s right. Since we run a fully-managed direct-2-fan service – from concept, creation, manufacturing, sales, fulfillment and customer service – we have an in-house body overlooking all activities on your behalf.
It’s not just pressing & printing. It’s not just selling your T-Shirts on the Internet. It’s not just shipping your records out in the World. It’s all of that and everything in between. It’s a full end-to-end service.
We have a team full of technicians, our internal quality control and most importantly project management. No matter if you need help in placing the order because you are not sure what formats or quantity would be suitable or if you have any questions when the production is already in the making. You will be assigned with your own project manager, account manager and person from production team, who are here to help and assist with any matter needed.
With the hollistic approach to your release or merch line, you get one team who will manage the process from the cost quoations, help with packaging idea to order processing, overlooking the production flow, addressing any issues or concerns to fulfilling retail & wholesale orders and managing your online store. Having one point of contact gives you an instant access to information on your project, directly from the team. We believe that’s a new quality on the independent music market.
With the hollistic approach to your release or merch line, you get one team who will manage the process from the cost quoations, help with packaging idea to order processing, overlooking the production flow, addressing any issues or concerns to fulfilling retail & wholesale orders and managing your online store. Having one point of contact gives you an instant access to information on your project, directly from the team. We believe that’s a new quality on the independent music market.
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