For t-shirt printers
Inventory and costing software for t-shirt printers. Know what every shirt really costs.
Blank tees come by the size and color, ink by the pint, emulsion by the quart, and every order needs screens and setup. The blank is clear. The rest of the cost hides in the shop. Every feature for $19. Tell us how you work and we set it up for you, free.
- Cost per shirt: $8.76 in our example
- Work order
- Can make
Updated . Example prices checked on supplier sites the same month.
What t-shirt printers see on day one
From materials on the shelf to a real cost per shirt
01 · Cost per shirt
The true cost of one printed shirt
The blank, ounces of ink, a share of the emulsion and setup, dryer minutes and the mailer. Stockria shows the cost of one shirt.
02 · Work order
Every order, costed as it runs
Open a work order for each print order, log your minutes, and the blanks and ink come off the shelf. The total is the real cost.
03 · Can make
How many can I print from what I have?
Each design shows how many shirts you can print from the blanks and ink on hand, and which size runs out first.
A worked example
What one shirt really costs: $8.76
One color screen printed tee. Small print shops often run orders of 24 to 72 shirts. This example screen prints a one color front design on 24 tees, with one screen and the dryer running about 40 minutes.
| Material | Used | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Plastisol ink, white, pint$22.95 for 16 fl oz | 12 fl oz | $17.21 |
| Photo emulsion, quart$41.99 for 28 fl oz | 1.5 fl oz | $2.25 |
| Blank tee (soft cotton, XS to XL)$5.78 for 1 piece | 24 | $138.72 |
| Poly mailer 10 x 13 in$20.00 for 100 pieces | 24 | $4.80 |
| Labour: 2 h at $20.00/hr | $40.00 | |
| Time on the dryer and exposure unit: 43 min at $10.00/hr | $7.17 | |
| Total for 24 shirts | $210.15 | |
| Cost per shirt | $8.76 | |
At a 50% margin the price is $17.51 per shirt. See every step in how to price a printed t-shirt, or change the numbers below.
Where the example prices come from
- Blank tee (soft cotton, XS to XL): $5.78 for 1 piece, from Jiffy, checked October 4, 2026.
- Plastisol ink, white, pint: $22.95 for 16 fl oz, from ScreenPrinting.com, checked October 4, 2026.
- Photo emulsion, quart: $41.99 for 28 fl oz, from McLogan, checked October 4, 2026.
- Poly mailer 10 x 13 in: $20.00 for 100 pieces, from Uline, checked October 4, 2026.
- Custom DTF transfer 11 x 11 in: $7.26 for 1 piece, from Jiffy Transfers, checked October 4, 2026.
Prices change and shipping is extra. They are here to make the example real, not as a quote. Put your own prices in the calculator.
Try it with your own apparel printing numbers
The example is filled in. Change any price or amount. No signup.
The share of the price you keep as profit. 50% means the price is twice your cost.
Example prices, October 2026. Change them to yours.
Cost per shirt
$8.76
Sell at $17.51 for a 50% margin, a profit of $8.76 per shirt.
Keep this recipe. Stockria saves it with your materials, so the cost updates when a price changes and each batch you make takes stock off the shelf.
Straight answers
What t-shirt printers ask before they switch
"I track blanks by size and color in a spreadsheet that is always wrong."
Each size and color is its own item with its own count. Orders take them off, deliveries add them back, and you see what to reorder.
"Screens, ink and setup never make it into my price."
Put ink, emulsion and setup time on the recipe for an order. A small order then carries its full setup, and a big one spreads it thin.
"Some shirts get misprinted."
Record the good shirts when you finish an order. Stockria shares the cost over what you deliver, so you see what misprints really cost.
"I don't want a bill that grows every time I get busy."
It doesn't. Stockria is a flat monthly price. It does not change with your orders, your sales or your number of items. Pro is $19 a month. You only move to a bigger plan when you add more people or more locations.
"I don't want to pay extra to unlock batches or work orders."
You won't. Every feature is on every plan, Free included: recipes, work orders, work in progress, lots and expiry dates, machines and labour, purchase orders and reports. Plans only differ by items, users and locations. Free covers 250 items, and raw materials count as items.
An honest comparison
What t-shirt printers use today, and what it costs
Public prices, checked in October 2026. If something has changed, email hello@stockria.com and we fix the page. If you plan production across several factories with a full-time planner, a manufacturing platform is the better fit. Stockria is built for the small workshop.
Common questions
Questions from t-shirt printers
Look for blanks by size and color, ink and emulsion counted, work orders for every print order, and a cost per shirt you can quote from. Stockria has all of these on every plan, including the free one.
Yes. Each size and color of a blank is its own item with its own count and reorder point, so you know which sizes to reorder before an order comes in.
Yes. A DTF transfer is a material bought by the piece. Put one transfer on the recipe for each shirt, with heat press minutes, and the cost is right.
Yes. Sell an order at cost plus a margin or a markup, as a quote or a sales order. The order keeps its real cost.
Yes. Connect your online store and each sale takes the shirt out of stock, so shirts sold online and at events share one count.
The free plan has every feature, with limits on items, users and locations. Paid plans add more when you need them.
Pricing
One flat price.
Everything included.
No surprises.
Every feature on every plan. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature, never a surprise.
Free
All features included. No credit card required.
Free
Free forever. No credit card, no trial that expires.
- Up to 250 items
- 1 user
- 1 location
- All integrations
Pro
All features included. For growing businesses.
$19
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 2 users
- 2 locations
- All integrations
- free setup assistance
Business
All features. For growing teams and a few locations.
$39
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 8 users
- 5 locations
- All integrations
- priority support
- free setup assistance
Growth
For bigger teams and multi-location operations.
$89
/mo
Flat price. You move up only when your team or locations grow, never for a feature.
- Unlimited items
- 25 users
- Unlimited locations
- All integrations
- priority support
- dedicated onboarding
Why it costs less
No setup fees, no per-item pricing, and no expensive sales and onboarding to pay for. Stockria is built lean and earns more only when your business grows into more users or locations. That is the whole model, and it is why your price stays flat and will not jump on you as you add products.
Switch plans or cancel anytime. All plans include: barcode scanning, low-stock alerts, reorder points, stock counts, stock adjustments, stock transfers, purchase orders, sales orders, customer quotes, pick lists, returns, partial receiving and payments, product variants, bills of materials, manufacturing orders, lot and batch tracking, serial numbers, multi-location tracking, team access with custom roles, activity history, check-in/check-out, custom fields, price lists, cost tracking, barcode label printing, reports, dashboards, CSV import/export, offline mode, Shopify, Amazon, Square, QuickBooks, and Xero sync, and many more features.
Know your cost per shirt by tonight. Or let us set it up for you.
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