For organizers
Group orders, run the way organizers actually run them
Somebody always ends up in charge of shirts. This page is written for that person, because the hard part of a group order has never been the design.
The real work is size collection
Designing the shirt takes ten minutes. Getting thirty-one people to tell you their size takes eleven days, three reminders, and one phone call to somebody who does not use email. Every group order fails in the same place.
So we handle that part properly. You get a size-collection link you can drop into a group chat, an email thread, or a church bulletin. People tap it, pick a size, put their name in, done. You watch the list fill up and you chase only the people who have not answered, instead of chasing everybody.
How an organizer runs it end to end
- Generate the design and get it the way you want it. Ask us to look at it before you send it round; a second pair of eyes at this stage is cheap.
- Open a size collection and set a closing date. Set it a week before you actually need it, because you will need that week.
- Send the link to the group. People pick their own size, which means nobody blames you for guessing.
- Close the list, add spares, and place one order. You pay once, for everything, on one invoice.
- The run is printed together and shipped to one address, unless you have asked for something else.
Sizes: the part everybody underestimates
A family reunion size run is nothing like a corporate size run. Adults, teenagers, children, toddlers, and at least two people who need 3XL or 4XL and are used to being told the order did not include their size. Get that wrong and it is the thing people remember.
- Adult sizes run through the full range, and the large end is not an afterthought. Ask for it and it is in the run.
- Youth and toddler sizes go in the same order as the adult sizes and print from the same file, so the kids match the grown-ups.
- Order spares. Ten per cent, rounded up, in the middle sizes. Somebody always brings a cousin.
The single most common group-order regret is not ordering spares. The second is closing the size list on the day the shirts were needed rather than a week before.
Deadlines, honestly
There are three clocks in a group order and only two of them are ours. Your size collection takes as long as your group takes. Production takes as long as production takes. Shipping is a carrier and belongs to nobody.
We will tell you what we know about the first two and we will not invent a number for the third. When you tell us the date of your event, we will tell you plainly whether it is comfortable, tight, or not going to happen, and we would rather say the third one early than apologize later.
Reruns and next year
Your print-ready file stays attached to the order. When somebody misses the deadline, or the reunion happens again next July, we print from the same file and the new shirts match the old ones. Reunion committees that have been doing this for twenty years care about that more than anything else on this page.
Questions
How many shirts is a group order?
Anything from a handful upward. The tiers on the pricing page split at small and large, but the size-collection tooling is available at any quantity.
Can shirts ship to individual people instead of one address?
One address is the default and it is the cheapest way to do it. If you need shirts split across addresses, email us before you order and we will tell you what is possible for your run.
Can we put individual names on the back?
Yes, and it is the single most popular add-on for reunions and teams. Names are collected in the same step as sizes, so you are not maintaining a second list.
Who pays?
Usually the organizer pays once and collects from the group separately, which is why the whole order is a single invoice. If an organization is paying, email us and we will bill it accordingly.
What if somebody replies after the list closes?
They always do. That is what spares are for, and if spares run out we can print more from the same file.