Why Carrd sites link out to sell
Carrd is the one-page builder behind a lot of personal sites, link pages and launch pages. At the time of writing, Pro Lite costs $9 a year, Pro Standard $19 and Pro Plus $49. Embeds of your own code and widgets start at Pro Standard, and so do payment-enabled forms. There is no catalog, no cart and no shipping.
So people link out: a Gumroad page, a Shopify store, a print-on-demand storefront. Each works, and each sends the visitor away from the page you designed to a second brand, sometimes with a second monthly bill.
Merch5 sits on the page. Add an Embed element, paste one snippet, and the store renders inside your Carrd site. On the free plan or Pro Lite, point a button at your store link instead; it opens on its own URL. We print each order in the buyer's region and ship it.
How to add a merch store to a Carrd site
Three steps in the Carrd editor. On a plan without embeds, step three is a button.
Add an Embed element
Press + in the editor, choose Embed and set its type to Code. Put it under your intro or in its own section.
Paste the Merch5 embed code
In the Merch5 app open a product, find Embed on your site and copy the code. Paste it into the element's code field, keep the style inline, and save.
Publish, or use a button
Publish the site and the store renders in place. No embeds on your plan? Add a Buttons element and point it at your store link instead.
A store elsewhere vs. a Merch5 store on your Carrd page
| A store behind a button | Merch5 on your Carrd page | |
|---|---|---|
| Carrd plan | Any | Pro Standard for the embed; any plan for a button link |
| Monthly fee | A store plan or a cut of each sale, depending on the platform; Shopify from $39/mo | $0 |
| Where the buyer pays | On another site | Inside your page, or on your own store link |
| Printing and shipping | You, or a POD app connected to that store | We print in the buyer's region and ship to 100+ countries |
| Inventory | Depends on the store | None. Each item is printed after the customer pays |
| Product photos | Your own or the POD app's mockups | Generated for every design and color |
| Setup | A second store to build and keep in sync | One element, one snippet |
Carrd prices are the published yearly figures at the time of writing; carrd.co/pro has the current ones.
Can you sell on Carrd?
Sort of. These are the three routes.
Payment forms
Pro Standard and up include payment-enabled forms. Good for one fixed-price item or a donation; sizes, printing and shipping stay on you.
A store elsewhere
Gumroad, Shopify or a POD storefront behind a button. Works on every plan; the buyer leaves your page and meets someone else's brand.
Merch5
The store renders inside your page with one Embed element, or opens from a button on any plan. Printing, shipping and checkout are inside.
Free to set up. Paid out of orders you already received.
Your Carrd plan stays what it is — the selling part happens on our side. Printing and shipping are charged from the order itself, and everything above cost is yours.
Need branded packaging and inserts, or a custom setup? That lives on the paid plans. Everything described on this page does not.
What a t-shirt actually costs
Carrd sites that sell merch
Creator link page
The Carrd that sits in your bio becomes the shop too. One link, no extra hop. Merch from Instagram
Indie game or app launch
A one-pager with the trailer, the wishlist button and a launch tee for the first fans. Merch for games
Meetup or event page
Sell the edition before and after the day from the same page people RSVP on. Merch for events
The same store works on every channel you have
One catalog, one production network, one dashboard — pick the channel your audience is already on.
Carrd questions
For the store inside your page, Pro Standard or higher, because that is where Carrd's Embed element starts at the time of writing. On the free plan or Pro Lite, link a button to your store; it works the same, on its own URL.
No. The Merch5 store brings its own catalog, cart, checkout, printing and shipping.
Yes. The store adapts to the width of its container. Give it its own section if the grid feels cramped next to text.
No. The script loads asynchronously and pulls product images only when the store comes into view, so your first paint and Core Web Vitals stay where they are.
Nothing. The store, the product mockups and the hosting are free, and the Carrd side costs exactly what it costs you today. Printing and shipping are charged out of an order after your customer has paid for it; there is no platform fee on top.
Everything in the Merch5 catalog: tees, v-necks, tank tops, hoodies, kids and infant sizes, plus accessories and print items. Each product is printed per order, so you can list the whole range without buying any of it.
We do. Each order goes to the production partner closest to the buyer and ships with tracking to more than 100 countries, so delivery times stay sane even when the audience is not in your country.
Your margin on every completed order adds to your balance in the Merch5 dashboard. Request a payout whenever you want it. There is no minimum amount. You set the retail price, so you decide what that margin is.
Your Carrd page is up. The store takes five minutes.
No second store, no inventory, no monthly fee.