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How can our organization give every staff member or volunteer a free item from our merch store?

Yes — that's exactly what a free gift store is for. Each person receives an emailed link, picks one item from a selection you curate, and checks out without paying; prices can be hidden so it feels like a gift rather than a shop. Your organization covers the cost, and our team sets the program up with you. Gifts are included on the Essential plan and up.

Key facts

  • 25% of selling organizations have used gift or discount codes (Print Your Cause order data, Jan 2024-Jul 2026)
  • 18% of selling organizations have used gift codes specifically (Print Your Cause order data, Jan 2024-Jul 2026)

How a free gift store works

Instead of guessing sizes and handing out boxes of shirts, you can let each person choose for themselves. With a free gift store, every staff member or volunteer receives an emailed link to a gift version of your merch store. They pick one item from a selection your organization has curated, choose their size, and check out without paying anything.

Two settings keep the experience feeling like a gift rather than a shopping trip: prices can be hidden, so recipients see products instead of price tags, and add-on purchases are disabled, so no one wonders whether they are supposed to pay for extras. Your organization covers the cost of the gifts.

Because every item is printed on demand, there is no bulk order to place and nothing left over afterward. Each person receives the item they actually chose, in their size, shipped to them.

What your organization decides

  • Who receives a gift. You provide the list of staff members or volunteers, and each person gets their own link.
  • What they can choose from. You curate the selection — a few items in your branding, or a wider range.
  • Whether prices appear. Prices can be hidden when the store is configured that way.

Tax handling for gift orders is confirmed with you during setup, so there are no surprises about what your organization is covering.

Plan requirements and setup

Gifts and gift cards are included on the Essential plan and up — see plans and pricing for what each plan includes. This is not a self-serve toggle: the Print Your Cause team configures the gift store with you, the same way a real person builds your main store with you, and you review the details before any links go out.

Gifting is well-traveled ground on the platform. Among organizations that sell on Print Your Cause, 25% have used gift or discount codes, and 18% have used gift codes specifically (Print Your Cause order data, Jan 2024-Jul 2026). If a curated one-item store is not quite the right shape for your group, individual gift codes are a related option — the team can help you decide which approach fits when you set up your program.

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