The easiest school clothing orders in Regina, Saskatchewan
We do it all:
- Setup the online apparel shop
- Handle card payments securely, through PayPal
- Produce and sort the orders
- Offer school commissions
This service is for a school wide clothing order where families and staff place pre-orders.
If your school wants to make a large order to sell at school or give away, please contact us for a custom quote.
Let’s talk details
Products
To start, schools can decide which products they want to offer.
The popular options include t-shirts, hoodies, and sweatpants. We offer Gildan products for the most cost effective options so they can be accessible to all families. These products also have the best selection of colours and are most regularly in stock for large orders.
Some schools like to offer premium products, either alongside the classic products or in place of the classic products. An example of a premium product would be a ring spun t-shirt, a polyester hooded sweatshirt, or joggers.
Other products to consider are long sleeve shirts, crewneck sweatshirts, and headwear like hats and toques. We can also produce amazing custom knit socks!
Logo & Artwork
The second step is choosing your artwork.
Most schools go with their school logo (which makes sense!), all we require is a vector file (ai or eps), or a high resolution image file (png or jpeg).
Some schools like to change things up from year to year. You can do this by changing the product colours or tweaking the artwork. Plain View Media has helped schools come up with logo variations or creating designs based on school slogans.
An important thing to consider is that the number of colours in the artwork and number of artwork locations adds to the cost of the product.
Shop Activation & Deadline
The next step is setting a deadline for online orders.
Schools have total control of this deadline. However, just remember that your products will not go into production until sales are closed.
When selecting your shop activation, please consider the following:
- For regular orders with Plain View Apparel, production usually takes 10-12 business days. Please allow a few more days for school wide clothing orders as they tend to be much larger.
- Running your online school clothing order in the fall allows students and families to enjoy their spirit wear for the entire school year. The earlier the better.
- Meeting a Christmas deadline is doable when the ordering deadline is set in the last week of November (or very early December). This is our busiest time of year and so we like to have extra time to make this possible. Once it gets close to Christmas we will only accept a limited number of schools at that time.
Contact us about a recommended shop timeline.
Production & Delivery
After the deadline, all you need to do is wait!
The entire school apparel order will go into production after the deadline. But just before that, Plain View Apparel will confirm with the school that there are no orders in person (some schools accept orders in person at the office for those who are not able to order online, schools can decide if they want to allow this). Most schools also order a handful of items to use as gifts and prizes throughout the year (these can also be helpful if someone orders the wrong size).
For regular orders with Plain View Apparel, production usually takes 10-12 business days. Please allow a few more days for school wide clothing orders as they tend to be much larger and we pre-sort and label them so each order is ready to be handed out once it arrives at school.
Please note that some production times may be longer (like socks, masks, etc.), this will be noted on the product.
Commission
Plain View Apparel strives to give value to our school clients.
When a school orders a combined 50 t-shirts and hoodies (or any top, as long as the artwork is the exact same) we will give $100 to the school to put towards staff apparel, grade 8 clothing, extra products (to use as gifts and prizes), or any other future Plain View Media project.
Schools also have the option to add their own commission to products (instead of the above offer). We can also create coupon codes for added value.
Let’s start designing
info@plainviewmedia.ca