Most shops working with the Gildan apparel manufacturer catalogue of blanks still sell it the slow way: a client asks, somebody opens the catalogue, builds a quote by hand, emails it, and waits. The catalogue is not the bottleneck. The path between the catalogue and the order is.

How a connected catalogue works in practice

Think of it as removing the retyping. Today a client asks, someone finds the product, checks the price, builds the quote and waits. Connected, the client finds the product themselves at the price you set, and the only human decision left is the one that actually needs judgement.

• A live product list your client can browse without asking you anything
• Your margin applied by rule, so quoting no longer depends on one person
• Impossible combinations blocked at the point of order rather than caught later
• Approval captured with the order, with a name and a timestamp against it
• Reorders that cost you almost nothing to process

Decoration on blanks and volume apparel

This catalogue is typically used for volume tee and fleece decorating where price per piece decides the job, and the decoration side is what the store has to get right. For blanks and volume apparel that means:

• Screen printing, where the setup cost decides whether a short run is worth taking at all
• DTF and heat applied transfers, which is what makes a single piece order possible
• Embroidery on the heavier weights, where stabiliser choice matters more than stitch count

The store rules that matter for blanks and volume apparel

These are the rules that decide whether the store gets used twice or used for years. They are specific to this kind of product, and they are where most stores are quietly broken.

• Colour is the trap. Publish the colour names the supplier uses, not your own, or your client orders a colour you cannot actually get.
• Size runs differ by style inside the same catalogue. Attach the real size chart per style rather than one chart for the whole store.
• Set a minimum per decoration method. Screen printing at quantity one loses money no matter how you price it.

Where it sits in your mix

This is the price floor of most shops, and the price floor is where online stores either work or quietly lose money. At this level the decoration and the handling can easily cost more than the garment, so every manual minute you spend on an order is a larger share of the margin than it would be anywhere else in your catalogue.

How this catalogue actually gets bought

Volume runs where price per piece decides the job, plus a long tail of small reorders that only pay if nobody touches them by hand. Stock is North America based, which affects freight and lead time, and both belong in the store rather than in a conversation after the order is placed.

What it takes to go live

• Your account with the supplier, which stays yours
• The styles you want published, or a category to start from
• Your markup rules, by category rather than one blanket number
• Your decoration methods and their real minimums
• Your logo files and the placements you allow

That is the whole list. Everything after it is configuration, and configuration is either our job or your team's, depending on how you want to work. The licence is in your name in both cases.

Two ways to run it

Your team can build and maintain the store, with training until they can do it without us, or we can build and maintain it while your team watches how it is done. Same platform, same access, same licence in your name. Switching between the two costs nothing in either direction.

Questions

Do I need my own Gildan account?

Yes, and you should. The supplier relationship, the pricing you have negotiated and the account terms stay yours. We connect the catalogue to your store, we do not sit between you and your supplier.

Can I control which Gildan products appear?

That is the point. You publish the styles you want to sell, in the categories you want, at the prices you set. A curated store outperforms a full catalogue almost every time, because the buyer is not doing your filtering for you.

How do markups work on Gildan products?

By rule rather than by hand. You set them per category and they apply automatically as products load. You can override a specific style when you want to, but you are never pricing one product at a time.

Which decoration methods should I offer on blanks and volume apparel?

Only the ones you can actually deliver on that specific garment. Screen printing, where the setup cost decides whether a short run is worth taking at all. The store should make an impossible combination impossible to order, rather than catching it after the fact.

What makes a blanks and volume apparel store different?

Colour is the trap. Publish the colour names the supplier uses, not your own, or your client orders a colour you cannot actually get.

The other catalogues

See every supplier catalogue we wire in, or read what a company store must include before you launch one for a client.