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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "tapstitch",
 "name": "Tapstitch",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "tapstitch.com",
 "category": "Growth & Revenue",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Fashion-first print-on-demand for brand-builders: premium heavyweight blanks (streetwear tees, oversized hoodies), bigger print areas and made-to-order apparel with no inventory — integrates with Shopify.",
 "best_for": "creators building a real apparel or streetwear brand who care about fabric, fit and how the product feels in hand",
 "skip_if": "you want the cheapest option or the widest catalogue — for pure margin and product breadth, traditional POD like Printify wins",
 "honest_knock": "Printify is cheaper, higher-margin and has a far bigger catalogue — if you're optimising for profit per sale or product breadth, that's the real trade-off. Tapstitch earns its place when garment quality and brand feel matter more than squeezing the last point of margin.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(re-verified 2026-10-12 on tapstitch.com/collections/all; the site publishes no /pricing page — that URL returns 404) No subscription, no monthly fee and no minimum order quantity — you pay per item, production plus shipping, so there is no plan price to compare. The all-products page lists 1,244 items, 48 to a page across 26 pages; in US dollars their 'from' prices run from $2.99 to $38.99, median $14.99, at fabric weights from 91 to 760 gsm. Every item carries the same quantity ladder: about 5% off the per-item price at 6-29 pieces, about 10% at 30-99 and about 20% at 100 or more, so the listed price is the one-to-five-piece rate. Visitors outside the US see the prices in their own currency (euros from the Netherlands). The honest catch is margin rather than fees. Printify's lower product and shipping costs mean noticeably higher profit per sale, while Tapstitch's heavyweight hooded pieces, at 345 gsm and up, start between $14.92 and $38.99. Price the finished garment against your retail price, not the platform.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "meter: usage · items produced",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Printify",
  "why": "the cheaper, higher-margin, bigger-catalogue POD"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/tapstitch.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/tapstitch-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/tapstitch/",
  "vendor_site": "https://tapstitch.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://affiliate.tapstitch.com/45ovsuzucqqg",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "tapstitch:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tapstitch:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tapstitch:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tapstitch:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}