Selling band merch at shows has been done for years and is still one of the best ways for musicians to make money while on tour. However, with the popularity of online shopping constantly on the rise, your band should be selling online. It’s really easy to setup an “online merch table” for your fans to buy stuff from you at any time. Best of all, it won’t cost you any money.
We’re going to walk through setting up your online merch table with the free MyMinto e-commerce platform.
Step 1
Get a free account. It’s just like signing up for anything else. Get an account and choose a URL for your store. You’ll probably want to use your band name for the URL. For example, if you’re in a band called Wombat Arena you’ll probably want wombatarena.myminto.com.
Step 2
Get a PayPal account. This is how you’ll get paid. The easiest account to get is the Website Payments Standard. There’s no monthly fee or anything like that.
Step 3
Login to MyMinto and navigate to the “My Account” section. Enter the email you used to signup for PayPal into the “PayPal email address” section. This links your store up with PayPal. You’re ready to start selling merch!
Step 4
Start adding your merch. You’ll have to create some categories first. For example, you might want to have separate categories for Music and Apparel. Create those categories, then navigate to the “Products” section. You can now start adding your band merch into these categories.
Step 5
Add CDs, Vinyl, T-Shirts, and all of your other merch by uploading an image of the shirt or album cover and setting a price. If you want, you can get more in depth and add product options like shirt color, size, etc.
Step 6
Add your band logo by going to the “Theme” section and change the store colors if you want.
Step 7
Spread your store link everywhere! Link it up to your website, Myspace, and everywhere you can think of. Your fans can now buy all of your merch online and best of all, it didn’t cost you anything!
