Spring selling has ended: how to rebuild your merch shop

Spring — the Teespring merch marketplace — stopped accepting new orders on 15 September 2026. Your payout records did not vanish that day. There is no MRCH importer, and Amaze’s own notice says Spring products and sales history do not move automatically. Rebuild artwork, products, prices, and shop information by hand, then point your public links at a new URL.

This page is for sellers who used Spring or Teespring and now need a working merch shop. MRCH editorial wrote it. Backstage AI LLC makes MRCH. It is not a Spring or Amaze document. Official timeline: Amaze’s Spring update, rechecked 19 September 2026 (HTTP 200). That page still writes as if 15 September is ahead. It is not. This article uses past tense for the selling cutoff. Hands-on Spring, Amaze, Printify, and MRCH create-to-listing tests were not run.

What changed on 15 September 2026

On 15 September 2026, Spring stores stopped accepting new orders. Selling, product, and listing tools were discontinued. You could no longer create, sell, or manage products there. That is the official cutoff, not a rumor and not a Java or Spring Boot story — it is the merch marketplace formerly known as Teespring.

The shutdown was staged. Selling ended first. A limited Creator Dashboard was supposed to remain for payouts. The dashboard itself is scheduled to close on 15 October 2026. After that date, the notice says eligible balances move to a separate payout website. We have not seen that later site, and we are not inventing its URL.

What the official notice kept available

After stores closed, the notice said sellers could still use a limited Creator Dashboard through 15 October 2026 for payouts and essential account actions. As of 19 September 2026 that window is still open on paper. We did not sign in to confirm the live dashboard. Official docs (checked 2026-09-19) list these remaining actions:

• View payout balances and payout history.
• Add or update payout account information.
• Complete payout confirmation steps.
• Provide required tax information.
• Request eligible payouts and check payout status.
• You could no longer manage products, listings, or storefront content.

FAQ 07 on the same notice: setup on Amaze is self-serve, and Spring order history and payout balance stay in Spring. That is the opposite of an automatic transfer. Treat any “import your Spring shop” pitch — including one that names MRCH — as false.

What you can still preserve

Before 15 September 2026, the notice advised sellers to download artwork, images, listing details, and other store information they wanted to keep. That advice is historical. If you already saved files, use them. If you did not, Spring’s listing tools are gone; look in local disks, email, cloud drives, and the design apps you originally used.

• Artwork and product images you still have locally or in a design tool.
• Titles, descriptions, and prices copied into your own notes.
• Payout history in the limited Spring dashboard through 15 October 2026, per the notice — login not verified here.
• A domain you registered outside Spring: you still control DNS. Recurring Spring subscription for a connected-domain service ended on 15 September 2026; the domain itself stays with your registrar.
• A domain purchased through Spring: the notice said annual renewal would stop and a self-service transfer tool would become available on 15 September 2026. We did not test that tool.

If teespring.com still opens, it is not your old shop. On 19 September 2026 it redirected to Amaze Commerce. Use that only as a hostname fact, not as proof Spring is selling.

Choose a replacement by the job

Pick a shop the way you actually sell: hosted URL, catalog into a store you already run, or a garment canvas with a publishable shop. Hosted merch selling is a category, not an MRCH monopoly. Amaze markets AI generation, uploads, campaigns, and publish-to-sell. Printify offers a free hosted Pop-Up Store (printify.me or an optional custom domain) and also connects to Shopify, Etsy, and other channels. Shopify is optional for Printify, not required.

If you want to follow the community path Spring’s owner is pointing to, Amaze is the honest default. That is a genuine case for a rival. Choose Printify Pop-Up if you already live in Printify and only need a shareable store link. Choose MRCH if the job is placing your art on a real blank and publishing a seller shop from the MRCH app. We did not time those jobs against each other.

Rebuild artwork, products, prices, and shop information

Every replacement in the table is a manual rebuild. Recreate the design on a current blank, write the listing again, set a price on that platform, and publish a new shop. Do not expect SKUs, customers, or order history to appear because you used the same email address.

1. Prerequisite: Files or notes you still control. Spring listing tools closed on 15 September 2026. This checklist is not a verified MRCH walkthrough — create-to-listing was not run.
2. Collect what you still have. Artwork, mockups, titles, and prices from your own folders. Do not wait on a Spring export that the listing tools no longer provide.
3. Open a garment hub or catalog you can actually use. On MRCH, the guest garment hub is https://www.sellmerch.ai/home. Placing art on a blank requires sign-in. We did not complete login or canvas this run.
4. Place the art on the current blank. Do not paste a marketplace thumbnail into a new print area and hope. Check scale, edges, and contrast on the real garment in that product. In MRCH this is the authenticated canvas, not the marketing homepage.
5. Rewrite the listing and set a live price. Copy from your notes, not from a screenshot of a dead Spring page, if the screenshot is all you have. Confirm current costs in the destination app. MRCH shows those lines on the in-app price screen after sign-in. This page publishes no fee numbers.
6. Create the shop identity the new platform requires. On MRCH, sellers set a shop name; the buyer URL is https://mrch.shop/{handle} after a seller exists. We did not create a shop this run. Amaze and Printify each have their own store-name flow — not tested here.
7. Submit publish, then check that the URL is actually live. In MRCH, an immediate submit or “Merch Publish Submitted” is not a live listing. Open the public URL in a logged-out browser when the product is supposed to be up. We did not publish a test product.
8. Result: A new product and shop URL on the platform you chose. Old Spring orders stay in Spring.

Update public links and test a buyer path

Your audience still has the old Spring or Teespring URLs in bios, Linktree pages, newsletters, and ads. Replace those with the new shop link. If you owned DNS outside Spring, remove records that pointed at Spring and point them at whatever host your new platform documents. We did not edit anyone’s DNS.

• Replace Spring/Teespring URLs in social bios and link-in-bio tools.
• Update ads and email footers that still send people to a closed storefront.
• Open the new product URL while logged out. If you only see an admin screen, buyers will not see a shop.
• Place a tiny test order only if you are ready to pay; this guide did not place one. Print-on-demand still manufactures after a paid order.

If MRCH is the replacement you chose, start with one product in the garment hub — Rebuild one product in MRCH. That hub is guest-open. The canvas, price screen, and publish flow require sign-in. The apps are free to install; generation uses credits shown at checkout. Companion downloads: App Store and Google Play.

What does not transfer

• Spring products, variants, and listing copy — rebuild them.
• Sales history and customer lists — they stay in Spring. Do not bulk-import them into MRCH.
• Open or historical orders — fulfillment and records remain Spring’s problem through its remaining payout tools.
• Payout balances — request them in Spring’s limited dashboard through 15 October 2026, then on the later payout site the notice describes.
• Marketplace discovery from the old Spring storefront — that traffic source closed with selling.

A rebuilt shop is a new shop. That is slower than an importer and it is the actual job. Recheck https://amazecommerce.com/spring-update again within 24 hours of any publication of this URL; the payout-dashboard date is still ahead as of 19 September 2026.