ManagePrint vs Chipply
Chipply takes 3.5% of every product and decoration you sell, plus $1,000 to get started. ManagePrint takes 0.6%, charges nothing to onboard, and turns those orders into real invoices and production jobs.
A year of product and decoration sales, across every store.
ManagePrint: $99/mo Professional + 0.6% ($600). Chipply: 3.5% of $100k, no monthly fee.
Then $1,712 every year after, once their $1,000 onboarding fee is behind you.
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See the full feature comparisonChipply's $1,000 one-time onboarding fee and 3.5% fee on product price and decoration are per chipply.com/pricing (captured August 2026); Chipply charges no monthly fee. ManagePrint's Professional plan is $99/mo with a 0.6% platform fee. Payment processing is left out of both sides because it's identical — Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 either way. Chipply's 3.5% excludes taxes, fundraising amounts, and optional personalization, so a store heavy in those will owe less than shown. Volume means annual product-and-decoration sales.
Chipply has been building online stores for team dealers and decorators since 2006, and it is good at the thing it does: unlimited team stores, spirit wear stores, fundraisers, and employee stores with no monthly hosting fee. You pay a $1,000 one-time onboarding fee, then 3.5% on products and decoration, on top of 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing.
ManagePrint comes at online stores from the other direction. Stores aren't the product — they're one part of the software that already runs your shop, alongside quoting, invoicing, scheduling, and the production floor. So a paid order doesn't sit in a separate system waiting to be exported: it becomes an invoice and a job, and at the end of a group order every order in the store consolidates into one invoice and one job. Here's the honest side-by-side.
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A ManagePrint storefront in group-order mode. Orders pool until the store closes, then land as one invoice and one production job. How online stores work
At a glance
How ManagePrint and Chipply stack up, side by side.
Chipply pricing per chipply.com/pricing (captured August 2026): a $1,000 one-time onboarding fee, a 3.5% commission on products and decoration only, and 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing. ManagePrint's 0.6% is its platform fee; Stripe's 2.9% + $0.30 applies on both sides. Items marked “—” were not confirmed on Chipply's public pages at the time of writing. Features change — verify current details with each vendor before switching.
Why shops switch
The reasons print shops move from Chipply to ManagePrint.
Keep the commission
ManagePrint's platform fee is 0.6%. Chipply's commission is 3.5% on products and decoration. On a $50,000 season that difference is about $1,450 — money that came from your own customers, buying your own shirts.
The store isn't a separate system
A paid order becomes a real invoice and a real production job, on the same board as the rest of your work. Close a group order and every order in the store merges into one invoice and one job, combined by product, size, and color.
Know what the store actually made
Pull per-size blank costs straight from the S&S Activewear catalog — a 2XL really does cost more — add what each print location costs, and see true margin per product and profit per store.
Pay the booster club its cut
Set a split per store, like 60/40 with the dance school, and ManagePrint reports each side's share of profit after blanks, decoration, and fees. The numbers are frozen at purchase, so editing a cost next month can't restate last month's payout.
Where Chipply is the better pick
Be honest about the math: Chipply has no monthly fee, so if online stores are the only thing you sell and you don't need shop management software, the arithmetic can favor them. The commission gap is 2.9 points, which takes roughly $41,000 a year in store volume to outweigh ManagePrint's $1,188 Professional plan. Below that, Chipply likely costs you less. Chipply also goes deeper on store merchandising and the team-dealer workflow it has specialized in since 2006, and it comes with a customer success team and an industry network that a younger platform can't match. ManagePrint is the better pick when the store is one part of a shop that also quotes, invoices, schedules, and prints — because then the $99 is already paying for itself and the store rides along at 0.6%.
Questions, answered.
Unlimited online stores at 0.6%, not 3.5% — and every order lands as a real job.
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