Promotional products for marketing agencies
Marketing and creative agencies are not end customers - they are buyers on behalf of their clients. A good agency relationship is worth ten end-customer accounts because every client the agency wins becomes another order through you. The trick is positioning as the operations partner who makes the agency look good without ever talking to their client.
What agencies need from you
Fast quotes (under 4 hours during business). Photo-quality digital mockups for client pitches, branded with the agency logo, not yours. Custom packaging that ships in unbranded cartons - the client never sees you.
Concept variety: when an agency comes to you with a campaign brief, send three options at three price points, with mockups for each. They use those to pitch the client.
Production-ready files: when the agency sends artwork, you handle the file-prep (color separation, vectorization, sizing) before production. The agency is busy; the file fixes are your value.
Pricing for the rebill markup
Agencies mark up promo to their clients. Most agencies expect a 30-50% markup on top of your wholesale. Quote them at a wholesale price that lets them retail at code R or P (40% / 50% margin) and they will reorder forever. Tier pricing helps: a clear list of items at clear prices means the agency can quote a client without asking you each time.
How to set the account up
The producer or production manager is the buyer; the account director approves; the creative director cares about the mockups. Build a portal scoped per-agency-client so each of the agency's clients has its own catalog, branding, and pricing. Multi-customer the account so the agency producer sees the rollup and individual creative leads see only their own client. Bill the agency, not their clients.
What we built differently in DECADE.promo
Unlimited AI on the GOAT plan
AI mockups, Product Capture (browser-extension AI scraping of supplier sites), AI vectorization, and AI image upscale - all unlimited on one flat-price tier. No credit metering, no per-feature add-ons.
AI Product Capture extension
Browse any supplier website - SAGE, Hit Promo, Koozie Group, anywhere - click the browser extension, and our AI reads the page. SKUs, pricing tiers, setup fees, colors, lead times, and images are extracted in seconds and import directly to your products catalog.
Tightly integrated with SAGE
Bring your own SAGE Connect subscription. Search, adopt products, and pull pricing tiers without leaving DECADE.promo. Sales decks, quotes, and POs reuse the SAGE data automatically.
Transparent pricing
Free tier for solo distributors, flat per-distributor pricing for teams, and no per-seat tax. Customers always free. Suppliers always free.
One platform. Two free accounts. One public layer for everyone else.
The tool you’re using is one feature in a much bigger app. Here’s the rest, by which side of the order you’re on.
- Every public tool on this site
- 5 conversions a day per IP
- One file at a time
- Output dropped after the request
- No account, no nag
- Every public tool, no rate limit
- Batch 10 files at once
- 30-day download history
- AI vectorization (the $50-redraw replacement)
- AI mockup generator, white-label proofs
- SAGE catalog, 1M+ products
- Quotes, POs, invoices, projects
- Storefront under your brand
- Blind-ship POs to suppliers
- Saved thread palettes per customer
- Email automation for every status
- Every public tool, no rate limit
- Every order in one place
- Approve proofs without email tag
- Two-click reorder
- Saved shipping + tax-exempt files
- Real-time status pings
- See and pay invoices online
- Message your distributor inside the app
- Always free. No card.
See it in your workflow
Free tier, no credit card, no contract. Start with one project and decide from there.