Promotional products for retail stores
A retail store or boutique sources merchandise that is part of the customer experience. The shopping bag the customer carries home, the tissue paper inside, the gift-with-purchase tucked next to the receipt. Each touchpoint either reinforces the brand or undercuts it. The promo distributor who gets retail right becomes the operations partner for everything outside the store's main inventory.
What retail stores buy
Custom shopping bags: paper bags with the store logo and brand colors, custom kraft bags, fabric tote bags for higher-end stores. Quantities of 1,000-10,000 per order.
Branded packaging: tissue paper, custom stickers for sealing bags, gift boxes for higher-tier purchases.
Gift-with-purchase items: small branded items handed out on a $X spend threshold. Custom drinkware, a small leather card holder, a candle.
Loyalty program rewards: tier-based perks for the customer loyalty program. Branded items at various spend tiers.
Staff apparel: polo shirts, custom name badges, branded aprons.
What does not work
Generic stock items. The customer expects every brand-touchpoint to feel curated. Anything that screams "we ordered this from a stock catalog" undercuts the brand the store is trying to build.
How to set the account up
The store owner or buyer is the contact. Multi-location boutiques need a per-store portal with corporate rollup. Most stores pay card-on-file for first orders, net-30 once established. Build a curated catalog for the store that matches their brand.
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.