15 Best Print-on-Demand Products to Sell in 2026 (Beyond T-Shirts)
T-shirts are the gateway product for most merch stores, and for good reason — they're familiar, easy to design for, and instantly recognizable as a gift or personal purchase. But relying on t-shirts alone leaves a lot of revenue on the table. Expanding your catalog with the right complementary products increases your average order value, gives customers more reasons to buy, and helps your store stand out from the sea of shirt-only competitors.
Here are 15 print-on-demand products worth adding to your store in 2026, along with notes on who they sell well to and how to price and present them.
1. Hoodies and Crewneck Sweatshirts
Hoodies consistently rank among the highest-margin apparel items in POD catalogs since customers expect to pay more for them relative to base production cost. They perform especially well in colder months and among niches with a strong sense of community identity (sports fandoms, college groups, hobby communities).
Tip: Bundle hoodie and t-shirt versions of your bestselling designs together to capture customers who want both.
2. Mugs
Mugs are a low-cost entry point for customers who aren't ready to commit to a full apparel purchase, making them excellent "add-on" items at checkout. They also work well for gag gifts, workplace humor, and daily-ritual niches (coffee lovers, tea drinkers, remote workers).
Tip: Design mugs with text visible from the front when held, not just wrapped fully around — most product photos only show the front-facing angle clearly.
3. Tote Bags
Totes have become a staple accessory well beyond their original "reusable grocery bag" purpose, especially among niches focused on sustainability, books, coffee culture, or minimalist aesthetics.
Tip: Simple, single-color line art tends to perform better on totes than dense, colorful designs, since the canvas texture affects fine detail differently than fabric printing.
4. Phone Cases
Phone cases offer a highly personal product surface and tend to have strong impulse-purchase potential, especially when paired with a design a customer already loves from another product (matching phone case + shirt combos).
Tip: Make sure your design accounts for camera cutouts and case edges across multiple phone models, since a design that looks great on one model may be awkwardly cropped on another.
5. Stickers
Stickers are one of the lowest-cost products to produce and buy, making them a great low-barrier entry point, upsell add-on, or even a giveaway/loss-leader to build an email list.
Tip: Sticker packs (bundles of 3-5 related designs) often outperform single stickers in perceived value and average order size.
6. Posters and Wall Art
Posters and framed prints appeal to customers decorating a room around a specific interest — gaming, music, motivational quotes, minimalist line art, or niche hobbies.
Tip: Offering multiple size options (small desk print vs large wall poster) lets customers self-select their budget and space without you needing separate designs.
7. Tumblers and Water Bottles
Insulated tumblers and water bottles have grown into one of the most popular POD categories thanks to strong demand from fitness, wellness, and everyday-carry niches.
Tip: These items typically support higher price points than mugs, so they're a good option for niches where customers are used to premium pricing (fitness brands, workplace gifting).
8. Baby and Kids' Apparel
Baby onesies and kids' t-shirts tap into the gifting market hard — new parents, grandparents, and baby showers all represent high-intent buying occasions.
Tip: Keep sizing charts extremely clear and prominent on these listings, since sizing confusion is one of the most common return/refund reasons in this category.
9. Pet Accessories (Bandanas, Pet Bowls, Leashes)
Pet-focused products tap into an enormous and highly emotional purchasing category. Owners frequently buy for their pets the same way they'd buy for a family member.
Tip: Personalization (pet's name added to the design) significantly increases perceived value and willingness to pay in this category.
10. Notebooks and Journals
Notebooks and journals do well with niches focused on productivity, journaling, students, therapy/self-care communities, and planning enthusiasts.
Tip: Interior page style (lined, dotted, blank) matters as much as cover design to this audience — consider offering a couple of interior format options.
11. Hats and Beanies
Embroidered hats carry a premium feel compared to printed apparel and work especially well for logo-style or minimalist text designs rather than complex full-color art.
Tip: Keep hat designs simple — embroidery has lower detail resolution than fabric printing, so intricate designs often don't translate well to this product.
12. Blankets and Throws
Blankets serve as a higher price-point, high-perceived-value item, often positioned as a premium or gift-tier product within a niche's catalog.
Tip: Photo-based or busy full-coverage designs tend to perform well on blankets, unlike some other products where minimalism wins — this is a good product to feature bolder, more detailed art.
13. Aprons and Kitchen Textiles
Aprons, oven mitts, and kitchen towels appeal strongly to cooking, baking, and home-focused niches, and make natural gift items for holidays.
Tip: Humor-based designs (puns, cooking jokes) tend to be the strongest-performing category here.
14. Face Masks and Accessories
While demand has normalized since pandemic peaks, face masks remain a steady niche product for certain communities (medical workers, specific fandoms, seasonal allergy sufferers).
Tip: This is a smaller, more situational category — best treated as a niche add-on rather than a catalog centerpiece.
15. Puzzles
Photo or illustration-based puzzles have grown as a nostalgic, screen-free gift category, appealing to families, older demographics, and collectors of a particular fandom or interest.
Tip: Puzzles work best with designs that have enough visual complexity and detail to make assembly engaging — overly simple designs feel underwhelming as a puzzle.
How to Decide Which New Products to Add
Not every product fits every niche. Before adding a new product line, ask:
- Does the product match how my audience actually uses items related to my niche? A fitness niche benefits more from tumblers than notebooks, for example.
- Does the product support my existing designs well, or does it need entirely new artwork? Products with very different print areas (mugs vs blankets) may need adapted versions of your designs rather than a direct copy-paste.
- What's the margin after production cost? Higher-priced items like blankets and hoodies often carry better margins in absolute dollar terms, even if the percentage margin looks similar to cheaper items.
- Can I present it well with quality mockups? A product you can't photograph or mock up convincingly will underperform regardless of the design quality.
Building a Balanced Catalog
A strong POD catalog usually layers products into three tiers:
- Entry-level / impulse buys — stickers, mugs, small accessories that get added to cart alongside a bigger purchase.
- Core products — t-shirts, hoodies, totes that make up the bulk of your sales volume.
- Premium / gift-tier items — blankets, tumblers, framed art that carry higher price points and work well for holidays and special occasions.
Structuring your store this way naturally increases average order value, since customers browsing a core product are frequently exposed to complementary entry-level and premium items along the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which print-on-demand product has the best profit margin? Margins vary by production cost and retail pricing norms in each category, but higher-priced items like hoodies, blankets, and tumblers often generate more profit per sale in absolute dollar terms than lower-cost items like stickers, even though the percentage margin can be similar.
Should I offer every product on this list? No — it's better to choose a focused set of products that genuinely fit your niche and audience rather than spreading design effort across every possible product type.
Do different products require different design files? Often yes. Products with different print areas or techniques (embroidery vs fabric printing vs sticker die-cutting) may need adapted versions of a design rather than the exact same file used everywhere.
How many products should a new store launch with? Starting with a smaller, focused catalog — one or two core apparel items plus a couple of complementary accessories — is generally easier to manage and market than launching a huge catalog all at once.
Final Thoughts
Expanding beyond t-shirts isn't about adding as many products as possible — it's about matching the right complementary items to your specific niche and customer buying behavior. Start with one or two additions that clearly fit your audience, watch how they perform, and expand your catalog deliberately from there.