Learning Hub course
Selling on Redbubble
What the platform actually pays you, and whether your designs belong on it
- Beginner
- 38 min total
- 2 lessons
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Redbubble handles the printing, the payment, the shipping and the customer. What it gives you in return is a markup you set on a base price you don't control, minus fees that arrive on two different clocks. Most artists never work out what that leaves them, which is a problem, because on the Standard tier the arithmetic has a genuinely surprising consequence. These two lessons compute your real number and then decide whether a specific design is worth putting through it.
What you finish with
Your own Redbubble earnings figure, and a decision about one design
You finish with a completed earnings breakdown showing your account tier, a product's base price, your markup, the artist margin before fees, any excess markup fee, the platform fee applied over the pay period, your estimated net, and where that leaves you against the payment threshold — plus a written use, test or skip decision for one specific design, with its file checked against Redbubble's current product requirements and its enabled products chosen deliberately.
Lessons
- Lesson 1 of 2Calculate What Redbubble Actually Pays YouWork out one sale, then one month — because Redbubble's two fees are charged on two different clocks, and the answer to "what markup should I set?" depends on which tier you're in.You finish with: One completed Redbubble earnings breakdown containing: your current account tier, one product's base price, the markup you have set, the artist margin before account fees, the excess markup fee if your markup is above 20%, the platform fee applied across the pay period, your estimated net artist earnings, where that leaves you against the payment threshold, and a written markup decision with its reason.18 minBeginner
- Lesson 2 of 2Decide Whether Redbubble Fits Your DesignsTake one design, check the file against Redbubble's actual product requirements, choose which products it belongs on rather than accepting the defaults, and decide whether to use, test or skip.You finish with: One written use, test or skip decision for a specific design, supported by: the file checked against Redbubble's current product dimension requirements, a deliberate list of products enabled and disabled with reasons, product previews reviewed rather than assumed, the markup reviewed against your tier's arithmetic, one earnings scenario at a sales figure you choose, and any alternative route considered where relevant.20 minBeginner