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What StitchPress costs against the tools decoration shops use.
Every price below was read from the vendor's public page on 2026-10-08 and worked out for one shop size. Where a vendor keeps a price behind a sales call, the cell says verify. Prices change; the source link is in every row.
Its vendor, radykal, has moved development, services and support to a hosted product, Chamevo. Their announcement gives the dates: support extensions stopped selling on 2026-03-01, and the Genius export and AI services went offline on 2026-06-01. Existing licences keep running.
Orders already placed stay in your WooCommerce database. The print-ready export ran on radykal's servers and is gone; the export left inside the plugin is 72 DPI. Staying with the vendor means a Chamevo monthly plan with an order cap (table below).
Moving to StitchPress: there is no one-click importer for FPD products yet. It is on our roadmap, not in the plugin. What 1.0.0-rc4 does have: garment rules that set up the WooCommerce products you already sell from their title, category and own photos, and a bulk setup that reports every product before it changes anything and can be undone. It does not read FPD's views or printing boxes. Both plugins can stay installed while you switch; stop FPD loading its scripts on the products that use StitchPress.
Cost at one shop size
Three years at 300 decorated orders a month.
The shop: 300 decorated orders a month at $45 each, so $13,500 a month in decorated sales; one store; one unique personalised item per order; annual billing where the vendor offers it. Card processing is left out for everyone. Totals include one-time fees the vendor publishes.
| Product | Per month at this volume | Per-order fee or cap | 1 year | 3 years | Where the data lives | Proofs / work order | Setup | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| StitchPress Shop | $16.58 (billed $199 a year) | None; no order cap | $199 | $597 | Your WordPress database | Yes / Yes (Job Jacket) | Garment rules set up products from their title and photos | Pricing |
| Chamevo Pro (FPD's successor) | $199 (Growth stops at 250 orders) | No transaction fee; 750 orders a month | $2,388 | $7,164 | Chamevo's servers | Not checked | Not checked | chamevo.com/pricing |
| Zakeke Grow | $339.50 ($110 + 1.7% of sales) | 1.7% of each customised sale; 50 published products | $4,074 | $12,222 | Zakeke's servers (designer in an iframe) | No / No | Per product: images, print areas, method, price rules | zakeke.com/pricing |
| Customily | $249 ($49 + item fees) | $1 per unique item for the first 100, then $0.50 | $2,988 | $8,964 | Customily's servers | No / No | Per product, by you | customily.com/pricing |
| Kickflip | $322.25 ($59 + 1.95% of sales) | 1.95% of custom sales at this volume (verify band) | $3,867 | $11,601 | Kickflip's servers | No / No | Not checked | gokickflip.com/pricing |
| Lumise | None ($69 one-time) | None | $69 | $69, plus support renewals (verify) | Your WordPress; licence checked against Lumise's server, one domain | No / No | Per product: stages, images, print areas | CodeCanyon |
| Fancy Product Designer | None ($59 one-time) | None | $59 | $59; no support sold since 2026-03-01 | Your WordPress; print-ready export was on radykal's servers, offline since 2026-06-01 | No / No (order viewer) | Per product: views, mockups, printing boxes | CodeCanyon |
| InkSoft Standard | $314 | No platform fee; InkSoft Payments required, rate not published (verify) | $4,267 with the $499 connection fee | $11,803 | InkSoft's servers; deleted 90 days after you cancel | Yes (art approval) / Partial (print-ready PDFs, purchase orders) | Their hosted store; 30 days' notice to cancel | inksoft.com/pricing, cancellation |
| DecoNetwork Standard | $239 | None; one-time licence not published (verify) | $2,868 + licence | $8,604 + licence | DecoNetwork's servers | Yes / Yes (Business Hub) | Their hosted store; onboarding sessions | deconetwork.com/pricing |
| OrderMyGear pop-up stores | $533.25 (3.95% of sales) | 3.95% of the customer's cart total | $8,298 with the $1,899 licence | $21,096 | OrderMyGear's servers | No designer, no proofs, no work order | Team and company stores, not a designer | ordermygear.com/pricing |
Why the monthly model costs more over time
A yearly licence costs the same in year three as in year one, and it does not grow with your orders. A percentage fee grows with every sale: at this shop size Zakeke comes to $12,222 over three years and Kickflip to $11,601, because 1.7 or 1.95 percent of $13,500 a month is more than either plan's base price. Order caps move you up a tier as you grow; 300 orders a month is past Chamevo's 250-order plan, so this shop pays for Pro, $7,164 over three years. The hosted platforms charge for the storefront as well as the designer: InkSoft Standard is $11,803 over three years with its connection fee, and DecoNetwork Standard $8,604 before its licence. StitchPress Shop is $597 over the same three years, on the hosting you already pay for. The one-time plugins cost less again, with six months of support or none, and no proof or work order.
Features
What each one does for a decoration shop.
| Feature | StitchPress | FPD / Chamevo | Lumise | Zakeke | Customily | Kickflip | InkSoft | DecoNetwork |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decoration areas on the garment photo | Zones, or free placement per template | Printing boxes on a canvas | Print areas on a canvas | Print areas | Not checked | Not checked | Printable areas | Yes |
| Proof rounds before production | Yes, with a production hold | FPD: no. Chamevo: not checked | No | No | No | No | Art approval | Art approval |
| Work order for the floor | Job Jacket | Order viewer only | No | No | No | No | Print-ready PDFs, purchase orders | Business Hub |
| Set up from the product page | Yes: garment rules, Decoration tab, bulk setup | Per product | Per product | Per product; settings can be copied | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked |
| Embroidery priced by size, stitch count | Size bands; stitch count is an estimate | No | No | No; embroidery is a preview effect | No | No | Not checked | Stitch-count quoting |
| Fonts named on the work order | Yes; you upload fonts you license | No work order | No work order | No work order | No work order | No work order | Not checked | Not checked |
| What runs on the product page | A short form, or drag inside the zones; no canvas library | Canvas | Canvas | Hosted iframe | Hosted designer | Hosted designer | Hosted designer | Hosted designer |
| Names and numbers (team rosters) | Not yet | Not checked | Not checked | Grow plan and up | Not checked | Not checked | Yes | Not checked |
| Quote requests without payment | Not yet | Not checked | Not checked | Add-on from $49.90 a month | Not checked | Add-on, $99 a month | Yes | Yes |
| Stitch files (DST, PES) | No; you get the artwork and the spec | No | No | No | Through a Melco or Wilcom account | No | Not checked | Not checked |
| Import from Fancy Product Designer | Not yet | n/a | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked | Not checked |
OrderMyGear is left out of this table: it runs team and company stores and has no designer. Chamevo's proof and work-order features were not on its public pages when we checked.
Pick the canvas tool when
You need what a canvas gives and StitchPress does not.
- All-over print, sublimation or photo products
- Image filters, clip-art libraries, a drawing surface the customer owns
- Vector export of the customer's design
- Products without fixed decoration areas
StitchPress will not grow these features. The order model is placement, size, colour, text, typeface and artwork reference, so a record is small, can be priced on the server, and prints the same way years later. A canvas trades all of that for freedom.
Pick StitchPress when
Your shop produces what the customer ordered, and the order has to be right.
The size sets the price
A drawn size cannot be checked out at a smaller band.
Where a zone has a real width, the size the customer draws sets the price band, and the server refuses a submitted size that disagrees with the drawn one.
The record is the order
What the browser drew is never the source of truth.
Placement geometry is stored as percentages of a declared stage. A template edit or deletion later does not change what an old order prints.
The proof gates production
Nothing moves to the floor until a round is approved.
Rounds, decisions, comments and times are recorded on the order. A change that costs more becomes a linked balance order.
The floor gets a sheet
Thread codes, fonts, artwork, estimate, production record.
Printed one at a time or in a batch from the queue, with blank lines for the stitch count, backing and hooping your embroiderer fills in.
What we will not say
Rules this page follows
- Every competitor figure is dated and sourced; "Not checked" means we did not find it on the vendor's public pages; we do not fill it from memory.
- No claims about another vendor's bugs or support. The Fancy Product Designer dates are the vendor's own announcement. Our own measured numbers (1,356 ms designer ready on a throttled phone) are lab runs on our staging site, not your store.
- No testimonials. There are none yet. The first customer story will be published with the shop's written permission and measured results, or not at all.
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Order a decorated cap on the demo and open its Job Jacket on the admin side.