I am a graphic designer, poet, artist—and I’ve been wanting to open up a merch business and design shirts/other merch. To me it would seem that the easiest route would be using something like Squarespace or Wix, or maybe even Shopify. (I’ve heard Wordpress dot org is good but it seems daunting.) I would want the majority of me merch to be provided through a print on demand service that ideally I could rig to whenever people make a purchase, their info is automatically forwarded to whatever POD service and handled through there automatically. But I will also want to sell artworks or other services on my site, so I need to be able to do that. I guess I’m looking at making like half a portfolio for my art/marketing, and half for selling things.
Any one have any advice on such a thing?