AI Art Auto-Placement, SanMar, and S&S Activewear

TL;DR

• Live integrations with SanMar and S&S Activewear. Browse and import from 9,000+ blanks with live pricing and inventory.
• New AI art auto-placement engine figures out where your logo should sit on every product, automatically.
• Bulk decorate an entire catalog in a single click. Mockups, pricing, and inventory stay in sync.

Setting up a branded store has always been the slow part of selling promo. You pick blanks, copy SKUs, hunt down mockup templates, drag your logo onto each garment, nudge it until it looks right, then do the whole thing again for the next product. For a 30-item team store, that's an afternoon. For a catalog, it's a week.

Today we're shipping two features that collapse that workflow into a few clicks: direct supplier integrations with SanMar and S&S Activewear, and an AI art placement engine that decorates your entire catalog for you.

SanMar and S&S Activewear, built in

Itemstores now connects directly to SanMar and S&S Activewear, the two largest apparel distributors in North America. You get access to 9,000+ blanks from the brands you already sell, including Nike, Carhartt, The North Face, Champion, Sport-Tek, Bella + Canvas, and Gildan, all without leaving your dashboard.

Search the catalog, pick a product, and import it. Colors, sizes, product photos, and descriptions come over automatically. Pricing and inventory are pulled live, so your storefront never sells something the warehouse is out of.

AI art auto-placement

Importing blanks is only half the job. The other half, and the tedious one, is actually putting your art on them. Every product has a different front, a different back, a different sleeve, a different safe area. Do it wrong and your logo lands on a seam or gets clipped by a pocket.

Our new AI art placement engine handles this for you. Upload your design once, and Itemstores figures out where it should sit on each product: centered on the chest, scaled correctly, respecting seams and print areas. No more dragging, nudging, or eyeballing.

Bulk decorate an entire catalog in one click

The real payoff is when you combine the two. Import a batch of blanks from SanMar or S&S, drop in your artwork, and hit decorate. Itemstores generates clean mockups across every product in the selection, precisely positioned and ready to sell, while pricing and inventory stay in sync with the supplier.

A team store that used to take an afternoon now takes about five minutes. A full seasonal catalog takes an afternoon instead of a week.

Try it

Both features are live now for every Itemstores account, including starter. If you've been putting off building out a store because the setup felt like too much work, this is the update to come back for. Create an account and import your first batch of blanks. We think you'll be surprised how fast it goes.