Advice Request: School Apparel/Accessory Store

[4runner]

Dear Fastlaners,

I'd appreciate your feedback for what I should do in this situation.

I work at a highschool, and I've been asked to create a school apparel/accessory shop. The board wants it to be profitable starting this year.

My idea is to get a simple shopify website and link it to a print-on-demand company like printful.

Goals:

• Lean - limited physical inventory
• completely outsourced fulfillment
• Easy to create/change product designs
• Easy to create/manage ecommerce store
• Easy in general to manage, as I'm a teacher and have a lot of other responsibilities - don't want this to take up a lot of my time

I will be selling the products for the school at their sporting events, so I was thinking the limited inventory I physically held would be for people to physically see/touch the product / check sizing, etc, and if they so desire, can purchase at a premium (maybe 50-100% more than the price on the ecommerce store).

What do ya'll think about this idea, any tweaks you'd suggest, or do you have a better idea of how to handle this?

Thank you so much in advance for your advice!!

 

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[DoTheWork]

Do you plan on scaling this? Or is this staying inside this one particular school?

 

[4runner]

Do you plan on scaling this? Or is this staying inside this one particular school?

Right now, this is staying inside this one particular school, so not exactly "fastlane." I know there's other companies out there that are fastlane companies that offer schools an apparel shop service (so this function could be 100% outsourced), however I want to be able to have more control over the website/products/prices than I'd be able to have using one of those companies...

 

[4runner]

Hope everyone's having a great day!

I'm still stuck on my idea I've listed above...

Seems like it could work, but can anybody shoot holes in it / improve on it?

Really appreciate your advice.

 

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