When you use Printful’s branding services, you’ll be charged a monthly storage fee. The fee depends on the type of products you store, the space they take up in our warehouses, and the location of the warehouse. This article explains how minimum storage fees work, how to calculate your storage costs, and what taxes or currency conversions may apply.
The fee will be applied for every month during which you have any stock in Printful facilities, and we’ll charge it on the first day of the following calendar month.
Monthly minimum fee
Each month you store any inventory in a Printful warehouse, you’re billed the following day on the first of the next month.
USD 25 / EUR 22 / GBP 20 / CAD 35 if you only store branding materials (like pack-ins or packaging), or returns.
This means that, no matter how much space your stock takes, the storage fee you’ll need to pay every month won’t be smaller than USD 25.
To check if you’ll need to pay more than this minimum fee, you’ll need to sum up the space your inventory takes up in all of our facilities and multiply it by the monthly storage fee rate.
Monthly storage fee rate
The monthly storage fee rate depends on the facility's location.
- For the US warehouse, it’s a fixed price of USD 0.70 per cubic foot.
- For all other warehousing locations, the fee is based on the amount of space your stock takes, measured in cubic feet:
- 1–25 cu ft = USD 1.60 / EUR 1.40 / GBP 1.30 / CAD 2.20 per cu ft
- 25–300 cu ft = USD 1.25 / EUR 1.10 / GBP 1.05 / CAD 1.70 per cu ft
- Above 300 cu ft = USD 0.80 / EUR 0.70 / GBP 0.65 / CAD 1.00 per cu ft
Please note that the storage price for the first 25 cubic feet that you use will always stay the same (USD 1.60 per cubic foot), even if you use more space in total.
Example: If you use 26 cubic feet of storage space, you’ll pay USD 1.60 per cubic foot for the first 25 cubic feet, and then pay USD 1.25 for the 1 cubic foot that falls into the second tier.
Key points to keep in mind
- You’ll be charged the monthly minimum storage fee even if you send us the inventory close to the end of a calendar month.
- Even though we calculate your total inventory volume in all our facilities, you’ll get a separate invoice for each location where your inventory is stored in. This is to comply with local tax regulations and to charge you the correct tax amount.
- Make sure your billing method is up to date, and you have sufficient funds in your bank account on the first day of the month when we charge the storage fee. If the transaction is unsuccessful, we’ll suspend your inventory, and you won’t be able to use it. Once you cover the storage fee, please get in touch with us through our contact form or start a chat with us.
Invoice currencies
Storage fees will be charged in your preferred warehouse currency and based on the facility's location. Set your default warehouse currency that you’ll want us to charge your storage fees.
If your default warehouse currency is USD, but you also keep stock in our Europe and Canada warehouses where the local currencies are EUR, GBP, and CAN, we’ll charge you a floating storage fee that’ll depend on the exchange rate. We use the previous month’s average fixed rate and update prices on the first day of the month so they don’t fluctuate every day.
Example: Your default warehouse currency is USD, you have stock in the EU and the US. We charge your storage fees in USD, but since some of your inventory is in the EU, we convert that warehouse storage fee from EUR to USD.
Storage taxes
To follow the local tax regulations, Printful will charge:
- 21%* Value Added Tax (VAT) on your monthly storage fees for the facilities in Latvia and Spain
- 20% Value Added Tax (VAT) on your monthly storage fees for the facility in the UK
- 13%* Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) on your monthly storage fees for the facility in Ontario, Canada
Dallas, Texas warehouse
For the stock stored in our Dallas, Texas, warehouse, the Business Personal Property Tax (BPP tax) applies. Paying this tax is the responsibility of the owner of the goods, so Printful won’t charge it automatically.
Business Personal Property Tax (BPP tax) applies to the tangible personal property (including inventory) stored for a certain period in Texas. As the owner of goods, you’ll have to assess and report them to the State yearly and pay the applicable tax.
The rate of the BPP tax depends on the location of the inventory. In this case, you should use the BPP tax rate and rules of the city of Coppell, Texas, where our Warehouse is located.
You will be exempted from the BPP tax if:
- The total value of stored items over the whole tax period (a calendar year) is under USD 500
- Specific items have been stocked in the Texas warehouse for under 175 days
If these exemptions don’t apply to you, you’ll have to register as a taxpayer in Texas and file a yearly BPP tax report.