Pop-Up Shops and Online Company Stores.
A pop-up shop is built for one occasion. It opens, people make their picks, and it closes when the job is done. A company store never closes: a private, branded storefront your teams can order from all year.
Either way, you send one link. People choose what they'll actually use, we collect the details, and nobody builds a spreadsheet.
How do you find out what swag people actually want?
You run a swag pop-up shop: a private online shop we build for you, stocked with the options you want to offer, open just long enough to collect everyone's picks. You send the link, people make their choices, and you get clean data instead of a spreadsheet you built yourself.
There are as many ways to use a pop-up shop as there are reasons to ask people what they want. Two of the most common:
Pre-order shops
Open shop first, order second. People pick item, size, and color, and you order exactly what they chose. Nothing over-ordered, no guessing at mediums versus larges. Ships in bulk to you or to addresses the shop collected.
Stock shops
The order is already placed and the products already exist, in your closet or warehoused with us. The shop just collects choices against that stock. Warehoused, we ship each pick. Client-held, we hand you the file and you distribute your way.
And because people can choose before anything is ordered, nothing gets made just to end up in a drawer.
How do you collect sizes and addresses without a spreadsheet?
You let the shop do it. Recipients browse and pick like they're shopping any online store, and at checkout the shop asks whatever you need to know: size, shipping address, branch, department, anything. You decide the questions for your use case, we build them in, and every answer lands in one clean report.
Every field, your call.
No fixed template. Running a multi-location team? Add a branch field. Need home addresses? Gathered right at checkout. Every shop is set up for its own job.
Never chase anyone again.
Details arrive attached to each pick. No follow-up emails, no version seventeen of the sizing spreadsheet, just one report ready to use.
What can you use a swag pop-up shop for?
Any time you'd rather ask than guess. A shop can run for a season, a single event, or one round of gifts, and it collects whatever the occasion needs.
Client gifting
Send clients a link instead of a guess. Everyone picks the gift they actually want, and the thank-you notes write themselves.
Employee gifts
Holiday gifts, milestone gifts, onboarding: the shop collects sizes and picks in one pass, so nobody gets a hoodie they'll never wear.
Event giveaways
Put the shop behind a QR code. Attendees scan, pick, and enter their details on the spot, and you leave the event with the data instead of leftover boxes.
What does choice-based gifting look like in practice?
Ask CarGurus. For more than five years, they've opened a holiday pop-up shop with us: a curated collection of sustainable products, an invitation to each of their clients across Canada, and every recipient picking the gift they actually want. We handle everything after the pick, from decoration to doorstep, and CarGurus gets the report of who chose what.
Their client partnerships manager, Chris R., originally went looking for a Canadian company that could “let each of my clients choose their own gift.” Five-plus holiday seasons later, the shop is a tradition.
One client sent back a photo of himself in the CarGurus hat and zip-up, branded mug in hand, blanket across his lap. Nobody sends a photo of a gift they didn't want.
What is an online company store?
An online company store is a private, branded storefront for your organization. It carries your branding and a curated selection of approved products, each one already set up with your logos and messaging, and it stays open all year. Access is gate-kept, so only your people order from it, and nothing inside it can go off brand.
It isn't public e-commerce, and there's no checkout with a credit card. When a branch or department places an order, it flows through our standard production like any order, and the invoice routes wherever you've decided it should: to the branch, to head office, to a cost center. Minimum order quantities are clearly listed on each product, just like our regular store, so there's no guessing. Minimums still apply.
Who uses an online company store?
Organizations where more than one person, team, or location needs branded merchandise through the year, and where every order needs to look like it came from the same company. That's the job a corporate store does: one approved selection, ordered from anywhere, always on brand. The logo on a jacket in one city matches the logo on a jacket in another, without head office becoming the swag desk in between.
Multi-location organizations
Branches and franchises order from the same curated selection.
Departments and teams
HR onboarding, marketing event season, or a regional launch, each ordering from the same approved selection.
And whoever's watching the budget gets something most providers don't offer: every order reported by branch, department, or cost center, so finance sees exactly where swag spend goes without asking anyone.
How does ordering work in a company store?
Like ordering from our regular store, minus the setup. Someone from an approved branch or department logs in, picks from the curated selection, and places a bulk order. The products, logos, and decoration are already locked in, so there's no artwork to upload and no proof cycle to restart. The order flows straight into our standard production.
- 1Step 1
Minimums and timelines
Standard MOQs and production timelines apply. Every product shows its minimum before anyone commits.
- 2Step 2
Invoicing, routed your way
No credit cards, no expense reports. Branch pays its own way, or everything rolls to head office.
- 3Step 3
Reporting finance will actually use
Every order carries who placed it, branch or department, cost center: a report we hand you, not a spreadsheet someone reconciles at quarter end.
Artwork control is your call.
Lock approved artwork to every product so branches never touch a proof, or leave flexibility where your teams need it.
Pop-up shop and company store FAQs
Can you send gifts without collecting addresses or sizes yourself?
Yes. That's what a pop-up shop is for: every answer lands in one report. You never send a single “what size are you?” email.
What is a gift redemption page?
A private link where someone claims a waiting gift. Our version is a pop-up shop, sometimes called a pop-up store: one shopping experience.
Can recipients pick their own size?
Yes. In a pop-up shop or company store, each recipient chooses their own size, plus color, style, or any option you offer. Every choice lands in one report, so you order what people will actually use.
What happens to unredeemed gifts?
Pre-order shops: unclaimed picks never get produced, nothing wasted. Stock shops: unclaimed items stay in your inventory. The close date is your call.
Can the shop stay open all year?
That's a company store: a private storefront that stays open all year. If you need always-on, start there.
Do employees pay for anything in a company store?
No. It's not consumer e-commerce, so there's no credit card checkout: bulk orders are invoiced per your structure.
Is this print on demand?
No. Print on demand makes items one at a time after each order, often with limited decoration. Store orders are real production orders: standard minimums, proper decoration, bulk quantities.
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