Embroidered Polo Cost: What 12 Shirts Cost to Stitch

What Is the Minimum for Embroidered Polos?

The minimum is 6 pieces per design. Six is the opening line: $235.39, about $39.23 a shirt, in S to XL, left chest. Fewer than six of a design is not the opening order on this page.

Mix sizes and colors freely. Each size and each color goes in as its own line and is priced on its own. A team of twelve that is all size L in True Navy is the $460.09 line. A team that splits across two sizes is two lines. A team that splits across two colors is two lines. This page does not add those lines together into a new twelve-shirt price. Read each line at the quantity, size, and color on that line.

The six-piece minimum is per design. Mix sizes and colors, and let each size and color be its own line. Build the order as those lines. Entering twelve on one line prices twelve of that one size and that one color. A size note in the artwork does not split the line.

Eighteen size L left-chest polos are $684.79, about $38.04 a shirt. Twenty-four are $909.49, about $37.90 a shirt. Those rows are still one size and one color. They show how the per-shirt figure moves when the line gets longer. They are not a requirement. Six is the minimum. Twelve is the team size this page prices in full.

Do Polo Size and Color Change the Price?

Color does not change the price, and size does not until 2XL: twelve left-chest polos in S, M, L, or XL are $460.09, and twelve in 2XL are $492.19. The eight colors are Black, White, True Navy, True Royal, Atomic Blue, True Red, Iron Grey, and Grey Concrete. Six size L left-chest polos are $235.39 in each of those colors. Pick the color the team will actually wear. The price is not a reason to switch from navy to black.

Size does, starting at 2XL. S, M, L, and XL share the twelve-shirt total of $460.09. Twelve 2XL polos are $492.19, about $41.02 a shirt. Twelve 3XL are $502.89, about $41.91 a shirt. Twelve 4XL are $513.59, about $42.80 a shirt. The step is on that size's own line. A size L line does not inherit the 2XL price because one person on the team wears 2XL. That person is a separate line at the 2XL price for however many 2XL shirts you enter.

Sizes run S to 4XL. The shirt is a 3.5 oz poly interlock performance polo, a double-knit with a lightweight feel, moisture-wicking, with UV protection and fade-resistant color, dyed-to-match buttons, and a three-button placket. Those are the shirt. They are not extra checkboxes with their own prices.

If the roster is still moving, price the lines you can count. A line of twelve size L is $460.09 only while all twelve are size L. Changing three of them to 2XL means the size L line is no longer twelve, and the 2XL shirts are their own line. Re-read the totals after you split the roster. The table cannot be multiplied into a mixed cart.

What Does Left Chest Plus Back Yoke Cost?

Six size L polos with left chest plus back yoke are $288.89, about $48.15 a shirt, and twelve are $556.39, about $46.37 a shirt. Left chest is the placement the page opens on. Left chest plus back yoke adds a second stitch across the yoke, the band across the upper back.

Compare those rows with the left-chest-only rows before you add the back: six left chest only are $235.39 and twelve are $460.09. The back is a real second logo, not a free copy of the chest mark.

The back yoke is a wide, shallow area. An arched name with a simple mark in the center is the shape that fits it. A square logo copied from the chest, with small words under it, fights that shape. The chest wants a compact mark. The yoke wants a mark that can stretch across the shoulders without growing tiny type to fill the width.

Use the back when people will see it: a crew walking away from a truck, a staff line at a booth, a team photo from behind. Skip it when the polo is worn under a jacket or facing a counter all day. You would be paying for a stitch nobody sees. The chest logo still does the job in that case, at the left-chest price.

Both placements are the same design family. Send the chest art and the back art as two clear files, or say that the back is the name only. A single tiny jpeg used for both will be digitized once and then asked to do two jobs it cannot both do well.

What We See on Proofs for Embroidery

A left-chest logo with tiny type under the mark stitches as a blur. A phone number, a street, or a tagline set in hairline letters under a symbol does not survive thread. The needle replaces those strokes with a knot of color. On the proof, that knot is the warning. Take the small line off before it is sewn.

The shape that works is a simple mark plus two short lines. The sample Cedarline polo shows that shape: a tree and a sun, the company name, and one short line under it, "Grounds Kept Right." The letters are few, and they are thick enough to be thread. That is the chest logo to copy in structure, not in artwork. Your name can be two or three words. The line under it should be just as short.

Filled areas stitch cleaner than outlines. A thin circle, a fine script word, and a photo inside the logo are the usual failures. Script breaks into dashes. A photo becomes a smudge because embroidery is thread, not ink. Send a flat mark with solid shapes. If the only file you have is a full-color illustration, it still has to be reduced to shapes a needle can follow, and the proof is where you see that reduction.

On the back yoke, keep the same restraint. An arched company name around a simple mark reads from across a lot. A paragraph across the yoke does not. Count the letters. If you cannot read them on the proof at the size of the shirt back, you will not read them on the person.

Also check spelling on the proof letter by letter. A stitched name is harder to shrug off than a printed one, because the thread is the name. Approve only when the words, the colors of the thread, and the placement match what the team should wear.

How Long Do Embroidered Polos Take?

Production is 3 to 7 business days after artwork approval. Approval is the yes on the stitch proof. A logo that still has a phone number under the mark should be cleaned up before that yes. The days start after the cleanup, not after the first email.

Shipping is a flat $10 on the order. Add transit on top of the production window when the shirts have to be in hand for a crew date. The flat charge is the shipping price. It does not name the transit time.

Design it for me is +$29.99 and includes two revisions. It is free when the line is $499 or more. Six shirts at $235.39 and twelve left-chest shirts at $460.09 are under $499, so the fee applies if you want the mark built from scratch. Eighteen left-chest shirts at $684.79 are over $499, so that fee is not added on an eighteen-shirt line. The fee is not part of the table. The table is the shirts. Add the fee only when you select it, and only when the line is under $499.

Place the order on the embroidered performance polo page. Set the color, the size, the quantity, and the placement. The total should match the row for that line. Split sizes and colors into their own lines instead of hiding a mix inside one quantity.