/The Comparison
Airventory vs Gelato, at a glance.
Better products, higher margins and customers that come back.
Retail-grade blanks
Heavyweight garments customers keep
60×60cm prints
Larger print area than Gelato offers
0 MOQ
No minimums, no inventory risk
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/The Upgrade
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Same designs,
printed properly.
Drag the sliders to see what the exact same design looks like on retail-grade blanks with oversized prints.
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Data-driven catalog, updated quarterly
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Premium heavyweight garment quality
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Retail-grade 60×60cm DTG printing
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Full brand control, 0 MOQ
[5]
24/7 human support
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/Why Brands Switch
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The metrics that matter, improved.
Repeat purchase rate
Average lift after brands migrated their store to Airventory*
Conversion rate
Better garments and bigger prints convert more visitors*
Gross profit
Higher perceived value at a lower base cost*
7-figure brands
Serious stores already run their products on Airventory
*Based on anonymized performance data from brands that migrated to Airventory and took part in our 2025 performance survey.
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/The Airventory Advantage
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Everything you needed, nothing Gelato offers.
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Every style is chosen from 255 million data points across fashion’s best-selling blanks, not just our own.
UPDATED QUARTERLY
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The best cottons, weaves and materials, reverse engineered from 9-figure retail brands.
+480% AVG. RPR
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Oversized 60×60cm prints from standardized printers in every facility.
60×60CM PRINTS
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Packaging, polymailers, inserts, hangtags, woven neck labels and more, all on demand.
0 MOQ
[5]
Real humans who answer, not a ticket queue.
HUMAN SUPPORT
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6–27% LOWER
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/The Full Breakdown
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Every detail, side by side.
Print Capabilities
AIRVENTORY
Print size up to 60×60 cm with oversized DTG capabilities
Fixed 1200 DPI across all IATF-certified production facilities with facility-wide color calibration
AATCC 4+ colorfast inks applied via proprietary automated pretreatment systems
GELATO
Standard DTG print areas, with output varying across 130+ local production partners
No fixed DPI, results depend on the partner closest to each customer
The same design can print differently between regions and partners
Print Capabilities
60×60cm
Oversized DTG at a fixed 1200 DPI.
Catalog Strategy
255M+
Data points behind every blank in the catalog.
Garment Quality
280gsm
Corespun cotton builds, reverse-engineered from retail.
Brand Ownership
0 MOQ
Full white-label control with no pre-stocking.
Backend & Support
24/7
Live human support, no ticket queues.
Fulfillment & Shipping
1–2 days
In-house production with smart routing.
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/Get More Blank For Your Buck
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Price comparisons don’t tell the truth, let’s have a look anyway.
AIRVENTORY
Classic Heavyweight Boxy Tee
60×60cm print at 1200 DPI
250gsm
Combed & carded 32s double-woven cotton
Fulfillment within 48 hours
While not included as standard, additional branding, packaging and neck labels are all available.
GELATO
Classic Crewneck Tee (Gildan 64000)
Standard DTG print areas, partner dependent
153gsm (4.5 oz)
100% preshrunk ring-spun cotton
Production 1–3 business days via local partners
Branded inserts and labels require a paid Gelato+ plan. Custom packaging is not available.
Each platform’s best-selling tee with a two-sided print, shipped to the same US address, priced on the free tier.
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The Proof
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FAQs
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Wondering how we compare?
Gelato prints locally in a lot of countries. Airventory doesn't. What does that mean for my Australian customers?
It means those orders travel. Airventory prints in its own facilities in the USA, China, and Germany, so an Australian order crosses a border instead of being printed nearby, and for that customer a local Gelato partner can be quicker. Every product page shows the exact lead time before you list it, so you can check what an Australian buyer actually waits rather than guess. The tradeoff is what shows up: one catalog printed to one spec in Airventory's own facilities, instead of whichever third-party partner takes the job that day.
A customer says the tee doesn't fit and wants to send it back. Who covers that?
You do. Change-of-mind and fit returns are not supported, so that cost sits inside your own returns policy and is worth pricing in before you switch. If an order turns up damaged or is the wrong item, Airventory reships or refunds it free, and anything disputed goes to contact@airventory.io.
Do I have to pay for an order before my customer's money has actually landed?
Not before the sale, but usually before the payout. Nothing is charged until an order comes in, and charges then settle per order at the end of the day, or automatically if you prefer, while your store's payouts run on their own schedule and typically land later. Airventory has no way to take its cut inside your checkout, which is why a card or PayPal has to be linked: you fund the order there and reimburse yourself when the store pays out.
I sell on Etsy and Amazon as well as my Shopify store. Will it connect to all of them?
Airventory connects to Shopify, WooCommerce, Etsy, Amazon, and eBay, and you can run multiple stores under one account. Setup takes under four minutes. If you sell anywhere outside that list, it is not supported today, so check every channel you depend on before planning a full move across.
Do the prints actually survive being worn and washed, or do they start cracking?
The published figure is colorfast past 50 washes, which covers color holding rather than ink cracking. Airventory publishes no crack or adhesion figure, so on that specific failure mode there is no number to point you to, and stretching the colorfast one to cover it would be dishonest. What it can say is that every order is printed in its own facilities to a single spec, so a repeat run is not handed to a different partner on different equipment.
You’re five minutes from a more profitable brand.
Keep your store and your designs, just switch what sits behind them.
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