CafePress.com

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Cafepress.com

Type	Private
Founded	Foster City, California, USA
Headquarters	Foster City, California, USA
Key people	Fred Durham Co-Founder Maheesh Jain Co-Founder
Industry	Custom products
Products	Electronic commerce, Shopping mall
Website	www.cafepress.com List of domain names
Type of site	online market
Registration	Required to buy and sell
Available in	English
Screenshot The Cafepress product selection screen.

CafePress.com is an online retailer that produces and dispatches user-customized products on demand. Opening and operating a basic CafePress shop is free. A basic shop can be upgraded to a premium shop for a monthly rate, allowing an unlimited number of products per type and additional maintenance and customization features.

CafePress was founded as a privately owned company in 1999 by Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain. As of February 2006, the site hosts over 2.6 million online shops with over 35 million products. CafePress.com is headquartered in Foster City, California, and its production facility is located in Louisville, Kentucky. Major accounts include Star Trek, Dilbert, Phil Collins, Peanuts, and Wikimedia. Shops are also frequently created for pop-culture phenomena such as JibJab.com, Forteans.com (from the X-Files inspiration the International Fortean Organization) and "All your base are belong to us". Shop owners have the ability to customize their own merchandise and select items that best reflect a particular consumer group. CafePress.com also offers print on demand services for books and music CDs.

After creating a shop, the owner can proceed to select products and upload files, such as images to print on t-shirts, bags, or wall calendars. They can also determine a price markup for each item sold in the store. CafePress.com provides the online storefront and website hosting, order management, fulfillment, payment processing, and customer service. In other words, the shop is effectively managed by CafePress.com, and the shop owner only has to take care of customizing the products they want to sell. The base price for every item is determined by CafePress.com, providing its chief revenue stream. Shop owners can buy items at the base price, but they also receive monthly commission payments.