Pricing
Every plan gives you the whole builder. What changes is how much you export, how many AI generations you get, whether you can run a full roster, and — on Elite — how colour leaves the building.
One coach, one team
Free, no card
For the coach who orders every season
Billed monthly, cancel any time
Decorators and multi-club programmes
Billed monthly, cancel any time
Colour-managed output for production
Billed monthly, cancel any time
Side by side
| Sideline | Clubhouse | Pro Shop | Elite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D builder and Print View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Saved designs | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Production print files (300 DPI) | — | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| AI generations per month | — | 200 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Virtual try-on (still + video) | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roster export | — | 30 players | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Custom pattern layouts | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Choose colour space at export | RGB | RGB | RGB | RGB, CMYK or Pantone |
| CMYK values written unconverted | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Pantone spot separations | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Your ICC profile embedded | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Pre-flight colour report | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Locked client palettes | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 5 | 25 |
| Support | Priority | Named account manager |
Elite · Colour management
Most design tools hand a printer an RGB file and leave the conversion to whoever opens it. The numbers shift, brand colours drift, and someone bills an hour of prepress to put it right. Elite removes that step: you decide the colour space, and the file leaves exactly as specified.
Choose RGB, CMYK or Pantone when you download. RGB stays the default and remains the right answer for most dye-sublimation workflows. CMYK and Pantone are there for the jobs that need them — without forcing every file through a conversion nobody asked for.
Type C 0 M 100 Y 81 K 4 and those four numbers are what land in the PDF. No profile in the middle, no gamut compression, no guessing by the RIP. What the designer specified is what the press receives — and it can be verified in seconds by anyone who opens the file.
A spot colour exports as a named separation plate, not an approximation mixed out of process inks. Your printer sees the plate they expect, named the way they expect it, with a process build carried alongside for on-screen preview.
Upload the ICC profile for your press and it is embedded in every file your account produces, declaring the intended print condition. No two shops run the same setup — so the profile is yours, not one we chose for you.
Every export comes with a colour report: each colour in the design, the space it was specified in, which spot plates will be generated, and anything that could not follow — an uploaded photograph stays RGB, and the report says so rather than letting you find out on press.
Save a palette per client with their exact values and lock it. Anyone designing on that account picks from the approved set, so a school's blue is the same blue in March as it was in September — across every designer and every order.
An RGB file arriving from a design tool means someone re-does the colour work before it goes on press — matching brand colours by eye, building spot plates by hand, re-exporting. That is billable labour on every order, and it is the step Elite deletes. Files arrive specified, separated and pre-flighted, ready to impose.
Questions
Yes. Sideline gives you the whole builder — 3D, Print View, colour matching, saved designs — with no card and no time limit. The paywall is on production export, not on designing.
A PDF per pattern piece at 300 DPI, sized to the real physical piece. Shapes and stripes are vector paths; only genuine bitmaps are embedded as bitmaps. Panel artwork carries automatic bleed past the cut line.
The built-in patterns run on a 60-inch roll across eleven graded sizes. On Pro Shop you can upload your own pattern layout and the builder will map designs onto your pieces instead.
They stay in your account and you can keep opening and editing them on Sideline. You lose production export until you resubscribe — nothing is deleted.
Most people do not. Plenty of dye-sublimation shops prefer an RGB file and convert it themselves with their own profile — for them, RGB is the better answer and it is included on every paid plan. Elite is for the shops that specify colour up front, run Pantone plates, or want their own press profile embedded. If you are unsure, ask your printer which they want; they will have a clear preference.
If you enter CMYK values, those exact numbers are written into the PDF. No colour conversion happens, so nothing shifts on the way out. Conversion only occurs when something has to move between spaces — RGB artwork placed in a CMYK file, for instance — and that is where your uploaded ICC profile is used.
Bitmap images stay in their original space; they cannot be separated into spot plates. The pre-flight report lists every one of them so nothing is a surprise on press. Vector artwork, type, shapes, patterns and gradients all carry your specified colour.
No screen can show CMYK or spot inks exactly — that is true of every design tool, ours included. What Elite guarantees is the values in the file, not the pixels on your monitor. With your press profile loaded the preview gets closer, but a physical proof remains the only true reference.
No. The monthly allowance resets on your billing date. If you regularly run out, Pro Shop removes the cap.