Manage your Merch shelf

The Merch shelf allows eligible creators to showcase their official branded trade on YouTube. If a aqueduct is eligible, the shelf may surface on their videos' watch pages, but may not evidence for all videos.

Learn how yous can get started with the merch shelf here.

Organize your Merch shelf

The Merch shelf will brandish up to 30 products to your viewers. The brandish society of your Merch items is automated based on diverse factors, such as price, popularity, and availability. If you want to organize your merch shelf to display in a certain society, you tin can:

  • Conform your merch items for your unabridged aqueduct, or
  • Arrange your merch items for specific videos

Organize your Merch shelf for your unabridged channel

To arrange your shelf for your entire channel

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left menu, click Monetization.
  3. Click the Trade tab. This option will only bear witness if your channel is eligible.
  4. Click "Select manually" if y'all're changing the default selection for the first time. Otherwise click "Customize" to change the previous selection on the Products menu.
  5. Drag, drop, and order up to thirty items.
  6. Click Save.
    • If y'all've previously ordered items for specific videos, there will exist two options:
      • Display in shop tab and videos that use channel selection: The new arrangement will be saved to videos where you oasis't customized the lodge of your Merch.
      • Display in store tab and all videos: Will overwrite whatever video-level arrangements and prepare the newly organized shelf as the standard organization for the entire aqueduct.

To get back to automatic arrangement

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left carte, click Monetization.
  3. Click the Merchandise tab. This selection will but show if your channel is eligible.
  4. Click "Use motorcar choice"
  5. Click Save.

Organize your Merch shelf for individual videos

If you've rearranged your Merch shelf for your channel, by default private videos will utilise the aforementioned items and follow the same order. If you desire to change this for a specific video, you lot tin select upwards to 30 items and rearrange their order for that video.

If you don't choose a specific item order for individual videos, your Merch will be arranged in the same way every bit your channel.

To adjust your shelf for an private video

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left menu, click Content.
  3. Click the video where you want to customize your Merch shelf.
  4. In the left menu, click Monetization.
  5. Click the Merchandise tab. This option will only show if your channel is eligible.
  6. Click "Customize" on the Products carte.
  7. Drag, drib, and order upwardly to 30 items.
  8. In the summit-correct corner, click Salvage.

To go back to aqueduct-level system

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left carte, click Content.
  3. Click the video where you want to remove video-level customization of your Merch shelf.
  4. In the left menu, click Monetization.
  5. Click the Trade tab. This option volition only show if your aqueduct is eligible.
  6. Click "Utilize channel pick" on the Products card and relieve the displayed selection.
    1. Note: Saving an empty pick will turn off Merch for a video.
  7. Click Save.

If you want to go back to automatic organization, you lot can do this at the channel level.

Showcase Merch beyond the shelf

Store tab in the channel homepage

All channels alive with the merch shelf and with at least 1 item eligible to be displayed on the shelf will automatically get a Shop tab in their channel homepage. This tab will showcase all of your items currently displayed on the merch shelf. You can link out to the 'Store' tab from comments, description and Community posts by simply re-create and pasting its URL.

Pivot an detail on your live stream

If you stream and you're eligible for the merch shelf, you tin can promote one item at the acme of your alive feed.

Pin your merch during a live stream

  1. Start a live stream using the Live command room.
  2. Click the Trade tab below the live stream preview.
  3. Select ane merch item y'all'd similar to promote and then click or drag it to the "Pinned trade" panel and then click Pivot Trade.
  4. Your merch item will now be seen at the top of your live stream.

 Unpin your merch from a live stream

  1. Go to the Live control room.
  2. Click the Merchandise tab beneath the live stream preview.
  3. Click Unpin.

If a user clicks on merch from the pin or whatsoever other merch features for channels that have Teespring turned on, then makes a purchase on Teespring during a channel'due south YouTube live stream, this volition trigger a live buy notification inside the alive chat.

Get more than out of description links to your store

If your aqueduct is using the merch shelf, you can add a link to your official merch store in video descriptions and when users click on the link, they go a preview of your official merch items direct on YouTube. This way, viewers can browse your official merchandise without interrupting their watching feel and, once they are ready to buy, they can click again to become to your official shop and complete their purchase.

Feature merch on end screens

If y'all're eligible for the merch shelf, you lot can add merch to your end screens. Follow these instructions:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left menu, select Content.
  3. Find the video where you desire to add merch to an end screen and then click Editor.
  4. To add merch:
  5. Place your merch stop screen at your preferred fourth dimension and place on screen.

Merch shelf FAQs

How do I get my Merch items displayed on the shelf?

Once y'all create or alter your merch items with your official merchandise retailer and submit them to YouTube, the items volition be reviewed for compliance with our policies. This review typically takes a few business days.

How do I know if my Merch items are nether review?

To find out the status of the product review for your merch items:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the left menu, click Monetization.
  3. Click the Trade tab. You'll only meet this option if your channel is eligible.
  4. Click Organize on the "status card."
  5. In the "Organize items" panel:
    • Items which are under review will exist marked as "Nether Review".
    • Items in the panel without this label have been reviewed and are available for brandish on the shelf.

Note: Any changes to a merch detail (including, but not limited to title, description, or epitome) will trigger a new compliance review of the detail. This review typically takes a few business organization days.

I tin't discover some of my Merch items in YouTube Studio

If yous have questions about specific merch items not appearing in the "Organize items" panel, delight reach out to your merch retailer.

The Merch shelf doesn't evidence on my video, why?

The Merch shelf won't show if:

  • Your video's audition is set as made for kids
  • Your video already shows Ticketing or Donations
  • Your video has a copyright claim confronting it
  • Your viewer is non in a country/region where the Merch shelf is available
  • Your viewer is watching your video on a mobile browser, smart TV, or game panel
  • You have no approved, in-stock Merch items
  • You accept saved an empty selection for brandish

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