How Much Can You Earn Selling Your Designs Online in Kenya? (Real Numbers)
Real earnings breakdown for Kenyan designers on print-on-demand. How pricing works, what your M-Pesa payout looks like, and what separates KES 500/month designers from KES 50,000/month ones.
Before you upload a single design, you want to know: is this actually worth my time?
It's a fair question. You've probably heard the "passive income" pitch before sell once, earn forever. And while that's technically true, nobody ever tells you what the real numbers look like.
Here's exactly how earnings work on Design Yangu, what you can realistically expect at different stages, and more importantly what separates designers earning KES 2,000 a month from those earning KES 40,000+.
Every product has a base cost the cost of production, printing, packaging, and delivery. That number is fixed. It covers the physical making of the thing.
You set the selling price. Whatever you add above the base cost goes straight to your M-Pesa. That difference is your earnings.
| Item | Amount | |------|--------| | Base cost (production + delivery) | KES 1,200 | | You price it at | KES 1,800 | | Your earnings per sale | KES 600 |
Simple arithmetic. No hidden platform fees. No waiting 30 days for a wire transfer.
When an order is confirmed and printed, your earnings hit your M-Pesa. That's the model.