Product gifting tracker for small brands
Product gifting tracker for small brands is a SaaS idea for small beauty, fashion and food brands that send free products to creators, priced to test at $39 a month per brand. Brands send free products to creators and track them in a messy spreadsheet. With it, small brands track which creators got free products, when they shipped, whether they posted, and which gifts led to sales.
. A starting point we wrote, not market research: run the 7-day test before you build.
What problem does it solve?
Brands send free products to creators and track them in a messy spreadsheet. Nobody follows up, posts go unnoticed, and the brand can’t tell which gifts were worth it.
Why now: Small brands now grow through everyday creators as much as ads, and every gift costs product and postage.
What do they use today?
Most brands keep a list of creators in a shared spreadsheet or the founder’s notes, and check for posts by scrolling their own tags and messages. Which gift led to which sale is mostly guesswork.
How does it work?
The brand adds each creator with their handle and address, then logs a gift with the product, ship date and tracking number. If a creator has not posted, a follow-up reminder prompts the team to check in. Each creator gets a discount code, sales are imported, and a report shows what every gift cost against the sales it brought in.
What goes in the first version?
- Creator list with handles, addresses and past gifts
- Gift log with product, ship date and tracking
- Follow-up reminders when a creator hasn’t posted
- Discount code per creator, with sales counted from imports
- Cost per gift and sales per creator report
Who pays, and how much?
- Who pays
- Small beauty, fashion and food brands that send free products to creators
- Price to test
- $39 a month per brand
Gifting is usually run by a founder or one marketer, so a flat price per brand fits better than a fee per seat or creator. It sits beside the product and postage already spent on each gift.
How to test it in 7 days
- 1Ask five brand founders how they track gifted products and which gifts paid off.
- 2Clean up one brand’s gifting spreadsheet into a simple report and ask what they’d change.
- 3Post a sample report in small-brand founder groups and count requests for early access.
Where to find the first customers
- Small-brand founder groups on Facebook and LinkedIn
- Ecommerce and small-business marketing subreddits
- Freelance social media managers who run gifting for brands
What are the risks?
- Influencer platforms cover big brands; keep the price and setup right for small ones.
- Spotting posts by hand is slow; automatic checks depend on social platforms’ access rules.
How to build it on shipanysaas
4 of the parts it needs are already in the kit. Get the kit, open it in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and paste the starting prompt.
- Already in the kit
- Teams and roles
- Billing
- Emails
- In-app notifications
- You build
- Creator list and gift log
- Follow-up reminders and discount code tracking
- Sales import and cost-per-creator report
See the starting prompt
You are in a fresh copy of the shipanysaas starter kit, a pnpm and Turborepo monorepo: the Next.js web app is in apps/web and the Supabase database, with its migrations, in apps/web/supabase. Help me build the first version of Product gifting tracker for small brands. Read AGENTS.md first, then the AGENTS.md in every folder you work in: the kit's rules there win over your defaults. When a skill in .agents/skills (also in .claude/skills and .cursor/skills) matches a task, use it. ## The product - What it does: Small brands track which creators got free products, when they shipped, whether they posted, and which gifts led to sales. - Who pays: Small beauty, fashion and food brands that send free products to creators - Their problem: Brands send free products to creators and track them in a messy spreadsheet. Nobody follows up, posts go unnoticed, and the brand can’t tell which gifts were worth it. - Price to test: $39 a month per brand (a plan in apps/web/config/billing.config.ts) ## Build only this first version 1. Creator list with handles, addresses and past gifts 2. Gift log with product, ship date and tracking 3. Follow-up reminders when a creator hasn’t posted 4. Discount code per creator, with sales counted from imports 5. Cost per gift and sales per creator report ## Already in the kit: reuse it, never rebuild it - Teams and roles: team accounts with members, roles and invitations - Billing: Stripe or Lemon Squeezy subscriptions, per seat or usage-based, and one-off payments - Emails: transactional email through Resend or Nodemailer - In-app notifications: a notifications bell in the web app ## New code it needs - Creator list and gift log - Follow-up reminders and discount code tracking - Sales import and cost-per-creator report ## How to work 1. Plan first: list the database tables (with row-level security, so each team only sees its own rows), the pages and the server actions for the first feature. Then stop and wait for my OK. 2. Build one feature at a time with the kit's own UI and form components, with a migration for every schema change and user-facing text in the translation files. 3. After each feature, run the verification steps in AGENTS.md, fix what they find, and tell me what you built and what comes next. ## Rules - Ask me before you add a dependency, delete a file, or change sign-in, billing or the admin panel. - Leave the parts of the kit this product doesn't use as they are. Done when every first-version feature works for a signed-in team and the AGENTS.md checks pass.
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