Upgrades: Prices & Buy Order

The best My Small Business upgrades are the ones that remove your current production bottleneck. Start with more order capacity and another product, then improve printing and packaging before spending heavily on tips, shelves, or special-request systems.

Best upgrade order

Use this route when you are building the basic sticker-shop loop: accept Customer Orders, produce the requested category, package the items, ship them, and reinvest the coins. For the fulfillment steps between stocked products and payment, see the orders guide.

1. Order Clipboard — $15: hold 3 orders at once.
2. Bookmark Cardstock — $30: unlocks bookmarks as another product type.
3. Box Organizer — $35: makes the suitable box size easier to identify while packaging.
4. Big Paper Tray — $35: prints 3 additional items per batch.
5. Tip upgrades: buy the affordable tip-focused items as your shop grows.
6. Printer Turbo — $85: prints 25% faster.
7. Cork Order Board — $95 and Postage Stamps — $100: improve order capacity and shipping value after the production loop is stable.
8. Goodies Shelf — $105 and Peel All — $155: useful later convenience and processing purchases.
9. Social Media Post — $1,000 and Request Board — $1,100: save for these after the cheaper capacity and efficiency upgrades.

The order is a recommendation, not a requirement. If you are constantly waiting on the printer, move Printer Turbo ahead of tip items. If you are losing time choosing packaging, buy Box Organizer before another capacity upgrade.

Prices and effects

This table keeps the useful distinction between capacity, speed, batch size, packaging, tips, storage, and shipping. A dash marks a price or numeric effect that is not listed reliably enough to use for budgeting.

Choose by bottleneck

More orders and products

Order Clipboard is the strongest early capacity purchase because holding 3 orders reduces idle time between production runs. Cork Order Board serves the same broad order-flow goal later, but the supplied evidence places it after the cheaper early purchases.

Bookmark Cardstock expands what you can make. The recorded expansion sequence shows that buying upgrades can unlock products such as bookmarks, so it is more than a cosmetic shop improvement: it gives you another product type to use when orders allow it.

Watch the Expand Shop upgrade choices

These moments show how expansion purchases can unlock bookmarks and how upgrades such as Printer Turbo and Box Organizer affect production and packaging decisions.

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Faster printing or larger batches

These upgrades should not be treated as interchangeable:

Recorded gameplay indicates that orders primarily check the requested product category, such as a flower or fantasy sticker. A design does not need to be judged attractive for the order to match, so prioritize the upgrade that lets you make and finish the requested category reliably.

Tips, shelves, and shipping

Tip upgrades are a good middle step once the basic production route works. Inspo Pinboard and Ribbon Spool are both documented as increasing tips by 2%; the price for Ribbon Spool is not established, so check the live menu before budgeting for it. Goodies Shelf lets you buy extra gifts with coins, while the evidence does not establish one universal payout for every goodie.

Do not buy Box Organizer expecting more inventory space. It improves packaging decisions. For storage, use Roomier Shelves or Big Shelf 2 instead. For the shipping side of the loop, Postage Stamps increases the earnings from each shipment, making it a better later purchase than an early production fix.

Late expansion decisions

Save Social Media Post and Request Board for after the inexpensive production, capacity, and packaging upgrades. Their reported prices are $1,000 and $1,100, respectively, so buying either too early can leave the shop without enough coins for upgrades that improve every ordinary order.

Upgrade availability is tied to progression and expansion areas such as the Bedroom, Studio, Shipping, and Warehouse pages. The complete live list of unlock levels, prices, and effects for every later-page item is not fully listed in the public records used for this guide. Use the in-game Expand Shop menu as the final check before saving for a specific late upgrade.

FAQ

What should I buy after Order Clipboard?

Buy Bookmark Cardstock for $30, then compare your next bottleneck: Big Paper Tray for larger batches, Box Organizer for packaging decisions, or a tip upgrade if production is already smooth.

Does Big Paper Tray make the printer faster?

No. Big Paper Tray adds 3 items to each print batch. Printer Turbo is the speed upgrade and makes printing 25% faster.

Do shelf upgrades improve order capacity?

No. Shelf upgrades increase how many designs or products you can store. Order capacity comes from Order Clipboard and Cork Order Board.

Are these all of the upgrades?

They are the upgrades and effects covered by the available upgrade records, not a guaranteed permanent list of every live expansion entry. Prices, unlock levels, and later-page effects can change; confirm them in the current game menu.