The beetle bags campaign has now concluded!

In the next 2 weeks, the surveys will be sent out to your emails! The surveys will collect your shipping address, let you add new items to your order, change your pledge level, and select your items of choice. Shipping for your order will also be calculated, however it will not be charged until we are 1 month from fulfilling orders! Stay tuned to updates + refer to the shipping timeline chart in the campaign story to know when that will be.

What if the item I want does not have a sample yet?

No worries! The surveys will stay opened until all samples have been completed and shared in new updates. That way, you can make an informed decision on what items you’d like to get in your order! All items unlocked during the campaign are currently getting samples produced and will continue for the next month or so (depending on how many revisions are needed.)

When does the bulk production start?

Bulk production will start once surveys lock so we can know how many of each item to order! Please follow along with updates and don’t forget to take the survey, as a late submission may result in us having to refund your order if we did not produce enough of an item.

What if I move before shipping/fulfillment begins?

No worries! You can always email us [email protected] after surveys lock and we will make sure that is corrected for you. Please take the surveys as soon as you can, you can put your current address if you need but this is how we will know how much stock to order so it’s best to take it early!

We are estimating shipping to begin in March 2026 and continue through April 2026! Please keep in mind this is subject to change, as we are currently a team of only 2 people and this is the most backers we’ve ever had. If there are delays in an item’s production, we will also make an update to let you know the status + new estimates of shipping times. 

I know a lot of you are completely new to Backerkit, so hopefully this can cover some of the frequently asked questions to new backers. Thank you so much to everyone who supported, this has been our biggest collection yet and some of the coolest stuff we’ve had the chance to produce so far!! 🪲🎉

Hello, Celine. 
     From now on, we will not be doing polls again. Polls are a fun thing we like doing for the community, but they were unnecessary to begin with. We may post designs to gauge interest but no formal polls will be done.
     We've had people express discontentment before with designs and such, and have had no problems with it. We haven't had multiple people: comment and downvote on other's comments/ unrelated campaign updates, try to start arguments with us and other backers, and act in bad faith- until now, so we will not be doing them anymore. The purpose of them was a fun thing to foster community, and it has not achieved that purpose.

   The poll was live for all daylight hours of the day and ended at 11:59pm EST, and regardless of if you felt the poll was short we already had a pretty good idea the varsity would win due to the 70+ comments of people excited for it. It was in the lead for the entire duration of the poll, and running during night time hours would not have changed the outcome. I know there are people that preferred the other items, but if a chunk of backers are not going to be ok with losing a poll; we cannot continue doing them.

     As a reminder, us and any other creators on backerkit have the right to refuse you service.  If you have a concern, complaint, or don't like a design that is fine to express. We've had that before with no issues, and will have it happen again. We will not tolerate complaining on multiple unrelated updates, backhanded jabs, and starting arguments with us or other backers. If it continues to be a problem we will stop asking for backer input on items all-together. 

    We've run short polls before with no issues, and other creators also have run shorter polls with no issues. We are assuming the influx of people who are acting this way are from the new reddit ads we've been trying out, as they coincided with each other. Nobody who is an old member of our community has been an issue thus far. We usually like to leave Backerkits off on a high note, but it has to be addressed. Thank you to the majority of people for being positive and respectful.

Hello it’s Celine! I’m not usually one to make the updates.
     As a reminder, mind your manners. We are two disabled women running this entire merchandise company ourselves. We do a lot more behind the scenes than what you guys see, and are pulling at least 11 hour workdays everyday. If the item you wanted to win didn’t win a poll; that is not an open invitation to try to force us to make your favorite item. This is also not an open invitation for anyone to scold any other backers, for the record. This is a general address, as we like to keep a tighter reign on our Backerkit community than most. Our Backerkit doesn’t just pay our wages it pays our freelance animators, so forgive us for the incoming over reaction. 

     I personally like the ladybug bag, and want it to be made so I can wear it. It’s a lot more my style than a lot of our merch. I understand excitement and do not fault anyone or hold animosity towards anyone for it. We most likely will be making it as a stretch goal during the surveys; it’s a great wholesale item. So, hopefully you may even see it in gift shops in the future. 

     If you do not feel the time constraints of the poll are adequate or are miffed we run our campaigns differently from others, please remember we are also working on three movies and are currently setting up our new offices. We also were not prepared for how quickly we’d hit our stretch goals, and while very grateful for the support, are very much rushing to keep up. We will take your feedback about longer polls into consideration as much as possible, but this one was a bit rushed. We won’t always be able to make everything as smooth as possible, so try to give us some grace. We aren’t doing it because we don’t care; we’re doing it because we’re most likely rushing lol. You guys always surprise us with how much you like our designs.

Another thing I’d like to address is why we do such a menagerie of items. I do see people a bit confused from time to time, so I will clear the air. We have so many campaigns and items on the backburner, if we split up our campaigns to, for instance, only be plush bags or only be clothing. We’d have a lot of smaller campaigns and make a lot more work for ourselves. Backers also tend to get miffed when we run campaigns back to back without fulfilling items first. So, we’d do a lot smaller more frequent campaigns and make a lot less money. This works for other businesses but not ours, because we have an animation team we have to pay. It’s not something too important; just something I’d like to be transparent about because people were wondering. 

     you are free to do with your money as you so choose. As again, think of this as a transaction you’d have at a store. If our customer service is not up to your standards, I’m sorry. We’re always open to feedback. But again, I doubt anyone is really that upset; I just have to address it because it’s my job. I think that’s everything I wanted to say, and again we’re not super upset or anything just wanted to clear the air.

Our final stretch goal for this campaign has been unlocked!!! It was a very close poll, but don’t worry any item that wasn’t chosen will most likely find its way to our shops one way or another down the line! (I see you ladybug bag fans 👀)

The varsity jacket is now available as both a pledge tier and as an add-on:

We’re in the last week of our campaign now, thank you all for your support on this collection!! 

As a reminder, you will not be able to choose your bag until the surveys release when the campaign ends. The surveys/orders will not be locked until all items have a sample in so you know what everything looks like before making your final decisions! 

NOTE: Any item that does not yet have a sample will have photos back BEFORE the surveys are posted! Not all will have photos by the time the campaign ends, but you will know what they look like + have time to give us feedback on the design before making your final selections in the survey

We are very excited to share that we have our first photos back of the beetle beret!!! The sample is not complete, it is still being sewn together but afterwards we will also get photos of it modeled/on a mannequin to see how it looks when worn. I think it’s turning out perfectly, but feel free to give feedback especially if you have it as an add-on!
Outside of that, we are still working on stretch goals in our spare time! I’ve got a couple ideas: maybe a centipede varsity or kimono, maybe some frog related stuff. I’m still workshopping a beetle kimono/cardigan design, what would you like to see from that? An all over/repeated print or more unique artworks along the arms or near the shoulder (more like how we design varsity jackets) is what I’m thinking. I think I definitely want to keep the gradient effect though no matter what the design is!