Please consider coding the design interface and tools area to allow for customizing a design for an individual size variation. Other white label and retail POD sites have this feature.
An example would be, for the window curtains, the smallest size and the longest size, we need to make the design fit both sizes, when we should be able to customize the placement for each size in the designer workspace.
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Assuming I understand your question, when you post the item for sale, in the product merchandising section you can choose to restrict it to this size only. On an existing design you can use “edit details” to do this retroactively:
That approach allows you to create separate designs for the different sizes.
The other approach is to use a repeating pattern and tile it - though that only works for certain types of designs.
No, that is not good enough. It needs to be done in the design area. I can’t restrict just one variation, I can only restrict to 1 size, so technically I’d need to publish all 4 separately because the design suits 3 easily but not the 4th size.
We need the ability to Customize for each size variation so that it can be published as 1 listing with 4 proper variations.
I agree it would be helpful if we could have a check box sort of thing where we could choose exactly which options are available for any given product. Given the variety of options on different products, I imagine that this might be a fairly complex programming job, so I’m not holding my breath. My solution is to just create different products for each size - it’s not ideal, but at the moment I think it’s the best we can do.
Yes, I will do 1 size option and several listings, I hope it is not considered duplicate content.
Just be sure that you give them all unique titles, tags, and descriptions. I also find it helpful to make a tiny tweak to the design for different sizes even if it’s not meaningful to how it looks - it just keeps the system from seeing it as a dupe.
True! Good advice for sure!
We need the ability to Customize for each size variation so that it can be published as 1 listing with 4 proper variations.
That would be absolutely amazing, so very much more helpful to customers as well as designers than the current convoluted system of this size only, this shape only, only this size and this shape, …
If there are X many different sizes/shapes available, the customer should be able to select any of them with whatever Zazzle & the designer needs to do to make that work remaining behind the scenes. Also, when we have to publish multiple listings just to cover all the size/shape variations of one product, that effects our #of products to #of sales ratio and clutters up our stores, category & collection pages when people go to them directly as well as results in the MP. It would be great if they counted as only one product and showed in the MP like colorways do - grouped together under one listing to reduce repetitive clutter.
What about using the same title and putting the size after the title? Like “Pink Floral Doormat 18x12?” Good idea or bad idea?
@Jadendreamer13 Good question! All I know is that the algorithm frowns on duplicate titles, tags, and descriptions. How different they need to be is an open question!
If we do end up with the old solution @Cat suggested by making individual products for each size… Can I add that we also need to carry over the (don’t delete / make invisible) size variations that didn’t sell. I used to sell messenger bags with the design modified for each size, because just simply choosing different sizes made a mess of the design. But one sold and the others became invisible over time. It doesn’t hurt to see that these are colour variations or different sizes of the same design. Also sometimes they are part of a set.
Just saw this in the Help center article re color grouping.
NOTE : Although we typically encourage Creators to NOT repeat the same title & tags between their products, when grouping products for Design Themes, we recommend keeping your title, description and tags very similar and only change or add keywords that reflect the colorway variations between designs.
I know we’re talking about size/style variations here and not colorways but the principle should be the same I think. If it’s the same product and same design just different colors and/or tweaked to fit a different size option, then why confuse shoppers with purposefully different text about it? I do as Jaden mentioned and just add the size/color to the title and change that specific in the description & tags. Maybe they state this about colorways as same title/tags/description might help the algorithm make matches, but it seems a perfectly sensible approach for other same-but-different product groupings.
@ColsCreations Hmmm… now I have always assumed that for the colorways stuff keeping the titles, tags, etc. largely the same was for the sake of helping the algorithm to identify them automatically.
Anyhow, when I do different designs for different sizes/aspect ratios, I keep the titles, tags, and descriptions largely the same from a human’s perspective, but I try to alter them from the computer’s perspective. I’m not sure that makes sense or not, but I’ll do things like use a lot of the same words/sentences, only I’ll put them in a different order, or I’ll describe the same elements using different words that have basically the same meaning. Or I’ll add a sentence to the description with information about the size. One of my tricks for the description is to ask AI to re-write it for me.
I think that at least part of point of varying the metadata is for the sake of SEO optimization - and I’m pretty sure that search engines will rank a page more highly if its content is more unique. I’m not sure if that’s changed or not with the advent of AI in search algorithms, but that’s my approach!
The area rugs, indoor and outdoor, also an issue. Round and runner sizes are options and the design cannot be customized to all those different aspect ratios so multiple listings have to be created.
Zazzle, code the design interface to allow for a designer to Customize for a Specific Size. This way, the variations can be left in one listing. Listing runners and round rugs separately is one thing but all the rectangle aspect ratio rugs should really be able to be variations in one listing.