I created this envelope on September 22 and I listed it for sale but it never appeared in my products and as you can see, the “Listing Tools” section does not appear at the top. I had to heart the page so that I could find it since it is not in my products.
Because of this, I am not able to add it to the collection that it goes with. It goes with my Christmas Music Frogs Collection. I wanted to have it ready for holiday sales. Will this be fixed or should I try creating the product again?
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Thanks everyone! I went ahead and re created the listing. It appears to have worked this time! It’s in my products and I was able to add it my collection!
Now, I hope the broken listing can be deleted from the market place because it’s my design and I would like people to purchase from my listing and not the broken one because I don’t think I will get royalties for that, plus there will be two listing of the same product.
I spent some time troubleshooting why this happens. My best guess is that starting from the wrong base item, another user’s template, or a different shop profile is what triggers it. On top of that, if you drop graphics in from the elements toolbar and delete them later, they don’t seem to actually disappear. I noticed that even after stripping everything out of your product, the envelope still wouldn’t behave like a clean, regular one.
Don’t ask me why, but I went down a rabbit hole with this today. Occasionally a product listing just freezes up, so I was determined to figure out what triggers it:
Starting from another designer’s product doesn’t work.
Starting fresh via the ‘start from scratch’ link always works.
Starting from the shop view within your own stores can cause it to hang.
Adding built-in elements prevents the product from transitioning into publish/sell mode.
using “share this” product by chance could mislead. Realized if you click once wrong on the right share options looks like a finished product, but it’s not really ready. And never got it back.
Correct, it’s not a template, but what I did was start from the product page of another one of my envelopes because I was thinking of using the same inside design. I ended up changing the inside design to the music notes and making the envelope green. Everything seemed normal and then I hit the publish button and that was that. It did not appear in my products.
When I re created the product the second time around, I started from that design in my saved designs and went through all the listing steps again and that time it worked.