Please allow us to move our products between stores without the need to repost them. Especially considering all these recent changes, such as cover photos and collections (no complaints, I hope you know what you’re doing), it has become literally impossible to keep up with the mess my account has turned into. I am aware that we can repost the items in a new store and delete the old ones, but that’s not a solution, as it would mean losing statistics, marketplace rankings, and all the effort that has been invested in marketing.
I must admit, I made numerous mistakes when I started 10 years ago, but creating all those stores seems like an issue that can’t be fixed and continues to pose difficulties time and time again.
Not to be too much of a cynic, but this and other requests like direct deposit have been suggested repeatedly since I started here 15 years ago, so when something important like this gets “passed along” I pretty much know what that means. I’d love to be proven wrong and hope that someday Zazzle will focus more on the backend and designer’s needs since the result, like finally being able to replace a design, only improves the overall quality of the marketplace and the much-needed motivation to stay involved.
Yes, I agree. It’s hard not to get cynical about these things when we have repeatedly asked for this for years and it appears to fall upon deaf ears. It seems as if it’s either it’s too technically difficult or Zazzle really just doesn’t care. And i don’t know which it is.
It could just be that it might be confusing for repeat customers. On a product page, the “by xxxx” at top right of page is “by store name” as is the info under the About this Design that shows “Artwork designed by store name” and “view their store”. Going from a store to the member’s home page to the list of all stores under that name isn’t very intuitive and unless one does that, there is no way to know that Store B and Store K and Store X are actually from the same designer. And even if shopper did figure that out, it would be looking for the needle in the haystack to find the product they remember buying from Store B in one of the other stores.
People say that once ordered, customers can forever re-order from their Order history page, but I don’t see that to be the case. Even with my own products I have since hidden or deleted, clicking on them from my order history gives a “sorry, product not found” page. Two years ago I ordered a mug from another designer. Clicking on it from my order history returns a “sorry, product not found” page. The order details does include “artwork designed by store name” which I can click and then search that store for the product I remember buying. Nowhere do I find a button to just quickly re-order same thing so products hidden, deleted or moved since I ordered are out of reach unless I put in the time to go searching for them. For products that have sold before, Zazzle would have to somehow retroactively update all the store name links to that of the new store for customers to find it again.
Plus, earnings reports are by store. If something from Store A sold 50 times, and then you move it to Store B, which store would those stats be credited to? What if you’re a high-level designer and your best selling product is in Store A with a zRank of say 9. If you could move that product to Store B without any effect on stats, then Store B would suddenly benefit statistically from the addition of a good selling product. I’m a little fuzzy on this but seems like this would open the door to gaming the system somehow as one could “part-out” best selling products to other stores that would instantly have a better ranking because of that inclusion.
And, if I’m a customer who bookmarked your store so i could return to all these products/design styles I liked, what happens when those products have been moved to another store? Lost sales because the customer now can’t find them.
I think being able to move products from one store to another would be a huge convenience for Creators. but it could create chaos and lost sales everywhere else so I understand why it hasn’t and probably shouldn’t be implemented.
I have quite a few products that would really benefit into moving to another store of mine. I understand why it can’t be done because it would change the link structure so if we shared those product the link would all be broken where we shared them.
However, I am wondering if we could make collections with those products for the store we’d want them in? Wouldn’t that make them show in the store we want? (I don’t know if I am explaining right).
Product links don’t include any parameter of the store, so the shared links wouldn’t be broken. They are just https://www.zazzle.com/product_name-productID. Even changing the product name doesn’t break the link. So no lost sales. Indeed the current method with reposting products causes lost sales.
It is absolutely possible to make this work right, if they want to. Even the store stats and store links “issues” can be easily solved. It just takes will.
Collections are not a solution for this issue, multi-store collections only make things much more complicated for designers and confusing for customers too. The recent changes with collections getting more importance made me bring this up again, especially with the preferred collection thing, and not being able to edit the main associated store for a collection. Deleting and redoing them in a different store definitely does cause broken links.
I suggested this to be an option, not obligatory. So if anybody doesn’t like the idea, they would just not use it. 10+ years ago it seemed like having multiple stores to separate niches is the best method, but so many things changed, now it became impossible to juggle with all the stores I created as a newbie.
Agree for god sake please… I have products that I need in collections that I have no other options but to duplicate now as across my two stores? I am holding off for a small miracle to sort this problem out as at the moment I am at a loss as to what to do moving forward to keep these products together without losing marketplace and good stats on the individual products. I created some of them before I had my other store and up until now this has not been a problem… and help in this matter would be appreciated. I seem to have some products that are between stores still there in the collection I created before the changes BUT for new collections it just is not possible now to add if not in the same store. Moving into the other store would be a great solution and as someone else has commented (no doubt been on here as long as me) we have been asking for this anyway for about a decade now! Hopefully these changes will finally get this much needed feature over the line and sort out the collection headaches not just me but many are having with this ‘not eligible’ collection issue.
I agree completely. I had NO idea what I was doing when I started on Zazzle. During my time, I’ve had to learn marketing, and when I learned that, I discovered all sorts of things that organized my head, which meant stores became better organized, and targeted to a particular buyer.
I understand that when a product is created, it creates a store URL, but with the changes to the collections, it would seem that it could be possible, somehow, to make a url that is independent of the store, and can be changed to another store. This would make my stores so much more cohesive, customer-focused, would gain more followers, would retain more repeat customers, and should make customers far happier, and myself as well, with the presentations I have on offer. There are stores I have visited on Zazzle that are SO customer-defined, and SO organized and beautiful, and they’re doing really, really, really well, and the designers have risen in the ranks so much faster as a result. Customers can follow the store knowing that whenever the store puts out something new, it will be JUST what they would like, rather than being a questionable prospect for them.
And because we do not have access to customer emails, we cannot grow a list of customers to email to, so it’s really important that we have cohesive stores so customers can follow them.
Yes, I’m one of the ones for years have asked about direct deposit because Paypal is so fickle. A check in mail simply are not safe in all areas… and when things your neighbor constantly backs over your mail box …
Re OP topic: for years, I have seen posted as well and also posted that I would like the move product to another shop feature.
This conversation has been going on for a couple of months. I have around 1,000 wedding items that I would like to move to my wedding store from my other store. My my case, items like this get overlooked, while a niche store may get those missing buyers to wonderful designs. I would gladly sign a petition for Zazzle to allow us to move products from one store to another.
Rank was one thing that someone mentioned here. In most cases, it should improve our store rank. At least over time.
Not part of the original conversation, but it was mentioned here. Yes, to direct deposit. Redbubble does it with no problems.
If you are new to selling on Zazzle, it might not seem like a big deal. However, after selling on Zazzle for awhile, the benefits of this functionality becomes clear.
Being able to move products between stores means we won’t need to delete products, recreate them and have ranking start from zero. Stores will be more streamlined with a market focus.
I have deleted products even if they were selling because they didn’t fit into the store theme. I don’t know if I want to recreate them due to lack of time. I found this post because I’m hoping to “move” products rather than delete more products.
I have already left a comment regarding this matter. However, I believe that if we can transfer products between stores while keeping the URLs and statistics intact, it would greatly benefit us in terms of cleaning up the stores and making them more functional. Years ago, I allowed myself to be influenced by others to have one big messy store that it is now. Transferring the products to my niche stores without the need to recreate and delete them would be beneficial for all of us, including Zazzle.
Revisiting this thread. Can someone like @Scott pass this along? I would love to be able to transfer products, keeping the URLs between my stores. Thus having clean-looking niche stores, instead of one big messy store. For example, I would love to transfer all my wedding products from my big store to my wedding store. Keeping the old URLs. Real transfers.