100 k product allowed

[Deb1]

Hi, I am new and not sure exactly how the 100 K product limit works can someone please explain exactly how it works. Do they count all your items, or do they count 1 design on all the products? Thank you.

[orientcourt]

Hi Deb1  If you have just joined Zazzle I would not be worry  the 100 K product limit ! There is no more quick create here so I would focus on creating your designs first . eg  What products would my designs look great on? Check various products via a zazzle search to see if you are wasting your time creating for a  product that is already overloaded with designs!  But if you have discovered a niche vacant in the market , then good on YOU! I hope you are successful in your pursuits  Jillian !      

[Deb1]

Thank you

[Deb1]

Thank you very helpful

[Barbara]

I've been here for 11 years and am nowhere near 100,000 products and probably never will be. Without the old Quick Create tool that was once here, it's nigh on impossible to create that many products unless you work 24/7. And no, they don't count designs; they could number of products.

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[Deb1]

Thank you, do you post every product -- (different) products with the same design?  I have over 18000 products posted. I not sure how many products I need to post the same design on. 

[Barbara]

I place a design only on products that it suits. I seriously doubt I've placed any single design on more than 10 products, and I don't bother with products I've no affinity for. As an example, I don't do wedding stationery but I'll design greeting cards. I stopped doing clothing a long time ago, finding it doesn't sell for me.

You're better off focusing on designs and then placing them on products you like and/or you think customers will like. You're wasting time and resources trying to place a design where it really doesn't belong. For instance, I have designs for bladesmiths. Knives don't belong on most things. I've quite a number of designs aimed at those who sew, and thus I've got clocks, posters, binders, mugs, business cards, and Post-its in that arena but no baby clothes, sports, and so forth included.

There's no rule for which products you choose. You'll even find people who design for a single product type, ignoring all others.

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[Deb1]

Also, not sure how many you can post using more stores. Thank you for your help.

[Barbara]

Though it may appear you have separate stores, you in truth have a single account wherein you're allowed up to 100,000 products. An account is real, while stores are no more than a device you can use for organizational purposes. Some of us find it easier to group products using stores, while others have a single store wherein products or design types are sorted into categories.

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[Deb1]

if you go over the number of products, do they delete them or just hide them? If I'm reading it right, they just hide them what I was wondering is do they show them again? I was going to upload one design on all the products to see what people are looking at and interested in.  If they just are never showed again, I'm not so sure I want to do that. Thank you for your help.

[Deb1]

I know the customer can upload to the products themselves but not sure if they will or if they just want the easy way of just clicking and buying the products.

[Deb1]

You are right about wasting time and resources.

[Barbara]

If I'm remembering correctly, anything over 100,000 products is hidden, but why worry about this? Just create what makes you happy because those things tend to rise to the top--not right away, but given time, and I do mean time. I've had old but beloved items that haven't sold for four or more years, and then suddenly they do. Many people have experienced this, so don't think that, after a year of not selling, it's a dud and needs to be deleted.

Not unless you're capable of making a hundred products a day every day and without fail, will you hit the limit until you've been doing it for over three years. You probably don't want to churn out that many products nonstop anyway, right?

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[Deb1]

Thank you that answers my question feel better now I enjoy this very much. Thank you for your help.

[ColsCreations]

The 100K limit is per account, not per store.

https://help.zazzle.com/hc/en-us/articles/223129387-How-Many-Public-Products-Can-I-Have

This means that if you are at or near the limit, for every product you publish or un-Hide, something else will get auto-hidden to keep you within the limit.

For someone describing themselves as new member with already 18K+ products,  I would respectfully advise NOT publishing everything you can as just a solid color design which eats away at your 'design credits' so to speak. . Also, for things like this beach towel, no need to publish it 34 times. You can (and should) instead make the text a template field so you only have to publish the design once where the shopper can easily change the name text. 

[Deb1]

Thank you for the help I see I don't need to enter them over and over. 

[Barbara]

I failed to do what @ColsCreations  did, which was to look at your store and the products in it. I suggest you delete all the products that have nothing but a background color, that have no designs on them. Think about it: Why would a customer buy, say, a towel that's green or pink or blue, paying a premium price for it when they can buy it in Walmart for significantly less? They come to Zazzle for something unique, something they can get nowhere else, something they can personalize with a name or quote or something amusing. You absolutely have to create text templates that customers can alter to suit. It's what Zazzle is all about.

You're focusing on patterns, so take a look in the marketplace for patterns and note which ones catch your eye. Ask yourself why they stand out to you and then use that knowledge to create your own patterns. You'll see flowers, animals, geometrics, abstracts, and so much more. Play with a simple image, applying the various kinds of tiling to it. When you've done that, overlay it with perhaps a monogram turned into a template that a customer can personalize or maybe a PNG image placed dead center and then moved around until it pleases you. We all have natural creativity. Let yours come out.

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[Deb1]

I agree I don't think plain solid colors is what people who shop here wants. I like the template idea. Thank you.

[Deb1]

I am reading up on the help page to do a template field love this idea. Thank you

[Deb1]

Do you have any luck with people who place orders using “choose your product”?

[Barbara]

Do you mean the dropdown when you click the search box on Zazzle's home page? If so, all I can say is woe to the person who has no idea what they're looking for. However, the bottom line is that we have can't know the path a customer has taken to get to one of our products and then buy it. The only thing we'll know is that we've made a sale.

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[Deb1]

Thank you, that answers my question.