DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NOTE CARDS AND GREETING CARDS

[ZAZKAT]

What does Zazzle define as the difference between note cards and greeting cards?  

[PenguinPower]

As far as I've ever been able to tell it's just marketing... there's no real physical difference between a 5x7 greeting card, a 5x7 holiday card or a 5x7 note card... The differences come in where they appear in the market and what sales they get to participate in. If I am remembering correctly a 'note card' won't be on sale, no matter what the design is when only 'holiday cards' are on sale.... if you start with a 'note card' you don't also get the holiday and occasion category options when you choose your Marketplace placement. 

[Cat]

The main difference is the text that gets appended to the end of the title - as well as the sales it's included in as Penguin mentioned. Some also have radically different prices for the same physical card.

Here's the info from when they first made this change, though I'm not sure if all the links still work:
https://blog.zazzle.com/2018/07/25/the-paper-breakout-explained/

You want to be sure to choose the correct blank to start with because once you publish it, you can't move it. So, for example, if you create something on a holiday card, you can't move it to a thank you card without creating a new product. Not the way I would have done it, but I'm sure they had their reasons.

[Barbara]

Traditionally, most note cards were small, so I use the smaller 4" x 5.6" card. For greeting cards, I use the standard 5" x 7" card. However, note cards can also be the standard size for more ambitious note writers. I am not ambitious.

And that's how I define them. 🙂

[ColsCreations]

Note Cards and Greeting Cards have exactly the same product specs. In addition to what others have said about the marketing & promos/sales aspect, the other important difference is that greeting cards can be bought singly but there is a minimum of 10 on note cards.

[Barbara]

"greeting cards can be bought singly but there is a minimum of 10 on note cards."

Which is why I always use greeting cards for note cards designed with a specific theme. For instance, if I were to do cards with five images of various lighthouses, I'd use the small greeting cards for them so a customer could buy an assortment to make the equivalent to a boxed set. Otherwise, they'd end up having to buy 50 cards if they wanted all five lighthouses. Usually, a box of note cards contains as few as 8 cards but more often 12. For that kind of card, I always add "Note Card" at the end of the title, which automatically wipes out Zazzle's "Card" or "Greeting Card" add-on. Will my cards be found if a person clicks on Zazzle's note card category? I've no idea, but somehow, customers have found them. Maybe they'd be found more often if I used official note cards, but for certain designs, it would defeat my purpose.

[randysgrandma]

I don't know how Zazzle defines them, but I always think of a note card as blank on the inside so the buyer can write their own message in their own handwriting. Some websites call them stationery cards, which I think is more definitive. Some call them blank cards, which can be misleading since the front is not blank. Any size card can be a notecard or a stationery card, but usually they are smaller size cards. 

[Barbara]

Back a hundred years ago when I was young and wrote actual letters and such, a note card was small, blank on the inside, and for when you wanted to write a short message to someone. There were also sheets of paper about 5" x 8" with a design on half of one side so you could write a somewhat longer note and fold it half with the design showing on the outside. I called them note paper, but I'm not sure it's what the stationery store called them. One of these days, I'll have to look around a stationery store to see what they're up to these days.