How do you deal with the confusion of special occasion greeting cards?

[Barbara]

There are many purposes for greeting cards besides holiday and thank you. What about missing you, get well, we enjoyed your visit, congratulations, and so on, including "just because," but it seems we have to choose the wrong category for such things. Do you do it that way and then choose the generic card when posting for sale, or do you type in your own category at the end of the title? (Yesterday, after much searching, I tripped across a generic, standard-sized greeting card, but it was old and had no in situ images.)

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[DancingPelican]

If I am creating a folded greeting card (not a holiday card and not a thank you card), from the "Create New Product" button, I type in "folded greeting card" in the product search box. All the cards, flat or folded appear. I select a standard folded greeting card in the size I want - note: there is no 5x7 size folded card showing in the selections, so I choose one of the other sizes and have to change it to 5x7 once I am in the blank card.  I put my design on the card, let's say it's a "get well" card. Then I post it for sale. When the Zazzle department appears, I choose Greeting Card and under that are many different types of greeting cards, including Get Well. I choose that and continue with posting for sale. Lots of options are under the Greeting Card dept: birthday, congratulations, get well, sympathy, anniversary, and others.   There are also the flat cards under Greeting Cards if you prefer them flat rather than folded.  I have been wanting to create more greeting cards. In the card product line, I mostly do invitations which sell in multiples and greeting cards are usually a one-off unless they are holiday cards or wedding and special event cards.    I usually add the type, i.e. Get Well, etc in the title if there is room for it. Then Zazzle appends "greeting card" to it.  The typical in-situ images appear with this card - showing a vase of flowers behind the card in various colors (yellow, pink, green).  You may want to do your own cover photo now that cover photos are encouraged.   Hope this is helpful!    -Susan

[Barbara]

Thank you, Susan. I did a dry run and found only one caveat, and it's in having to be super careful because any number of the cards are sold in bulk only. I found this card, which was the wrong category but right size, and it allows the sale of single cards: https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_foldedannouncementcard?envelopes=none&media=128ptsemi&orient...

I wonder why typing "folded card" into the search box brings up flat cards and a couple magnets? Very unhelpful! LOL However, I never thought to type anything into that box until you mentioned it. This cuts the number of pages down from 5 to 2. Way, way better.

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[DancingPelican]

I just tested again and found single sale cards.  I started out as usual choosing the "create new product" blue tab. Then I put in the product search box "get well card" (I also tried using "sympathy card"). Each search gave me 37 product results. I chose a folded greeting card and it was available as a single card.  From there I could have put my design on the card, posted for sale and followed the same steps I outlined in my first post on this topic.  

[Barbara]

Was it the same card I linked to or was it a different one? I like options. 😊

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[DancingPelican]

No, it was a small folded greeting card at this link: https://www.zazzle.com/z/app1ii1r.   I then changed the size to 5x7, but I could have designed on the smaller version and I sometimes do that.

[Barbara]

So, essentially, I can choose any of the simple, folded cards, and in my case, make sure they can be sold one at a time, and then change the size if necessary. I didn't think of that at all. Thank you. It'll make life easier.

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