Marketing referral fee

[LauraLacina]

Can someone explain to me the Marketing referral fee? it seems to be on all my sales. My royalty is 10% so after the marketing referral fee, it drops by 50%? I guess I am trying to figure out what that is used for? Why is it taken out? 

[Sara_H]

@LauraLacina  3rd party sales now come with a Marketing Referral Fee depending on which department the product is in. 

https://help.zazzle.com/hc/en-us/articles/30810357489175-Ambassador-Referral-Commissions-Creator-Roy...

If it's down by 50% my guess is that your product is in the wedding dept

[Windy]

To counteract this new fee, which Zazzle says is required in order to promote our products on the internet, a lot of us are jacking up our royalty percentages. 

[LauraLacina]

Doesn't that require an extra cost as well? If you up your royalty, do you get charged with the excessive royalty fee?

[Windy]

Sure. Ten percent on a greeting card I am looking at right now, would bring estimated earnings of  25 cents. When I raise the royalty to 23 percent, I do get slapped with an excess royalty fee of three cents. but the estimated earnings I get are 64 cents. 

I am not afraid of a three cent excess royalty fee when in the end I have more than twice as much  money in my pocket.