Will Magnetic Cards Be Coming Back Any Time Soon?

[Cat]

Seems like magnetic cards have been out of stock for a loooong time. I've got a bunch that have been automatically hidden and I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to make them visible again or not. Anybody know anything?

[Cat]

Wait... now I'm really confused! Seems like some of them are marked as out of stock, and others are not? Anybody have any idea what's going on? I feel like I'm missing something.

Out of Stock Example:

Rustic Lilacs & Photo White Wedding Save the Date Magnetic Invitation
by ZingerBug

In stock Example:

2 Pane Photo Wedding Save the Date Magnetic Card
by ZingerBug

[Saints_Aplenty]

Magnetic cards are available--at least in all the sizes and shapes I use.  I think Zazzle changed manufacturers a while back or started doing them in-house.  Your out-of-stock may be the 'older' variety.  I remember seeing that I had two prices for what I thought was the same item for a while and was as confused as you are now.  Ultimately, it depended on whether I was making a card from a previous example or from the 'official' template.  Since there was a price drop on the 'newer' ones, I did a lot of design transferring since things didn't seem to automatically migrate.  If you're in the lucky bunch that can repair/replace rather than redo items, I'd do the switch over.  I didn't have so many views that redoing them from scratch mattered to me.   And, at the time, I did not have--nor do I now have--any other option.  😉

[Cat]

Thanks! Now that you mention it, I do think they're on different products. The out of stock ones are called "magnetic invitations" while the in stock ones are called "magnetic cards." I'm contemplating transferring all of my designs from "magnetic invitations" to "magnetic cards" but I can't find the blank for magnetic cards anywhere on the blanks page - this one: https://www.zazzle.com/custom/gifts so I'm sort of concerned that they might be disappearing soon too. Only way I can find the blank is by going to the product description and then clicking the "create your own from scratch" link. 

Well anyway, before I go re-making hundreds of items I'd sorta like to know what the real story is. Hoping someone from Zazzle will weigh in...

BTW, I don't think that replacing a product works for moving it to a new product - does it? Maybe I'm missing something... something else!

[KeegansCreation]

I went half mad in the Create Your Own section. Both the in-stock and the out-of-stock magnetic cards are in Create Your Own and they look identical. It is pure trial and error clicking to pick the right one. I put "magnetic" in the Create Your Own search bar and got both types with identical everything except whether they were in stock. The other difference is that the in-stock ones are made by Zazzle Invitations and the out-of-stock ones are made by Zazzle Paper.  I wish they would just hide those from Create Your Own.

[Emma]

Hi @Cat , 

Many thanks for reaching out. I'll be passing this along to our Team to see if we can get an update on this 🙂

- Emma 🌻

[Cat]

Thank you so much. Would love to know what the recommendation is for going forward.

[KC]

I was just noticing this as well. 

I was wondering if there was an auto-migration that was started at some point, because I'm finding a strangely small number of mine on the DISCONTINUED template despite typically reusing old products to create new ones LOL.

However I did want to ask the question about the template that is in-stock. It has a different type of bleed/live indication that's not as clear as the rest of our Zazzle templates. So I was wondering if that could be updated to match the rest. It just grays out "something" and I'm not sure if it's graying out bleed, or safety areas.